ERP for manufacturers
A customizable ERP for manufacturers that need connected control
Simor ERP is designed for manufacturers that need practical control across material, production, cost, fulfillment, and finance without a massive enterprise implementation.
The operational challenge
Why teams look for a better system
Growing manufacturers often outgrow accounting software and spreadsheets before they are ready for a rigid, multi-year ERP program. The result is duplicated master data, uncertain material availability, late production costing, and reporting built by hand.
Simor Soft solution
Simor ERP provides connected workflows across products, warehouses, purchasing, BOMs, routings, MRP, production, quality, costing, sales, accounting, payroll, security, and reporting - and each area can be customized
Core capabilities
What the solution covers
Capabilities are connected through shared data, permissions, traceability, and reporting - not presented as isolated feature checklists.
- Product, unit, warehouse, and location control
- Purchasing, supplier pricing, and landed cost
- BOMs, routings, work centers, and capacity
- MRP, production orders, issues, time, and receipts
- Quality, scrap, subcontracting, cost, and variance
- Sales, accounting, payroll, permissions, and dashboards
How it works
A workflow your team can follow
Start with the highest-value workflow - such as inventory and purchasing or production and costing - then connect adjacent processes in controlled stages. Data migration, permissions, reports, training, and acceptance criteria are defined around each release.
A practical implementation path for growing teams
Configuration around plant and product realities
Room to extend modules instead of replacing the platform
Customization
Adapt the system without losing control
Simor Soft can change pages, fields, business rules, reports, documents, integrations, roles, and entire modules. New capabilities can be built when the standard product does not cover a required manufacturing process.
Discovery, design, implementation, testing, data migration, deployment, training, and ongoing enhancement can be delivered as one managed engagement.
A practical next step
See how this would work in your organization
We can walk through the live product and discuss configuration, customization, migration, integration, and deployment.
Manufacturing ERP Canada
Connect planning, execution, inventory, quality, cost, and finance
Simor ERP gives Canadian manufacturers one transaction path from product definition and demand through production completion, inventory value, margin, and financial reporting.
Plan material
Use BOMs, inventory, demand, lead times, reorder rules, and MRP pegging to explain requirements.
Control production
Coordinate routing, work centres, work orders, time, material, output, quality, scrap, and subcontracting.
Understand actual cost
Connect material, labour, resource, overhead, variance, valuation, COGS, and product profitability.
Connected manufacturing
Follow one production order through the complete ERP record
A production order begins with an approved product structure and quantity. Material demand affects planning; issued components reduce inventory; work-order time contributes labour or resource cost; quality and scrap explain loss; completion receives finished goods; and accounting records the value created and consumed.
Simor ERP connects BOM, routing, work centre, production order, work order, material issue, time log, quality check, scrap, subcontracting, cost rollup, inventory valuation, and financial posting. Users can investigate a variance from the report back to the operational event.
Manufacturing modes
Adapt the workflow to what the plant actually makes
Make-to-stock, make-to-order, assembly, job-based, and subcontracted work place different demands on planning and control.
Make to stock
Balance forecasts, service targets, safety stock, capacity, and excess inventory.
Make to order
Trace customer demand through material, production status, delivery, cost, and margin.
Project or job production
Compare budget, committed cost, actual material and labour, revenue, and profitability.
Subcontracted operation
Track supplied material, outside processing, receipt, quality, lead time, and cost.
Production control
Design for the exceptions that affect output and margin
A normal completion is only one path. Acceptance should include component shortage, substitute material, partial output, excess consumption, rejected quality, scrap, rework, delayed subcontracting, changed routing, and a correction after posting.
- Effective BOM and routing revisions
- Warehouse, location, and work-in-progress movement
- Actual time and resource usage
- Quality points, holds, results, and release
- Scrap reason, quantity, approval, and cost
- Reconciliation of actual cost to inventory and ledger
Canadian implementation
Configure a product foundation and customize the valid differences
Canadian manufacturers may require organization-specific taxes, payroll, units, documents, approvals, plant roles, customer requirements, labels, reports, equipment integrations, or regulatory evidence. Simor Soft can configure the shared ERP foundation and develop the parts that create real operating value instead of forcing the plant into a generic demo workflow.
The engineering team covers discovery, design, implementation, integration, migration, QA, deployment, training, and ongoing enhancement. A staged release can begin with inventory and purchasing or a selected production family, provided temporary handoffs, reconciliation, ownership, and exit criteria are explicit.
Cost control
Compare expected manufacturing cost with what actually happened
Cost rollups can combine material, labour, resource, and overhead assumptions from the BOM and routing. Production transactions then provide actual component use, time, output, scrap, subcontracting, and other cost evidence. The difference needs an understandable cause rather than a single unexplained variance.
Material variance
Compare planned quantities and costs with issues, substitutes, returns, scrap, and purchase changes.
Labour and resource
Relate routing standards to recorded work-order time, rates, downtime, and actual output.
Overhead
Document the basis, rate, effective date, and allocation rule used in expected and actual cost.
Margin
Connect production cost and inventory value to delivery, COGS, sales, and product profitability.
Quality and traceability
Make quality checks part of production status
Quality points can define where inspection is required, what is measured, acceptable results, responsible roles, and the consequence of failure. A rejected result may hold material, block completion, create rework, or require controlled release. Production and inventory status should agree with that decision.
Traceability should connect the finished result to its production order, consumed material, routing, time, quality result, scrap, and subcontracted activity. The right depth depends on product and business risk, but the chain must be testable before launch.
Implementation readiness
Prepare manufacturing data and ownership before migration
Products, units, warehouses, locations, BOM versions, routings, work centres, resources, rates, lead times, reorder rules, suppliers, opening inventory, open purchases, open production, accounts, and tax settings need named owners and validation rules.
- Detect duplicate and inactive products
- Validate BOM loops, units, and effective revisions
- Confirm routing sequence and work-centre calendars
- Reconcile opening quantity and inventory value
- Test role access and approval boundaries
- Run representative orders with migrated records
Acceptance should reconcile the operational result to inventory valuation and accounting, confirm reports and permissions, and identify support ownership for the first production cycles. A phased rollout succeeds only when temporary manual work and exit criteria are visible.
Operational measures
Measure production without separating speed from quality and cost
Useful measures may include schedule adherence, material shortage, throughput, work-order age, yield, scrap, rework, quality holds, subcontractor delay, labour variance, manufacturing cost variance, inventory accuracy, on-time delivery, and gross margin. Each measure needs a formula, source, owner, period, exclusions, drill-down, and action.
Review measures together. Higher output is not improvement if scrap, overtime, late maintenance, or quality failure rises. Lower reported cost is not trustworthy if material issues or time logs are incomplete. Simor ERP links operational records to reports that explain the result.
Access and audit
Protect production and financial decisions with role boundaries
Define who may maintain BOMs and routings, release production, issue material, record time, complete output, approve quality, post scrap, change rates, run cost rollups, and correct transactions. Sensitive combinations may require approval or independent review.
System Audit and Financial Audit serve different purposes in Simor ERP. Implementation tests should include an allowed action, denied action, approved exception, correction, and trace from operational change to financial result.
Lifecycle
Support the manufacturing system after the first release
Production volume, suppliers, products, routings, equipment, labour rules, quality requirements, and reporting needs continue to change. Assign owners for master data, planning policy, production exceptions, cost review, integrations, monitoring, support, and release approval.
Simor Soft can maintain and enhance the solution after deployment. A change to a BOM, posting rule, integration, report, or module receives impact review and regression scenarios across inventory, production, costing, permissions, and finance before release.