Cetec ERP
by Cetec
Manufacturing ERPPasses all 6 Full MRP testsProprietary SaaS✓ Verified
A cloud manufacturing ERP priced per user with every module included: MRP with lead-time dates, work orders, routings, capacity scheduling, lot traceability, quality and its own general ledger, with public documentation for most of it.
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 Cetec ERP does on each (6 of 6)
- YesIt represents a bill of materials, recipe, or formula.Evidence: cetecerp.com › Cost accounting(opens in a new tab)
- YesIt accepts dated demand, sales orders, a forecast, or a master production schedule.Evidence: cetecerp.com › Purchasing(opens in a new tab); cetecerp.com › Prod scheduling(opens in a new tab)
- YesIt nets that demand against stock on hand and orders already incoming.Evidence: cetecerp.com › Purchasing(opens in a new tab); cetecerp.com › Part records(opens in a new tab)
- YesIt explodes requirements through at least one level of the bill of materials.Evidence: cetecerp.com › Purchasing(opens in a new tab); cetecerp.com › Material planning mrp(opens in a new tab); cetecerp.com › Advanced manufacturing planning(opens in a new tab)MRP gives "a system snapshot of both raw material and subassembly / sub-batch material requirements" from sales-order demand, and the feature page says it plans "against complex, nested bill of materials (BOM) structures." Scope: the core report is refreshed by hand; the $1,000-a-month Advanced Manufacturing Planning upgrade adds a nightly run that re-plans dependent BOM components when a parent work order changes. Checked 2026-09-19.
- YesIt uses lead times or required dates.Evidence: cetecerp.com › Purchasing(opens in a new tab)
- YesIt produces dated buy, make, transfer, release, or reschedule recommendations.Evidence: cetecerp.com › 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
- Electronics and discrete manufacturers who want MRP, scheduling, traceability and accounting in one system
- Shops that would rather read the documentation than sit through a demo
- Teams of six or more, where the five-user minimum stops mattering
Not a fit when
- Very small shops, which pay for five users whether or not they have them
- Batch and formula producers: recipes and expiry dates are not documented on the pages we read
Pricing facts
What it costs to do manufacturing in this product.
Advertised from
$50/user/month
Useful entry price
$50/user/month
Billing basis
Per user
What moves the real bill
- Priced per user. The monthly figure multiplies by every person who needs an account.
- Minimum 5 users. You cannot buy fewer seats than this, even if fewer people need access.
- Onboarding fee. Optional. The vendor's own launch estimates run from $0 for a do-it-yourself setup to $5-80k assisted and $50-150k+ managed; services are billed at $315 an hour.
Plans
| Plan | Price | Add-ons and setup |
|---|---|---|
| Standard usersBilled monthly | $50 per user/mo · minimum 5 users | — |
| Five-user minimum, so the smallest bill is $250 a month. Shop-floor users are $25 a month each. Advanced Manufacturing Planning ($1,000 a month) and the QuickBooks Online integration ($300 a month) are optional extras. Launch is optional paid help: $0 if you set it up yourself, $5-80k assisted, $50-150k+ managed, by the vendor's own estimates. | ||
Cheapest paid plan that manufactures, by paid users
- 1 user: Standard users, $250 a month (billed monthly); first year $3,000.
- 5 users: Standard users, $250 a month (billed monthly); first year $3,000.
- 10 users: Standard users, $500 a month (billed monthly); first year $6,000.
Pricing detail
Standard users are $50 a user a month with a five-user minimum, so the smallest bill is $250 a month. The pricing page says all features are included, and that shop-floor users cost $25 a month and customer or vendor portals $20. Extras are optional: priority support is $650 a month ($3,200 for the Enterprise plan), the QuickBooks Online integration $300 a month, and Advanced Manufacturing Planning $1,000 a month ($750 for enterprise customers). The included API allows up to 1,000 requests a month; more costs $300 to $1,000 a month. Every instance starts with a free trial, with no length stated. Volume price breaks are mentioned but not listed.
Checked on October 9, 2026. Source: cetecerp.com(opens in a new tab). Prices change. Check before you buy.
Manufacturing capability
17 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 | Sales orders carry a Ship Date and a Work Start Date, and MRP uses the Work Start Date as its Need Date: "Need Date is just another term for Work Start Date in the context of MRP."Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cetecerp.com › Purchasing(opens in a new tab); cetecerp.com › Prod scheduling(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 MRP documentation: "This report is produced by an automated system comparison of demand signals against supply signals, i.e. sales orders against purchase orders, inventory levels, and corresponding material lead times".Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cetecerp.com › Purchasing(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 the supply side of MRP, and the part waterfall projects stock from "open sales bookings and open vendor PO bookings".Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cetecerp.com › Purchasing(opens in a new tab); cetecerp.com › Part records(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 | "The Need Date minus the Lead Time generates the latest possible date for procuring your material."Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cetecerp.com › Purchasing(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 | Each MRP line has a suggested Need To Buy quantity and a Need Date, and a Leadtime Cushion filter shows items whose latest procurement date falls within the next N days. Lines go onto a purchase quote in one step. The report is refreshed by hand.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cetecerp.com › Purchasing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Capacity planningChecks whether your people and machines can do the work in the time available. | Yes | Work locations have capacity minutes on a capacity calendar, and scheduling respects them: Parallel mode "allows as many orders as Num Parallel Segments to be scheduled at a time at this location (capacity minutes permitting.)"Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cetecerp.com › Schedule modes(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 | Estimated material, labor and overhead cost is rolled up from each part's BOM.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cetecerp.com › Cost accounting(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 | BOM costing "trickles down into its sub-assemblies if the part is a multilevel BOM".Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cetecerp.com › Cost accounting(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 | Open order lines become work orders on the production order list, with Ship, Work Start and Dock dates.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cetecerp.com › Order processing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Routings & operationsThe ordered steps a product goes through, and which machine or station does each one. | Yes | Each BOM part has a build path, a sequence of work locations it moves through, with build operations at each.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cetecerp.com › Shop floor(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Shop-floor trackingOperators report progress, time, and completions as the work happens. | Yes | Order progress is tracked by the work location an order sits in, and shop-floor users for "time tracking and simple data collection" are sold at $25 a month.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cetecerp.com › Shop floor(opens in a new tab); cetecerp.com › Monthly pricing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Quality controlsChecks, tests, holds, and non-conformance records tied to production or receiving. | Yes | In-process and final inspections are recorded against production orders, and a rejected quantity creates a nonconformance report automatically.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cetecerp.com › Inspections(opens in a new tab); cetecerp.com › Ncr(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 | Lot codes are entered at receipt and followed through picking and builds: the receipt "will show every work order and shipment that contains this lot, all the way to the finished good shipment to a customer."Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cetecerp.com › Lot traceability(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Expiry & shelf lifeBest-before dates on materials and finished goods, with warnings before they lapse. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of expiry, best-before, or shelf-life date fields.Know the answer? |
| Serial numbersUnique identifiers on individual units, for warranty or field service. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of serial number tracking on individual units.Know the answer? |
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 | Estimated cost per BOM and actual cost per work order, from picked material cost, labor and overhead.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cetecerp.com › Cost accounting(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| PurchasingRaising and tracking purchase orders to suppliers from inside the system. | Yes | Purchase quotes convert to purchase orders with approval workflows, and partial receipts keep the rest on backorder.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cetecerp.com › Purchasing(opens in a new tab); cetecerp.com › Material planning mrp(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Accounting connectionSends financial data to bookkeeping software, or includes its own general ledger. | Yes | Cetec ERP ships with a chart of accounts and posts ledger entries automatically: "Every time a transaction occurs in Cetec ERP, transaction mapping allows the system to automatically post relevant ledger entries to the mapped accounts." A QuickBooks Online integration is also offered.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cetecerp.com › Chart of accounts(opens in a new tab); cetecerp.com › Qbo integration(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. | Yes | Public API documentation, and the pricing page includes API access up to 1,000 requests a month.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cetecerp.com › Api(opens in a new tab); cetecerp.com › Monthly pricing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| 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
- 6–20 people, 21–50 people, 51+ people
- Manufacturing styles
- Countable assembled products, Custom or job-shop work
Integrations
- QuickBooks Online
- ShipStation
- CalcuQuote
- TaxJar
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 core MRP report is refreshed by hand, and the documentation tells buyers to check each line against the live part waterfall before buying. Nightly regenerative planning of work orders is the separate Advanced Manufacturing Planning upgrade at $1,000 a month.
- Implementation is where the cost can climb. The vendor publishes its own ranges, from $0 for a do-it-yourself launch to $150k+ for a managed project.
Evidence and verification
✓ VerifiedLast checked October 9, 2026 · 68% of capability fields resolved · 100% of those carry a source
Researched 2026-09-19 from the vendor's pricing page, launch page and public documentation, read in full rather than summarized. The MRP, costing, scheduling, lot and accounting claims come from the documentation pages, not marketing copy.
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 documentation for recipes or formulas, expiry dates and serial numbers.
- Confirm ecommerce connections, webhooks and export options (CSV and a full account export).
- Check whether Resident Hosting means the software can run on your own server.
Still unknown: recipes & formulas, expiry & shelf life, serial numbers, ecommerce connection, webhooks, mcp support, csv export, full data export.