[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":106},["ShallowReactive",2],{"oa0Y3Yq2UgiZ2scL24lrG9CvhVd5Z5mkacOnK3TQuTo":3,"article_erp-for-small-business-growth_delmiaworks":10,"_apollo:default":104,"_apollo:identified":105},{"mailchimpAudience":4},{"actionUrl":5,"slug":6,"locale":7,"default":8,"__typename":9},"","erp-for-small-business-growth","en","https:\u002F\u002F3ds.us3.list-manage.com\u002Fsubscribe\u002Fpost?u=ed4601044e1936748c0d2aa6b&id=e5080ff9fe&f_id=002d4de2f0","MailchimpAudience",{"posts":11},{"nodes":12,"__typename":103},[13],{"id":14,"slug":6,"title":15,"uri":16,"excerpt":17,"locale":18,"featuredImage":21,"tableOfContents":29,"content":30,"date":31,"authorJobTitle":5,"author":32,"masterings":41,"globalTags":45,"products":59,"disciplines":72,"seo":92,"__typename":102},"cG9zdDo1NTc5OQ==","ERP for Small Business that Scales to Support Your Growth","\u002Fproducts\u002Fdelmiaworks\u002Ferp-for-small-business-growth","\u003Cp>Bottom Line:  An ERP for small business makes the most of every…\u003C\u002Fp>\n",{"locale":19,"__typename":20},"en_US","Locale",{"node":22,"__typename":28},{"large":23,"__typename":24,"medium_large":23,"thumbnail":25,"srcSet":26,"sizes":27},"https:\u002F\u002Fblog-assets.solidworks.com\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F12\u002Ferp-for-small-and-medium-business-final-1024x670-1-600x400-1.jpg.webp","MediaItem","https:\u002F\u002Fblog-assets.solidworks.com\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F12\u002Ferp-for-small-and-medium-business-final-1024x670-1-600x400-1-150x150.jpg.webp","https:\u002F\u002Fblog-assets.solidworks.com\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F12\u002Ferp-for-small-and-medium-business-final-1024x670-1-600x400-1.jpg.webp 600w, https:\u002F\u002Fblog-assets.solidworks.com\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F12\u002Ferp-for-small-and-medium-business-final-1024x670-1-600x400-1-300x200.jpg.webp 300w","(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px","NodeWithFeaturedImageToMediaItemConnectionEdge",[],"\u003Ch1 class=\"post-header-title wp-block-heading\">\u003Cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fblog-assets.solidworks.com\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F12\u002Ferp-for-small-and-medium-business-final-1024x670-1.jpg\" data-img-id=\"55801\">\u003Cp>Bottom Line:  An ERP for small business makes the most of every growth opportunity by improving end-to-end visibility across every shop floor while controlling costs, production schedules, and delivery dates, freeing up more time for short-notice production runs.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Offering short-notice production runs to customers is one of the most proven strategies for growing a small to midsize manufacturing business at scale. To become competitively strong enough to do that, small and midsize manufacturers need to have end-to-end visibility of their shop floors combined with real-time production and process monitoring data. The insights from real-time production and process data provide the most valuable information across production. That’s not possible to achieve just using Microsoft Excel as a production scheduler and QuickBooks for \u003Ca class=\"auto-link\" title=\"financials\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.iqms.com\u002Fproducts\u002Ferp\u002Ffinancial_mgmt\u002Ffinreporting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">financials\u003C\u002Fa>. A sure sign it’s time to migrate away from those personal productivity tools to an \u003Ca class=\"auto-link\" title=\"ERP system\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.iqms.com\u002Fproducts\u002Ferp\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ERP system\u003C\u002Fa> when QuickBooks crashes because of too many transactions and fails to scale and keep up with growth, so there’s no visibility into how shop floor decisions drive bottom-line results. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.iqms.com\u002Findustry_solutions\u002F\">DELMIAworks ERP\u003C\u002Fa> is purpose-built for small and midsize manufacturing businesses to take on these challenges and more and keep growing.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gaining Scale & Speed With an ERP for Small Business that Provides End-To-End Visibility\u003C\u002Fh3>\u003Cp>Knowing how each production decision impacts profits, including how \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.iqms.com\u002Fproducts\u002Ferp\u002Fmanufacturing\u002Fscheduling\u002FCTP.html\">Capable-To-Promise\u003C\u002Fa> commitments change and impact which short-notice production runs are available in real-time, makes any business more competitive. There’s always the chance to turn time into a competitive advantage for small and mid-tier manufacturers over their larger, slower-moving competitors.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Turning speed into a competitive strength starts with end-to-end visibility.  Speed, exceptional product and service quality, and a reputation for customer responsiveness are among the strongest competitive weapons any small to midsize manufacturer has today. Outflanking and outrunning competitors can only happen if there’s accurate end-to-end visibility. Not relying on 3rd party connectors or adapters to keep shop floor teams up to date on orders alleviates production downtime from systems not communicating with each other.  The purpose-built design of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.iqms.com\u002Findustry_solutions\u002F\">DELMIAworks ERP platform\u003C\u002Fa> and its support for 28 pre-built manufacturing types have evolved over decades of development to provide shop floor to top floor visibility and control of manufacturing operations. It’s the only platform with its ERP and \u003Ca class=\"auto-link\" title=\"Manufacturing Execution System\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.iqms.com\u002Fmanufacturing-software\u002Fmes-software.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manufacturing Execution System\u003C\u002Fa> (MES) integrated, relying on a single database for all applications.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\">\u003Cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fblog-assets.solidworks.com\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F12\u002Fworkflow-1024x502-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55802\">\u003C\u002Ffigure>\u003Cp>Scaling Up For Growth’s Challenges   \u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The faster a small to midsize manufacturer wants to grow, the more they’ll face the challenges of taking on more complex projects and the transactions that go with them. Choosing which complex projects to take on and which to let go of is key in growing any manufacturing business. Relying on Excel or QuickBooks alone isn’t going to deliver those insights.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Thankfully the combination of financial and real-time production reporting in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.iqms.com\u002Findustry_solutions\u002F\">DELMIAworks\u003C\u002Fa> can help simplify the decision by identifying which types of projects are the best fit for a given production center. Add to that support for \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.iqms.com\u002Fproducts\u002Ferp\u002Ffinancial_mgmt\u002Ffinreporting.html\">multi-site financial reporting and analysis\u003C\u002Fa>, and the accurate scale of DELMIAworks to help small and midtier manufacturers scale up is straightforward.  Additional ways \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.iqms.com\u002Findustry_solutions\u002F\">DELMIAworks ERP\u003C\u002Fa> can help any small to midsize business achieve greater scale with more accurate, adaptive, and financially sound intelligence include the following:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cul class=\"UL\">\n\u003Cli>More real-time, responsive customer service. Accuracy, speed, and responsiveness keep customers coming back and are the most powerful growth catalyst any business has. It has to start with end-to-end visibility, achieved at scale on a solid platform. Over 1,100 manufacturers rely on DELMIAworks to provide the information their customers need to keep buying and fueling growth.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\u003Cul class=\"UL\">\n\u003Cli>Improved Capacity Planning and Scheduling. When capacity planning and scheduling get too complex for Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and workbooks, it’s time to consider an ERP system. Achieving greater coordination, collaboration, and communication across manufacturing is one of the many factors that drive manufacturers off of running their operations with Microsoft Excel and onto \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.iqms.com\u002Findustry_solutions\u002F\">DELMIAworks\u003C\u002Fa>. Balancing inbound customer demand and meeting order shipments dates makes capacity planning and scheduling a must-have in any ERP system today.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\u003Cul class=\"UL\">\n\u003Cli>Greater Pricing Accuracy and Profitability. By integrating cost-based and accrual-based accounting workflows into the core areas of an ERP system, it’s possible to see precisely how pricing decisions impact long-term profits and the ability to compete.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\u003Cul class=\"UL\">\n\u003Cli>Improve Supplier Quality and Delivery Performance. When production operations run using Microsoft Excel or QuickBooks, Supplier Quality and Quality Management systems suffer. It’s because ERP systems increase efficiency and help reduce the costs of bad quality. In addition, when an ERP system is integrated across production operations, it’s much easier to see the impact of decisions on overall quality and compliance performance.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\u003Cp>Conclusion\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Setting the strategy for faster growth starts by looking at how more complex projects and their transactions can be managed at scale. What worked for the startup, small or midsize manufactuer in the past isn’t going to work today. Microsoft Excel, QuickBooks, and homegrown production scheduling apps can’t scale to manage the complexities of customer demands today. ERP systems can and are providing this today.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Managing operations more efficiently with an ERP solution can directly improve company productivity and add value for customers. 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