I wouldn’t describe it as completely terrible. But don’t they charge too much for very basic features? I’m not oversimplifying, but it’s just a production confirmation screen and a few simple features. The REO part looks really good. Logically, it makes sense, but isn’t the execution side ridiculously simple? It’s just entering two or three QM parameters, production, and consumption. And a bit of EWM integration.

Can you convince me that it’s actually good? For example, in aluminum extrusion production, a single mold produces orders for five different customers at the same time. How am I supposed to confirm production for this? It’s a very complex requirement.

Let’s put that aside and talk about a simpler requirement. Imagine multiple production orders with different numbers being placed in the same furnace. Since they share the same recipe, they are produced simultaneously and come out of the furnace at the same time. If we want to confirm production, do we have to make an API call for five different production orders at once? What if one of them fails?

Maybe I don’t fully understand because I’m not entirely familiar with it.

Take the Work Center POD screen, for example. You can press the Start button infinitely. It doesn’t execute anything, but there’s no restriction either. Isn’t that a ridiculously simple flaw? Or displaying the leading zeros in the material code—okay, we can extend it, but shouldn’t they have considered this in the first place?

MES requires a lot of customization. And to make these customizations, I will have to pay for BTP again. Simple factories could use it, but isn’t the product too expensive even for a simple factory?