Epicor understands that industrial machinery and capital equipment manufacturers face daily challenges, including price reduction pressures, rising raw material costs, and labor shortages. To stay competitive, businesses are streamlining and adopting new technologies to automate processes, reduce waste, and achieve faster lead times. Epicor’s solution supports every step from customer contact to after-sales service.
Benefits
Epicor Collaborate is a cloud-based collaboration tool that transforms how organizations use ERP for decision-making. By integrating unstructured meetings and digital conversations with ERP data, it eliminates silos and enhances business strength. Easy to use with hashtags and mentions, it supports real-time collaboration in critical areas like bid preparation, customer service, project management, and quality improvement.
Epicor for Industrial Machinery is a real-time, paperless manufacturing solution using Kanban production. It eliminates the need for work orders and paper by creating queue records for tasks. Supporting four types of Kanban, it offers flexibility to replenish stock based on minimums or future demand. Combining material requirements planning with Kanban efficiencies, it ensures stock availability, enhances productivity, and shortens lead times.
For industrial machinery companies, Simplified Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is crucial. Epicor PLM solutions offer CAD data management, product data management (PDM), and technical document management, integrating seamlessly into Kinetic. It serves as a central repository for process and product history, promoting integration and data exchange among users. Epicor PLM manages all product documentation throughout its lifecycle and integrates with various CAD and EDA systems, benefiting companies that design and manufacture their products.
Epicor Data Analytics (EDA) transforms Kinetic data into actionable insights through an intuitive cloud service. It helps companies grow by reducing costs, identifying opportunities, and speeding up decision-making. EDA offers customizable dashboards with visual KPIs, graphs, and charts for easy data analysis. Users can drill down into data for detailed insights, enhancing strategic decision-making.
To succeed in a project environment, project management must be integrated into every aspect of your business solution. Efficiently managing project portfolios gives companies a competitive edge by better understanding costs, allowing confident bidding and winning of business. Project Management is a comprehensive solution for planning and executing simple or complex projects with intricate phases and strict costing or billing methods. Embedded in Epicor, it uses detailed estimation, planning, scheduling, costing, and supply chain logistics for complete project control and analysis.
Epicor for Industrial Machinery addresses the challenges of global expansion and plant consolidation by offering comprehensive multisite capabilities and local support. It streamlines intra- and inter-company processes, synchronizes supply, demand, and fulfillment, and adheres to global trade standards like GTIN-14 and RoHS. This leads to industry-leading performance and maximum efficiencies across a globally extended enterprise.
Epicor has over 45 years of experience delivering industry-focused solutions and ongoing customer care to over 24,000 installations globally. With support offices worldwide, Epicor uses its Signature Implementation Methodology to plan, design, validate, and deploy solutions efficiently. Staffed with trained employees and world-class tools, Epicor ensures on-time, on-budget implementations, allowing companies to quickly use Epicor for Industrial Machinery, saving time and money with broad functionality at a lower total cost of ownership.