eRPortal Review - why 4.8 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: Oct 05, 2022

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What is eRPortal?

ERPortal offers asset, materials and maintenance management software. The solution allows companies to optimize their operations by effectively maintaining their assets & infrastructure, while maintaining all related materials, resources, and logistics efficiently.

The goal of ERPortal Software Group is to develop enterprise asset management solutions that maximize operational efficiency and asset utilization levels. The company provides products that are flexible, easy to deploy and can interoperate with numerous systems.

Who is it best for?

ERPortal is designed to address companies in the Industrial & Manufacturing, Education and Utilities & Municipality sectors. The product is scalable to address any business size and is provided as an on premise or cloud based solution with a SaaS delivery model, which is web enabled and can be accessed via mobile devices.

The software addresses Industrial Plant Operations by ensuring proper operation of plant machinery while ensuring cost efficiency.

In addition it supports scheduling & preventive maintenance as well as parts & materials management to ensure maximum machinery uptime. ERPortal also covers environmental, health & safety standards for all plant machinery throughout its lifecycle.

ERPortal is designed to handle the Campus Facilities & Operations for educational institutions as well by providing a suite of products for facilities & asset management, central stores operations and scientific & hazardous materials management. This includes materials tracking, maintenance management and operations support solutions to improve safety, enhance asset lifetimes and lower costs as well.

Finally local government is provided complete computerized maintenance management software (CMMS) that covers management of information & financial data along with infrastructure management. ERPortal’s solutions include asset maintenance as well as information management related to asset lifecycles and depreciation, while ensuring compliance with all major government regulations.

Major customers of ERPortal include Melkes Machine, Front Range Energy, University of Florida, Yale University, Columbus City Utilities and Springfield Metro Illinois.

Main features and functionalities

ERPortal provides Materials Management software that includes inventory tracking & control. This covers the full cycle from material requisition, procurement, receipt and storage of products.

There is support for mobile and barcode real time tracking for all product movements, transactions & activity, from the time of delivery, through its usage and until its disposal. Additionally ERPortal allows for inventory maintenance and quality measurement against established inventory standards which can be used for effective monitoring and planning.

The solution also includes an Enterprise Asset Management module to manage to an asset throughout its lifecycle. This includes location tracking, cost, availability, uptime and reliability so that organizations can schedule calendar based, as well as utilization based proactive maintenance. The software also allows for reconditioning of assets that have become degraded. Again there is mobile and barcode support to ensure proper tracking of assets such as materials availability, capacity planning as well as resource tracking related to the particular asset.

ERPortal’s products are designed to support custom configuration and provide the necessary integrations to other systems in the business as well as its supply chain. There are also a series of standard reports for analysis as well as the option to generate ad-hoc reports. Finally the software allows for rapid deployment so that customers can obtain a quicker Return on Investment (ROI).

What is the actual cost?

The cost of license starts at $45 per user/month. ITQlick pricing score is 8.4 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for eRPortal. You can also find here pricing information from eRPortal's website.

Pros

• ERPortal offers both an on premise as well as cloud based solution
• Mobile Device access of the application is provided by ERPortal
• For the Government sector the CMMS solutions is designed to support government regulations concerning asset lifecycles and so reduces time to realize ROI
• ERPortal supports an open architecture for integration with other Third Party software
• The maintenance management solution allows for both calendar based as well as utilization based preventive maintenance to better ensure machinery uptime

Cons

• ERPortal does not offer a free trial or guarantee period
• User customization requirements of the product need to be handled by the vendor
• There are no social collaboration features provided by ERPortal
• ERPortal is offered as a full featured tool and there no option for customers to obtain different versions on a modular basis
• There are no Business Intelligence or Analytics tools provided by the product

How it stacks up?

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