REALTRAC Erfahrungen

Easy Use Some features no one else has

Kommentare: Excellent quoting and shop floor management. All part documents in one place.

Vorteile:

Ease of Use, Document control. You are able to make prints and any other documents available like packaging instructions to the shop floow without confusion

Nachteile:

Reporting needs to continue to improve. Some reports are clunky. Not easy to customize

Good at Big Picture, Some Shortcomings and Missing Features

Kommentare: Overall it does what we need it to do by tracking jobs through the shop, but the costing being "broken" for our use makes it a purchase I may not make again if I had to do over.

Vorteile:

It's user friendly for ShopFloor logging in and out of jobs and recording time. Timeclock is easy for HR, and tracking down where a job is in the manufacturing process from a remote location is easy as well.

Nachteile:

My primary beef with RealTrac is that there is no feature (or wasn't a few versions ago) that allows me to SPLIT AN OPERATOR'S TIME when they are logged into two jobs. If an operator is running two machines, or three, or four, all at once there should be an option (if not a REQUIREMENT) that their loaded labor cost and hours are divided amongst the machines they're concurrently logged into. In my company, one operator ALWAYS runs more than one machine in a bank, so not having their time split makes all my costing metrics utterly useless until I manually go into the work sessions to interrogate the data. This is nearly a deal-breaker making me consider another software. (Customer Service / Tech Support informed me this was intentional so that when looking at historical jobs you never under-bid a job). If this is incorrect, someone please call me ASAP! The "Quality" feature is a horribly conceived module, slapped together as an afterthought, and the default reporting within there is awful, has poor formatting, and doesn't integrate well at all with the rest of the system. There hasn't been an update on this module in forever, but new PAID features (RightBoard) are being added and updated all the time.

Recommended

Kommentare: Great experience, good customer support when needed.

Vorteile:

What I like the most about this app is the amount of properties shown.

Nachteile:

I do not have any negative experiences with the app so far.

CNC Manufacturing

Kommentare: [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] has been very helpful with an questions or issues. I have used other ERP softwares (most exposure to Epicor). Realtrac is a more simple ERP as far as user friendly application. Also since last update, software is slow and sometimes glitchy. And have had to exit and then re-open the job screen to get any attachments to show.

Vorteile:

Rightboard is in real-time so changes are able to be seen quickly by shop personnel.

Nachteile:

There is no option to see transaction history of parts on the inventory side. When we have an issue, we can't see what transactions took place prior to see where the problem occur to make our qty off or see any negative qty's. Also, status of "incomplete" for finished goods is pointless for how Realtrac treats it once moved to a job to make the part complete. Just better off making a consumed material part number, which means several more parts numbers for each finished good that are left at incomplete stages.

A long look, great decision

Kommentare: Amazed at how they train. No need to guess, no need to carve out days of forgetful training. Instead Training is as fast as one can absorb. Training is built upon the previous steps. Allowed our business to dictate training direction. Several times before a training session looked at my question as trivial. Considered it would be a waste of their time to show me one thing. In minutes of working together, letting me drive proved to quickly develop and understand the how and why's. The complete process expedites muscle memory, building the retention for a successful implementation.

Vorteile:

The likes, In short, the ability to build and track multi level BOM's while having Shop management, inventory visibility and scheduling features. These have long been the desirable features.

Nachteile:

Same as in all software, time to build the data. The choice was to not drop all past data in but to build from this point forward. This means at times go back and enter data from the past system. Our choice, it was not a requirement.

How Realtrac changed the way we do business

Kommentare: Overall Realtrac has given us a different perspective on how we do business. Jobs now have routers detailing step by step production processes. It has also changed how we manage our inventory by consolidating our warehouse. Realtrac has proven to be an effective tool and everyone in the office enjoys its ease of use.

Vorteile:

I enjoy the ease of use and how efficient it is when it comes to tracking job statuses. The inventory management module is also great and it allows us to input inventory locations and statuses. So if we have 20 parts that are partially done in stock we can flag them as partially completed. Realtrac has essentially changed our entire business into a more efficient company.

Nachteile:

The only issue I have is the loading times when it comes to selecting different modules.

Review

Kommentare: The biggest benefit is the costing records.

Vorteile:

The software is relatively easy to learn and setup with minimal training.

Nachteile:

The cost analysis within a job only considers the cost of the piece price, not tooling, setup, expedite fees. Additional line items other than the piece cost should flow through on cost tab. Not all jobs are just piece cost. Production on going jobs are not met with ease on this software, the software seems to be geared towards lot qtys or one time orders.

SQMS

Kommentare: Love the program and all the features.

Vorteile:

Job costing and tracking the hours for each station really helps me keep track of what the employees are doing daily.

Nachteile:

Setting it up all the stations and employees was time consuming but necessary.

Good but needs improvements

Kommentare: Great support and friendly service

Vorteile:

Easy to use and get set up for an ERP system

Nachteile:

Reporting is less than desirable, I would like more in reporting and scheduling.

I Highly Recommend Realtrac

Vorteile:

- Able to take care of all aspects of the business in one place. Scheduling, ordering, and especially job tracking. - Has good flow from one area to another - Nice user interface - Rightboard is great to be able to show what we have and schedule - Great customer support

Nachteile:

Bouncing between tabs can be cumbersome Would like to be able to delete quotes Forms can be difficult to customize

REALTRAC for small lot production in a small shop

Kommentare: We have used REALTRAC for several years managing production and inventory of repeat items in our business. The software performs well and for the price, the functionality, support, and responsiveness of the REALTRAC team is unbeatable. There is something of a learning curve to the software, but with disciplined use, we have found it to be very flexible and effective at capturing at and managing the data we need without imposing an unnecessary waste of effort or time.

Vorteile:

Low cost, high functionality, responsive customer support!

Nachteile:

It's a little bit of a hassle to setup and changes/updates to certain data have to be made in several locations. Inventory management could also be a little more intuitive and user friendly.

Realtrac Review

Kommentare: Overall, it provides us with information that we need to run our company successfully.

Vorteile:

I like that this software has easy search functions, is user friendly, stores a variety of information, and has multiple report functions.

Nachteile:

The reports are horrible. Any report you run in excel has these merge functions which doesn't allow you to transfer information to another excel sheet. I always have to copy and paste one line at a time. I have requested for Realtrac to improve these report but I have not seen anything updated.

Money well spent

Kommentare: RealTrac fit our company at the perfect time! We were a smaller company that never had a job shop ERP system and RealTrac made this very easy to implement and allow us to grow. It is the perfect software to get started and grow your company!

Vorteile:

Ease of use is the biggest item but there are many more. I hardly picked up the manual to learn this software!

Nachteile:

I wish it was date sensitive for Inventory Reporting and other "what if" scenarios. But this isn't critical.

Realtrac Review

Kommentare: Great for the price but feels a little "not ready for prime time" due to some inconsistencies between screens and modules. For example, some time is reported in minutes and seconds and on another screen or report the time is in tenths of a minute.

Vorteile:

Price. Support. Catching data in real time so errors can be corrected while the operator still remembers the job.

Nachteile:

Inflexibility for some items. Reporting for example.

A lot better then using post-it's

Vorteile:

it's easy environmental setup for Users to follow day to day operations and track cost for the product

Nachteile:

starting to become over complex's , New and old customer have idea's for improvement of the software base on how there operations or business are control

Great features, but needs additional development

Kommentare: We would not be able to run our complex business without an ERP software package like Realtrac

Vorteile:

Great value for an entry-level package...

Nachteile:

The reporting is very poor. The Realtrac team struggles to respond to customization/improvement requests.

RealTrac = Awesome

Vorteile:

User Friendly, Exports to QuickBooks, Exports to Excel, Can Upload your Logo, Customer Service!!!!!!

Nachteile:

The software updates can be confusing at first sometimes, but customer service is good with helping.

It gets the job done

Vorteile:

This software makes it easy to keep track of time spent on jobs

Nachteile:

The inventory feature doesn't integrate smoothly with Quickbooks

lynn's review

Vorteile:

more features. faster to use.

Nachteile:

had few issues with transferring my into to peachtree software

Realtrac Was the Answer for Us

Kommentare: We are a small growing shop. We had purchased a different ERP software 1 year ago. We struggled to implement it. The estimating part of it was really clunky. We ended up relying on spreadsheets yet. Realtrac has been extremely easy to learn. It just makes sense. We went with the leasing option and like that we always get the most up to date version.

Vorteile:

ease of use

Nachteile:

You have to purchase additional modules for some functions

A MUST have for any size business!!

Kommentare: Our company after having Realtrac installed and about 3 weeks to get our employees accumulated to the process. we were able to pay for the system in one month!
Wish we would have bought this system earlier! Real Time Monitoring Gets Real Time Results!!

Forever Software

Kommentare: In my new position I am back using Realtrac software again. But I have used Realtrac since 1992 at just continues to get better and better. The software is so user friendly that anyone can learn very quickly. It has always been great for managing small to large businesses, being able to manage people, work centers, inventory, financials, truly amazing. I moved half way across the country and here I am again with Realtrac, it made my transition into my new job very easy. It is well worth the money spent and the customer service is great. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a manufacturing business solution.

Wonderful Product!

Kommentare: As an individual that is new to this software, I must tell you how easy it is to use. I am learning something new every day!

Vorteile:

Ease of use.

Nachteile:

Learning curve.

NOT FOR A JOB SHOP

Kommentare: SPENT UNTOLD AMOUNT OF MONEY AND TIME ON THIS SOFTWARE. STILL DO NOT HAVE IT USABLE IN MY SHOP.

Vorteile:

THE INTIAL PRESENTATION BY THE SALES STAFF.

Nachteile:

VERY DIFFICULT TO GET UP AND BEING ABLE TO USE.

Reports...

Kommentare: The reports that we are able to export out of Realtrac are horrible. Also, we have requested multiple items for improvement and many are not done.