Choose Your ERP in 30 Days
Cut through the noise and avoid endless ERP selection cycles. This guide shows small and mid-sized manufacturers how to evaluate, test, and choose the right system in just four weeks — using your own data, clear decision criteria, and no wasted time.
Choose Your ERP in 30 Days
Sometimes it takes far too long to evaluate an ERP. Whether you’re engineering‑to‑order, producing artisan foods or sewing fashion, you can select an ERP in a month—not half a year.
The 30‑Day Sprint
- Week 1 – Get Real About Problems – Identify your real bottlenecks: quoting Week 1 – Identify Real Problems – Pinpoint bottlenecks: quoting complex parts, tracing allergens, managing seasonality, handling make-to-order. Focus on actual team pain points.
- Week 2 – Reality Check – Give shortlisted vendors your BOMs, recipes, or routings and watch them run them live. Vendors who need months to “study requirements” are too slow.
- Week 3 – Proof of Concept – Pilot with your toughest planner and shop-floor supervisor. If the system can’t handle your hardest job, move on.
- Week 4 – Decide on Outcomes – Compare speed to value, total cost, and scalability—not just feature lists.
Why Tangle Wins
Tangle’s sprint kit includes pre‑built data templates for discrete, batch and ETO manufacturing. You can model your custom part or couture gown in hours. The platform is composable, so you turn on only what you need—no bloated modules. And because AI is embedded, you can create new workflows, or reports, by describing them. Need an inspection routine for FDA compliance? Ask and it’s built. It’s also excellent for bringing over relevant historical data from any previous systems and mapping them over to the right areas.
Tangle Manufacturing
Legacy ERP is dead. Demand software that adapts to you.
