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It's ease of use . Being able to set up more than one vendor. A min / max on the items. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
THat you cannot attach PO confirmations
run Reports on late ETA's to vendors with PO
wish you can attach prints/ drawings... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
14 out of 15 Total Reviews for E2 MFG System
E2's system for generating Estimates, which transformed quickly straight into orders and job routers, was great for entry-level people to use. We had minimal experience cost estimators, and they were able to set us up with job costing and preliminary routing for the MFG team to take over. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
E2 didn't get into the nitty gritty of each step of the router. Perhaps it's changed over the years, but when we stopped using the software back in 2019, the best you could do was enter a target cycle time, and a description of the operation. You couldn't upload pictures, or enter tooling details, or inspection data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I have been using this software for a good 10 years now and I found it very easy to learn as well as use . There are help sections and our company also pays for phone support so I can always call them to get an answer and they also email information about our call to support the information they gave you . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
need to be able to add certain fields and our company is not willing to adjust the software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
E2 has many options that would fit most applications. As a job-shop environment, it does a good job, although the "documents" section could be put together better for a "read-only" standpoint. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There is no real way for Non-conformances and CAPA's to tie together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
E2 MFG System simplifies management of your shop floor. With its touchscreen interface and lack of moving part, it can't get full of dirt from the shop floor. It's just a simple thing to login on a project and then log back out when your finished. Very user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Dirty employee hands. There is no way to get debris into the interface but dirty hands can cause a lack of contact issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The ability to find information is very good because of the filtering and database-like interface. I also like how customizable the different records can be, i.e., individual orders can be customized easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I am not pleased with the smoothness of the interface. Often, while using this on our server, the screen will flash back and forth a couple times before I can actually begin to access the screen. Also, it appears that the basic layout of the screen, which I am sure the software designers thought a lot about, requires extra clicks to get from the bottom portion of the screen, to the top portion in which the different ribbons respond separately. I wish the interface was more advanced, especially in the engineering capabilities department - there is no current way to interface with engineering software to reference BOM's or other data. We often have to run a utility that updates our BOM's when we make changes every month. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
E2 is the only job writing program i have used in my career so far, so I cannot compare to anything else, but I have appreciated it thus far. For our specific shop uses, there are some things we have to fudge, but overall the program is quite useful. I appreciate the long kept records and being able to recall jobs by partial part numbers or order numbers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Like I said, I can't compare to any other job shop programs, but it would be helpful if there were a few more customisable options. There are a few times when E2 will have a weird glitch and double a quantity with no way to override it without wiping the memory. But overall it's a good product and gets the job done, so not many complaints from me! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The system does cover all the necessary components, and they do tie together well. We use it for everything, including accounting, except the scheduling module. We have used it for more than 12 years and know it very thoroughly. Recently "upgraded" to on-premise browser-based as their interface was in dire need of an update, which they did. Also, the app for collecting production data for the iPads is great, an another reason for our decision to upgrade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The system is slow. They verified that our system more than met the requirements, and even took a copy of our database and ran on their servers and verified similar performance. An order with 30 or so lines (items in the order) can take more than 3 MINUTES to close after a change. The system will occasionally log a user off without warning, and all work that was in process is gone. Changing dates in the orders can only be done line-by-line and is an exercise in agony.
Additionally, their reports are incredibly hard to read. We have learned programming so we can modify them to suit our needs, and have modified dozens of reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Cloud-based so this software can be accessed remotely when out of the office.
Everything is integrated from beginning to end of the project cycle - from quoting & customer purchase request to shipping & invoicing.
Can have multiple umbrella companies on the same software. For example, fabrication company and powder-coating company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Takes a while to fully learn all the functionalities. I would recommend having a CSR come in and train.
Also if a customer modifies an existing order after an order has already been entered and processed the software doesn't allow the original order to be reprocessed without causing all the existing job numbers to be changed which causes a nightmare if some of the line items on the order are already in production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
This software is very intuitive and graphically pleasing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The visual scheduling board does not fit for a contract stamping enviroment. It is designed for a job shop/fabrication enviroment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
