Expanding on Expandable
March 11, 2020

Expanding on Expandable

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Expandable

Expandable is used to manage order entry, inventory, purchase orders, and engineering change notices. It is used by each department - purchasing, production, shipping, sales entry, and engineering. Purchasing issues Purchase orders and manages the requirements from orders. Production uses it to control inventory to account for what has been sent out each day. Shipping includes the tracking numbers in the order entry after it has shipped. Engineering keeps track of the Bill of Materials as well as the changes to boms and part numbers.

Pros

  • Great way for everyone on the team to see the same information - sales orders, inventory, purchase orders etc
  • The support team is always very responsive!!
  • Very customizable to create links between screens

Cons

  • Data entry on certain tasks can be very tedious (for example effected parts on an ECN)
  • Sometimes data connections for upload are very slow or just flat out fail multiple times. The problem is intermittent so difficult for support to track and fix
  • Certain fields cannot be pulled on a report and require engineering time to create a process to add functionality. It would be nice to have unfiltered access to all fields
  • Helps to provide accurate lead times to customers.
  • Accurate revision recording for customer support
Expandable fits our companies needs quite well to manage inventory, sales orders, and purchasing. We recently started to also use Expandable to track ECN changes. The ECN functionality is a little limited in the fact it is difficult to add descriptions or parts affected after it has been implemented. I would recommend having an additional program for managing ECN history.

Expandable Feature Ratings

9.0
Accounts payable
9
Accounts receivable
9
Journals and Reconciliations
Not Rated
Configurable Accounting
Not Rated
Standardized Processes
Not Rated
10.0
Billing Management
Not Rated
Cash and Asset Management
Not Rated
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting
Not Rated
Period Close
10
10.0
Inventory tracking
10
Automatic reordering
Not Rated
Location management
10
10.0
Pricing
10
Order entry
10
Credit card processing
Not Rated
Cost of goods sold
10
Order Orchestration
10
Not Rated
Pay calculation
Not Rated
Benefit plan administration
Not Rated
Direct deposit files
Not Rated
8.7
Dashboards
7
Standard reports
9
Custom reports
10
8.0
API for custom integration
8
Plug-ins
Not Rated
10.0
Role-based user permissions
10
Single sign-on capability
Not Rated
10.0
Award Lifecycle Management
10
Not Rated
Budgeting and Forecasting
Not Rated
Project Costing
Not Rated
Cost Capture
Not Rated
Capital Project Management
Not Rated
Customer Contract Compliance
Not Rated
Project Revenue Recognition
Not Rated
Not Rated
Project Planning and Scheduling
Not Rated
Task Insight for Project Managers
Not Rated
Project Mobile Functionality
Not Rated
Definable Resource Pools
Not Rated
Not Rated
Bids Analyzed and Compared
Not Rated
Contract Authoring
Not Rated
Contract Repository
Not Rated
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated
Not Rated
Supplier Management
Not Rated
Not Rated
Risk Repository
Not Rated
Control Management
Not Rated
Control Efficiency Assessments
Not Rated
Issue Detection
Not Rated
Remediation and Certification
Not Rated
Not Rated
Transportation Planning and Optimization
Not Rated
Transportation Execution Management
Not Rated
Trade and Customs Management
Not Rated
Fulfillment Management
Not Rated
Warehouse Workforce Management
Not Rated
Not Rated
Production Process Design
Not Rated
Production Management
Not Rated
Configuration Management
Not Rated
Work Execution
Not Rated
Manufacturing Costs
Not Rated
10.0
Forecasting
10
Inventory Planning
10
Performance Monitoring
Not Rated
Not Rated
Proposal Management
Not Rated
Product Master Data Management
Not Rated

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