What is Exact Globe+?

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

What is Exact Globe+'s best feature?

Reviewers rate Inventory tracking and Location management and Pricing highest, with a score of 10.

Who uses Exact Globe+?

The most common users of Exact Globe+ are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Exact Globe+ Reviews & Ratings 2024

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Mobile Application	No

July 25, 2017

Decent customizable solution for smaller businesses

Geoffrey Lodal

Quality and Tech Services Manager

Smoke Guard (Construction, 51-200 employees)

Score 6 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Exact Global as our primary ERP system, controlling everything from purchasing and inventory to manufacturing load, sales, and quality tracking. We do not use all available modules, but use roughly sixty percent or so. This has been our sole ERP system for a number of years and we have customized it as needed to fit our ongoing business needs.

Pros and Cons

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.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

For a smaller company I can see this being a realistic solution. The cost is relatively low, complexity and install isn't too painful, and it's not difficult to use for the most part. As a large enterprise ERP system I believe this is a bit too simple. It is a cheaper alternative but would be hard to use if we were much larger.

Exact Globe+ Feature Ratings

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting (7)

N/A

Accounts payable: N/A
N/A
Accounts receivable: N/A
N/A
Global Financial Support: N/A
N/A
Primary and Secondary Ledgers: N/A
N/A
Journals and Reconciliations: N/A
N/A
Configurable Accounting: N/A
N/A
Standardized Processes: N/A
N/A

Subledger and Financial Process (5)

N/A

Billing Management: N/A
N/A
Cash and Asset Management: N/A
N/A
Travel & Expense Management: N/A
N/A
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting: N/A
N/A
Period Close: N/A
N/A

Inventory Management (3)

73.33333333333333%

7.3

Inventory tracking: 80%
8.0
Automatic reordering: 70%
7.0
Location management: 70%
7.0

Order Management (5)

48%

4.8

Pricing: 70%
7.0
Order entry: 50%
5.0
Credit card processing: N/A
N/A
Cost of goods sold: 50%
5.0
Order Orchestration: 70%
7.0

Payroll Management (3)

N/A

Pay calculation: N/A
N/A
Benefit plan administration: N/A
N/A
Direct deposit files: N/A
N/A

Reporting & Analytics (3)

20%

2.0

Dashboards: 20%
2.0
Standard reports: 20%
2.0
Custom reports: 20%
2.0

Customization (2)

N/A

API for custom integration: N/A
N/A
Plug-ins: N/A
N/A

Security (2)

75%

7.5

Role-based user permissions: 70%
7.0
Single sign-on capability: 80%
8.0

Grants Management (1)

N/A

Award Lifecycle Management: N/A
N/A

Project Financial Management (6)

N/A

Budgeting and Forecasting: N/A
N/A
Project Costing: N/A
N/A
Cost Capture: N/A
N/A
Capital Project Management: N/A
N/A
Customer Contract Compliance: N/A
N/A
Project Revenue Recognition: N/A
N/A

Project Execution Management (4)

N/A

Project Planning and Scheduling: N/A
N/A
Task Insight for Project Managers: N/A
N/A
Project Mobile Functionality: N/A
N/A
Definable Resource Pools: N/A
N/A

Procurement (5)

14%

1.4

Bids Analyzed and Compared: N/A
N/A
Contract Authoring: N/A
N/A
Contract Repository: N/A
N/A
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated: N/A
N/A
Supplier Management: 70%
7.0

Risk Management (5)

N/A

Risk Repository: N/A
N/A
Control Management: N/A
N/A
Control Efficiency Assessments: N/A
N/A
Issue Detection: N/A
N/A
Remediation and Certification: N/A
N/A

Logistics (5)

N/A

Transportation Planning and Optimization: N/A
N/A
Transportation Execution Management: N/A
N/A
Trade and Customs Management: N/A
N/A
Fulfillment Management: N/A
N/A
Warehouse Workforce Management: N/A
N/A

Manufacturing (5)

34%

3.4

Production Process Design: N/A
N/A
Production Management: 60%
6.0
Configuration Management: 60%
6.0
Work Execution: N/A
N/A
Manufacturing Costs: 50%
5.0

Supply Chain (2)

55%

5.5

Forecasting: 40%
4.0
Inventory Planning: 70%
7.0

Product Lifecycle Management (2)

N/A

Proposal Management: N/A
N/A
Product Master Data Management: N/A
N/A

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.

Alternatives Considered

I've used other ERP systems in large organizations, one custom and one SAP. SAP is a very powerful suite of software, but comes at a price point that is unobtainable for many smaller companies. Exact is more realistic and accessible for smaller companies that are not necessarily global commodities, but instead smaller manufacturers in niche markets. I haven't had the opportunity to review many other options in this size range.

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI

Exact Globe+

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Genius Solutions

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

NetSuite ERP

Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP

Acumatica

Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle PeopleSoft ERP

SAP Business One

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Microsoft Dynamics AX, discontinued