ECI M1 vs MIE Trak Pro

ECI M1 is cloud-based ERP software for small and medium-sized manufacturers. It manages production planning, inventory, job tracking, financials, and related operations, with finance, inventory, and order management among its listed capabilities. Its planning tools cover multi-level bills of materials, purchase planning, production scheduling, capacity planning, and multi-site planning. The product supports multiple entities, and demand inputs are listed as both. Manufacturing modes include make-to-stock, make-to-order, job shop, machine shop, discrete, repetitive, and mixed-mode operations. Inventory tools track raw materials, work in progress, and finished goods, with barcode scanning, lot control, and multiple locations. The mobile shop-floor application supports labor and attendance tracking, machine cost tracking, and barcode scanning. ECI lists integrations including Avalara, QuickBooks, KnowledgeSync, Payments, CADLink, and Spreadsheet Server, as well as a public API for external applications. Pricing is customized and available on request; there is no free plan. ECI is headquartered in Westlake, Texas, and was founded in 1999.

MIE Trak Pro is manufacturing production-control and ERP software for sheet metal fabricators, precision engineers, and discrete manufacturers. Its modules cover estimating, RFQs, work orders, purchasing, material planning, stock control, costing, scheduling, reporting, shipping, and accounting. Quoting can use personalized formulas, track wins and losses, and draw on true costing data; sales orders can be created from RFQs, quotes, PDFs, or EDI. Scheduling supports forward finite, backward infinite, and calendar-based drag-and-drop methods for assigning employees and machines to jobs. Inventory tracking includes lot serialization, locations, remnants, work in progress, non-netted inventory, and consignment. The quality system tracks corrective and preventive actions, non-conformance, and RMAs. An included Android app, MIE Mobile Warehouse, supports inventory updates, purchase-order receiving, pick lists, barcode scanning, time clock, and shipping. Custom dashboards can appear in the product, on shop-floor displays, or in a browser. Platforms include Android, iOS, web, Windows, API, and self-hosted. Pricing is by request.