Manufacturing and Distribution ERP Software

Manage Manufacturing Operations with Confidence

Macola delivers a low-cost, high-value software solution that fully enables you to keep your business strong, efficient, and streamlined.

Bill of Material (BOM)

Manages and analyzes the components and products your company produces. BOM's Visual Bill of Resource establishes the link between a single inventory item and the components that comprise the finished good.

Inventory Management

Manages the core of your distribution network through a comprehensive, integrated toolset that reliably controls and tracks not just inventory items, but inventory information.

Manufacturing Cost Accounting (MCA)

Tracks actual costs and compares these actual costs to planned costs, yielding valuable variance analysis data. MCA is the primary source for linking accounting entries from shop orders to the Macola General Ledger.

Master Scheduling

Makes a statement of what the company expects to manufacture. Master Scheduling reflects the overall, long-term production plans, taking into account the company's sales forecast, material availability and plant capacity.

Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

Streamlines your manufacturing/warehouse operation and ordering, and ideal for the single-site manufacturing and multiple warehouse operations.

Production Order Processing (POP)

Allows you to define numerous cost types to represent value-added costs applied during production. Due dates can be tied to a manufacturing shop calendar, which manages days open for production.

Shop Floor Control (SFC)

Helps to effectively execute your production plans at all levels, allowing quick and efficient shop order creation and order control without entering an excess of unnecessary data. With SFC, your company can manage all of the resources related to manufacturing and capture the detail to fully understand your costs and plant efficiency.

Standard Costing

Maintains cost for items manufactured in Shop Floor Control (SFC) and Production Order Processing (POP). Total material and value-added costs for manufactured items can be easily determined based on the product structure as entered in the Bill of Materials (BOM) package.

Standard Product Routing (SPR)

Standardizes manufacturing routing —the information that describes the path a product follows on the shop floor as it flows through the production process. SPR is oriented toward any make-to-stock manufacturer, but also has the inherent flexibility to be used in job shops where jobs tend to be similar to earlier jobs.

Distribution Operation at Your Fingertips

Macola provides easy-to-use distribution and inventory capabilities with fully-integrated financials providing you with one source for tracking the health of your business.

With the all-inclusive nature of Macola, you have everything you need to manage your distribution operation at your fingertips. ECi Macola functionality covers:

• Inventory Management: Ensures that there is enough of the right product in stock while avoiding stockouts and overstocks, and reduces investment in inventory while increasing inventory turns.
• Order Entry (OE): Facilitates the order entry process by accepting orders and quotes, validating credit and calculating pricing. Order Entry also supports the picking and shipping process by recommending order lines, serial/lot/bins to be picked and generating shipping documents such as labels, packing slips and bills of lading.
• Purchase Order (PO): Automates the processes associated with procurement by providing an efficient, time-saving solution to help ensure that the necessary materials, supplies and services are available when required.
• Advanced Distribution: Allows you to run your business more efficiently and effectively by managing quality, product costs, customer returns and materials.

One Source of Truth for Your Business' Finances

With Macola, you have a complete, up-to-the-minute financial view of your company as well as total financial control throughout the organization.

Macola addresses every area of your finances so that you can take comfort in knowing that the financial side of your business is always in order.

Features include:

• General Ledger: Manage the financial core of your business as efficiently as possible to improve your financial control, speed up decision making, minimize human error, and lower costs.
• Accounts Payable: Ensure that there are no disruptions to the continued flow of raw materials, supplies and services into your company, and be in constant good standing with your vendors.
• Accounts Receivable: Manage your customers’ activity and credit to ensure high customer service levels, and maximize cash flow to achieve the highest level of performance.
• Excel Add-ins: A dynamic link between ECi Macola and Microsoft Excel allows you to access overviews of your ECi Macola data in Excel without having to export it, and offers immediate, up-to-date, dynamic reporting capabilities.
• Assets and Depreciation: Easily register and manage your assets, linking all asset movements to financial transactions and resources, and calculate monthly depreciations automatically for accurate budgeting.

Increase Productivity and Employee Satisfaction

With Macola, you can easily store, share, and access documents from one centralized repository to increase employee communication and collaboration and facilitate corporate knowledge sharing.

Reduce Costs

• Evolve to a near paperless organization.

Increase Productivity

• Automate uploading of documents
• Eliminate manual retrieval and storage of documents
• Document capture from scanning solutions
• Integrated with Kofax Express

Mitigate Risk of Noncompliance

• Linking of critical information and documents
• Access and editing securing control over documents

Increase Employee Satisfaction

• Faster retrieval of documents
• Role-based visibility

Improved Customer Satisfaction

• Ability to access business-critical documents
• Reduce customer response times

Increase Revenue

• Better utilization of space for more productive purposes
• Significant reduction of retrieval costs

Document, Workflows, and CRM

Increase organizational knowledge, boost efficiency, and streamline customer interaction with document management, workflows, and integrated CRM functionalities.

• Document Management ensures that staff members can share documents in real-time and have the same up-to-date information at their disposal.
• Customized Workflows allow you to customize the flow of internal processes and approvals — ensuring that requests, orders and anything else you choose follows a pre-defined (and auditable) path.
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM) gives you a centralized database for up-to-date client details — including customer history, leads and campaigns.

Seamlessly Integrate Customer Data Across the Organization

Eliminate the boundaries between sales, marketing, finance, support, and other departments that have regular contact with customers.

The integration of all department processes allows you to capture the entire customer experience as it relates to you. The CRM functionality does much more than simply store, update and manage customer data. It provides the crucial information necessary to continuously cultivate the customer relationship.

You can monitor, understand, manage and maximize sales performance, as well as leverage customer information into long-term customer loyalty and retention – anytime and anywhere from your web browser or mobile device.