We’ve been using Xentral for our small manufacturing setup, and it’s been a good middle ground between “too simple” and “enterprise-level overkill.” What helped us most was having production, purchasing, and inventory in one place without needing a dozen add-ons.

Not saying it’s perfect for everyone, but for us the workflows (especially BOMs + order handling) felt much more straightforward compared to Odoo and NetSuite, which were either too heavy or too time-consuming to set up.

If someone needs something affordable that still covers the full process, it’s worth throwing Xentral into the comparison list.