All manufacturing companies now a days need a fully integrated manufacturing and a full ERP system to be competitive and stay ahead.  Manufacturing software varies depending on requirements and vertical markets within manufacturing environments. 

Manufacturing Environments

• Make to order
• Make to stock
• Engineer to order
• Configure to order
• Process manufacturing
• Job shop
• Discrete
• Repetitive
• Other

Modules Needed

• Inventory control
• Bill of materials
• WIP/Job costing
• Estimating
• Lot traceability
• Bar coding
• Data collection
• Scheduling
• Requirement planning/MRP
• Factor documentation
• Master production scheduling
• Rough cut capacity and resource planning
• Engineering change order/history

Whatever the needs maybe, the company needs to list requirements by department or function.