ALERE by TIW Technology, Inc.

Built for the floor. Trusted with the books.

Most ERP systems add manufacturing as an afterthought. ALERE started there.

Accounting
Manufacturing
Service
CRM
MRP
Mobility
Analytics
Document Management
Data Acquisition

40+ Years

Perpetually Licensed

What makes ALERE different?

Manufacturing-first by design. Most ERPs began as accounting packages with manufacturing bolted on later. ALERE started as a manufacturing system in 1983, so it handles the real-world floor exceptions that other systems force you to work around or account for outside the system: over-issued material, scrapped WIP, changed yields, rework. That same design philosophy was later extended to accounting and inventory, so our customers reduce inventory carrying costs, track stock with confidence, and work with their GL rather than against it.

One vertically integrated system. Accounting, manufacturing, inventory, sales, and CRM share a single relational database. Data is captured once at the source, every transaction posts in real time, and there are no fragile connectors or reconciliation drift between siloed programs. Just the data you want, the moment you want it.

Perpetually licensed. Your Installation. Your data. ALERE can be implemented either in a cloud-hosted environment or on-premise, ensuring your data stays entirely within your control. Our customers stay with us based on the merits of the product and support, not because we hold access to their data.

From our customers:

“JX Advanced Metals USA needed a solution that could meet the needs of our fast moving manufacturing environment. We reviewed the combined accounting and manufacturing software from ALERE along with several other competing software products. We decided that ALERE Accounting and ALERE Manufacturing were the best fit for us. The parts of ALERE software that we like most are: the traceability between transactions, product costing and the ability to integrate ALERE with other software we use. The implementation team was very responsive to our needs and provided us with software customizations and customized reports. These customizations allowed us to continue to do the things that make our organization great without having to change our processes to match the software. We have been using ALERE for over 10 years and have been extremely satisfied with our software choice.”

“The reason we chose TIW back in the early 90's was that we needed a package that suited our needs based on a low volume-high mix manufacturing environment. What is so appealing about their product is the MRP engine they use. It allows us to do forecast sharing with our suppliers. We have a wholly integrated single TIW solution.”

Kokatat upgraded a legacy business system 15 years ago and chose ALERE. The product has matured over the years and Development has kept pace with the changing and growing needs of our business. Key modules have been added over time making the product extremely feature rich, able to adapt to business processes, while retaining the flexibility that is the hallmark of the ALERE product. The pricing has always been fair. The level of technical support that customers receive is unparalleled in the industry – everything from email/phone support, to assisting on how to implement a new business process into the ALERE system, to actually looking at live data to help troubleshoot an issue. Working with a Valued Added Reseller (VAR), ALERE can be customized and tailored to fit business needs. I value the development tools and the ability to customize reports, menus, screens and code. TIW has been a valued partner over the past 15 years and the ALERE product has been an integral part of our business success.

“I believe the software should work for us. Not us working for the software. Really happy with ALERE because it is really stable, really reliable, and they are constantly upgrading the capabilities. And they are extremely responsive.”

More about ALERE

Mix and match exactly the functionality you need today, then add more as you grow without the costly re-implementation.

The Foundation

One vertically integrated system with a single relational data model and a unique underlying architecture that drives everything ALERE does. See how it works.

Concepts

Manufacturing

Work orders with editable routes, finite-capacity scheduling, engineering change control pushed to active jobs, and MRP engine that helps companies cut inventory carrying costs between 20 and 40 percent.

Manufacturing

Accounting

Real-time AP, AR, and General Ledger with as-of reporting for any date. Books that reflect your company's status as it operates, not as it looked at last close.

Accounting

Data Acquisition

Ship, receive, count, and process work orders by barcode. Data captured once, at the source. No re-keying. No shelf-versus-system mystery.

DAQ

Service

Plan, schedule, dispatch, and track service orders, with MRP-driven purchasing so parts arrive before the technician does.

Service

And More

Multi-currency, CRM, shopping carts, and analytics extend ALERE wherever your business goes next.

Extensions

How a multinational sensor manufacturer replaced its legacy silos with one system.

Disconnected legacy systems meant duplicate entry, reconciliation drift, and data nobody fully trusted. See how they consolidated operations on ALERE and what changed.

See ALERE run your scenarios.

Tell us a bit about your operation, and we’ll set up a walkthrough tailored to your accounting and manufacturing workflows. No obligation.

Still running SBT Pro Series, VisionPoint, Sage Pro, or ACCPAC?

You’re not stranded. ALERE was built by people with an intimate knowledge of these systems, and we’ve migrated companies like yours to ALERE for years. Best of all, you bring your data, your order history, and your workflows into a modern, fully supported ERP.

Perpetually licensed, cloud or on-premise, so you’ll never be orphaned again.