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What do you like best about Genius ERP?

* User Friendly

* Little difficulty to wrap your head around how things work and why they work that way.

* Customizable

* Quick customer support

* Easily visible information

* Saw financial benefits within first year Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genius ERP?

* Difficult to transition from 50+ years of another way

* The French to English translations

* Long transition process for our company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Genius ERP solving and how is that benefiting you?

Genius is helping us to see our productivity at an individual component level. We are a mainly engineer to order company and we can see the time spent on an individual component of a larger system to help increase our estimating accuracy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Genius ERP Overview

What is Genius ERP?

Genius ERP is a complete enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that includes software, implementation services and field expertise for small to mid-sized custom manufacturers. For over 30 years, Genius ERP has been the trusted choice for engineer-to-order, custom-to-order, make-to-order and assemble-to-order manufacturers. Genius ERP gives custom manufacturers the tools they need to increase productivity and reduce costs. Seamlessly manage your operations from start to finish with product engineering, scheduling, inventory management, production planning, shop floor management, job costing, CRM, accounting and field services. Automate time-consuming steps, estimate with greater accuracy and reduce bottlenecks on the shop floor to optimize production. Use integrated engineering features to easily convert a CAD design into a BOM and leverage powerful analytics tools to gain deep insights into your manufacturing operations, enabling data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement. Genius ERP was designed exclusively for custom manufacturers by leading industry experts. From design to delivery, Genius ERP helps manufacturers increase throughput without hiring new staff or expanding operations. Manufacturers can handle more jobs and take on new customers while avoiding stalled projects, supply overstock, and costly inefficiencies. To see Genius ERP in action visit www.geniuserp.com

Genius ERP Details
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English, French
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Product Description

A complete ERP solution for custom manufacturers, including software, professional services and field expertise.


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Year Founded
1992
HQ Location
Quebec, Canada
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Perfect ERP software for manufacturers"
Easy to learn and use, intuitive Excellent platform for training (Genius Academy) Nice customer support team
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"A long transition"
* User Friendly * Little difficulty to wrap your head around how things work and why they work that way. * Customizable * Quick customer suppor...
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Monica V.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Better Than Most"
What I like most is that it has easy access to export/import to excel
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Genius ERP Media

Genius ERP Demo - Product Engineering | CAD2BOM
Our industry-leading CAD2BOM feature allows for seamless integration between a CAD system and our ERP, letting you create a bill of materials (BOM) from a CAD drawing at the push of a button, making Genius ERP a true engineering-to-cash ERP solution.
Genius ERP Demo - Genius Smart Scheduling
Genius ERP has two scheduling systems—traditional plus the only DBR scheduling system available within an ERP. Choose the right solution to schedule your shop with precision, and ensure jobs are always completed on time and within budget.
Genius ERP Demo - Management Dashboard
Get visibility of your entire business with a range of reports and analytics available at your fingertips—giving you oversight into every aspect of your operations. Harness the power of real-time data to make the best decisions for your company.
Genius ERP Demo - What-If Scheduling
What-If Scheduling
Genius ERP Demo - Production
Use Genius ERP to manage every job in your shop, and balance shifting priorities, to maximize your throughput. Real-time data tracks job progress, identifies production bottlenecks, measures system performance, and tracks costs for each job in your shop.
Genius ERP Demo - Inventory Management
Accurately know your inventory levels every second of the day. Track all of your inventory needs—including on mobile devices—to control your costs and replenish stock based on actual on-the-job demand with one simplified and fully integrated system.
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What do you like best about Genius ERP?

The in-depth accounting report functions are greatly helpful in tracking financial performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genius ERP?

The system does not seem optimized to handle refund scenarios (there is no innate way to receive cash from Vendors or send cash to Customers). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Genius ERP solving and how is that benefiting you?

Genius ERP solves the problem of convoluted paper trails and improperly compartmentalized responsibilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Genius ERP?

What I like most is that it has easy access to export/import to excel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genius ERP?

Waht I like least is the accessibility to Tech Support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Genius ERP solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ability to run reports Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Manufacturing
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What do you like best about Genius ERP?

Easy to learn and use, intuitive

Excellent platform for training (Genius Academy)

Nice customer support team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genius ERP?

Limited standard reports, also difficult to adapt after being exported in Excel or Word Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Genius ERP solving and how is that benefiting you?

Includes accounting modules avoiding to use 2 different softwares and lossing time or making errors

Manages custom BOM versions, keeping track of changes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nada A.
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Production Manager
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What do you like best about Genius ERP?

- easy to use

- dashboards (open order report) is a fantastic higher-level report that shows you so much information with the option to dig into the details.

- we can create our own reports and forms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genius ERP?

They try to make it open and flexible, but some modules, like the quoting, do not work for our company. Our quoting process is detailed, and we are not able to fit it into the software.

Some fields are titled in French, which makes it a bit of a challenge for the English speaking people creating the reports at our facility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Genius ERP solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a production manager, I can use the dashboards (such as the open order report and production dashboard), to make decisions.

Because of its appearance, it's easy to use and not intimidating, which allowed the rollout of the software to the entire team much easier to accept and adopt. Now everyone from the warehouse to accounting to the production lead hands, Engineering, sales and QA inspectors are using Genius. So all our info is finally centralized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Genius ERP?

Genius ERP helped us consolidate modules of information into a single user friendly platform. It integrates our time keeping on the production floor with Accounting, quotations, scheduling, Invoicing, production planning, CRM and Estimates to have a single portal to view all info. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genius ERP?

The out of the box solution is very good but we did require customized reports to be developed. If you are to manage customization internally, you will need to learn the use of Microsoft Power BI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Genius ERP:

Highly recommend the software and support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Genius ERP solving and how is that benefiting you?

Genius has dramatically decreased the time it takes for us to estimate, quote and produce projects. As well we have live views of project costs and a client history. We are more efficient in the production process and manage the data electronically from a single platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joshua C.
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What do you like best about Genius ERP?

Scheduling and capacity management modules, CAD to BOM are all excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genius ERP?

Difficulties with implementation and training Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Genius ERP solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scheduling & "live" accounting/tracking on projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Greg F.
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What do you like best about Genius ERP?

Having been in ERP space for 30+ years in Manufacturing Environments, I can attest that Genius ERP provides very robust functionality at a very competitive price. From BOM to Engineering Lifecycle to MRP and MPS, it really does it all. Their training is straightforward and their support is excellent! They also have scheduled "talk with an expert" sessions (~2x week) that enable you to get quick responses on issues of functionality.

Being Cloud hosted means you don't have to invest in the infrastructure and sleep at night knowing your data is safe. Their security is as robust or simple as you'd like it to be. Lastly, if you're familiar with SQL databases, they have a very nice interface through their own Analytics Product and Power BI.

Other nice features: Downloads of views of data to excel, Export/Import of major data sources; Robust custom fields; Report export to Excel, PDF, etc..; REST API to enable web based integrations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genius ERP?

Being cloud hosted, we have to RDP into Azure (as opposed to a full-fledged html version) to get to a desktop (I believe this is on their roadmap). They do, however, have a Web Shop Floor interface that eliminates the need of the Remote Desktop for shop floor reporting. Lastly, because of the RDP, we have to rely on local default printers for printing (but there are many option for preview->pdf/excel).

No OBC data access, but they do have a nice Power BI connector.

Their General Ledger is servicable, but they tell you that from the outset. And I would never make a manufacturing ERP decision with the quality of the G/L being a major factor. Besides, you can get the data out of Genius via Analytics and/or PowerBI and cut/paste into Excel.

File exchange (through Azure connectors) is accomplished by creating a share on Azure and local company and syncing the two. It's not immediate, but it is relatively timely.

No local admin rights on the desktop, requiring a help desk ticket for any software install or upgrade.

These are all relatively minor inconveniences, when you look at the core functionality of Genius. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Genius ERP solving and how is that benefiting you?

My client purchased two new operations and was looking to get out of a patchwork system that included Quickbooks and E2 Manufacturing. We were also looking for Business Intelligence and job cost accounting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Genius ERP?

Full features software that cover all bases a business need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genius ERP?

Interface can be laggy and not super responsive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Genius ERP solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cost tracking. Very effective when properly use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
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What do you like best about Genius ERP?

Genius allows us to fully customize our product BOMs by using the Engineering Lifecycle features. We can customize in Genius from preloaded parts or upload them from a CAD2BOM interface. Time and effort have been reduced and keying errors virtually eliminated.

We also like the feature tied to the engineering lifecycle that allows us to load preliminary parts to purchasing which the design team knows will be long lead. Previously we would have to track long lead parts outside of the BOM and wait for the BOM to be fully loaded to show the parts bought for the job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genius ERP?

We are using the integrated genius accounting package. It is not as user friendly as what we used in the past (QB), but it give us the opportunity to fully link our costs to the product/job, something not possible in QB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Genius ERP solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have eliminated the need for many separate spreadsheets and various individual planning tools. Now at a glance, the production team can see what is coming down the pipe as well as what stage each job on the floor is at. Reduction in redundancy has helped free up time for other tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Genius ERP?

I like the userfriendly interface that support a powerfull planification and MRP system. We saw a big increase in material consumption control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genius ERP?

The only down side is there are very few customisation that can be done in the system. There is a helpfull tool called GTA (Genius task automation) that palliate this but it does not show in user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Genius ERP:

I would highly recommend Genius for any manufacturing facility. their support during integration is way beyond what we expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Genius ERP solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helped to control inventory and optimize production planification Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.