M1 vs. StarShip

The M1 ERP is tailored for small to medium organizations, offering good features at least in the components utilized by my organization such as customizable workflows, user-friendly dashboards, ability to process orders, and track the entire orders lifecycle. It also has good customer interaction features in the CRM part. It provides robust data security, and offers scalable modules to grow with your business. Implementation is not challenging if you don't have so many customizations in the software.

Incentivized

The support was not up to standards and they did not handle updates well. They did improve somewhat however it still lacks a sense of individualized attention. There were many issues getting the weights from the scales, so much so that we had to use our ERP system to get the weight and then map it into StarShip.

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• Allows for component parts to be scheduled independently through the plant
• Once parts are built, it is easy to duplicate/reuse parts across they quoting and ordering modules and customers
• If used properly and consistently, M1 will provide accurate job cost analysis to determine estimating, training, efficiency and other issues.

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• Rate shopping
• Hazmat shipping
• Multi-Carrier support

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• Some of the functions are pretty detailed - and so they take a while to generate screens and pages in reports.
• We actually use it for 2 companies we own - and it would be nice if the inter company communication was a little smoother. It's hard to share some data, and not everything is possible to be shared.
• Customized reports need to backed up before any updates to M1 or they're lost. It seems M1 overwrites the report folders everytime you run an update - so you have to keep track of what you've changed in Crystal Reports and restore it.

Incentivized

• Customer Support
• speed
• system stability

Incentivized

Because it would be helpful if ECI would provide better documentation, communication and workflows to understand how each field interacts within the system and how each of those touch other areas within M1. It would also be useful if ECI would provide prescheduled training for how to customize things with M1 through Design Studio

Incentivized

While it handles hazmat the overall package feels clunky and the support system could use some more attention. I can't say if they have fixed the scale reading issues, since we stopped using that feature. The endpoints have to be updated frequently and the service mode for the endpoints has it challenges

Incentivized

Support has been great and timely

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M1 is light years ahead in overall cost and proficiency. It allows so much more control and flexibility as compared to its competitors. When choosing M1 we went through many demos and M1 was the only ERP that met our needs and still does. We also control our own data which is a big plus for us.

Incentivized

We selected StarShip because both ShipHawk and Acumatica did not offer hazmat shipping at that time. The only thing that made us choose StarShip was hazmat handling so there was nothing to compare it against.

Incentivized

• Time savings having to only enter certain information once and have it follow through the entire order process from quote to cash

Incentivized

• we are able to ship hazmat
• a lot of down time in the beginning
• scale and weights issues

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