Part & machining intelligence
Help your team understand the part itself—geometry, likely operations, setups, process needs and the machining challenges that can drive cost and risk.
Manufacturing intelligence · Precision ERP
Manufacturing intelligence, built into your ERP.
Understand the job. Build a better estimate. Carry it through production, quality and shipping. Then use what the job actually cost to improve the next quote.
Advanced estimatingSTP part analysisITAR and export-control support
Manufacturing workflowConnected
RFQCapture drawings, specs & requirements
EstimateBuild the estimate
QuoteTurn the estimate into a quote
SourcePrice materials & outside processes
ProducePlan and run the job
QualityManage inspection, FAI & records
ShipPrepare shipment & close the job
↺ Actuals & analyticsCompare estimate vs. actual and improve the next quote
MercerERP · Manufacturing intelligence
Machine and shop-floor data help capture real time and cost, so you can see where margin moved and make the next estimate better.
A different role for ERP
ERP should do more than remember what your team already figured out.
Traditional ERP is good at storing transactions, documents and decisions after people create them. MercerERP adds manufacturing intelligence that helps your team understand the part, work through how it may be machined, build the estimate and learn from what actually happened on the shop floor.
Manufacturing intelligence
Understand the work before you commit to it.
MercerERP helps analyze the information around a job—drawings, specifications, STP models, materials, processes, quantities, shop context and actual performance—and turns it into useful work. Your people make the call; MercerERP helps them get there faster.
Advanced estimating
Build estimates from the RFQ, drawings, STP model, material, requirements and shop context instead of starting from a blank form.
Intelligent automation
Reduce the copying, searching, organizing and repetitive coordination that consumes time between opportunity and delivery.
Closed-loop learning
Compare estimated cost with actual performance so each completed job can make the next estimate stronger.
Advanced estimating
Understand the part before you price it.
Open STP files directly in MercerERP to inspect and measure the model. Manufacturing intelligence helps your estimator combine part geometry with drawings, material, requirements and shop context to think through operations, setups, tooling, machining risk and cost drivers before the quote goes out.
From record to intelligence
Traditional ERP stores information. MercerERP helps create it.
Traditional ERP
MercerERP
Stores an RFQ
Helps understand the RFQ
Stores drawings and specifications
Helps analyze what they require
Stores the part file
Helps inspect, measure and understand the part
Records an estimate
Helps create the estimate
Stores purchasing requirements
Helps determine what needs to be sourced
Stores actual costs
Uses actual costs to improve the next estimate
RFQ to shipment—and back to the next estimate
One connected flow across the job.
RFQ & Estimate
Analyze RFQs, drawings, specs and STP models. Measure geometry, understand machining considerations and build the estimate.
Quote & Order
Turn the estimate into a quote and carry customer requirements forward when the work is won.
Purchase & Source
Identify materials and outside processes, work directly with suppliers and keep purchasing tied to the job.
Plan & Produce
Plan, release and run the work with the requirements and decisions from estimating still attached.
Quality
Carry inspection, FAI, certification and quality requirements with the job instead of managing them off to the side.
Ship & Close
Manage deliveries and shipping, then keep the business side connected through QuickBooks.
Measure & Improve
Capture actual machine time, labor, material, outside process, scrap/rework, quality and shipping costs. Compare estimate to actual and use the difference to improve future estimates.
Closed-loop estimating
Know what the job actually cost—and make the next estimate better.
Built around manufacturing expertise
Software should amplify experience—not replace it.
The people who understand your machines, processes, customers, suppliers and capabilities remain central to the decisions that run your business. MercerERP is designed to remove unnecessary work around those decisions and give experienced people better information with which to make them.
Limited design partner program
Built with manufacturers.
We are working with a small group of precision manufacturers to shape MercerERP around the full job lifecycle—from RFQ intake and advanced estimating through purchasing, production, quality, shipping and actual-cost feedback.
Explore the Design Partner Program