Genius Web Analytics has also been instrumental in our success. With minimal SQL database and programming knowledge, we developed custom dashboards that visualize raw data from our ERP system quickly and accurately. For instance, we have created a dashboard to visualize the active production time punches, which allows supervisors to ensure employees are on the correct work orders, monitor project elapsed time, and detect issues early.
We also created an early warning dashboard highlighting work orders nearing or exceeding planned hours. This real- time visibility into labor time helps supervisors manage labor overruns proactively. Our Sales dashboard, another major time-saver, compiles and visualizes monthly and annual invoiced sales and open orders with a single click. This efficiency has eliminated hours of weekly data manipulation for our sales team, enabling us to take on additional work confidently.
Two other features that have made a huge difference to our implementation are Renaming Items and self-managed Import/Export tools. Our Items library has over 50,000 items, and they were far from perfectly named. Being able to rename vs. being stuck with a bad material ID is huge. With Genius, we could bulk update families, descriptions ourselves, which made everything possible.
It would have taken an extra year to manually enter all of the Items and correct them entry by entry in our old ERP. It was either live with the bad data or correct it line by line, screen by screen. With our previous ERP system, we could query and export, but we could not write directly to the database. That would have required consultants and billable hours. We didn’t even know Genius had these features until we made the switch, and discovering them was a game changer for our operations.
Genius ERP’s real-time analytics have fundamentally enhanced our operations and boosted our sales. Overall, the transformation brought by Genius ERP has not only increased our efficiency but also empowered us to make informed decisions, driving our ongoing success and positioning us for future growth.