Improve efficiency and differentiate your services with Epicor solutions designed for metals service centers.
Volatile raw material costs, uncertain mill lead times, and changing customer forecasts all create a delicate balancing act for metal service centers. If your ERP doesn’t meet the requirements of your industry’s unique operations, you risk getting lost amid the competition. Epicor solutions can help make a difference to your bottom line and to your customers:
Offer Customers More Value with Data-Driven Operations
Integrated ERP technology allows your business to eliminate inefficient processes like re-keying information. You get more accurate, updated information about inventory and machine utilization, so you can make faster adjustments. Epicor Kinetic offers a single solution for marketing, sales, quoting, production and planning, sourcing, procurement, customer service, and finance—all built to handle the needs of metal service centers.
Your customers are counting on you to know their business inside and out. Luckily, we know yours. With Epicor, you have the tools you need to keep the right materials in stock, quickly deliver customer quotes, efficiently schedule orders, and maintain delivery performance.
Speed matters for purchasing and inventory management. A connected ERP system connects all the dots for you, so you can control costs and create more value for customers. Kinetic provides inventory control alongside material requirements planning (MRP). Nesting software integrations help you optimize material utilization and reduce scrap. Epicor Advanced MES provides automatic production monitoring. Machine-related data helps you keep equipment running.
Epicor provides a comprehensive view of your inventory, so you can see at a glance what’s available for sale.
Because Epicor brings all your information together, it enables you to produce accurate estimates quickly when new orders come in.
Use Epicor to help ensure accurate delivery scheduling, while simplifying picking and shipping via mobile access in the yard. You'll be able to reduce the risk (and associated costs) of incorrect deliveries and keep your customers happy.
Equipment uptime and usage has a big impact on profitability. Epicor solutions include maintenance schedules, automatic production monitoring, and capture of digital and analog machine signals directly from sensors or PLCs, or via OPC-compliant PLCs.
Kinetic promotes tighter collaboration with your business partners while analyzing the same metrics that you are measured on, such as supplier shipping performance or quality ratings.
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