Aptean Made2Manage ERP
by Aptean
Manufacturing ERPPasses all 6 Full MRP testsProprietary SaaS✓ Verified
Aptean's ERP for job shops and mixed-mode discrete manufacturers (now sold as the Discrete Manufacturing ERP Made2Manage Edition), with a documented planning module that creates dated job orders through every level of the bill of materials.
Why it is classified this way
We call this a Manufacturing ERP product. A broad business system (accounting, sales, purchasing) with a substantial manufacturing or planning module attached.
This product meets our Full MRP tests, but we classify it by its center of gravity rather than its planning engine alone. The capability table below shows the detail.
The six Full MRP tests, and how Aptean Made2Manage ERP does on each (6 of 6)
- YesIt represents a bill of materials, recipe, or formula.Evidence: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Working with bills of material and routings(opens in a new tab)
- YesIt accepts dated demand, sales orders, a forecast, or a master production schedule.Evidence: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Understanding m2m planning infinite planning(opens in a new tab)
- YesIt nets that demand against stock on hand and orders already incoming.Evidence: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Understanding the purchasing queue(opens in a new tab); appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Mark quantity and date final from the planned purchasing …(opens in a new tab)
- YesIt explodes requirements through at least one level of the bill of materials.Evidence: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Understanding m2m planning infinite planning(opens in a new tab); appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Understanding materials management(opens in a new tab)Planning is "the process of creating job orders (due dates and quantities) at all levels of the BOM in response to demand ... or to a dependent demand coming from a higher-level job." Scope: M2M Planning; the base system's purchasing queue works from job-order material needs.
- YesIt uses lead times or required dates.Evidence: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Understanding m2m planning infinite planning(opens in a new tab); appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Override the vendor lead time for a part(opens in a new tab)
- YesIt produces dated buy, make, transfer, release, or reschedule recommendations.Evidence: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Understanding m2m planning infinite planning(opens in a new tab); appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Mark quantity and date final from the planned purchasing …(opens in a new tab)
These rules are applied identically to every product and enforced at build time, a record cannot be published as Full MRP unless all six pass with a source attached. Read the methodology.
Best for
- Job shops and mixed-mode discrete manufacturers handling make-to-order, assemble-to-order and engineer-to-order work
- Shops that need dated planning through every BOM level, lot and serial trace, and capacity load in one system
- ITAR-regulated manufacturers, which the vendor hosts on Microsoft Azure Government Cloud
Not a fit when
- Small shops that want a published price or a quick start. Pricing is quote-only and implementation takes months
- Batch and formula manufacturers, since no recipe or formula documentation was found
Pricing facts
What it costs to do manufacturing in this product.
No published price
This vendor does not publish pricing, so you cannot compare it against anything here without contacting them. We will not estimate a figure.
What moves the real bill
- Onboarding fee. Implementation is a structured project that the vendor says "generally spans several months"; no price is published.
- No published price. You have to contact the vendor, which usually means a sales call.
Pricing detail
No price is published. The product page offers a demo request and a self-led tour, and the FAQ describes an implementation that "generally spans several months". M2M Planning and Scheduling, and lot control, are described in the documentation as optional features, so the configuration a planning shop needs may cost more than the base system; neither price is published.
Checked on September 19, 2026. Source: aptean.com(opens in a new tab). Prices change. Check before you buy.
Manufacturing capability
18 of 25 fields resolved. "Unknown" means we have not found first-party evidence. It is not a No.
Planning
Working out what to buy or make, and when.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Accepts dated demandYou can tell it what is due and when, sales orders with dates, a forecast, or a production schedule. | Yes | The planning module creates job orders "in response to demand. It can be in response to forecast, to sales orders, to a safety stock requirement, or to a dependent demand coming from a higher-level job." Scope: M2M Planning, an optional module.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Understanding m2m planning infinite planning(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Nets against stock on handIt subtracts what you already have before telling you to buy more. | Yes | The purchasing queue works out need "based on your company's existing inventory and sales, job, and purchase orders": "To calculate net purchasing need, Made2Manage subtracts the items your company needs from the items your company already has available."Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Understanding the purchasing queue(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Counts incoming ordersIt knows about purchase orders and production orders already placed, so it does not tell you to order twice. | Yes | Open purchase orders are part of the calculation: the purchasing queue determines need from "existing inventory and sales, job, and purchase orders", and the planned purchase queue recommends changes to existing purchase orders.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Understanding the purchasing queue(opens in a new tab); appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Mark quantity and date final from the planned purchasing …(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Uses lead timesIt works backwards from when you need something to when you must order or start it, using supplier and production lead times. | Yes | Planning creates job orders with "due dates and quantities", and infinite planning "can suggest that you make or buy something in the past", which is backward scheduling from the need date. Vendor lead times are held per part and can be overridden with a temporary lead time fence. Scope: M2M Planning.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Understanding m2m planning infinite planning(opens in a new tab); appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Override the vendor lead time for a part(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Produces dated buy/make suggestionsThe output is an actionable list with dates, order this much by this date, start this batch on this date. | Yes | Planning is "the process of creating job orders (due dates and quantities) at all levels of the BOM". For purchasing, the Planned Purchase Queue has a Recommended Changes to Existing POs tab covering promise date and quantity; marking a line final means "planning and scheduling stops making change recommendations". Scope: M2M Planning.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Understanding m2m planning infinite planning(opens in a new tab); appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Mark quantity and date final from the planned purchasing …(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Capacity planningChecks whether your people and machines can do the work in the time available. | Yes | The Work Center Load Analysis report shows a work center's workload against capacity, calculated either from the finite schedule or from the infinite plan. M2M Advanced Scheduling sequences jobs using theory-of-constraints principles.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › View load versus capacity by work center(opens in a new tab)Question this |
Production
Recipes, bills of materials, and running the work.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Bill of materialsA list of the parts and quantities needed to make one of something. | Yes | "A bill of material is a list of all the parts and assemblies you need to produce an item. Quotations, sales orders, and job orders use the information on bills of material."Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Working with bills of material and routings(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Multi-level BOMSub-assemblies inside assemblies, a part that is itself made from other parts, nested as deep as you need. | Yes | The Indented BOM Report shows "an indented bill of material that shows component parts and quantities by level".Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Print an indented bill of material(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Recipes & formulasBatch-style production by weight, volume, or percentage, including scaling a batch up or down. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of recipe or formula records, ideally with batch scaling.Know the answer? |
| Work / manufacturing ordersA record authorising and tracking the making of a specific quantity. | Yes | Job orders carry the production process: "Job orders meet customer demand for end products and service parts (independent demand). These same job orders create demand for component parts (dependent demand)."Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Understanding materials management(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Routings & operationsThe ordered steps a product goes through, and which machine or station does each one. | Yes | "A routing sequentially lists all operations needed to make a part." Standard, casual and detailed routings exist.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Working with bills of material and routings(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Shop-floor trackingOperators report progress, time, and completions as the work happens. | Yes | Shop Floor Manager gives supervisors a console for job, material and labour status, and a Work Center Console where operators "view the information they need to work on job orders online" and "report labor via a computer with a mouse or touch screen."Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Shop floor manager(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Quality controlsChecks, tests, holds, and non-conformance records tied to production or receiving. | Partial | The Quality Control module covers "production and receiving inspection", engineering change orders and customer and vendor problems. The product page names Advanced Quality by uniPoint as an add-on for ISO and FDA work. No inspection workflow article was read.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Quality control(opens in a new tab); aptean.com › Made2manage erp(opens in a new tab)Question this |
Inventory & traceability
Knowing what you hold and being able to trace it.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Batch & lot traceabilityWhich incoming material lots went into which finished batch, and where those finished goods went. | Yes | Optional lot control: "You can find out which lots of items you used to create a part and the lots in which you used the created part." Lot numbers travel with receipts, issues to jobs and shipments.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Working with lot control(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Expiry & shelf lifeBest-before dates on materials and finished goods, with warnings before they lapse. | Yes | "You can optionally set expiration dates for your lots. These dates reflect the order in which you should use the lots."Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Working with lot control(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Serial numbersUnique identifiers on individual units, for warranty or field service. | Yes | Lot control also covers individual units: "You assign a serial number to an individual part and a lot number to a batch or lot."Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Working with lot control(opens in a new tab)Question this |
Commerce & accounting
Costs, purchasing, storefronts, and the books.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Product costing & COGSWhat it costs you to make one, and the cost of the goods you sold. | Yes | The vendor states you can "analyze job costs and profitability at any stage of production, compare actual costs against estimates". The materials documentation describes standard cost roll-ups and variance postings.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: aptean.com › Made2manage erp(opens in a new tab); appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Understanding materials management(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| PurchasingRaising and tracking purchase orders to suppliers from inside the system. | Yes | Purchase orders are placed from the purchasing queue or created directly, after assigning a vendor.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Place one or several purchase orders from the purchasing …(opens in a new tab); appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › Understanding the purchasing queue(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Accounting connectionSends financial data to bookkeeping software, or includes its own general ledger. | Yes | A General Ledger module handles set-up, month and year close and reconciliation reports, alongside payables and receivables.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev › General ledger(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Ecommerce connectionPulls orders and pushes stock levels to a storefront or marketplace. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of a named storefront or marketplace integration.Know the answer? |
Openness & your data
Getting data in, out, and away if you leave.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| APIA documented programming interface so other software can read and write your data. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: public api documentation.Know the answer? |
| WebhooksThe system can notify other software the moment something changes. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of outbound webhooks or event subscriptions.Know the answer? |
| MCP supportA Model Context Protocol server, letting an AI assistant read or act on this data. Useful, but it has nothing to do with whether the product plans materials. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: a first-party mcp server, or documentation of one.Know the answer? |
| CSV exportYou can get your lists out as spreadsheet files. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of csv or spreadsheet export.Know the answer? |
| Full data exportYou can take everything, including history and relationships, not just a few screens' worth of rows. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of a complete account export, database dump, or equivalent.Know the answer? |
Deployment, licensing and your data
- Deployment
- Cloud (hosted for you)
- Licensing
- Proprietary SaaS
- Team sizes
- 21–50 people, 51+ people
- Manufacturing styles
- Custom or job-shop work, Countable assembled products
Integrations
- uniPoint (quality)
- CADLINK
Jobs this product qualifies for
Derived from the capability table above, not hand-assigned.
Editorial notes and cautions
Things we would want a friend to know before buying.
- The planning evidence describes M2M Planning and Scheduling, which the documentation calls optional. Confirm it is in your quote before relying on dated planning.
- No price is published, so this record cannot be compared on cost.
Evidence and verification
✓ VerifiedLast checked October 9, 2026 · 72% of capability fields resolved · 100% of those carry a source
Imported 2026-08-14 from a discovery catalog. Researched 2026-09-19 against Aptean's public Made2Manage documentation on appcentral-docs.apteancloud.dev, read word for word; marketing claims were used only for costing and add-on names.
Sources we checked (5)
What we still want to confirm
We publish our gaps rather than hiding them. If you can point us at a first-party page for any of these, we will update the record and credit the correction.
- Find out whether M2M Planning and Scheduling is included or priced separately, and get a sample quote.
- Document recipes or formulas, if any, and whether e-commerce, an API, webhooks or data export exist.
- Read an inspection workflow article to settle quality control.
- Confirm whether on-premise deployment is still sold.
Still unknown: recipes & formulas, ecommerce connection, api, webhooks, mcp support, csv export, full data export.