IQMS ERP - Review by Supply Chain User
What do you like best?
IQMS uses Crystal Reports to modify and create reports.
Crystal reports is an easy to use report writer.
IQMS was designed /focused on the injection molding plastics industry and has functionality to support this industry.
Molding cycle times, cavities, etc.
What do you dislike?
ERP systems usually support many different departments (Finance, Operations, IT, Engineering, Quality, Document Control, Planning, Purchasing, Inventory Control, etc). Designers of ERP systems usually have a habit of making some modules stronger than others. This is where you can have an ERP system that favors Finance, or Quality, or Purchasing, or Engineering, etc. It is unusual to have an ERP system be strong (or user-friendly) in all modules.
My primary role in using IQMS is for the supply chain. I have used many different MRP/ERP systems over the last 25 years.
Every MRP/ERP system that I have used in the past based it's Planning Module on fundamentals defined by APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society). IQMS is the exception and that is not a good thing.
1. Missing Horizontal Planning Report or view.
2. Missing Pegging Report or view.
3. Missing ability to print/export all single-level or multi-level BOMs (Bill of Materials) at once.
4. Forecast or Planned Orders must be brought into the Factory Schedule to been seen. Which creates noise in the Factory Schedule.
5. If your company is a manufacturing company and heavily uses BOMs and MRP functionality, I would NOT recommend IQMS.
Standard Reports are horrible. Every Standard report uses indented formatting. This is ok if you are printing and reading a report.
For the last 25 years, I have always dumped reports into excel to review data.
The indented formatting of the standard reports makes the data unusable.
We have had to customize almost all reports to create "Flat File" that could be dumped into excel and easily used.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
IQMS does not have strong Supply Chain functionality and does not follow standard methods as defined by APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society). DO NOT CONSIDER implementing. Chose a different ERP system if basic Supply Chain Functionality is a requirement.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
IQMS has some functionality that solves issues involved in the injection molding industry.
