Global Shop Solutions review

Global Shop Solutions is built for job shops, and its scheduling and costing tools show it. Planners can schedule forward or backward, finite or infinite, run what-if scenarios, constrain the schedule by employee skill sets, schedule tools, and drag and drop routing changes when a machine goes down. Job costing breaks every job into freight, labor, overhead, outside services, other and material, reports inventory, WIP and cost of goods sold by those same buckets, and compares absorbed overhead with actual overhead, which helps shops see which jobs make or lose money. Shop floor screens log employees on and off jobs, and the 35+ applications include estimating and quoting, a product configurator, quality control, and CAD, nesting and BOM compare interfaces. You can run it on-premise, in the cloud on AWS or as hosted SaaS. Pricing is per concurrent user with an upfront and quarterly fee and no public numbers, so the USD check is pending.

Who it is for

Job shops and make-to-order manufacturers that schedule tightly and want detailed job costing.

Price

See vendor pricing (USD check pending).

US price check pending. See the vendor pricing page.

Key features

• Forward, backward, finite, infinite and what-if scheduling with capacity planning
• Employee constraint scheduling by skill set and tool scheduling
• Job costing split into freight, labor, overhead, outside services, other and material
• Shop floor data collection screens for logging on and off jobs, with RFID clock-in
• Estimating and quoting, product configurator, quality control, and CAD, nesting and BOM compare interfaces

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Most applications are included with a license
• Strength: Analyzes absorbed overhead against actual overhead
• Strength: On-premise, cloud on AWS or vendor-hosted SaaS
• Weakness: No published prices; upfront plus quarterly fees
• Weakness: Concurrent user model needs careful sizing
• Weakness: Interface is busy for occasional users

Key facts

• Applications: 35+ from quote to cash
• Pricing model: Concurrent users, upfront plus ongoing quarterly cost; updates and support included
• Deployment: On-premise, cloud or SaaS
• Cost buckets: Freight, labor, overhead, outside services, other and material

Where it ranks

Global Shop Solutions is No. 8 in our Best ERP for Manufacturing verdict.