The ability to enter all your products into one system! Being able to have multiple vendors using it at once also helps speed up production time overall. I haven't personally encountered any downsides or issues yet. All our sales people use this now so we are hoping they help out customers too eventually. We can upload product details from different vendor and link them straight to the same location instead and get notified when something goes wrong or needs ordering right away (as well as being notified by email). What we like most about this program it its ease of use,it has all you need from creating your own programs within our plant down till reporting requirements! It allows me as well my employees time saving benefits by being able keep up w/the flow of jobs coming into process or out side so I can plan ahead before running short at any point during production run. We would have nothing if not had Sequence come along & help us solve these problems!!