ECI MAX releases new versions at least annually and is moving toward a more mobile, analytical and intelligent platform. It does so progressively: you adopt new capabilities when your operation needs them, without replacing the ERP foundation you already have running.
The MAX roadmap is not a single transition to a new technology. It is a sequence of capabilities added on top of the same ERP foundation, at the pace each operation can absorb them.
Finance, sales, purchasing, inventory, manufacturing, MRP, costing, engineering and business administration. This is the operational base preserved throughout the entire journey.
On-Premise, cloud and subscription models coexist. Cloud migration follows specific customer use cases rather than a single mandatory path. Perpetual licensing remains available alongside subscription-based models.
Access to MAX information and processes beyond the traditional desktop: offices, plants, warehouses, field environments or remote work, with touch screens and barcode readers on the shop floor.
Dashboards and analytics that give immediate visibility into business and operational information, plus Excel Analytics to work with MAX data from Excel.
KPIs, visual management, exception monitoring and drill-down. The goal is to move from reporting what happened to making the current state of the operation visible, along with what requires attention.
Electronic capture and management of plant-floor documentation and templates, incorporated into workflows and available for consultation and traceability.
Analysis of operational information to identify trends, exceptions, conditions and events requiring attention.
Using business and operational information to identify patterns, support forward-looking analysis and turn results into actionable decisions.
A more natural way to interact with enterprise information and processes, built on trusted transactional data.
Each layer builds on the previous one. That is what makes the transformation gradual: nobody jumps to layer 4 without having consolidated layer 1.
Financial management, sales, purchasing, inventory, manufacturing, MRP, costing, engineering and business administration.
WMS, MES, production scheduling, quality, maintenance, logistics, shop-floor connectivity and operational execution.
Analytics, KPIs, dashboards, management views, exception monitoring and visual operational information.
Artificial Intelligence, intelligent automation, MAX Anywhere and increasingly browser-based access to business information and processes.
The MAX direction on Artificial Intelligence starts from a simple premise: the value of AI is not in the model, but in combining it with trusted transactional data and the real business context that already lives in the ERP.
Identifies trends, exceptions and events requiring attention.
A more natural way to interact with enterprise information and processes.
Patterns and forward-looking analysis over business and operational data.
Analytical results turned into operational and business decisions.
A central principle of the MAX strategy is continuity: the roadmap builds on the existing ERP foundation instead of requiring its replacement.
The existing MAX ERP operational foundation is preserved while new capabilities are introduced progressively.
Technology is adopted according to business need and organizational readiness, not through a mandatory platform replacement.
MAXUpdate is the documented API package for building custom interfaces and exchanging information and transactions with external applications.
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