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What do you like best about M1?

I like the ease of navigation M1 provides Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about M1?

There should be more features, not customization's, that make configuring for specific tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is M1 solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are now counting inventory and labor cost analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

M1 Overview

What is M1?

M1 is a subscription cloud-based or on-premise ERP software for manufacturers, enabling you to tie your business operations together in one system to centralize your data. It lets you coordinate and share data across various functions within your business from sales, inventory, scheduling, production, shipping, and more. The solution is suitable for small to midsize companies that manufacture via repetitive, make-to-stock, make-to-order and engineer-to-order processes. M1’s product configurator provides a multi-level, automated configuration that builds product configurations from a BOM, including all sub-assemblies. Users can also add additional rules and formulas after the wizard is complete. The system also offers features for inventory barcoding, shop floor control and customizable reporting through integration with Crystal Reports. Other key features include free “view only” licenses for users who only need to view and edit reports, “Smart Screen Technology” that automatically changes screens based on users’ input and a free M1 Design Studio that allows users to customize the system without accessing the source code or requiring extensive programming knowledge.

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M1 is subscription cloud-based ERP software for manufacturers, enabling you to tie your business operations together in one system to centralize your data. It lets you coordinate and share data across various functions within your business from sales, inventory, scheduling, production, shipping, and more.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

M1 ERP is a robust software for modern manufacturers who wants an ERP that fit their processes instead changing their process to fit an ERP. It’s very user-friendly offering powerful features to let you operate efficiently. Functions like “Drilling Down” in every screen and module, “Where Used” and “Right-click”, “Open With” ensures the user’s overall M1 experience is smooth and efficient.

Operating in a real-time environment, you can effortlessly manage customer changes, see and balance work center utilization maximizing production efficiency and stop last-minute havoc on the shop floor. Real-time reporting allows you to make real-time decisions for smarter and quicker decision making.

With a comprehensive training program M1 ERP offers tools that can be customized to fit employee learning styles, so your team trains smarter, enhancing your ERP’s ROI.

Because M1 ERP was created as a modular offering it has many add-on modules to scale with your business.


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1999
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Rhajon A.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"M1 is a good product"
I have used M1 sparingly, and it has been a pretty solid product so far!
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4.0 out of 5
"Great for Manufacturing"
Inventory program is one of the best I have ever used.
Ankur G.
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Ankur G.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best Software ever....."
This is very useful software for any organisation as it provide very smooth functioning to every Enterprises or organisation...
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Rhajon A.
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What do you like best about M1?

I have used M1 sparingly, and it has been a pretty solid product so far! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about M1?

I have not experienced anything that I would say that I dislike about M1 as of yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is M1 solving and how is that benefiting you?

M1 allows me to get more insight into my finances. It also allows me to look into cryptocurrency and stock investments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about M1?

Inventory program is one of the best I have ever used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about M1?

Reports are a bit basic and not really accounting based. You will need to know Chrystal to modify reports or make your own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering M1:

Do not buy unless you need extensive inventory accounting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is M1 solving and how is that benefiting you?

The process of order, packing slip and invoicing is very user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ankur G.
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What do you like best about M1?

This is very useful software for any organisation as it provide very smooth functioning to every Enterprises or organisation... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about M1?

Sometimes some prompt are there however it has null impacts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is M1 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Accounting based query are duly resolved... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about M1?

First, M1 runs on an elegantly designed SQL database. The database structure makes it easy for everyday users to gather and parse data to make good business decisions.

Second, the on-premise software can be customized without compromising the integrity of the core product. This makes it extremely useful for unique business environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about M1?

The cloud-based version limits the ability to customize the software for your business' unique situation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering M1:

As with any software purchase and implementation, your experience will be best if you understand your current business processes well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is M1 solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have built on M1's CRM by customizing it to accommodate our project-based sales team. (Most CRM's including M1's assume that a "lead" is the same as a person. In our business, we are identifying construction projects that might use our product. The person shows up much later in the process.) We have had great success in using M1 this way.

Because M1 covers all aspects of our business, we use it to track every activity from the moment we identify a project in our sale effort to the moment we ship the last piece for that project. It has helped us keep control of our costs at every moment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about M1?

the ease of navigation, and the right click functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about M1?

the bugs of the software, there are quite a few and there is no way to actually fix these. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering M1:

Make sure it fits all of your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is M1 solving and how is that benefiting you?

the flow of my company is a lot easier to manage with the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about M1?

Layout is simplistic, easy to maneuver through each area Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about M1?

Some fields are limiting to the information added in them. It seems like every time we need a change, there is a modification fee Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is M1 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its very good with keeping the company information in one place Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kris Q.
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What do you like best about M1?

M1 is very customizable which makes mining the data out of it very easy. It makes everything very transparent and movement between departments is so much easier with this program than the multiple programs we used before. I love that everything can also be paperless. It makes life so much more simple! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about M1?

For our company we don't currently have anyone who knows how to write code so we have to pay for the customizations we get. Our company does entire sales orders as jobs so that can also be a bit cumbersome for clocking in and out of jobs for shop floor entry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering M1:

I would say to talk to other users especially in your industry if you can. See how they use it. What customizations they have had to do, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is M1 solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's a seamless process from purchasing to receiving to paying bills. The same goes for quote to cash. It's a very simple and easy process. We've found tracking our inventory is easier with M1 also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about M1?

Having changed ERP systems several times, I understood all too clearly the amount of software modifications we would need to make to accommodate our needs. ECI M1's beautifully designed relational data base, easily accessible and complete data dictionary, Design Studio for both forms and code, ease of making additions and changes to tables, and--when you get in trouble--access to software support made the change as painless as possible. Data Manager, which allowed us to download date from files in our old system to excel files, then upload that data into M1s table configurations, virtually eliminated the task of data transfer. We made the transfer over a weekend and were up and running on Monday! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about M1?

Upgrading from version 8 to version 9 proved to be much more complicated and time consuming than expected. While the pure M1 changes upgraded without issue, much of the customized tables and code required a lot of time to repair and return to the same level of functionality. Many customized forms and reports failed; some of these needed to be rewritten entirely. The change to a .net framework scrambled forms that had been set up to optimize workflows. While version 8 was supported by thorough and complete user guides; version 9 was not. Forms flow changed totally without support of tutorials showing how to restore the customized forms to your preferred settings without giving up access to many of the desired features of the new framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is M1 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Working within M1's software we were able to remove virtually all paper, leaving only a single job traveler sheet that accompanies the job as required by ISO 9000. We are able to mine our data easily using the Query Tool and very simple SQL scripts. It's relatively easy to develop and modify performance and production dash boards which give us a continuing picture of progress against goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Olga Yurchenko of M1

Dear Gary,

Thank you very much for your review and your authentic feedback about some of the experiences with your M1 ERP. Understanding the challenges you had during your version transition helps us to improve our processes and provide better experiences for other customers. We are grateful for your business and are looking forward to serving you for years to come.

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What do you like best about M1?

We loved our implementer as well as the support we continue to get from ECI for the past 5 years. Software encompasses all of our business from quote to payment. The software is easily customized which makes it taylored to our unique business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about M1?

I don't like that they took away the red button in V9 or that the pop up messages stopped in V9. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering M1:

If you are in manufacturing, definitely an asset. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is M1 solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are capturing all of our billings for what was shipped. We also have done away with different softwares to run separate functions of our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about M1?

The must helpful is how the software is customizable and let the administrator develop/adjust new managerial tools: forms, grids and reports analysis.

Help us to accomplish the must important tasks in the supply chain.

user friendly and intuitive.

M1 helps to track the flow product in the entire supply chain, from the purchasing to the shipping passing by inventory, production and scheduling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about M1?

Too much customization can be harmful at the same time, especially when doing a migration. it has to be well managed and need closed support by M1 specialists. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering M1:

If you want user friendly ERP, easy to customize and supported by professional support techniciens, M1 is the right choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is M1 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Faster transactions. better and clear access to important data up to date. Excellent Scheduling/planing module. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.