ERP for Discrete Manufacturing

Intelligent manufacturing transformation: Driving Efficiency and Innovation

Optimize your production processes with comprehensive planning, integrated control, and maximum transparency—from order intake to delivery. Accelerate your digital transformation in discrete manufacturing with BE-terna’s ERP solution — designed for precision, flexibility, and growth.

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Enhance Production Efficiency with ERP for Discrete Manufacturing

  • Flexible Manufacturing: Automate planning and execution to swiftly adapt to changing demands.
  • Rapid Innovation: Leverage digital tools and data-driven planning to respond effectively to market shifts.
  • Optimized Logistics: Digitize warehouse processes to boost productivity and sustainably lower costs.
  • Real-Time Transparency: Access up-to-date material, inventory, and cost data for informed decision-making.
  • Data-Driven Strategy: Utilize precise manufacturing data to inform strategic decisions and gain competitive advantages.
  • Predictive Maintenance: Minimize downtime through IoT data and machine learning for efficient upkeep.

Industry-Specific Solutions for Your Manufacturing Needs

BE-terna offers specialized ERP solutions tailored to the unique requirements of various sectors within discrete manufacturing:

Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing
Electronics Manufacturing
Metal Processing
Industrial Machinery

Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing

In the machinery and equipment sector, companies face the challenge of managing complex, custom-engineered products while maintaining efficiency amid frequent design changes. These modifications can lead to production delays and unpredictable project costs. 
BE-terna’s ERP solution supports integrated project and cost management, enabling real-time coordination between engineering and production. With automated workflows and transparent data, manufacturers are empowered to deliver on time, stay within budget, and meet exact specifications.

Electronics Manufacturing

Electronics manufacturers operate in a fast-moving environment shaped by rapid innovation, global supply chains, and strict regulations like RoHS and REACH. Success requires quick adaptation, full compliance, and consistent product quality. 
BE-terna's ERP system facilitates agile production planning, product lifecycle management, and end-to-end traceability. This enables streamlined operations, regulatory alignment, and faster market entry for technologically advanced products.

Metal Processing

The metal processing industry must manage fluctuating raw material costs, intricate manufacturing requirements, and a need for precise production. These demands are further complicated by varied product types and irregular customer orders. 
BE-terna’s ERP solution addresses these issues through smart capacity planning, real-time inventory management, and embedded quality control. This helps reduce waste, enhance resource efficiency, and maintain profitability even under market pressure.

Industrial Machinery

Industrial plant engineering involves large-scale, complex projects with long timelines, multiple stakeholders, and high compliance standards. Coordination failures or delivery delays can significantly impact overall project success. 
BE-terna's ERP system offers complete lifecycle management—from initial design to final commissioning—along with real-time tracking of progress and resources. Integrated maintenance planning and intelligent procurement tools help ensure on-time, compliant, and cost-effective project delivery.

Capabilities

Production

Supply chain management

Project Management

Sales and Service

IoT Intelligence

Production

Full support for your production process based on real needs and specific production methods.

  • Product configuration - offer a range of configurable items to adjust to customer specific needs in customer driven business environment.
  • Shop Floor Management - support for shop-floor operations in an efficient and user-friendly manner. 
  • Master planning - balance future needs in single, multi-site and/or multi-company environments based on current requirements, forecasts, or machine learning predictions.
  • Capability and Resource Scheduling- have the possibility to allocate and schedule resources based on availability and capability needs for specific production operations.
  • Quality Management- provide quality management transparency in the manufacturing process and manage turnaround times for the handling of non-conforming products.

Supply Chain Management

Great control and end-to-end visibility of the entire supply chain.

  • Order Management System: Use a one-time order-entry approach to be efficient and transparent in external, internal or intercompany scenarios.
  • Demand Forecasting: Forecast demand based on your experience, or with additional techniques using data within or outside your ERP, enhanced by advanced machine learning algorithms.
  • Inventory, Warehouse and Transportation Management: Manage end-to-end logistic chains in flexible, simple or advanced ways, using out-of-the box static or mobile capabilities.
  • Quality Management: Provide quality management transparency in all logistics processes and manage turnaround times for the handling of non-conforming products.

Project Management

Plan, execute and control your projects faster and with greater efficiency.

  • Project forecasts and budgets: Control and forecast your project from an operational perspective together with project budgeting for financial monitoring.
  • Project resourcing: Determine and reserve correct resources for the project, integrate work breakdown structures, estimate resource costs, draft project budgets and synchronise capacity. 
  • Intercompany project invoicing: Create customer invoices against a project in a borrowing legal entity by using intercompany timesheets, expenses, and vendor invoices in a lending legal entity.
  • Project cost accruals: Track accrued project costs from purchase receipts in cases where invoices arrive later than goods and services are delivered, thus obtaining correct insights on KPIs, financial and project reports.
  • Project invoicing: Create project invoices based on materials, expenses, hours, recorded fees and billing schedules in connection with projects.
  • Project analysis: Evaluate the transactions that occur during projects, the accuracy of estimates and forecasts, the utilisation rates of the project team-members, and the overall success of projects. Monitor project cashflow and review project statements using various analytical tools. 

Sales and Service

Deliver great service and see new selling opportunities.

  • Service management: Establish service agreements and service subscriptions, handle service orders and customer inquiries to manage and analyse the delivery of services to customers.
  • Sales management: create quotations, easy see up-sell and cross-sell opportunities, create sales orders and automate sales invoices process. 

IoT Intelligence

Connect your machinery data for actionable insights.

  • Avoid order and production delays with smart notifications and comparions of actual cycle and planned cycle time.
  • Avoid unplanned equipment downtime and reschedule production on time or benefit from preventive automatic maintenance orders.
  • Achieve better quality standards with automatic sensor readings and smart notifications of deviations. 

Ready to start your journey with us?

An ERP transformation is more than the sum of its features. It requires a strong internal project team and an experienced partner who speaks your language and helps turn challenges into practical solutions. What truly counts is a long-term partnership — one that not only supports your daily operations but also unlocks the potential of future technologies to continuously improve your business processes.

Book a free consultation call today and discover how our tailored ERP solutions can transform your discrete manufacturing operations.

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Johannes Grall-Wiest

Inside Sales Specialist

As your first point of contact at BE-terna, I take the time to address your challenges, wishes, and goals in the digital environment. Whether it's ERP, CRM, BI, AI, Modern Workplace, Sustainability, and much more—together we'll find the right approaches and connect you with the right experts.

johannes.wiest@be-terna.com

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Your Trusted Partner for ERP in the Discrete Manufacturing Industry

Why BE-terna?

Implementing ERP in discrete manufacturing requires precision, process insight, and a partner who understands your industry’s complexity. BE-terna brings together technical excellence, sector-specific know-how, and a proven implementation framework to help you thrive in a competitive manufacturing landscape.

  • Deep Industry Expertise: Trusted by manufacturers in machinery and equipment, electronics, metal processing, and industrial plant engineering across Europe.
  • Flexible ERP Options: Select between Microsoft Dynamics 365 or Infor CloudSuite — based on your specific production and business needs.
  • Future-Proof Cloud Platforms: Adapt quickly with scalable, secure ERP systems that evolve with your operations.
  • Proven Implementation Methodology: Our EAGLE approach guarantees streamlined, transparent ERP rollouts aligned with your strategic objectives.
  • Strong European Presence: Operating in 10+ countries with 2,100+ clients — always supported by local teams with regional expertise.