Why Visibility
Family-owned since 1988. No failed implementations. One support tier.
Why manufacturers choose Visibility
We want to help you automate your shop floor, get more production efficiency, improve utilization, shrink your lead times, lower your costs and improve your customer service level. All of it lands on the bottom line, and your ROI will happen within the first year. Here is how we do it.
How Visibility is different
Company dynamic: family-owned and operated with no intention of being acquired, privately held and financially sound. You work directly with the software developer, with access to the most senior development, implementation and support resources.
All fish are big fish in our small pond: one industry (make-to-order manufacturing), one product, and intimate relationships with every customer. There is strength in our size, not risk.
Investment: typically the most cost-attractive solution to implement, because our people, product and processes focus solely on make-to-order companies.
Implementation: a proven methodology for to-order manufacturers. Your project manager has implemented over 40 customers, implementations run 4 to 6 months, and we have never had a failed ERP implementation project.
Product use: Microsoft-based and easy to use, with automated workflow, alerts, unlimited user-defined fields, tile navigation and personal dashboards. None of the personalization affects your ability to upgrade.
Support: offices in Beverly, Massachusetts, Heywood, Greater Manchester and Wombourne, Wolverhampton with no plans to move offshore, 15-year average Support tenure, combined US and UK hours, and one support plan for everyone.
Product functionality built as one system
We strongly believe there is no better product on the market for managing make-to-order manufacturing operations. Every function, from prospect development through manufacturing, planning and accounting, was built at the same time to the same development standards, so the product is consistent everywhere and the learning curve stays short. Built in, not bolted on:
CRM
Shop floor data collection
Time & attendance
Business Intelligence
Quoting & estimating
Job management
Quality
Visual scheduling board
Interested? Contact us now, or request a demo and let us prove why Visibility ERP is the right choice for your company.
Proof, not promises
Every ERP vendor says roughly the same things, so the honest differentiators are the ones with numbers attached. Ours: zero failed implementations since 1988. Typical go-lives in four to six months. One support tier, every customer gets Support, where average tenure runs fifteen years, which means the person answering has likely known your system longer than some of your employees have.
The structural reason those numbers hold is that nothing is outsourced. There are no VARs, resellers or third-party integrators anywhere in the model: every consultant, project manager, developer and support person you will work with is a Visibility employee. The same family-owned company builds the product, implements it, and answers the phone afterward, so there is no handoff where accountability goes to die. Today that model serves more than 250 manufacturers across 550 sites and 45,000 users, about seventy percent of them engineer-to-order shops. And because every function was built at the same time to the same standards, the product behaves like one system, consistent everywhere, with a learning curve that stays short.
Common questions from manufacturers evaluating ERP
Why do ERP implementations fail?
Usually in the gaps: between the vendor who sold it and the integrator who installs it, between the demo and the shop's real workflows, between a scope that grew and a budget that did not. Our answer to each gap is the same: the team that builds Visibility ERP is the team that implements it, on a four to six month plan built around your workflows.
What does one support tier mean?
There is no silver, gold or platinum. Every customer reaches the same Support, staffed by people with fifteen-year average tenure who know the product because they helped build and implement it.
Who owns Visibility?
Visibility Corporation is family owned and has been since 1988, operating from Beverly, Massachusetts, Heywood, UK and Wombourne, Wolverhampton, UK. The current platform shipped in 2008 and has been enhanced on a quarterly release cadence ever since. Decisions are made for the customer base and the decades, not the quarter.
How do we evaluate whether it fits our shop?
Schedule a demo and bring your own workflows: your quoting, your change orders, your scheduling problems. A working session against real work tells you more than any feature list.
Ready when you are.
Bring your data and workflows. We'll show them running on Visibility ERP.