| General ERP / accounting and stock (horizontal backbone) | Logo Tiger 3 / Logo Netsis 3 (Standard/Enterprise), Mikro Jump/Fly, SAP Business One, Login ERP, DİA, Aaro, Zirve Üretim, ETA, True ERP, Canias ERP (IAS) | Solid for current accounts, e-invoice/e-despatch note, general ledger, stock, purchasing and sales invoicing; because of Revenue Administration (GİB) obligations this backbone is fixed. Logo and Mikro are the de facto standard in Turkish SMEs, while SAP B1 and Canias appear in more corporate/exporting firms. In most installations only the accounting-stock side is active; the production/MRP modules are used partially or never switched on. |
| Production/MRP, work orders and bills of materials (BOM) | Logo Netsis Üretim/MRP, Login ERP machinery module (product configurator), DİA Üretim, Aaro recipe/MRP, Zirve Üretim, MAS Üretim, Skala, Prodio, Net-X ERP (Netadam) | Designed for BOMs, route-based operation tracking, MRP and costing by production order. But because a BOM is hard to define up front in project-based one-off manufacturing, in practice these modules are used incompletely or under strain; actual costs never fully reach the system. |
| CAD (design) and PDM/PLM | SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD, Solid Edge, CATIA; on the PDM side, SolidWorks PDM, Autodesk Vault | Standard for 3D part/assembly design, manufacturing drawings and assembly structures; SolidWorks is the most widespread in machinery manufacturing. PDM/PLM (revision/version management) is mostly absent in SMEs; files are hand-named and kept in server folders, and revision chaos is born there. |
| CAM — NC programming for machining | SolidCAM (iMachining), Mastercam (including Mastercam for SolidWorks), SolidWorks CAM/CAMWorks, EdgeCAM, GibbsCAM, Esprit, Fusion 360 | Strong for toolpath and NC code generation for CNC turning, milling and vertical machining centres; SolidCAM and Mastercam dominate in Türkiye. There is usually no bridge between CAM and the ERP; real times and cost data are keyed back into production and quotes by hand. |
| Sheet-metal cutting CAD/CAM and nesting (layout/waste optimisation) | SigmaNEST, Lantek Expert, ProNest (Hypertherm), Bystronic BySoft, Trumpf TruTops, Radan | Effective for part layout on the sheet, waste reduction and NC generation from DXF for laser, plasma and press brakes; SigmaNEST is strong in Türkiye, and machine-brand software ships with the machine. The real waste and time data nesting produces is rarely connected automatically to costing and stock. |
| Quoting and cost estimation | Evobulut (online quoting), in-ERP quote modules (Logo, Mikro, True ERP, Aaro), Excel (the most common), machining cost calculators built for individual workshops | Aims to bring raw material, labour, subcontracting, overheads and margin together for customer quotes. In practice, because there is no BOM, quote costs are mostly calculated in Excel and from the foreman's experience; ERP quote modules struggle in this gap. |
| Shop-floor data collection / MES / machine monitoring (OEE, IIoT) | ProManage, Zyfra MDCplus, Kapasitematik, Getsflow, Cormind MES, EPM/idas/Pkey Labs IoT data collection, andon boards, barcode/touch operator terminals | Valuable for machine downtime/runtime, OEE, shift records and operation start/finish tracking. They are usually separate systems added after the ERP; most Gaziantep SMEs do not have them, and production is still monitored on paper or Excel. |
| Quality, measurement and welding traceability | CMM device software (PC-DMIS, Calypso etc.), calibration/measurement reports; on the welding side, WPS/WPQR/pWPS document management (ISO 3834, EN 1090), 3.1 material certificate tracking | Standard for dimensional inspection, welding procedures and approval records; ISO 3834-2 and EN 1090 are mandatory for pressure-vessel, steel-structure and exporting firms. But traceability records are mostly kept in paper binders, not digitally; collecting evidence at an audit takes days. |