Genius ERP Pros and Cons

* 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.

* 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.

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

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

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

Easy to learn and use, intuitive

Excellent platform for training (Genius Academy)

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

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

- 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.