[labnetwork] Recommendations for commercially available ERP-type SW packages

[Vito Logiudice]

Dear Colleagues,

I’m reaching out in the hopes that some of you might be able to recommend a reasonably priced and commercially available simplified ERP-type software package that you are perhaps using for your own fab operations. We’re looking for something that will be quick and easy to implement and which will allow us to track (via built-in databases which can be queried for report generation) three categories of information:

  1.  Database for storing names, credentials and affiliations of current and past lab members
  2.  Database for tracking of lab user invoices and balances owed per PI (accounts receivable)
  3.  Database for detailed tracking of operations costs which are assigned to a specific category of expense (ie., consumables, repairs, spare parts, upgrades, etc.) which are in turn assigned to a specific tool. This would enable the generation of detailed annual cost of operations reports, including total annual cost per tool, which could in turn be used to adjust equipment access rates as needed.

We had initially hoped that our internal IT group could develop a simple platform in house but it appears now that competing interests will keep this from happening.

Thank you very much for any insights or recommendations.

Best regards,
Vito
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Vito Logiudice  P.Eng.
Director of Operations, Quantum NanoFab
University of Waterloo
Lazaridis QNC 1207
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON           Canada N2L 3G1
Tel.: (519) 888-4567  ext. 38703
Email: vito.logiudice at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:vito.logiudice at uwaterloo.ca>
Website: https://fab.qnc.uwaterloo.ca

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