SALES

ENGINEERING

INVENTORY

PURCHASING
& RECEIVING

PRODUCTION

QUALITY
ASSURANCE

LEADING ERP SOFTWARE

FOR GROWING MANUFACTURERS SHIPPING

ACCOUNTING
 WE ARE FOCUSED ON HELPING YOUR TEAM ACHIEVE:
M1 IS END-TO-END MANAGEMENT Better decision making
Significant productivity increases
SOFTWARE FOR YOUR GROWING Big reductions in inter-departmental miscommunications
1. SALES MANUFACTURING BUSINESS Greater satisfaction and loyalty from your customers
M1 helps your sales team meet and exceed the expectations of your clients while safe- in the short and long term
guarding against missteps in the sales process that could impact the rest of your team.
KEY FUNCTIONALITY
Customer Contacts Follow-Up Management Lead & Opportunity Management Estimating
& Quoting Pricing & Discounting Orders & Returns Commissions Call Center Support
Point of Sale Credit Card Processing Product Configurator 8. ACCOUNTING
Fully integrate all financial aspects of your enterprise from billing
2. ENGINEERING customers and collecting payment to paying vendors, and managing
and paying employees, while over-seeing all other financial transac-
Take the time and guess work out of custom-config- tions through General Ledger.
ured quotes and jobs. M1 assists made-to-order
and engineered-to-order shops configure products KEY FUNCTIONALITY
to the exact needs of your customers using powerful Accounts Receivable (AR)/Billing including Credit Card Processing Accounts
template-generating tools. Payable (AP)/Bill Payment Employee Management/HR/Payroll Finance/
General Ledger Fixed Assets
KEY FUNCTIONALITY
Project Management Part Entry Part Find/
Replace Process Find/Replace CAD Integration
Change Request Management Job Management
Product Configurator Document Management

3. INVENTORY
Define complex assemblies and BOMs for accurate inventory
transactions and reporting. Manage your inventory, even
multiple locations, with precision and ease while improving
cash flow.
KEY FUNCTIONALITY
Part/Method Entry Material Issue Entry, Mass Issue, Backflushing
Materials MFG Receipt Entry Inventory Count Entry, Adjustments
Warehouse and Bin Transfers Stock Status Reports Material
Requirements Planning Reports Material Shortage Report Part,
Lot Number and Serial Number Labels, Warehouse and Bin Labels
Costed Bill of Materials Part Forecasting 7. SHIPPING
M1 is a pivotal tool for managing all of your
outgoing deliveries. It lets you process ship-
ments to a customer quickly and easily by pulling
4. PURCHASING & RECEIVING the shipping data from either a job or a sales
M1 provides complete information on what to buy, when to buy, and how much to buy order, allowing you to deliver on time every time.
from each supplier in a real-time environment.
KEY FUNCTIONALITY
KEY FUNCTIONALITY Shipment Entry Packing Slip and Packing Labels
Purchasing RFQ MRP Reports Purchasing Wizard Scheduled Receipts Receipt Entry Scheduled Shipments Report Daily Shipments
Print Parts, Bin, Lot Number, and Serial Number Labels Supplier Delivery Performance Report Customer Delivery Performance Package/
Quality Inspections DMR Management AP Invoice Wizard Shipment Tracking UPS/FedEx Integration

5. PRODUCTION
Maximize your competitive advantages with real-time production data, including costs. Manage complex production jobs with
multi-level BOMs, and identify problems and bottle-necks before they hit the shop floor. Deliver unprecedented levels of scheduling
accuracy and efficiency that increase employee and customer satisfaction. Accurately track job costs to the general ledger.
KEY FUNCTIONALITY
Job Entry Job Wizard Backward/Forward/Infinite/Finite Scheduling Barcoded Job Traveler Job Material Pick List Scheduling Board
Shop Load Explorer and Shop Load Report Production Calendars Work Center Priority Report Job Analysis Report Work In Progress (WIP)
Report Shop Floor Manager Shop Floor Data Collection
6. QUALITY ASSURANCE
Quality assurance is vital to customer satisfaction and the efficiency
of your operation. M1 helps maintain conformance throughout the production
process and ensures your quality certifications.
KEY FUNCTIONALITY
Quality Register Wizard Inspection Queue Inspection Entry Non Conformance Entry
Corrective Actions DMR Claims DMR Shipments RMA Claims RMA Shipments
CAPITALIZING ON THE MODULAR BENEFITS OF M1 OUR AVAILABLE M1 MODULES
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE
M1 is built for growing manufacturers. That means ACCOUNTS PAYABLE
no matter what your size weve got a business management
GENERAL LEDGER
solution to not just fit but also scale with your operational
needs and budget. MULTI CURRENCY

ADVANCED INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

How do we do this? Weve split our comprehensive system
ADVANCED FINANCIAL REPORTING
into multiple modules, each focused on different aspects
of a typical manufacturing operation. Each module ESTIMATING & QUOTING
can be removed from the overall system and ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE
reduced to a single core module, the M1
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ALERTS & AUTOMATION

SETTING THE RIGHT EXPECTATIONS WITH ECI M1
ECi M1 is powerful, Windows-based, ERP software used by small and Gain access to the critical aspects
medium sized job shops, custom manufacturers and mixed mode manu- of your business in just a few clicks.
facturers at more than 1,000 locations.

M1 is written in .NET C#, a powerful graphical development environment,

and the industry standard Microsoft SQL Server. The integrated system is
designed to handle virtually every phase of your manufacturing and sales
processes.

The business value that M1 will deliver for your manufacturing operations
will be realized at all levels of the organizationthe executive, the operational
manager and the system user.

EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT USERS

Improved: Improved: Improved:
Real-time access to accurate Real-time notification of potential User interface enabling fast ramp-up
company information production errors through exception of new employees and cross training
Visibility to the flow of information reporting of existing employees
aids in management by exception Time management Material management
Customer satisfaction Labor management Job scheduling and management
Financial management Material management Increased:
Increased: Job scheduling and management Opportunity to learn new skills and
Sales opportunities from improved Increased: improve their value to the business
customer responsiveness Employee satisfaction Real-time access to information
Productivity about your customers, orders,
Visibility to daily operational issues quotes and parts
Employee satisfaction indicators
Reduced: Reduced:
Reduced: Rework and idle times Job frustration and stress
Manufacturing cycles through Errors from sales caused by use of
improved efficiencies Busy work leaving more time for
disparate systems higher leverage work activities
FROM ONE MANUFACTURER TO ANOTHER

Our customers provide

a drawing, a spec, we deliver
a finished product. With our
sophisticated M1 ERP and live
shop floor tracking system, we
We selected M1 mainly because it
gave us the most bang for the buck but
it also seemed more user-friendly than
the other systems we looked at and more
easy to customize. Were confident M1
M1 is vital. Everyone in this
company uses M1 every day to
make sure that we know whats
being worked on and where.
Each week we use M1 reports
manage the most simple and the will get us to where we need to be as we and M1 data in our meetings to
most sophisticated production move forward. look back and say how did we
requirements and volumes and Gail Raynor and Pierre Parks do? and are we on track? Its
arrive at our customers doors Distek, Inc. been underpinning in helping
on time, every day. this company survive and
Brett Mackieson thrive.
General Manager, Elsum Engineering Joe Howe
Director of Technology/Finance, K&J Woodworks

Contact us today to learn how ECi M1 can help your business.

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