I’m starting a small plastic goods manufacturing company with a couple of friends. We’ll start off with 2 molding machines and around 10 employees, and scale up to around 8 machines and 50 or so employees within 2 years.
We plan to start production in 2-3 months, and currently I’m looking at a cost-effective system that’ll allow me to manage operations properly from day one (accounting, HR, manufacturing, purchasing, selling, stock/warehouse management, CRM), and I’m looking at Odoo, ERPNext, and potentially others (Flectra?) as some of the most cost effective ways to do that right now (if I was significantly bigger, I’d probabaly also consider Dynamics 365, but I’m not).
Any general thoughts on the current status, suitability for my company, and future of those systems? Recommendation on which to go for? There may be bias as to where this question is posted, but I’d greatly appreciate your thoughts regardless.
If you have tested odoo then you can check on their pricing.
For erpnext you can test it with a free trial and then see if that is what you need in your manufacturer process.
Also it would be better to understand the detailed requirement of your project to compare the both systems.
After testing erpnext check you need to check which method do you want to go with. Eg. subscription or the self hosted.
Then only you can come to know the real comparison. Without all the above it is just an open ended question and users point of view will always vary for both the systems
If you’re considering a cheaper solution then odoo is not the one until you want to use old version.
Regarding the Microsoft dynamic comment. Erpnext have replaced ms dynamic is some company in Malaysia as reported in this forum.
So always follow the features, functions, flexibility scalability and future expenses on upgrades or customization.