ERP Recommendations for a Very Quickly Growing Company

Hi everyone, I’m in the very fortunate position to be on the management team for a smallish company with largish revenue and profit that happens to be growing extremely quickly. We’re currently using Infor XA, but are haunted by 30 years of custom coding and poor implementations. I’ve been given the go ahead to start researching other ERP systems so we can essentially start over fresh.

We currently have two sides of the business, one is a proprietary design of a fairly niche product that we have a third party factory manufacture for us. This product is fairly standardized at this point and can be mass produced.

The other side of the business that is really taking off is much more on the custom side, catering to the construction industry. We offer engineering services to assist in the design of these products and again have a third party factory handle the actual manufacturing.

We currently only have about 20 employees, but have very high sales and margins for such a small company. We are looking to begin manufacturing ourselves early next year, and are looking to get a new ERP up and running before that goes live and before we start hiring a bunch of new employees.

I personally have experience in upgrading existing ERP to updated modules, but I have yet to be part of, let alone lead, the implementation of an entire new system.

So, does anyone have any recommendations on good ERPs to look into, or maybe even where to start looking?

I know this is a frequent point in ERP conversations, so I’ll say ahead of time that money is not a limiting factor.