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Webinars - August 05,2026

How do Bottlenecks Impact your Planning?

Scheduling

Bottlenecks aren’t good, but they are inevitable. Watch this webinar to learn how to re-think bottlenecks to stay in control of your shop floor’s flow, increase throughput, and get more jobs out the door on time.

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Webinars - August 05,2026

Introduction to Equipment & Field Services Management

Field Services

‍Learn about our new fully integrated module that includes everything you need to manage your service team while they are out in the field.

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Webinars - August 05,2026

Genius CRM

Analytics & Reporting - Customer Relations

Genius CRM includes many features that make managing the sales process easier, including a personalized sales dashboard for managing customer information, leads and opportunities, as well as an easy tool to create marketing campaigns and mass emails.

What is a Manufacturing Buffer?
Article - August 20,2025

What is a Manufacturing Buffer?

Production Planning - Shop Floor

Manufacturers will keep the raw materials and supplies needed for production, and sometimes inventories of finished products waiting for shipment, on hand to help stabilize any fluctuations they experience with their supply and demand chains, production capacities, and lead times

How to Make a Bill of Materials (BOM) the Right Way
Article - August 11,2026

How to Make a Bill of Materials (BOM) the Right Way

Engineering - Product Development

A bill of materials is the comprehensive list of all required parts, items, raw materials, and assemblies that you need to manufacture a finished product. A BOM is one of the most important documents for a custom manufacturer—think of it as a recipe for your supply chain.

What is the difference between MRP versus ERP
Article - August 21,2025

What is the Difference Between MRP Versus ERP?

ERP

Genius ERP exposed the truth about ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) versus MRP (Material Requirements Planning) difference. Whether for inventory management or the material requirements planning. Learn more about better collaboration & increased efficiency. Come take a look!

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Article - July 14,2025

Leverage Your Data to Help Solve the Manufacturing Labor Shortage

Custom Manufacturing - ERP

A shortage of skilled and qualified workers is one of the biggest challenges facing custom manufacturers today.

What Engineers Need From an ERP
Article - May 29,2026

What Engineers Need From an ERP

Engineering

Engineering is a key component in ETO manufacturing environments — it’s part of the name for goodness sake! — but engineering is all too often left out of ERP software systems.

Purchasing in an Engineer-to-Order Environment
Article - October 20,2017

Purchasing in an Engineer-to-Order Environment

Custom Manufacturing

Though the purchasing department has become a well-defined entity in most mid-sized companies, widely accepted standard processes or "best" practices have hurt the effectiveness of the department.

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