Intuitive Manufacturing Systems Shows Maturity in Adolescent Age
Part Four: Challenges and User Recommendations
P.J. Jakovljevic - June 25, 2004

Challenges

On April 1, Intuitive Manufacturing Systems (www.intuitivemfg.com), a privately held company offering enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for small and mid-size manufacturers, announced its ten-year anniversary.In 1994, the founders of another ERP vendor, PRO:MAN, sold all interest in the company and started a new one: Intuitive. Since then, Intuitive has been offering enterprise software for small and midsize discrete manufacturers around the world with the flagship product, Intuitive ERP, which was designed from the ground up with 100 percent pure Microsoft technology, with well-established manufacturing practices in mind. The relative young age of the company has provided an organization and a development environment free from the burdens of supporting unwieldy sets of legacy systems and technologies; however, the company is still founded on the solid foundation of many of its staff's thirty years or so of experience in manufacturing systems. This article continues a discussion of the market impact...