Epicor Software is a global leader delivering business software solutions to Manufacturing, Services, Distribution and Wholesale, Hospitality, Retail and NGO.
With 20,000 customers in over 150 countries, Kinetic (Epicor ERP) provides integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Accounting and Financial Management, Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) that enable companies to drive increased efficiency and improve profitability.
Kinetic (Epicor ERP) Modules
Kinetic (Epicor ERP) Benefits
Epicor is ready to help organizations take advantage of the changing economic tide with its latest Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system suite. Guided by the need of today’s users, Kinetic (Epicor ERP) is a global enterprise resource planning solution that delivers the choice, flexibility and agility to drive growth and opportunity throughout your business.
A single, end-to-end software solution for business, Kinetic (Epicor ERP) is available on premise, hosted, or in the cloud as a software as a service (SaaS) solution—Kinetic (Epicor ERP) is built on 100% Microsoft technology for greater access and mobile workers.
Epicor ERP offers a modular approach with robust capabilities focused on reducing costs, streamlining processes, and improving customer responsiveness across the enterprise—all top priorities toward achieving continued growth and profitability.
Kinetic (Epicor ERP) Applications
Supply Chain Management
Linking the trading partners, processes, and systems that make up your supply chain has become the differentiation you need to achieve industry-leading performance. Removing processes that do not add value and synchronizing processes within and outside a company enable you to meet customer demands for lower cost and faster delivery. Epicor provides the most effective coordination from initial raw materials to the ultimate consumption of the finished product by providing the visibility you need throughout your value chain.
Epicor offers you a full range of Supply Chain Management (SCM) capabilities, built within a single business platform, based on industry leading service-oriented architecture (SOA). Epicor SCM is a full suite of enterprise application capabilities including purchase management, sourcing and procurement, inventory management, advanced material management, and warehouse management, and is complemented by order and demand management capabilities of Epicor Sales Management. Combined, you have the solution needed to satisfy customers and customer demand in today’s increasingly global market place.
Production Management
Whether you manufacture complex solutions or simple products, you need strong production control in order to build a competitive advantage. As the global marketplace continues to shrink profit margins and customers become more demanding, businesses are looking for agile solutions that can provide the infrastructure they need to respond quickly and efficiently.
Epicor offers a comprehensive solution for make-to-order, mixed-mode, make-to-stock, engineer-to-order, and configure–to-order manufacturers; including light assembly features for distribution businesses. Modular in design, the production control suite of modules include Job Management, Lean Manufacturing, Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Quality Assurance, and Advanced Quality Management.
Planning and Scheduling
Performance-driven companies have mastered the art of predicting and responding quickly to changes in customer demand with minimal business interruption. Whether you are a global, multisite enterprise or a single site manufacturer or distributor, precise and flexible planning and scheduling is imperative to efficient and profitable operation.
Epicor offers a comprehensive solution for forecasting, material requirements planning (MRP), scheduling, and advanced planning and scheduling to meet the needs of today’s agile businesses. For companies with complex processes that require project management and resource management capabilities, Epicor Planning and Scheduling offers a comprehensive solution that is baked into the fiber of the product for unparalleled operational visibility.
Project Management
Project success is critical to bottom-line profitability, yet many businesses struggle with projects running behind schedule or over budget. Project scope needs to be managed constantly with variations identified immediately. Epicor Project Management is a comprehensive solution for project managers who plan and execute simple or complex projects that can require intricate multilevel phases as well as strict costing and complex billing.
Embedded within the robust capabilities of Epicor, Project Management utilizes the detailed estimation, planning, scheduling, costing, and supply chain logistics of Epicor for complete control and analysis of any project. Resource Management provides a detailed representation of resource capabilities and availability. Time and Expense Management and Approval ensure projects accurately reflect true costs and the comprehensive Billing and Revenue Recognition functionality guarantee compliance with contract requirements and accounting standards. At all times, throughout the whole process, embedded Project Analysis and reporting combined with Business Process Management provides accurate and up-to-date status information and meaningful alerts. To be successful in a project environment, project management must permeate every aspect of your business solution. Companies that are able to efficiently meet the demands of managing their portfolio of projects have a distinct advantage over their competition; they have a better understanding of their costs so they can bid and win business with confidence.
Product Data Management
Epicor Product Data Management (PDM) serves as a central knowledge repository for process and product history. PDM promotes integration and data exchange among all enterprise users who interact with products—including project managers, engineers, salespeople, buyers, and quality assurance representatives.
Epicor offers a solution that manages the powerful information traditionally contained in engineering documents, plant floor routings, change orders, sales orders, and quality documentation within a single solution that is easily shared across the enterprise.
Promoting collaboration throughout the value chain, Epicor PDM provides a complete end-to-end solution to manage all aspects of a product’s lifecycle, enabling enterprises to control the enormous amount of electronic documents they produce.
Services Management
Epicor Service Management optimizes customer service with timely response to customer requests and puts knowledge in the hands of customer service personnel. Epicor understands that customers want rapid response service. From initial contact with the customer regarding an incident, to in the field operations, to processing returns quickly and efficiently, Epicor Service Management provides the visibility and accountability your business needs.
Financial Management
Epicor Financial Management offers a refreshing new approach to business, a suite of accounting applications built for the highly regulated and increasingly global business world. Built around a series of “global engines” that support effective financial management and control anywhere. Our goal is to help every business achieve sound financial management and control, from a single general ledger to the extended global enterprise, efficiently.
Epicor Financial Management gives you access to real–time fiscal information and provides the modern platform you need to support business around the world.
Sales Management
Epicor Sales Management delivers a comprehensive suite that enables you to produce accurate estimates, streamline your order-to-cash cycle, and fulfill perfect orders that ensure world-class customer satisfaction.
By streamlining the sales process with centralized access to product, pricing, and customer information, orders can be generated with a minimal number of steps. Epicor Sales Management automates and improves labor-intensive processes for quoting, proposal generation, configuration and order entry, enabling you to improve sales productivity by increasing accuracy during the quote and order processes, and identifying the right solution to meet customers’ needs.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Customer relationship management (CRM) strategies are as important to business today as they have ever been. We’ve designed Epicor CRM to help you stay ahead of the curve and successfully meet the challenges that the market brings— helping you effectively manage your entire customer lifecycle from prospect to cash to care, improve operational efficiency and accelerate growth—both internally and externally.
CRM controls every aspect of a company’s interaction with its customers and potential customers from generating the lead, developing the opportunity, taking the order, producing and shipping or supplying the goods or services, getting the cash and supporting the customer. Epicor CRM provides a 360-degree view of the entire customer, supplier, or partner relationship. Epicor CRM broadens the scope of customer information to everyone within and across the organization and to stakeholders beyond.
Epicor Social Enterprise (ESE) further enhances Epicor CRM, delivering up-to-date contextual information to key stakeholders for the life of the customer relationship. Using ESE, customers, prospects, partners can collaborate with internal information workers to ensure the highest possible customer satisfaction.
Enterprise Performance Management
Epicor Enterprise Performance Management is an end-to-end solution that removes the barriers to better business insight through a combination of intuitive user experiences, user driven key performance indicators (KPI), and pre-packaged analytics that have real meaning to the business. Epicor EPM leverages the advanced analytic capabilities of the Microsoft platform and incorporates modern web application concepts for unprecedented ease of use and ultimately business results.
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) underpins the Epicor EPM offering and provides a flexible reporting structure for delivery professional reports and analysis to business stakeholders in a format that business users can easily consume. SSRS easily utilizes many types of data and can deliver it in a variety of formats. Because SSRS works with other applications and products in the Microsoft platform, such as Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services™, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft SQL Server Report Builder® is an invaluable tool for improved analysis and decision making in the enterprise.
Governance, Risk and Compliance
Achieving visibility and effective controls within the enterprise can be a formidable challenge when many of the processes and procedures in place remain manual and fragmented. Effective Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) initiatives help companies, and their employees stay compliant, and ensure that employees and partners at all levels of the organization are aware of the associated risks of non-compliance.
GRC touches every person and every function in an organization in some way. Whether GRC becomes an intolerable burden that increases company overhead or an enabler of efficiency and success depends upon its actual, day-to-day impact on the employees’ work and whether that impact is enabling or debilitating.
Business Architecture
Epicor designs and builds its enterprise applications from the ground up using state of the art connected systems architecture. A connecting systems focus was chosen because ERP thrives best as a high-performing approachable service, connecting people, systems and processes. Business strategy today is so very tightly coupled with technology strategy. And technology is partly responsible for shaping the culture within a company that ultimately drives competitiveness.
The pace of technical change worldwide is also unlike anything seen in history. Successful companies recognize and manage how to benefit from technology without becoming trapped by their old practices and systems when new technologies come online. This is what business architecture is all about. Good architecture separates concerns, allowing areas of the business to evolve independently while also relying on each other to contribute to the success of the organization.
Epicor follows this same principle–separating the design and development of our technology platform from the applications themselves. The tools and frameworks ensure users have a consistent user experience across the system, lets people collaborate with ERP constantly in context and provides tools for users to create an ERP experience for themselves that’s optimized for their work. This unique blend of tools and technology is called Epicor ICE.
Global Business Management
Whether through acquisition or organic growth, more and more companies are wrestling with the complexities of managing multiple business entities. Epicor Global Business Management ensures that no matter how distributed your organization becomes you can maximize efficiency and drive business results.
Managing disparate business units offers unique challenges and opportunities with respect to centralized or distributed operational control, enterprise-wide visibility, inter-company supply chain management, and financial consolidation. To support the needs of today’s increasingly distributed business, Epicor offers robust global business functionality within its design.
Alongside comprehensive multicompany functionality is end-to-end multisite management which provides companies with multiple facilities and flexible options when setting up operations. Some companies may prefer to run most business functions centralized within the same company but at multiple facilities, or they may run completely separate company entities with the ability to consolidate financial information at month or quarter-end. However you choose to define your business, Epicor supports transactional functions between systems and entities including inter-company transactions such as inter-company orders, transfer orders, and shipments between plants and warehouses. Epicor facilitates these scenarios within a single application that is flexible enough to grow with you as you expand your business. Epicor Global Business Management offers organizations the essential tools needed to create and maintain a single version of the truth.
Toys & Consumer Electronics Manufacturing - Success Story
Jetta Company Limited
Jetta Company Limited is a leading Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) in the toy industry. Founded in 1977, Jetta has been dedicated to serving our customers and business partners in realizing their innovative product concepts and developing the best quality products in the market.
“Because we had been running an antiquated system, many of our processes were not as efficient as they could be. We wanted to ensure that we leveraged all of the great Epicor functionalities, and we learned best practices from both Epicor and Data World Solutions Ltd. to create a world-class manufacturing system. ”
Commercial Dishwasher Manufacturer - Success Story
CHAMPION GROUP
CHAMPION was founded in 1994, which is an international brand of providing professional hygiene programs, as well as a sanitizing, cleaning and dishwasher manufacturer. We create hygiene and environmental products, cultivate professional talents, assist enterprises to improve hygiene quality by comprehensive and environmental solutions.
“The team of Data World has solid ERP implementation experience and knowledge, and familiar with business processes as well. Their experts provide better advice and complete solutions for our business and management. ”
Formed in Hong Kong in 1991, HTL quickly became the major producer & exporter for Sewgroup International. We are proud to be one of the largest global producers and creators of Sewing Notions / Haberdashery Products sold under our own 12 famous brands or indeed under license for existing global brands.
“Epicor ERP implemented by Data World provides efficient and comprehensive solutions, covering Supply Chain Management, Production Management, Production Planning and Scheduling, Financial and Sales management, etc which is suitable for Enterprises with Multi-country, Multi-language or Multi-company natures.”
Sun Strong Precision Metal International produces high-quality sheet metal components and assemblies for the world's leading manufacturers in transportation, home appliance, security, entertainment and IT industries. For over 30 years, Sun Strong has served clients in more than 30 countries worldwide.
“Data World is enriched with in-depth industrial knowledge and rich experience in Manufacturing, and fully acquainted with the operation process. The industry-specific solution, Epicor ERP provided by Data World can completely fulfill the requirements of Metal Manufacturing.”
Winson Plastic Manufactory Limited was established in 1970s with headquarter in Hong Kong and manufacturing facilities in Shenzhen (Guangdong Province, China). With more than 30 years of solid experience, Winson Plastic has already evolved into one of the leading OEM manufacturers in plastic and toys industry.
"Epicor is very powerful and fully covered a large scope, we only need to access to one single platform to monitor information from various areas."
Founded in 1972, Tiger is the world's leading schoolbag and backpack powerhouse with products sold over 50 countries. Through innovation, production expertise, carefully chosen materials and exquisite workmanship, our vision is to create high quality, safe and ergonomic products which comes in style, comfort and durability.
“Implemented by Data World, Epicor ERP is a full-featured solution that has all the modules to suit our business needs. The flexibility of the system allows us to operate our business effectively.”
Far East Group is specialized in production of high performance polymer soluble dyes and masterbatches. We are also one of the leading colourants and additives suppliers in Hong Kong and mainland China for plastics, synthetic fibres, coatings and inks industries. Our colours are combined with best matching solution and strict quality control; they are able to comply with international toys safety standards, RoHS, and food packaging requirements.
“The consultant team of Data World is very professional. They have deep understanding of the industrial trend and able to give us useful suggestions and comments for our problems.”
Merton is a leading manufacturer of Licensed Toy and Giftware since 1962. The company manufacture primarily licensed products on an OEM basis according to customer designs. Merton is dedicated to designing, developing, manufacturing, and supplying Quality Products to customers in the Licensed Toy and Gift industries.
“We are now able to manage data easily and allocate materials effectively with Epicor ERP.”
In 1925, Simmons has been introducing technological innovations like the Beautyrest® Pocketed Coil® mattress. Over the Centrry, Simmons has been working on enhanceing people's sleeping qualiaty. Simmons beleive that only by digging into quality of sleep and sleeping problems, in order to develop the best mattress.
“After using Epicor implemented by Data World, there is a great increase in productivity and most of the data calculation errors and human input errors are reduced.”
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