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Meet Frontier

Frontier software is ideal for manufacturers who design, build, modify, and/or assemble products to order. Thanks to the product configurator at the heart of our software, Frontier helps companies work smarter. Frontier helps you manage customer orders, every point in your supply chain, plus your internal manufacturing and financial processes. Frontier ERP is the key to meeting the increasingly high expectations of today's customers and distributors and making you their manufacturer of choice.

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Product Configurator

At the heart of Frontier® ERP Software is a powerful and robust product configuration management (PCM) tool. Enter your engineering guidelines for customer-selectable options, and the configurator ensures only buildable products can be ordered. No longer do you need to rely on a few key individuals to manually check option compatibility. Frontier’s configurator delivers better customer service, speedy online web ordering, and accurate dealer quoting.

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Cloud ERP Software for Manufacturers of Complex Products

Frontier ERP software is ideal for manufacturers who design, build, modify, and/or assemble products to order. Thanks to the configurator at the heart of the software, Frontier ERP with CPQ (configure-price-quote) helps companies work smarter. With Frontier, seamlessly manage your customer and dealer orders, every point in your supply chain, plus your internal manufacturing and financial processes. Frontier cloud ERP is hosted on the robust IBMi platform for superior uptime. It’s your key to meeting the increasingly high expectations of today’s customers to make you their manufacturer of choice.

Key Features



Product Configurator

Only buildable products can be ordered when you centralize engineering logic and product specs in the Frontier cloud ERP configurator with built-in CPQ. The result? Fewer errors and faster growth.

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Data Broker

DataBroker enables you to accommodate the diverse electronic ordering needs of your best customers without the need for significant investments in custom programming.

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eQuote Dealer

eQuote gives your business the ability to enhance the relationship with your most valuable asset: your customers. Configure, price, and quote accurately and quickly.

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eWebServices

eWebServices offers a single source of customer, product, pricing, and configuration information so your developers can tailor a system to meet your branding, marketing, and customer service needs.

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Industries

Industry consolidation and the high cost of maintaining custom solutions have many companies wondering how best to move forward. Fortunately, Friedman can help you protect and effectively convert your company to an industry-specific cloud ERP solution that will truly make your business more efficient.

Kitchen & Bath Cabinets

Kitchen and bathroom cabinet manufacturers are using Frontier cloud ERP to save time, prevent errors, streamline quotes, and improve customer satisfaction.
Learn more about what Frontier can do for cabinet manufacturing.

Furniture and Fixtures

Frontier ERP software offers comprehensive to-order and mixed-mode manufacturing support, design/layout tool integration, and fully integrated dealer order entry for contract and build-to-order manufacturers of office, residential, and retail furnishings.
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Window & Glass Manufacturing

Find out how window and glass manufacturers use Frontier for order management, inventory control, planning, production control, scheduling, and finance.
Learn more about Frontier’s capabilities for window and glass fabricators

Window Fashions

Frontier’s powerful parametric configurator is the ideal window fashion software solution for manufacturers of shades, shutters, and blinds who offer complete dimensional flexibility (i.e. tons of options).
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Building Products

Building product manufacturers rely on Frontier for strong parametric configuration capabilities coupled with a robust, engineer-to-order workflow.
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Door Manufacturing

From metal roller doors to custom wood doors and panels, interior and exterior, glass enclosures and screen doors – manufacturers use Frontier door manufacturing software to configure-price-quote and support dealers, architects, and designers.
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Promotional Products

Frontier by Friedman provides full-featured product configuration capabilities for manufacturers, printers, and customizers of promotional products and ad specialties.
Learn how Frontier software helps promotional and printing companies

Industrial Products

Capital equipment and industrial product manufacturers use Frontier for its powerful product configuration capabilities, coupled with robust discrete manufacturing planning and execution.
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Automotive and Aerospace

Frontier by Friedman supports the engineer-to-order, make-to-order, and assemble-to-order requirements inherent in the automotive and aerospace industries.
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Metal Fabrication

The design of Frontier’s configurator addresses the specific challenges faced by fabricated metal manufacturers and service centers.
Read more about the advantages of Frontier in the metals industry

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Frontier ERP and who is it built for?
Frontier is an ERP system built specifically for manufacturers who design, build, or assemble products to order. That includes make-to-order, configure-to-order, engineer-to-order, and assemble-to-order manufacturers — businesses where every job involves some level of customization and where a generic ERP’s standard workflows don’t match how the factory actually operates. Frontier is used by manufacturers of cabinets, doors, windows, furniture, building products, promotional products, industrial equipment, and more. The common thread is that these are companies producing configurable or custom products at volume, where accuracy and speed in quoting and production are competitive differentiators.
What makes Frontier different from other manufacturing ERP systems?
The core differentiator is the parametric product configurator at the center of the system. Most ERP systems have basic rules-based configuration at best — a list of options the customer picks from. Frontier’s parametric configurator encodes actual engineering logic: dimensions, tolerances, material compatibility, option interdependencies, and pricing — so the system can validate that any combination a customer or dealer selects is actually buildable before the order is placed. For manufacturers with complex, highly configurable products, this eliminates a significant source of errors, rework, and customer service overhead that simpler systems can’t prevent.
Does Frontier support cloud deployment or only on-premise?
Frontier is available as a cloud ERP hosted on the IBM i platform, which provides high uptime reliability and the security characteristics of enterprise-grade infrastructure. On-premise deployment is also available. The cloud option removes the burden of maintaining server infrastructure and ensures the system stays current, while the IBM i foundation provides the stability that manufacturers running high-volume, mission-critical operations require.
What size of manufacturer is Frontier designed for?
Frontier is designed for mid-size to large manufacturers — companies with enough product complexity, order volume, and operational scope that they need an ERP built for their specific manufacturing model rather than a generic system adapted from other industries. Frontier is not a lightweight tool for small job shops, but it’s also not structured around enterprise contract timelines and implementation costs that price out mid-market manufacturers. If your business is producing configurable or custom products and your current system is creating friction in quoting, production, or order management, Frontier is worth evaluating.
How long has Friedman Corporation been in business and what does that mean for customers?
Friedman Corporation has been building ERP software for custom manufacturers for over four decades. That longevity isn’t incidental — the industries Frontier serves, particularly cabinet, door, window, and furniture manufacturing, have been part of the product’s development history since the beginning. The workflows, configurator capabilities, and industry-specific features in Frontier today reflect decades of real customer feedback and operational refinement. Customers benefit from a system that has already solved the problems their industry faces rather than one being configured to approximate a solution.
What does the evaluation and demo process look like with Friedman?
Friedman’s demo process is tailored to the specific manufacturing environment of the company evaluating Frontier — it’s not a generic product walkthrough. The team works to understand your product complexity, order management workflows, and current system pain points before the demo, so the demonstration reflects scenarios relevant to your operation. From there, the evaluation typically involves deeper discovery around configuration requirements, integration needs, and implementation scope. Contacting Friedman directly is the starting point — the team can be reached at +1 847 948-7180 or sales@friedmancorp.com.