Intuitive Manufacturing Systems Shows Maturity in Adolescent Age
Part Two: Market Impact
P.J. Jakovljevic - June 23, 2004

Market Impact

On April 1, Intuitive Manufacturing Systems (www.intuitivemfg.com), a privately held company offering enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for small and mid-size manufacturers, announced its ten-year anniversary. It was created in 1994, when the founders of the other ERP vendor PRO:MAN sold all interest in their company and started a new one: Intuitive. Since then, Intuitive has been offering enterprise software for small and midsize discrete manufacturers around the world with the flagship product, Intuitive ERP, which was designed from the ground up with 100 percent pure Microsoft technology and with well-established manufacturing practices in mind. The relative young age of the company has provided an organization and a development environment free from the burdens of supporting unwieldy sets of legacy systems and technologies; however, the company is founded on a solid foundation of many of its staff members' thirty-years-or-so of experience in manufacturing systems...