MIE Trak Pro vs Seiki Advanced Planning and Scheduling

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.

Seiki Advanced Planning and Scheduling, also called Seiki Scheduler, builds manufacturing production plans around actual capacity to balance delivery dates and workload. It schedules operations against available resources and supports real-time adjustments. An interactive graphical planning board summarizes active order loading and operation details, while built-in sequencing rules provide a baseline that planners can refine. Users can model schedule changes and compare saved snapshots before choosing a plan; running scenarios and saving snapshots for evaluation requires the optional Simulation license. Seiki EAI connects the scheduler to ERP, MRP, PLM, and other databases, with one-way or bidirectional transfer. SQL views and CSV files are described as import methods. The Scheduler can also operate without ERP, using manually entered works orders and routing templates. It supports finite-capacity scheduling, machine and labor capacity planning, and material constraints. Seiki says it can handle tens of thousands of operations, though saving changes takes longer as the database grows. It is licensed per resource, with no stated cap on resource count. Seiki AIR runs in a browser and supports self-hosted web server or Microsoft IIS deployment; Windows is also listed. Pricing is available on request.