Epicor CMS vs. Sage 100

CMS is well suited for automotive manufacturing businesses.

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For small and medium business in the distribution and light manufacturing space, Sage 100 is probably the best bang for your buck. As a very scaleable system, you can modify the system to meet the needs of a growing business without making gross changes to the core of the system

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• EDI Order Processing
• Serialized Inventory Tracking
• Order Processing

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• Simple to implement and use. Operation very intuitive so new employees are quickly trained.
• It is very flexible with many modules and many features allows for easy customization to suit particular needs of any department or company.
• Context sensitive help, training and support make it easy for a company to operate with out a lot of additional outside tech support.
• Scalable plenty of room to grow as the business grows without being bloated.
• Pricing is very reasonable.

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• Visual interface
• Report Customization

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• It's painfully slow even for mid-sized businesses like ours without millions of transactions.
• It crashes very, very often and has numerous critical failures.
• Unfortunately, it's a local program so that excludes it from being used remotely. You have to be on site for it to work.

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I would put this out to bid, if I were at the same organization. There have been a lot of improvements and changes in enterprise software and my preference would be to find a good web-based or cloud-based tool. Lower overall cost of ownership and improved efficiency would be my target criteria for a rebid of this.

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CMS takes time to learn and use the menu driven green screen. However, once you are familiar it makes for fast navigation.

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It is easy, flexible, user friendly and feature laden. Out of the box or easily customized to meet our "wish" list . Sage offers a variety of modules and bolt-ons, user defined fields etc., allowing us to conduct business "our way" without forcing us into a one-size- fits- none mold or having to purchase expensive and cumbersome programming modifications

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Support is getting better but can still be slow to respond.

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Sage Support is very good. I usually get a person on the phone in a short time frame and usually get my issues fixed in one called.

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We had an advantage in implementing the tool in that our director of Ops had been part of the team implementing the ERP for other users so we knew what to expect and were able to avoid a lot of the challenges people sometimes face with implementations. However, the process still took far longer than desired.

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We have more control over the backend of CMS and the fact it runs on a 5250 emulator it run a lot faster for data entry.

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I've reviewed Accpac, Syspro, SAP Business 1 and Platinum. Sage is far easier to use and setup than Syspro and SAP Business 1. Generally speaking, most accounting software does the same thing, at the end of the day, how easy is it to modify data inside the system and review to make sure that your system integrity is intact. I find that Sage 100 is excellent at these things.

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• Inventory tracibility
• Order Processing
• Customer Integration
• EDI Processing

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• We have seen increased efficiencies for our team members processing orders and fulfillment as they are now integrated.
• We have cut paper/printing/mail expenses by 500% of what we previously spent.
• Our overall cash management has improved with the visibility from Bank Reconciliation and Financial Reporting.