Price sensitivity, volatile raw material costs, shorter product lifecycles, and new competition are driving fabricated metals manufacturers to look for new ways to operate. With aging ERPs and manufacturing systems that weren’t designed to handle many orders from one piece of material, it can be hard to drive improvement across the business. Metal fabricators need to:
Grow Revenue and Profitability with Data-Driven Planning and Production
Through integrated ERP technology, your business removes redundant processes, improves information accuracy, and builds a foundation for new value-added services. Epicor Kinetic brings together everything from marketing and sales through production and planning, sourcing, procurement, customer service, and finance. Add in contextual business intelligence, and you have insights when and where you need them.
Long-term customers are your best customers. With Epicor, you have the insights you need to quickly deliver customer quotes, efficiently schedule orders, and maintain delivery performance so you stay a supplier of choice.
Whether it’s implementing lean techniques, improving buying processes with just-in-time procurement, tightening collaboration throughout your supply chain, or proactively reducing downtime in the plant, Epicor solutions have you covered.
Lean methodologies improve lead times, customer satisfaction, and business performance. Kinetic’s integrated capabilities streamline your business processes.
Equipment uptime and usage can make or break your gross margins. In addition to automatic production monitoring, Advanced MES supports digital and analog machine signals directly from sensors or PLCs, or via OPC-compliant PLCs so you can pinpoint issues, manage quality, and reduce waste.
Kinetic promotes tighter collaboration throughout the supply chain while analyzing the same metrics that you are measured on, such as supplier shipping performance or quality ratings.
Epicor offers a robust solution that tracks materials as well as finished and semifinished products. Epicor also provides compliance capabilities specifically designed for fabricated metals used in industries such as automotive, aerospace & defense, medical devices, and industrial machinery.
Kinetic’s multisite capabilities and global presence mean that you can expand to new markets, shift production, and react to customer needs – across the globe.
With Epicor Kinetic, manufacturers can accurately cost, forecast, and find inventory quickly and easily with a functionality called Advanced Unit of Measure (UOM). The solution delivers a simplified approach to managing dimensional inventory by segmenting inventory with attributes such as hardness, strength, elasticity, or density.
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