Epicor CMS vs. Genius Solutions

CMS is well suited for automotive manufacturing businesses.

Incentivized

Genius is well suited to our fabrication business as it covers all sections that need to be addressed in one program e.g. shipping, receiving, Sales orders, Purchase orders, invoicing, Employee clocking times from the scanning machine. easy to navigate between modules where needed once you know how.

Incentivized

• EDI Order Processing
• Serialized Inventory Tracking
• Order Processing

Incentivized

• It has a variety of modules and can customize reports or filters to suit all our needs.
• I appreciate that we can export and import from Excel.
• This freed us from certain tasks, automate certain processes and be more efficient in our work.

• Visual interface
• Report Customization

Incentivized

• Customization of reports can be costly.
• In my opinion the Quality section is not as good as we expected.
• For Customization we need Power BI knowledge

CMS takes time to learn and use the menu driven green screen. However, once you are familiar it makes for fast navigation.

Incentivized

Genius is easy to use but you have to male sure it's set up properly. You also have to make sure you understand what an ERP should do to know the right questions to ask when you contact customer support.

Incentivized

Support is getting better but can still be slow to respond.

Incentivized

patient, friendly and clear explanations

Incentivized

We have more control over the backend of CMS and the fact it runs on a 5250 emulator it run a lot faster for data entry.

Incentivized

Genius had a far better implementation team and had everything we were looking for without having to super customize a product. The implementation was also far easier than expected due to their ability to manipulate spreadsheets and import them in. We are glad we went with Genius due to the flow of the software and the syncable database. The main thing missed about Quickbooks is the ability to easily fix mistakes by deleting transactions or edit them even after they posted. This however made financials less reliable

• Inventory tracibility
• Order Processing
• Customer Integration
• EDI Processing

Incentivized

• Tracking job costs makes it easy to see where we are in the projects.
• We save a lot of time for the production of "repeat" jobs.
• With job tracking from start to finish, we can easily schedule deliveries.