I am going to be using this software, We bought 4 used work stations with scanner, scale and label printers built in. Its an impressive tracking software that builds reports on processes, costs and labor.
I have only played with the demo and had a rep give me a presentation/demo on it so no actual on hands use yet as we havent started processing yet.
The igwLAB from extraktLAB is a solid tracking system. Can be used for much more. You can look across your process to see where improvements can be made. It helps your operation be as efficient as possible.
We use it at Nemadji Manufacturing. Couldn’t imagine how we would do it without it.
I sat through a demo on Backbone, and it’s certainly the best I’ve seen so far. I wasn’t looking for a solution, and really only accepted the invitation because they had a piece of hardware I needed to get my hands on.
It’s really not terribly difficult to build a good database solution, but you do have to spend time talking with the folks doing the work, and you have to actually listen. These guys seem to have gotten that part sorted, at least in the modules I looked at.
Don’t believe they got around to integrating fraction finder data into their DB, but I’m also not sure that’s even relevant anymore…
working my way through everything Extraktlab would send me on igwLAB.
So far, it certainly looks like they understand the scope of the problem (not a given in my experience).
There does seem to be a fair amount of setup one needs to do to really get the full value, I can certainly see that being totally overwhelming for some…
So far I have had demos with Distru and Backbone and both are nice systems with similar qualities. Backbone was a starting fee of 2500 a month and Distru is 1000 a month. I cannot justify the difference in price for Backbone for our facility, however it is a very nice system for a larger entity I would imagine. We are looking at Flourish and a few others soon and I will update.
It would be nice if someone could make a version of it in Odoo…I would pay for it. I used to have a system that I used for a tanning salon I was running and it was built by a guy for us for $1500 and $100 anytime we needed to update with new stuff we wanted incorporated. If I could only find that guy:)
I noticed their subscription model seemed pretty pricey (maybe not as much as green taxed cannabis software, mind). Is the community version a chopped/stripped version of the enterprise version? Or is it full featured?
I wonder what the frameworks are written in. I am always excited about OSS but then I get too lazy to learn the frameworks and actually make anything with it. Notable exception being software written using the codeigniter frameworks.
Ooh! I currently use WP for both wholesale and retail and have pretty much based everything off of it. I’m gonna need to check that out. I haven’t played much with adding ERP capabilities to it though.
Was just reading into the features and it seemed like the ticket. Have you heard of any WP plugins that handle manufacturing? Looking to start tracking batch numbers and batch specific COAs since I pulled the trigger on an SRI GC. Would be super sweet if there was a WP plugin that handled something like that.