Joel Chartrand
Independent Manufacturing Consultant · 1-10
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★★★★★
The dashboards are what pulled me in, honestly. As a solo consultant managing a handful of small production clients, I need reporting that shows me the full picture fast, and Aligni's combined PLM and MRP view is genuinely useful. Being able to trace a component from the engineering BOM right through to procurement status in one screen saves me the usual back-and-forth between separate tools. I've been comfortable with that core workflow for most of the past year.
But the reporting side has real rough edges. Customizing dashboard views is limited, and I've hit walls when trying to filter by date ranges or group by supplier in ways that seem pretty basic. Exporting to anything other than their default format is more painful than it should be. Customer service responded, but the answers were slow and sometimes vague. For a solo operator without a dedicated ops team to absorb the friction, that matters. The value is there if your reporting needs are simple. Mine kept outgrowing what the tool could show me.
