Hosted ERP

Ethos Prime offers a hosted ERP system that makes sense for manufacturers in high-tech, complex manufacturing environments who are outsourcing portions of their manufacturing or have wide geographic distribution of their manufacturing operations. We view ERP as a solution to many problems rather than just an experiment in cost reduction. Let us show you why.

Flexible Features

While our Hosted ERP system is designed to perform right out of the box, our system can be tailored to suit your unique requirements.

Our Feature List

Based on standards

Easy to learn and integrate with similar standards-based software
Easy to incorporate custom data requirements
Uses common terms for commonly used business entity names
Uses XML and supports many different databases

Every module contained within a single interface

No need to integrate multiple applications
No need to learn multiple technologies
No need to deal with kludgey features due to poor integration
Modules are easy to maintain, which saves you money

Distributed and Loosely Coupled Architecture

Components are easy to customize without breaking other components
Easy to integrate and communicate with other systems
Easy to scale up and grow with your business by using a multiple-server environment

Party Management

People and groups can be managed and searched
Keep track of personal data, contact mechanisms, payment mechanisms, relationships, etc.
Manage security either by individual party, or party groups

Facility Management

Manage your warehouse and the inventory within it
Manage inventory in bulk or individual transactions
Manage your inventory's Quantity On Hand with thresholds for replenishment
Finely tunable processes for shipping and packing
Support for serial scales for weighing

Shipping Management

Shipments can be created automatically when product is ready
Integration with FedEX or UPS with tracking and shipment management

Order Management

From quote to shipment, orders can be searched and managed
View open orders, or shipped orders or back orders

Accounting Manager

Manage the general ledger
Fully manage billing accounts
Automatically invoice from purchases and sales orders
Search payments by status, method, party, etc.
Ability to record manual transactions

Work Effort Management

Track work effort priority, phases, tasks, cost estimation, etc.
Manage private or shared calendars and notify others of events, tasks, etc.
Manage your work flow activities and update the status of your involvement
The system automatically updates activity status based on your work status updates
Use templates and views to display information of the work flow process
Work efforts are factored into the Cost-Benefit analyses

Tracking

Tracked requests can be associated with work efforts or order requirements
Tracked requests are associated with the benefit side of the Cost-Benefit analysis
Tracked requirements are usually based on requests

Entity Data Management

Management of entity data is easily controlled via flexible permissions
Permit access to all entities or sets of entities

XML Data

Export data from entities into an XML file
Import XML files containing entity data
High performance importing via stream and SAX based processing

Service Engine Tools

Schedule system jobs with absolute start and finish times (such as a scheduled MRP explosion)
Manage all scheduled jobs
View threads of running jobs for debugging purposes