Issuu

Optimize Your Operations with AI-Driven Automation and Insights

Disconnected systems and manual processes slow decisions, hide insights in spreadsheets and create silos that block visibility into work orders, inventory and cash. Bottlenecks form, costs rise and teams end up firefighting instead of improving performance. In addition, reliance on a few experts and repetitive tasks makes the workforce fragile. Without realtime data and tools that fit your processes, you end up reacting too slowly to meet your customers’ unique needs in time.

Aptean Industrial Manufacturing ERP Intuitive Edition is engineered to meet the unique needs of discrete manufacturers while being flexible enough to support both repetitive and high-mix production environments. It connects manufacturing businesses end-to-end so orders, inventory and production stay in sync and data flows the way your manufacturing business work. As part of the AppCentral platform, you get AI-assisted answers to questions in an instant and can deploy AI Agents to help your teams move faster. The platform can extend your ERP with connected applications that support analytics, marketing and sales, digital payment, shipping and invoice processing.

Benefits

› Built for both repetitive and high-mix discrete manufacturing

› Increase shop floor productivity with dynamic planning and scheduling and digital work instructions

› Gain shop floor visibility with realtime, shop floor driven updates on workorders, materials and labor

› AI-assisted answers help your teams make faster, more confident decisions

› Automated workflows and AI Agents remove low-value tasks, so people focus on higher-impact work

› Extend your ERP with connected applications designed for your industry

Connect. Automate. Grow.

AppCentral elevates your core ERP by embedding AI where work happens and connecting proven industry applications around it. The result is an environment that surfaces insight, initiates action and closes loops across finance, operations and supply chain. Each connected capability compounds value—what you automate in one area amplifies outcomes in the next. You get clarity, control and visibility without multiplying tools to manage.

Key Benefits

› Purpose-built for manufacturers – Handles custom and repeat work in one system, keeping quotes, schedules and costs aligned as priorities change.

› AI that moves work forward – Natural-language Q&A and AI Agents surface insight, trigger actions and reduce low-value tasks.

› Connected applications for your business – Aptean’s business intelligence, customer relationship management, payments automation, shipping automation and invoice automation applications plug in cleanly to expand capability across your whole operation.

AI Built the Way Your Business Works

Aptean Intelligence is the embedded layer of artificial intelligence woven throughout AppCentral, turning raw data into instant direction so your team can focus on creation, not calculation. It automates workflows, deploys role-specific agents and surfaces trends before they become bottlenecks.

› GenAI Query – Ask anything about your operations and get instant answers and dive into details with follow up questions.

› AI Agents – Put AI to work across your operations: Automate repetitive tasks like quoting, order processing and inventory tracking.

› Intelligent Workflows – Automate and streamline cross-functional workflows, so you can focus on the strategic work that drives the business forward.

› Role-based AI Workspaces – Give every user a command center personalized for their role. Bring together data, applications and agentic AI assistants so your team can perform at their best.

› Predictive Intelligence – Make proactive, confident decisions using predictive AI agents to see emerging trends and potential risks.

All Your Apps Working Together in One Place

AppCentral is your AI-powered hub for all your work. It unifies every mission-critical application you need and activates a fabric of embedded AI agents across your organization, eliminating the need for constant switching between applications.

› Electronic Payments – Automate payment with digital invoices, receipts, payments and payer portal.

› AP Invoice Automation – Automate invoice, purchase order and receipt matching with AI.

› Electronic Data Interchange - Send and receive EDI compliant orders, ASNs and invoices from your ERP.

› Business Intelligence - Make confident decisions with real-time, AI-driven insights built for discrete manufacturers.

Key Features

› Dynamic Planning and Scheduling - Commit orders confidently with dynamic capable-to-promise, instant material planning and rapid exception detection to protect delivery dates.

› Inventory Management - Control inventory levels, transactions, costing and usage with real-time visibility by item, location and family, plus cycle counts, physical inventory and end-to-end serial traceability for compliance.

› Engineering Management - Reduce costs and improve change control with visual multi-level BOMs, revision and effective-date control, and flexible routings with multiple versions per part.

› Manufacturing Management - Stay on top of work orders and capacity in real time, with barcode-driven shop floor updates for material issues, receipts, movements and labor as they occur.

› Quality Control - Standardize inspections from incoming through returns while maintaining calibration and maintenance records for production instruments.

› Demand Forecasting - Generate accurate forecasts automatically from usage data with a set of built in forecasting models or create your own forecast with our comprehensive forecasting tools.

› Quoting and Order Processing - Quote faster by configuring items, BOMs and routings on-the-fly, applying discounts, generating vendor RFQs, converting quotes to orders and managing approvals and price matrices with ease.

› Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - Align sales, marketing and service on one platform connected to ERP financials and orders, with complete customer history, activity tracking, incident cost capture, warranties and service contracts.

› Shop Floor Manager - Improve execution with real-time labor and inventory transactions, supervisor visibility into priorities and loads, and a touch-friendly operator dashboard for clocking, completion reporting and material movements.

› Shop Floor Data Collection - Reduce manual entry and receiving errors with mobile barcode scanning for real-time material issues, receipts, inventory movements and labor across phones, tablets, fixed units and RF handhelds.

› Advanced Quality – Integrates with uniPoint to track the cost and frequency of quality events, streamline nonconformances and CAPA, manage HazMat documentation and support ISO and FDA compliance maintenance.

› Business Intelligence - Speed decisions with pre-built interactive dashboards and dynamic reports that deliver cross-functional insight and drill-down root-cause analysis.

› CAD Integration - Eliminate duplicate entry with a real-time, two-way link between CAD and ERP that syncs engineering data and BOMs and creates Item Master and BOM records aligned to drawings. Integrations include SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, Solid Edge, Creo and more.

› Smart Hub - Automate monitoring and response with configurable alerts that detect issues, answer queries and notify stakeholders via email or text.

› Web API - Integrate and extend your ERP with access to business logic for external apps and custom reporting, while enforcing business rules and controlling what users can access.

› Aptean Intelligence – Transforms operational data into plain-language answers, proactive alerts and automated workflows, to eliminate busywork, prevent bottlenecks and accelerate better decisions.

› Industry Hub – A collection of industry-specific applications that unifies ERP, invoice automation, electronic payments and EDI allowing for seamless work across applications and enabling cross application business intelligence and AI-led workflows.

Want to learn more about Aptean Industrial Manufacturing ERP Intuitive Edition on AppCentral?

About Aptean

Aptean is a global provider of industry-specific software that helps manufacturers and distributors effectively run and grow their businesses. Aptean’s solutions and services help businesses of all sizes to be Ready for What’s Next, Now®. Aptean is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia (USA), and has offices in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

To learn more about Aptean and the markets we serve, visit www.aptean.com.

Aptean and Ready for What’s Next, Now are registered trademarks of Aptean, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.