ECI M1 vs QAD Adaptive ERP

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.

QAD Adaptive ERP is manufacturing ERP software designed to help manufacturers adapt to changing business conditions. Its listed processes include sales, field service, manufacturing, finance, purchasing, enterprise asset management, analytics and reporting. Modules and capabilities include inventory and order management, work orders, quality management, lot and serial traceability, and shop-floor data capture. Embedded analytics, KPI management and dashboards support operational reporting, while prepackaged AI use cases cover accounts payable, production, maintenance and shipping. QAD says manufacturers can build extensions and applications on a low-code/no-code platform designed to avoid interfering with upgrades. Internationalization includes country-specific tax and reporting, multiple languages and multi-currency tracking; QAD says it supports 66 countries. The deployment model is hybrid, and its cloud offering is accessible from internet-connected devices through a web-based interface with native mobility support. QAD lists a 99.5% cloud availability SLA and 99.9% actual availability over the preceding three years, as well as 24x7 support in multiple languages. Pricing is available on request, and there is no free plan.