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Exact Globe+

Score8.2 out of 10

15 Reviews and Ratings

What is Exact Globe+?

Exact Global is an ERP for global manufacturing companies, from global company Exact Software headquartered in the Netherlands.

Top Performing Features

  • Single sign-on capability

    The software system supports a centralized authentication mechanism allowing the user to access multiple systems with a single, centrally managed password.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Accounts payable

    This includes the automation and tracking of payment to vendors and suppliers, with features such as payment scheduling, check printing, open purchase order alerts, document management, direct ACH bill payment, and vendor records.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Inventory tracking

    The software syncs orders and stock to maintain a real-time picture of inventory and supports multiple methods such as LIFO and FIFO.

    Category average: 8

Areas for Improvement

  • Remediation and Certification

    Create and update remediation plans and certify controls

    Category average: 6.8

  • Trade and Customs Management

    Manage duties, tax rates, customs documents, and other data required for products shipped in and to specified countries

    Category average: 6.9

  • Travel & Expense Management

    Enter expenses from mobile devices, integrate credit card and travel booking, configure policy enforcement

    Category average: 7.2

Exact Global for exacting accuracy of your core operations

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Exact Global is used at EWS for our Financial data processing and reporting. It is integrated with our ERP environment for a seamless financial core processes operations of Order to Cash (O2C), Procure to Pay (P2P) etc. Exact Global is a strategic tool of importance for our Finance Technology landscape at EWS.

Pros

  • Inventory, Item Data, Purchase, Order, General Ledger, Number & Document Settings are seamlessly setup in Exact Global
  • Core processes of Purchase Management (PO process), Inventory Management (Inventory Costing, Sales Process, Interbranch Transfers, Stock Count), Sales Order Management (Creating, Maintaining, Printing, Fulfilling Sales Orders) are managed at a click of a button in Exact Global
  • EWS Growers (customer), supplier and items data are managed seamlessly in Exact Global for various financial processes setup

Cons

  • UI & UX could be more modern
  • Intuitive screen navigation would serve Exact Global well
  • Market itself as an e2e ERP tool for right size enterprises

Return on Investment

  • Positive and of critical importance for running of core financial processes
  • Efficient and automated processes
  • Strategic financial tool for SWS

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Other Software Used

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Zoho Expense

Usability

Exact Globe is an effective ERP, at a reasonable price suitable for light manufacturing.

Pros

  • It is easy to use in Production Planning.
  • The bill of materials module is fully integrated with the engineering changes module.

Cons

  • Expand the commercial aliador network.
  • Improve online support

Return on Investment

  • Monitoring of production cost.
  • Registration and documentation of engineering changes.

Alternatives Considered

macola

Decent customizable solution for smaller businesses

Pros

  • Exact offers a large range of user defined fields, which is especially useful once you've built a base on the system and need to customize certain aspects. Just last week we added the ability to track customer training by model using custom UDFs.
  • Engineering bills of material are tracked in Exact and the engineering BOM module is pretty intuitive and easy to use. Modification and drill down/up is not difficult once you figure out he basics.
  • Inventory control is fairly simple and offers a lot of information and options to track different kinds of products. We use bulk and each UOMs primarily, but others are used regularly depending on application.

Cons

  • The necessity to buy individual modules to fit specific needs is a bit of a pain, it feels like you're being nickle and dimed.
  • Revision control on bills of material and parts is not intuitive or easy. We have not purchased the engineering change module, but it appears it may be needed to really implement this.
  • It's difficult to transfer engineering models from popular solid modeling software, requiring a third party solution to really make the transfer work as designed.

Return on Investment

  • Tracking bills of materials has been very useful. I would appreciate better revision control here and integration with modeling software.
  • Quality metric tracking is not really done in Exact, instead in a sister software called Synergy. We have this and I don't particularly like it, especially for the cost.
  • Shipping is still a bit clunky for us and we rely on more manual methods vs. the optional shipping module.

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI