Mechanical engineering and metallurgy
ERP for mechanical engineering and metallurgy for industrial SMEs
For more than 40 years, Synoptic ERP has grown alongside mechanical engineering specialists: bar turning, machining, grinding, milling, gear cutting, turning, and more.
- Metallurgy
- Mechanical engineering
- Machining
- Metal fabrication
- Welding
The ERP for mechanical engineering and metallurgy experts
Extraction, recycling, foundry, processing of raw products, mechanical production, machining, metal fabrication or welding: whatever your trade, Synoptic ERP adapts entirely to the way you work.
Unlike generic ERPs, Synoptic ERP stands out for its flexibility and modularity.
Proges Plus offers you an ERP designed for the day-to-day challenges of the metal industry, a highly competitive environment that demands maximum responsiveness and competitiveness.
Delivery times are getting shorter, market prices are falling and material costs fluctuate considerably and frequently, all against a backdrop of high technical and quality requirements.
Your business is unique? So are our answers
Our customers include automotive subcontractors and suppliers, mechanical engineering, sheet metal and machining companies, piping specialists and bar turning shops. Synoptic ERP is designed from the ground up to meet the specific needs of these activities.
- Barcode-based delivery preparation.
- Customized cost price analysis.
- EDI management for automotive subcontractor orders (GALIA standard).
- OEE management (productivity indicators, breakdown rates, planned vs. actual comparison).
- Several management modes at the same time. For example: make-to-stock for work in progress, make-to-order for customization or project-based for special manufacturing.
- Label management with traceability, a must in the automotive industry (GALIA standard).
- Logistics management.
- Raw material prices built into the calculation of selling prices.
- Planning and scheduling with optimized tool changes.
- Automatic generation of customer files, including heat certificates, approval certificates and measurement data.
Metallurgy and mechanical engineering SMEs: your needs, our answers
Synoptic ERP helps you manage your industrial maintenance, track your inventory efficiently, keep your machine fleet performing, ensure upstream and downstream traceability of your flows, plan your work orders and/or subcontracting, and more.
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Our industry experts and ERP specialists are available to answer all your questions. Would you like to schedule a demo? Get in touch!
ERP modules designed for mechanical engineering and metallurgy
Technical data
Manage routings and items, multi-level bills of materials, CAD and PLM integrations (SolidWorks and AutoCAD), inspection routings and more. Track and use your manufacturing steps and benefit from a detailed history.
Sales management
Set prices easily with a built-in configurator that requires no particular technical knowledge, and make life easier for your sales team! Automatically create routings and bills of materials, calculate selling prices from the answers entered in Synoptic ERP and finalize quotes in a few clicks, discounts included!
Drawing management
Link drawings to items, attach them to your work orders, manage their revisions and display them directly on your shop floor screens.
Production management
Control all your raw materials, tools and tooling, manage your blanks and production flows and check product quality. Manage lead times, anticipate delays and slot in urgent jobs.
Inventory management
Organize your stock of raw materials, tools, tooling and finished products, and track work in progress. Store and value partially used raw materials so you can reuse them and reduce waste.
Time management
Track your production cycles to reduce downtime and increase your margins. Derive your employees’ working time from your production and automatically generate payroll data.
Delivery management
Manage delivery addresses and products to be delivered directly from Synoptic ERP while keeping control of the resources required. Your customer is notified by email of the arrival of their products, with shipment tracking.
Raw material purchasing
Manage your purchases based on stock levels, with both a detailed and an overall view of current inventory and your FIFO (first in, first out).
Design office
Synoptic ERP makes it easy to transfer all the information coming from your sales teams to your design office.
Technical quotes
Manage technical quotes while taking your specific constraints into account.
Planning
Create and manage your work orders, schedule them and view your machine utilization rates. Manage subcontracted operations, suppliers, staff workloads and more.
Production and quality monitoring
Track the progress of your production, manage machine connections (MES), live measurement capture (caliper), non-conformance reports and more.
Profitability monitoring
Calculate your yield rates, your Acceptable Quality Level (AQL) and material prices.
Tooling management
Manage your tooling and the storage of your materials and parts, track work in progress and connect Synoptic ERP to your tool store (Matrix, Seco...).
Quality and traceability
Ensure full upstream/downstream or downstream traceability, approve your batches and rate your suppliers automatically. Manage your inspection routings, which can be imported from an external reference system (for example Discuss), and track your corrective action plans.
CMMS and after-sales service
Manage your equipment, preventive and corrective maintenance plans, breakdown reports and intervention planning. On the after-sales side, track your installed base, maintenance contracts, tickets and interventions.
An open ERP connected to your tools
Synoptic ERP integrates seamlessly into your information system and communicates with your business tools to ensure continuous and reliable data flows.
- CADInterfaces with SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Inventor...
- Machines (MES)Interfaces with your machines and production equipment.
- Tool storesInterface with your tool stores (Matrix, Seco...).
- Business IntelligenceCertified MyReport partner for the analysis, management and reporting of data from Synoptic ERP.
- AccountingNative interface with Sage 100, also compatible with other accounting software on the market.
- E-invoicingManagement of e-invoicing and e-reporting flows, digitization and archiving of customer and supplier invoices.
- EDIExchange of orders, shipping notices and invoices with your partners.
- Outlook / Microsoft 365Interface with your office tools.
Support at every stage of your ERP project
We have chosen to remain both the publisher and the integrator of our own solution, Synoptic ERP, so that we can support our customers as closely as possible and advise them on their organizational and IT developments. A single point of contact, your project manager, guides you throughout the project: they analyze your business processes, tailor Synoptic ERP to the way you work and train your users.
Proven expertise at your service
- Publisher and integrator of Synoptic ERP, a modular, 100% French ERP
- ISO 27001 certified to protect your sensitive data
- Qualiopi certified training process (French quality certification)
- 3 offices in France in Lille, Lyon and Nantes
- Engineer project managers with up to 25 years of Synoptic ERP expertise
- Over 25% of our employees are also shareholders of Proges Plus
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Frequently asked questions about ERP for mechanical engineering and metallurgy
Which ERP should a mechanical engineering or metallurgy SME choose?
Synoptic ERP is a modular ERP published and integrated by Proges Plus, developed for more than 40 years alongside industrial SMEs. It covers the specific needs of mechanical engineering: routings and multi-level bills of materials, technical quotes, planning with optimized tool changes, OEE management, traceability and raw material prices built into selling price calculations.
Does Synoptic ERP meet the requirements of automotive subcontractors?
Yes. Synoptic ERP handles EDI for automotive subcontractor orders, labels with traceability according to the GALIA standard and the automatic generation of customer files, including heat certificates, approval certificates and measurement data.
Can Synoptic ERP be connected to machines and CAD software?
Yes. Synoptic ERP manages machine connections (MES) and live measurement capture (caliper). It interfaces with SolidWorks, AutoCAD and Inventor CAD software, as well as with tool stores (Matrix, Seco...).
How is Synoptic ERP implemented?
A single point of contact, your project manager, supports you throughout the project. After a preliminary analysis, deployment follows a structured method: detailed review of your processes, configuration, pilot testing, key user training, then go-live and on-site support until stabilization.
Does Synoptic ERP handle e-invoicing?
Yes. Synoptic ERP manages e-invoicing and e-reporting flows, the digitization and archiving of customer and supplier invoices, with a third-party verification tool, to meet legal e-invoicing requirements.
Does Synoptic ERP work with my accounting software?
Synoptic ERP has a native interface with Sage 100: automatic creation of third parties, import of purchase and sales invoices, management of outstanding balances and payment approvals, customer reminders. It is also compatible with other accounting software on the market.
Would you like to know more?
Our sales team is available to present all the Synoptic ERP features dedicated to metallurgy and mechanical engineering. Feel free to contact us directly or book a slot for a demo.