Founded in 2009, Aimtron is a highly sophisticated printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) manufacturer that delivers thermal management technology to verticals such as medical, military, automotive, consumer, commercial, gaming, and alternative energy. Its capabilities range from small, rapid-turn prototypes to high-volume domestic and offshore manufacturing.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Inability to plan at the group level because of poor alignment across different departments
  • The legacy system could not cope with new acquisitions
  • Inadequate supply chain planning
  • Tough compliance laws

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Increased efficiency with the consolidation of data across multiple legal entities and real-time data monitoring
  • Eased compliance with U.S. industry regulations
  • Integrated platforms across the entire supply chain
  • Saved more than seven percent on inventory costs
  • Reduced production staffing costs by 23 percent

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.


Applied Composites Engineering (ACE) is a premier supplier of aviation and aerospace products and services. This includes creating products from concept to finish for the international commercial, corporate, and military aircraft industries.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Tie together operations end-to-end and ensure all manufacturing processes, products, and services meet stringent government and industry regulations

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Visibility to make on-the-fly changes based on customer requirements
  • Review details, communicate changes, and make informed decisions in minutes
  • Create automated procedures ensuring all processes meet certification standards
  • Increased profitability by tracking the shelf life of materials and reducing the amount of inventory kept on hand
  • Better identify the time and activity spent on each operation

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.


Aseptico designs manufacture and distribute high-quality surgical, endodontic, and portable dental equipment.

Aseptico sells directly to dentists and oral surgeons, but they also supply distributors and dealers. The company is proud to provide OEM products for some of the largest dental distributors in the world. Aseptico also ships to public health, military, and nonprofit organizations.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Managing economic nexus and tax filings in all states across the U.S.
  • Handling Voluntary Disclosure Agreements (VDA), tax notices
  • Showing appropriate taxes on quotes and invoices
  • Streamline the process of managing legacy and new tax certificates

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Increased efficiency by time and costs saved on tax determination
  • The solution is end-to-end compliance provided by Avalara
  • Everything is monitored on taxes, and the notification area at login is helpful
  • Use tax for AP is included
  • Affordable costs compared to alternatives
  • One bank transaction instead of 40 each month

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.


Baxter Manufacturing—a subsidiary of ITW Food Equipment Group—is a worldwide leader in designing and manufacturing quality cookware and baking equipment. One of the advantages of being owned by the ITW consortium is that the company gives subsidiaries like Baxter resources to succeed, yet also lets them choose their technology systems. Several other ITW companies also successfully rely on Epicor ERP to grow their business, but Baxter stands out for staying on the leading edge of the system and being an expert in how to leverage the technology to help its customers create authentic experiences for consumers.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • The dated ERP system lacked the flexibility to accommodate the business’ fast pace

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Reduced production lead time from 2 months to 1 day
  • Offered out-of-the-box functionality with easy-to-use data mining capabilities
  • Provided real-time information with a 360-degree view of the business
  • Helped identify business opportunities with existing customers through manufacturing resource planning (MRP) and customer relationship management (CRM) modules

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.


Bench Dogs specializes in manufacturing custom-designed point-of-purchase and retail displays. This includes the manufacture of permanent store fixtures—created to make an impact on the merchandising environment. Most recently, these services were expanded with the addition of commercial cases, wood cabinetry, and millwork for the regional construction industry.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Bolster infrastructure with an ERP solution that has the functionality and flexibility needed to support continued growth

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Fostered 60 percent growth over the last year alone
  • Allowed users to retrieve and store finite levels of detail on a job-by-job basis
  • Improved profits by better anticipating overhead, costs, and labor deviations
  • Drove process improvements that boosted profits and lower expenses
  • Offered greater daily visibility throughout the business
  • Backed up and stored essential data in the cloud

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.


Big Ass Fans first made its mark selling massive ceiling fans that spun slowly but moved astounding amounts of air thanks to aerodynamically friendly designs. The fans kept large spaces that lacked air conditioning—such as factories and dairy barns—feeling cool and comfortable.

After an extensive search, the company landed on Epicor ERP, which has proven capable of growing alongside the company.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Streamline production
  • Identify cost savings across the supply chain

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Identified cost savings in the supply chain
  • Enabled changes to production schedule in real time
  • Allowed for growth through procurement solutions

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.


Bracelet Manufacturing Group (BMG) is a U.S.-based contract manufacturer of precision machined parts and assemblies. Founded in 1950, the family-owned and operated company’s advanced engineering and manufacturing capabilities cover initial design, production, packaging, and shipping. Today, BMG delivers its manufacturing and supply chain management services to global customers in the aerospace, medical, energy, automotive, industrial, agricultural, ordnance, and oil and gas sectors.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Streamline and standardize operations across multiple geographies
  • Simplify the management of in-country legal, taxation, and accounting standards
  • Achieve a single, transparent view into global operations

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Unified information flows enhanced decision-making across the business
  • Enabled business process reengineering with a global perspective
  • Fully aligned operations in U.S. and China with consistent, end-to-end business and costing practices

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.


Founded in 1958 as a family farm in England’s West Country, BV Dairy is now a thriving modern business. Each year, the company purchases 35 million liters of milk from dairy farms within a 25-mile radius of their production facility in Shaftesbury, Dorset, and turns them into dairy products for food distribution and manufacturing firms. BV Dairy’s range includes their award-winning Dorset clotted cream, as well as yogurts, buttermilk, soft cheese, and mascarpone.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Lacked an ERP solution that could scale with the company’s growth
  • Needed to automate routine tasks to upskill staff and boost efficiency and accuracy

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP
  • DocStar® ECM

Benefits

  • Provided the company with an integrated ERP and document management system to help support their 10% annual growth targets
  • Allowed for customization to fit and drive workflow requirements
  • Automated tasks to save staff more than 10 hours of extra work per week

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.


Carando Technologies is a production equipment manufacturer that specializes in equipment to make the insides of washers, dryers, heaters, and 55-gallon oil drums. Founded in 1909, the company ships worldwide to leading domestic appliance manufacturers. Carando is unique in that it’s only one of two companies in the country that specialize in this type of equipment manufacturing—and one of only a handful in the world. The company has been with Epicor since the 1980s and has been able to grow thanks to Epicor solutions.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Tracking and sustaining production of a complex product

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Provided visibility and accessibility of data needed to understand business health
  • Allowed for easy management of complex bill of materials
  • Gained efficiencies with capabilities that make it easier to manage workflow orders
  • Empowered employees by providing real-time access to the shop floor

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.


Headquartered in Hixson, Tennessee, Card-Monroe Corp. (CMC) is the world’s leading manufacturer of custom-built tufting equipment used to manufacture carpets for a variety of flooring markets and applications. This ranges from residential to commercial applications of carpeting, combining a vast array of textures and color options. This includes artificial turf for sports fields and hospitality carpet with sophisticated styles found in hotels, restaurants, corporate offices, and convention centers.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Integrate manufacturing, inventory control, and accounting processes into one comprehensive ERP system

Solution

  • Epicor ERP
  • Epicor Data Management Tool (DMT)

Benefits

  • Improved ability to manage customer orders from quote entry throughout production, shipping, invoicing, and follow-up
  • Enhanced shop flow and collaboration among employees resulting in efficiencies that reduced assembly cycle times by 30% and machine shop work-in-process by 40%
  • Transported more than 670,000 records during implementation from differing sources into the Epicor ERP solution with complete accuracy

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.