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M1

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What is M1?

M1, from ECI Software Solutions headquartered in Ft. Worth, is an all-in-one manufacturing ERP software solution, built for small and medium-sized discrete manufacturers.

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Recent Reviews

M1 ERP System Review

8 out of 10
March 26, 2024
Incentivized
We use M1 as our ERP system to run our company. We use it for accounting and finance, quotes, sales orders, production jobs, bills of …
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M1 Software Review

8 out of 10
February 26, 2024
Incentivized
We use M1 as our full enterprise planning resource business system. It is critical in every aspect of our business from Sales, Purchasing, …
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M1 for Machinery

8 out of 10
November 06, 2023
Incentivized
I use M1 to monitor all users and activity. I utilize the KPIs and Reports in M1 to do this. Costing has been an issue for us, but we have …
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Popular Features

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  • Role-based user permissions (13)
    8.9
    89%
  • Dashboards (12)
    7.9
    79%
  • Custom reports (12)
    7.6
    76%
  • Standard reports (13)
    7.2
    72%

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Pricing

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What is M1?

M1, from ECI Software Solutions headquartered in Ft. Worth, is an all-in-one manufacturing ERP software solution, built for small and medium-sized discrete manufacturers.

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

Uncover Hidden Manufacturing Costs and Boost Profitability with M1 Job Costing

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Features

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

9.3
Avg 7.2

Customization

This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.

8.6
Avg 7.3

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

9.2
Avg 8.1

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

7.6
Avg 7.0

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting

8
Avg 7.6

Inventory Management

The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.

7.9
Avg 7.9

Order Management

The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.

8.2
Avg 7.8

Subledger and Financial Process

Revenue management solution including capabilities for subledgers and financial processes

7.8
Avg 7.4

Project Execution Management

Project execution management solution including capabilities for project scheduling, resource management, and team member task management.

6.9
Avg 6.8

Procurement

Procurement management solution with capabilities for sourcing, contracting, procure-to-pay and supplier management

8.3
Avg 7.0

Risk Management

Risk management solution with capabilities for managing controls, assessing control effectiveness, certifying controls, and addressing deficiencies

10
Avg 6.5

Logistics

Logistics solution with capabilities for transportation planning, transportation execution, trade compliance, customs management, warehouse management and warehouse workforce management.

8.6
Avg 6.9

Manufacturing

Manufacturing solution for managing manufacturing processes and costs.

7.5
Avg 7.5

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Planning solution with capabilities for planning, performance monitoring, change responses and execution.

6.8
Avg 7.2

Product Lifecycle Management

Product Lifecycle Management solution with capabilities for innovation management, product development

8.1
Avg 7.3
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Product Details

What is M1?

Specifically built for small and medium-sized discrete manufacturers, M1® software is designed to bring critical business processes together within a single ERP system. From quoting to shipping and everything in between, M1 offers real-time visibility into every facet of the business to help streamline processes to reduce costs and boost profitability.

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M1 Technical Details

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Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

M1, from ECI Software Solutions headquartered in Ft. Worth, is an all-in-one manufacturing ERP software solution, built for small and medium-sized discrete manufacturers.

Acumatica, Global Shop Solutions ERP Software, and Epicor CMS are common alternatives for M1.

Reviewers rate Single sign-on capability highest, with a score of 9.4.

The most common users of M1 are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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March 01, 2024

ECI M1 System Review.

Eric A. Brown | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Automate documentation processes.
  • Keep all related documents together in an easy-to-find format.
  • Better inventory management.
  • A more modern user interface.
  • A change to the user training setup online is glitchy.
  • Less clustered layouts with easier scrolling on screens.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
  • M1 is not designed for short run/custom manufacturing. It is difficult to "change sizes" of parts used in production because you have to re-generate the part and recalculate the Unit of Measure
  • Configured parts (auto calculations to address the above point) are not easily understood and need to be custom coded by consultants. This can become costly very quickly and requires the client to create all of the calculations and possible variations before any coding can be completed.
  • My experience with their implementation left much to be desired. Despite claims of there being a "highly structured onboarding process", my project was 18 months past due, there was no onboarding tool or "what to expect from the implementation" session, the project manager assigned (and billed to my client) was not qualified/non-value add, the project plan was a generic task list template and included modules we had not purchased and did not account for various adaptations we required. There were no "best practices" implemented for our industry/custom manufacturing application. There were no project risk assessments or business requirements development sessions conducted despite multiple requests to do these exercises.
  • Escalation through ECI's customer experience office and to various Directors/SVPs yielded more meeting attendees with little to contribute. Little leadership/accountability/drive to resolution was demonstrated on the part of ECI. My client had to push for credit for 6 months of hosting services to cover some of the schedule overruns.
  • Several customizations/adaptations that were addressed repeatedly in the sales cycle were not effectively communicated to the implementation team. Even after these needs were clarified, numerous delays and resource reassignments (5 different outsourced contract developers were assigned during a 12 month period to address the one customization needed for M1 to communicate with our legacy MIS system), the implementation missed the (4th) GO LIVE target date. The customization was not completed for Go Live and may mean manually closing the division's Feb and March month ends.
February 27, 2024

M1 works

Ted Bill | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Open access DB makes it easy to customize the on-prem solution
  • Lots of built in data analysis and data retrieval that the average user can access
  • We use the 'lot tracking' ability for detailed material traceability
  • No alternate materials or operations concepts
  • Plant scheduling is hard to achieve in a dynamic manufacturing environment
  • There is no built in maintenance or quality systems
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ability to customize entry screens
  • Ability to review all transactions on any given item id
  • Ability to customize reports
  • When an address is deactivated, it should not show up under the entry screen when searching for an address to add to an order
February 26, 2024

M1 Software Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Inventory Management
  • Bill of Materials
  • Financial Accounting
  • Easier to create custom reports
  • More flexible when performing physical inventory counts
  • More user friendly scheduling function
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Quoting products for us to sell.
  • Tracking our production hours and jobs costs.
  • Collects and stores data to refer back to repeat sales.
  • Gives us an accurate aging report to determine who is behind on invoice payments
  • It’s difficult to undo an error made. Once an invoice is posted you can’t undo it.
  • We receive errors or glitches in sales orders or invoices.
  • When researching “how to” do something on the tech support page it isn’t as straightforward as I’d like for it to be.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Manages inventory parts and assemblies very well.
  • Tracks the orders from inception thru the build process and shipping.
  • Manages our payments to vendors.
  • Manages our outstanding invoices.
  • 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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Manage inventory counts. Good precision on quantities in and out, through shipping, MI, MR, and receipts.
  • Job costing shows great details on labor, operations, and materials to be used. I wished that would do better in outside operations that would return, but we still think it is great.
  • Ability to track changes (changelog), showing all changes that had in a particular place. Such as where, when, and by whom a line item unit price was changed in a PO.
  • Link, traceability, keeping history. If done correctly, it is amazing to keep the history of a part/lot.
  • The amount of user rights/customization is unbelievable. It can be hard to set up in the beginning, but it is great that you can give some very specific access to a user, and it is not (in general) as a package.
  • Inventory item specifications. It would be great to have more options and/or fields to add particularities of an item. Not needing to make different part IDs.
  • The lot selection screen should be customizable. This is a huge flaw of the system, causing several man-hours loss.
  • Although Crystal Reports is great, it would be great to see a 'report generator/editor' incorporated into M1.
  • Although SQL is not very complicated, some of the grid customizations should be easier for a regular user.
  • Inventory unit cost is not done correctly, not sure if it is our fault or if it is M1.
  • Backflush material in a job should work better. It not only with time cards associated with it, but should also work with a lot of trackable items.
  • Possibility to default decimal cases per item. Some have to be integer only, whereas others could be with several.
  • On Jobs and assemblies, could be better to specify the quantity needed. Quantity per assembly is not the best way always. Several times it will not work and/or will have a conflict with decimal cases.
  • Editing text fields is pretty annoying and comes with several errors.
November 06, 2023

M1 for Machinery

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • M1 does a great job in setting up securities as the permissions are not just blanket wide. You are able to give permissions down to the individual field which helps when duties blend between departments.
  • The general ledger tracking and setup work well.
  • The system does not appear to be able to be easily manipulated, helping prevent opportunities for fraud.
  • When going to v9 the purchasing manager was replaced by the purchase planner which has given us many issues. The time needed to purchase has increased significantly.
  • The email integration does not always work in my opinion.
  • The part allocation numbers are not always accurate between modules in my experience.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Job planning and estimating.
  • Inventory purchasing.
  • Inventory managements.
  • Labor tracking.
  • Cost of sales.
  • Accounts payable.
  • Accounts receivable.
  • General ledger.
  • Simplified reports in Excel.
  • Easy to build reports and filters.
  • Data pool to build reports within M1.
  • User friendly format to upload entries.
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