Mar-Kov CMS Vs E2 Shop (Aug 2020)

Shlomi Lavi / Aug 23, 2020

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Looking for the right Manufacturing solution for your business? buyers like you are primarily concerned about the real total implementation cost (TCO), full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, pros and cons. in this article we compare between the 2 software products:

Vendor comparison

Mar-Kov software: Mar-Kov software focuses on Process, Batch, and Recipe / Formulation based manufacturers. We believe in best-of-breed solutions, and deliver specialized implementations for each of the following industries: Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Cosmetics Flavor and Fragrance Paints and Coatings Food and Beverage Mar-Kov delivers robust traceability for manufacturers, easing the burden of meeting FDA, HACCP and other regulatory requirements.Modernize your facility by replacing your paper batch records with an integrated electronic batch recording system.

Shoptech: Greg Ehemann and Rich Ehemann, the founding partners - and the two Es - of the E2 Shop System, have been around job shops their entire lives. While working in a job shop in the 1980’s, they realized the most important foundation of a make to order manufacturer is to determine if you are making or losing money on a job by job basis. Determining profitability based on accounting at the end of the month doesn’t help develop a true strategy to grow a business. They also experienced firsthand the need to better coordinate most of the other facets of running a job shop: estimating, scheduling, collecting time from the shop floor, purchasing, shipping, and even accounting.

Pricing/cost comparison

The real cost of Manufacturing software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training cost, customization cost, required hardware, and the cost of maintenance & support and other related services. It's critical that you account for all of these costs to gain an understanding of the system's "total cost of ownership". We prepared a total cost calculator for Mar-Kov CMS TCO and E2 Shop System total cost to help with the total cost of ownership calculation.

Mar-Kov CMS price Starting from $49 per month , on a scale between 1 to 10 Mar-Kov CMS Software is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Manufacturing software. E2 Shop System price Starting from $4,995 per license , when comparing E2 Shop System to their competitors, the software is rated 4 - lower than the average Manufacturing software cost.

Bottom line:E2 Shop System is more expensive than Mar-Kov CMS.

Features and functionality

As with any business software solutions, it’s important to consider the features & functionality. The tool should support the processes, workflows, reports and needs that matter to your team. To help you evaluate this, we've compared Mar-Kov CMS Vs. E2 Shop based on some of the most important and required Manufacturing features.
Mar-Kov CMS: Inventory Management, Order Processing Management, Sourcing & Procurement, Supplier Management, Warehouse Management, Document Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Forecasting, ..
E2 Shop System list of features include the following: Advanced Shipment Notification, Order Processing Management, Accounting Module, CRM Module, Inventory Management Module, .

Target customer size

Mar-Kov CMS targets Small (100 employees) to Large (more than 1000 employees) companies in several industries including the food, chemical, fragrance, pharmaceutical, flavors, OTC, and cosmetics industries. E2 Shop System is specifically designed for small size job shops.