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The Intuitive ERP Software System is an ERP software application that helps mid-market
manufacturing businesses achieve increased productivity, lower costs, and happier
customers.
By organizing information and automating business processes across the entire enterprise,
Intuitive ERP builds flexibility and control into every facet of your business environment
and increases the quality and visibility of the information you need to make more profitable
decisions.
Intuitive ERP was built, from the ground up, with 100% Microsoft technology. The current
release of Intuitive ERP has a pure .NET managed code framework and over 90% of the
standard product features have been rewritten in pure .NET.
Automation and integration of sales, marketing, support and e-commerce helps you win
sales and improve customer satisfaction, increasing customer responsiveness and loyalty.
Business Intelligence
Unparalleled business intelligence (BI) tools provide complete visibility into your system's
critical business data, allowing you to make faster, more informed and progressive company
decisions.
E-Commerce
Web applications and adoption of Microsoft's .NET technology enables you to access
information, sell product, run business processes and connect with customers and partners
anytime, anywhere via the internet.
Extended Enterprise
Intuitive ERP is designed to support businesses that operate at a single location or with
multiple plants -- across town or across the world.
Technology Infrastructure
Inventory: Manage detailed inventory records, maintain optimal inventory levels, simplify
inventory transactions, automate frequently performed tasks, ship and receive goods, track
material location/lot information, track serial numbers, utilize bar coding and bar code
labelling, and perform cycle counting and physical inventories.
Engineering: Create and maintain multi-level visual bills of material manage product data,
design routings and standard processes, and track and control engineering changes.
Manufacturing: Plan and schedule production, enter and track work orders, control the
shop floor, monitor production status, manage material and equipment capacity, promise
deliveries, and track time and attendance.
Finance: Create budgets and monitor cash flow, process accounts payable and accounts
receivable, generate general ledger activities, reconcile financial accounts, and track
material, labour and production costs. Create professional presentations with your financial
statements.
Quoting / Estimating: Provide quotes and estimates to customers and automatically
convert quotes to sales orders. Easily create new items (and associated bills of material and
routings), copy and modify existing items, or quickly configure an item on-the-fly.
Order Processing: Provide quotes and estimates, enter and maintain complex sales orders
or convert quotes directly to sales orders, create new items, bills of material and routings
on-the-fly, maintain price matrices, and ship finished product.
Intuitive SPC: Perform real-time Statistical Process Control at all inspection points
throughout the system, including work-in-process, purchasing, and material review/return.
Intuitive Forecasting: Generate forecasts based on usage data and multiple forecasting
methodologies, generate demand requirements based on forecasts, and analyze forecasts
compared to actual data.
Payroll / Human Resources: Manage your employee’s salary and job histories, benefit
eligibilities and uses, and process payroll.
Project Management: Establish projects and master projects, associate Project IDs with all
facets of the system, maintain a Project ID in multi-level manufacturing and procurement
orders tied to a given sales order, report on revenues, expenses and profit/loss for any
project, and report on progress billing.
Consulting
By implementing Intuitive ERP, you are taking a major step in improving your processes.
To help you prepare for that initiative and to guide you through other opportunities to build
or revitalize your business, Consona offers comprehensive consulting services. Consona’s
consultants provide direct, on-site support of your needs in the application of Intuitive
products and process re-engineering.
The Intuitive Virtual Classroom is a live, on-line training program designed to help
customers get the most out of their Intuitive ERP system. Virtual Classroom sessions
provide an easy and cost-effective way for customers to get new employees educated, learn
about a new release, train end users in specific functional areas, and to receive expert
answers to questions regarding ERP.
Training
Several in-depth educational courses are offered to ensure that you get the highest return on
your ERP investment, from implementation to everyday use of the system. These courses,
which include hands-on training and workshops, provide an in-depth understanding of
Intuitive ERP and the manufacturing environment.
Technical Support
Certified technicians who have in-depth knowledge of the product, as well as manufacturing
and accounting environments, staff Consona’s technical support organization. Access to the
Intuitive Customer Support web site, an immediate online service and support resource,
provides customers with 24-hour access to a support knowledgebase, software updates,
technical documentation, and more.
Many of our customers find that Intuitive ERP meets the majority of their needs without
customization. We realize, however, that you may have unique business conditions that
create the need to customize a solution. Consona offers complete customization services to
provide the technical expertise and development resources for the customization of your
system. All customizations are fully documented and conform to Consona’s strict
programming standards to assure product compatibility and seamless integration.
Documentation
An Implementation Guide, Tutorial Workbook, and User’s Manual are available in hard
copy as well as electronically, in book-marked Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Context-
sensitive on-line F1 key help—with an integrated APICS glossary—provides in-depth
product information and multiple cross-references throughout the system.
User Groups
User Groups provide a forum for Intuitive ERP users to share their experience and
knowledge about the product. Intuitive supports User Groups by providing organizational
guidance, guest speakers, product updates and an opportunity to provide direct feedback on
product features and functionality.
Intuitive ERP graphically displays critical sales, purchasing, inventory, production and
financial activity data. From a global view of your business, you can review summary
information, drill down into transaction-level detail and easily prepare presentation-quality
reports. These tools are also integrated with Microsoft Office to provide maximum
flexibility.
Decision Management Tool: Automatically track and analyze over 50 key performance
indicators (including inventory turns, average days to pay, etc.) using data from Intuitive
ERP to provide vital information on the health of your company.
Ad Hoc Report Wizard: Easily create an unlimited number of custom reports (with no
database or query building expertise required) based on the data stored within the Intuitive
ERP database. This is the easiest reporting tool you’ll ever use.
To compete, you must be faster, more cost effective and more knowledgeable of your
customer than your competitor. Intuitive's e-commerce solutions leverage Internet
technology to provide your company and your customers with immediate access to the
information and tools you need to compete successfully.
Customer Portal: Allow your customer to view a catalog of products, place orders, and
check their activity status all securely over the internet. Customize price matrixing and
inventory selection for each customer. Allow customers to track the status of their
shipments and orders, view their current AR aging, and make other valuable inquiries
specific to their organization over the Internet.
Sales Portal: Enter orders at the point of sale and look up information on order value and
status, shipments, billings and invoice detail and history over the Internet.
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): EDI allows you to communicate with your trading
partners electronically. Intuitive provides the templates necessary for the entry and
transmission of EDI transactions to and from your customers and vendors. In addition, the
EDI interface provides support for the transactions commonly processed via EDI and can be
used with any EDI translator service.
The challenge has been to meet the seemingly conflicting objectives of maintaining
corporate oversight and management while providing the local business unit flexibility that
has given you a competitive advantage. The solution is Intuitive ERP™ from Intuitive
Manufacturing Systems.
The Intuitive ERP system architecture provides a flexible environment to easily modify
language tables, reports and forms. Any language can be supported, including double byte
languages. System upgrades do not affect translation; all translations remain intact and fully
operational with no maintenance from release to release.
Multilingual capability extends to the user level, not just the client. The same client
workstation and logon can be used by more than one employee with more than one
language. For example, one employee can be working in Spanish while another employee
on the same or a different workstation is using English.
Consona is a business software and service provider dedicated to becoming your valued
business partner. Our goal is to help your company continuously improve your business
processes over time. Toward this mission, Consona invests in the people, processes,
technology and tools needed to provide you with a unique and effective combination of
customer care, product fit, industry expertise, and a broad range of consulting, IT and
business services.
A number of elements work together to make Consona a standout in the industry. Backed
by an experienced management team and deep financial resources, Consona melds an
aggressive acquisition program, strong balance sheet, solid customer relationships, and
high-fit solutions into a value proposition that is unmatched by other vendors—but well-
matched to you and your business.
Intuitive Manufacturing Systems offers intuitive and flexible enterprise solutions that help
today's mid-market manufacturers achieve greater operational efficiency and profitability
through seamless integration of business processes on an enterprise-wide level.
Since 1994, Intuitive has been dedicated to providing discrete manufacturers with software
solutions that truly add value to their business. Intuitive's enterprise solution is designed to
deliver superior functionality, rapid implementation, high levels of usability and a
technology standard that is unmatched in the industry.
Intuitive ERP, a Consona ERP solution, was built around the concept that the software
should support standard business cycles and that the underlying technology should be
flexible and affordable. Developed using solely Microsoft technologies, the software
incorporated well-established manufacturing and accounting practices (such as those
prescribed by APICS and GAAP) and an intuitive user interface to deliver very
sophisticated solutions—as well as economic value—to mid-market manufacturers.
Consona has over 800 Intuitive customers in over 20 countries, in industries ranging from
aerospace to bicycle parts and circuit boards to boat docks. Though virtually all
manufacturing segments are represented in our customer base, the top three industries
served are electronics, industrial machinery and equipment, and fabricated metal products.
Intuitive ERP is designed for discrete, make to stock, make to order, configure to order,
assemble to order, and mixed-mode manufacturers.
Product Development
Consona focuses 100 percent of the Intuitive product development efforts on the needs of
our customers. We listen closely to customer input and offer many forums for providing
input on product development including:
Intuitive software products are only released after stringent quality metrics have been
achieved. At Consona, delivering a quality product with the robust functionality to meet our
customers’ needs takes priority over meeting an arbitrary target release date. Since product
development decisions are not governed by the needs of the sales team, we are not under the
same pressures as other software vendors that may rush applications to market and sacrifice
quality in the process. Because we take the time to fully scope out customer requirements,
build deep functionality, and thoroughly beta test our products, Intuitive customers receive
more reliable software.
This Lean whitepaper explores how manufacturing companies are adopting Lean because of
its efficiency—lowering costs and lead-time, while improving quality and performance. In
today’s highly competitive and challenging markets, companies need every available
advantage.
This white paper focus on the challenges and benefits associated with choosing and
implementing a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.The key to doing it “right”
is staying focused on the big picture and staying focused involves following six
considerations.
This guide provides an overview of the steps for conducting an effective and successful
enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution evaluation. Recognizing exactly what these steps
are, preparing for them and following a predetermined evaluation plan can help ensure an
efficient and successful selection process.
OLAP Analytics: Advanced reporting and analysis with OLAP and data warehousing.
Decision Management Tool (DMT): Keep track of the health of your company.
Intuitive CRM: The information to grow and maintain healthy customer relationships.
Intuitive Forecasting: Integrate easy and accurate advanced forecasting capabilities into
your planning.
Customers
Intuitive has over 800 customers worldwide, in industries ranging from aerospace to bicycle
parts and circuit boards to boat docks. Though virtually all manufacturing segments are
represented in our customer base, the top three industries served are electronics, industrial
machinery and equipment, and fabricated metal products. Intuitive ERP is designed for
discrete, make-to-stock, make-to-order, configure-to-order, and assemble-to-order
manufacturers.
We also serve industries all over the world. Intuitive ERP is installed in over 20 countries
and fully multi-currency enabled.
Intuitive, a Consona ERP System is the only ERP enterprise software application with a
100% Microsoft.NET-based architecture and pure .NET functionality.
Find out how the Intuitive ERP software system will maximize the efficiency of business
processes across your entire enterprise.
Learn how to maintain profitable customer relationships with integrated CRM functionality
in your sales and support departments.
Get the visibility you need—from a strategic level to daily operations—to identify
opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements.
See why implementing enterprise technology should make running your business easier, not
more complicated.
Intuitive Functionality
Intuitive ERP builds flexibility and responsiveness into every facet of your business
environment.
Suppose your supplier informs you that a delivery will be late. With the click of a button,
you can graphically display all of the affected shop orders, as well as related sales orders—
enabling your service department to immediately notify your customers and giving instant
visibility to your production management to react to the late shipment. Would you rather
automatically notify them via e-mail? No problem. With Intuitive ERP, manufacturers can
accomplish a level of integration and efficiency that truly changes the way they do
business.
The Intuitive ERP system was originally designed based on APICS standards and input
from customer review groups. The Intuitive Executive Review Board consisted of ten
companies (early Intuitive customers) that embraced our Microsoft-centric philosophy and
met on a weekly basis to discuss design ideas for each of the different areas of the system.
Additionally, our unique Work Flow tool—an interactive on-line help system—helps
employees visualize their business processes by guiding users through the software. These
process flows include step-by-step work instructions that contain links to the actual system
forms and reports where live data can be entered. Written in aspxL and accessed through a
web browser, Work Flow can be easily customized to add your unique business processes
and work instructions.
Focus on Usability
"Every time I show someone how to use the system, I say, isn’t that intuitive?" said David
North, Vice President of business development of Qualitel Corporation in Redmond, WA,
an Intuitive customer since 1999. We couldn't have said it better.
Intuitive ERP was designed, from the beginning, with a focus on usability. With our
Microsoft-based architecture and graphical user interface, Intuitive ERP looks and feels like
the Microsoft® software products your company is already accustomed to using, thus
reducing training times and increasing employee productivity.
With features like a customizable "My Menu", advanced search capabilities, customizable
fields, easy-to-use reporting wizards, our unique work flow tool and seamless integration
with Microsoft products, even the most change-resistant employees will find that the
Intuitive ERP system saves them time and effort every day.
Intuitive customer Aerocell Incorporated found Intuitive ERP's familiar interface and user-
friendly architecture to be one of the major benefits of selecting Intuitive ERP: "Intuitive
ERP had everyone beat on ease of use. Anyone familiar with Windows can be up and
running instantly. Within a month after implementation, our employees were comfortably
using the system without any major training," said Steve Durden, Aerocell's controller.
Technology Infrastructure
Technology is clearly necessary to stay competitive in today's marketplace. Consona’s
mission is to use technology to ensure that Intuitive ERP helps you sustain growth and
compete successfully without burdening your company -- and your IT department -- with an
overly complex and non-adaptive product.
The clear choice to achieve this goal is to stay current with the innovations from the leader
in the industry -- Microsoft. From day one, Intuitive ERP has provided a technology
standard that is unmatched in the industry: 100 percent Microsoft technology. And Intuitive
remains committed to embracing advances from Microsoft to create products that are more
robust, more secure, faster and, most importantly, easier for you to use and administer
Intuitive ERP and Microsoft .NET:
Intuitive ERP's Microsoft .NET-based software technology marks a quantum leap forward
in enterprise software.
.NET is good for you because it has revolutionized the way we build software — which
simply means that we are building a better software product for your company. .NET
technology has allowed us to make several improvements in our software. Less code, faster
development, and all of those other reasons that make .NET good for us, the software
developer, result in a myriad of benefits to you, the software user. Software built with
.NET has fewer problems, is faster, easier to work with, easier to modify, safer and more
secure, less work for your IT staff and is overall a more innovative solution and a better
investment in the long run. We predict that, within the next 12 months, technology-savvy
manufacturers will be demanding that any new software they purchase will be written in
pure Microsoft .NET managed code.
System Architecture:
System Administration:
Coupled with the administrative tools from Microsoft, a set of intuitive system tools keeps
administration chores to an absolute minimum.
Rapid Implementation
Consona provides the people, processes and tools necessary for a well-executed
implementation. Our time-tested implementation process, together with training and other
aids, help to get your system and employees up and running in record time.
Many of our customers implement the system in less than ninety days.
Return on Investment
Intuitive ERP regularly provides solid, measurable financial benefit within the first year
after implementation. Customer satisfaction increases based on improved on-time delivery,
increased quality, shortened delivery times, etc. Inventory carrying costs decrease due to
better planning, tracking and forecasting of requirements. Visibility into how to best
schedule the shop floor minimizes downtime. Vendor pricing decreases by taking better
advantage of quantity breaks and tracking vendor performance. Collections are turned faster
due to better visibility into accounts and fewer billing and delivery errors.
And, while the industry average cost for ERP implementation runs two to three times the
cost of the software, Intuitive ERP implementation costs are most often much less than the
cost of the system. All of these factor favourably to a rapid ROI on your investment.
Easy to Customize
Intuitive ERP provides several levels of customization.
1. System Configuration
Intuitive ERP is very flexible; many aspects of the user interface and processing operations
can be configured easily to meet the demands of your business environment. Intuitive ERP
includes a set of tools that allows you to configure master control options for entering
defaults, auto-numbering, serial numbers, currency and other user-defined attributes, as
well as the customization of all field names, forms and reports.
2. Customer Modifications
Source code for the majority of the Intuitive ERP product is delivered to you under the
standard software license agreement and can then be modified. Part of the standard system
is a special code container for all modified modules that dramatically simplifies upgrades
and enhances management and testing of modifications.
3. Modification Services
Many of our customers find that Intuitive ERP meets the majority of their needs without
dramatic customization. We realize, however, that you may have unique business
conditions that create the need to customize a solution. Intuitive offers complete
customization services to provide the technical expertise and development resources for the
customization of your system. All customizations are fully documented and conform to
Intuitive’s strict programming standards to assure product compatibility and seamless
integration.
Ace Designers, Ltd. :ERP reduces manufacturing costs by 20% for industrial equipment
manufacturer
American Tubing, Inc. :ERP resolves scheduling issues and increases the bottom line for
tubing fabricator
Cardinal Scale: ERP allows scale manufacturer to take the weight of with streamlined
operations.
Leading Edge Hydraulics: ERP allows hydraulic tube assembly and fitting manufacturer to
deliver more value to customers.
Qualitel Corporation: Updating technology results in big payoff for turnkey electronics
manufacturer
TrailTechInc.
ERP creates measurable improvement within a month on the shop floor for Trailer
manufacturer.