What can replace Sage 200 Manufacturing?

Sage support for Sage 200 Manufacturing ended on 1 January 2026. Running a production system without vendor support leaves you exposed if something breaks, and it makes every future change harder. Moving now, on your own timetable, is easier than moving in a hurry after a failure.

There are two realistic routes:

• another packaged manufacturing or MRP system, which suits factories whose processes fit the package closely and who are happy to adapt the rest
• tailored manufacturing software, built around your routings, documents, quality records and integrations, which suits factories that never quite fitted a package

Whichever you choose, check that it covers what you used Sage 200 Manufacturing for, and what you worked around it for: delivery date promises, scheduling, shop floor tracking, traceability and certificates.

List the data your factory runs on before you choose, and check how each item can be exported:

• customers, contacts and delivery addresses
• suppliers and lead times
• parts, drawing revisions, bills of materials and routings
• work centres and rates
• stock, with locations and heat or batch numbers
• open quotes, sales orders, works orders and purchase orders

History that only matters for reference can often be kept as a read only archive rather than migrated line by line.

We start from a working factory portal that already covers quotes, sales orders, MRP, scheduling, shop floor tablets, stock, traceability, quality and maintenance, and tailor it to your factory. We bring across the data above, set the portal up with your work centres, routings and paperwork, and connect it to your accounting software so finance stays where it is.

You can see how it works first in the live manufacturing software demo at manufacturing-demo.varsuite.co.uk, and read whether you need an ERP or an MRP system if you are weighing up a bigger change.