G2

James A.

Director Of Operations

Machinery

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/13/2026

"WIP tracking holds up across fabrication and assembly stages"

4/5

What do you like best about ianaiERP?

Balancing job queues across sheet metal fabrication, machining, and assembly lines leaves no room for raw material lag. We run custom jobs through four distinct stages, laser, press brake, CNC, powder coat, final assembly, and before ianaiERP the only way to know where a work order actually sat was walking the floor and asking a lead. Now WIP tracking is tied directly to the routing, so I can pull up any job and see exactly which operation it's at, which machine it's queued behind, and when it will realistically hit the powder coating booth or the assembly bench. That matters for Lean scheduling. If a batch of brackets is sitting at deburr and the coating line has a gap, I move it. If a machining center is backed up, I know before the assembly cell goes idle waiting on parts. Delivery commitments stop being a guess. The data is current because operators clock in and out of operations at the workstation, not at the end of shift. No more chasing supervisors for status. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ianaiERP?

Modifying an active work order mid-production is rigid when the job has multiple sub-BOMs spanning different departments. Customer changes a concept design after the metal is already machined, and re-sequencing the downstream routing steps takes too many manual transactions. I want to push one change through the parent assembly and have the sub-BOM operations reflow automatically. Instead I'm touching each sub-level, re-dating operation sequences, and manually rebuilding the floor schedule. On simple jobs it's fine. On complex single source assemblies it costs me time I don't have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ianaiERP solving and how is that benefiting you?

It closes the gap between raw material staging and multi-stage contract manufacturing execution. We quote tight turnarounds on custom assemblies, and the risk is always a bottleneck hiding three operations upstream, a coating queue, a fixturing delay at machining, that doesn't surface until the job is late. With operation-level WIP data in the system, I see those buildups earlier and can level capacity across departments instead of firefighting at final assembly. The practical benefit is better capacity planning and fewer missed ship dates. It's not perfect on mid-production engineering changes, but for tracking where work actually is, it holds up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.