Paper and spreadsheets, an industry ERP from the last decade, or MEGAN. Here is the honest comparison.
| What you need | Spreadsheets and paper | Legacy industry ERP | MEGAN |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weighing | Paper ticket, typed later | Scale connector as a paid add-on, per brand | Live weighing built in, Blackbox scale connection (USB, TCP/IP, analogue), remotely managed by Sunbound |
| Contracts | Excel, fulfilment by hand | Contracts, but fulfilment often manual | Contracts with automatic fulfilment from every ticket |
| Dropshipping | Two tickets, margin in a calculator | Rarely modelled | Weight ticket pairs with gross profit per pair, multi-pair invoice |
| Container and export documents | Word templates, retyped | Separate module or not at all | Container tracking, Annex VII, VGM, packing list from the shipment data |
| Stock | Guessed at month end | Ledger, often with silent corrections | Gap-free ledger, moving average price, regrading |
| Invoicing | Word, PDF, manual e-mail | Invoices, e-invoicing as an upgrade | Invoice and credit note in one click, ZUGFeRD and XRechnung, sent from MEGAN |
| Compliance | Folders | Audit log varies | Hash-chained audit log, reversal only, VAT-ID checks, DiWaSS filing |
| AI | None | None | AI inbox and Ask MEGAN, built in |
| Cloud and mobile | Files on a server | On-premise, upgrade projects | Cloud, always current, phone and tablet |
| Price | Cheap until it fails | Module licences, per-user fees, consultants | One price, every module, by sites and throughput |
Most yards do. The question is how many times a number is typed between the weighbridge and the invoice. If the answer is more than once, the something is costing you every day. We migrate your master data and open contracts; the demo shows how yours map in.
Your data sits in ISO 27001 certified data centres in the EU with a proper data processing agreement. A server under the desk is not safer. It is just closer.
MEGAN is priced by sites and throughput, with no per-user or module fees, and the guided setup gets a single-site yard running without a consultant. If you have a weighbridge and a contract, you are the right size.
We import customers, grades and open contracts. The weighbridge is connected by the Blackbox. Old tickets stay in your archive; the AI inbox reads them if you need them in MEGAN. Most of the effort is deciding to start.
Early adopters have a direct line to the developers. Requirements from the yard land in the product, not in a ticket queue.
