Centor is the world’s largest supplier of regulatory-compliant prescription containers for medication dispensing. The Berlin, Ohio plant manufactures plastic prescription pill containers and plastic packaging for liquid products and it is using Epicor Mattec MES—the Epicor real-time production monitoring and manufacturing execution system.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Institute a standardized system of reporting and data collection for more advanced insight into the production process

Solution

  • Epicor® Mattec MES

Benefits

  • Improved production and process control for better decision making
  • Increased machine efficiency with standardized OEE reports
  • Improved quality control and operations

 

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 1970, Maxweld and Braze is the wholesale division of the Weldamax Group. It began as a wholesale supplier of safety wear for the welding industry. But gradually expanded to include a full range of welding equipment and consumables backed by warranties, a local service center, and customer training.

High production costs in the USA and Europe meant new suppliers had to be found in the East. However, this brought further challenges in managing procurement, stock, and production, whilst ensuring optimum customer service.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Required standardized data management throughout the Weldamax group
  • Old systems were not integrated and lacked transparency
  • Needed more control over inventory
  • The inability to forecast sales and manage to purchase accurately resulted in incorrect inventory purchasing and holding
  • Fluctuating Rand v. US Dollar exchange rate

Solution

  • Epicor ERP

Benefits

  • Streamlines operations by integrating internal processes
  • Ensures all areas of the business are transparent
  • Helps to establish processes and systems within the group

 

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.


In the age of the fourth industrial revolution—known as Industry 4.0—digital technologies are linking physical and digital worlds. Southco—an English manufacturer of engineered access hardware solutions, such as entry door latches and locks—began its global digital transformation journey over 10 years ago. Epicor Advanced MES, formerly Mattec manufacturing execution software (MES), is embedded right at the heart of its manufacturing facility, linking with other smart technologies and business systems to exchange information.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Transform a traditional manufacturing business into a smart operation using Industry 4.0 technologies
  • Improve operational effectiveness
  • Optimize product quality control

Solution

  • Epicor® Advanced MES, formerly Mattec MES

Benefits

  • Improved assembly bench utilization by 40%
  • Increased Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
  • Reduced manual data entry
  • Increased accuracy and productivity
  • Made critical data for decision-making available anytime, anywhere, from any screen

 

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 Industry.


Greno Industries hosted an onsite Epicor Value Exchange Workshop to improve their understanding of Epicor systems, prepare for an upcoming upgrade and facilitate workforce training from experienced Epicor consultants. Greno Industries, headquartered in Schenectady, NY, offers machined parts for steam and gas turbines, generators, compressors and pumps, pulp and paper, and mining, among others. They are looking to expand into other industry verticals.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Underutilization of Epicor 10.2.300.2
  • Prepare for an upgrade to the next version of Epicor ERP
  • Leverage the expertise of Epicor account professionals in-person

Solution

  • Epicor® Value Exchange Workshop – Epicor ERP Education and Training

Benefits

  • Creating better processes as Greno Industries move more into aerospace
  • Better utilization of basic Epicor functionality (Dashboards and BPMs)
  • Bring disparate systems together
  • True implementation of scheduling visibility
  • Better capture of indirect labor costs

 

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 by seven Leong brothers in 1972, Welding Industries Malaysia (WIM) has become the only local company in Malaysia that manufactures welding machines for use by industries after surviving the onslaught of the 1997/98 financial crisis and tough competition from local operators and China.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • WIM required an advanced ERP system that could provide support for the company’s manufacturing processes and manage a huge amount of data.

Solution

  • Epicor Manufacturing ERP solution is a comprehensive manufacturing management software that enables manufacturers to plan, schedule, execute, and monitor their entire manufacturing process.

Benefits

  • Improved visibility over operations
  • Increased cost savings
  • Ability to support management’s decision-making processes
  • Accurate live data

 

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.


Grupo PEOSA, Plega Envases de Occidente, is a manufacturer of cardboard sheets and packaging of the best quality produced with leading-edge technology and a modern system. The company’s main products are folded, preprinted, and micro-corrugated packaging, cardboard sheets, and Single-face. This case study shows how the company has gained visibility in the manufacturing process and improved customer service with Epicor ERP.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Needed an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that provided visibility of their production process and that included floor control and automatic production programming in its functionality
  • To drive the production programming area
  • Improve accounting operations
  • To have a more efficient decision-making process through updated business data

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • One-click access to reliable, real-time information on the company’s production, administration, and billing processes
  • Visibility of every part of the manufacturing process
  • On-time monthly closings
  • Improved customer service

 

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.


A strong history of growth through expansion and acquisition has transformed Ian Macleod from a small family trader to a large-scale manufacturer, distributor, seller, and marketer of whisky. To support this, the company needed a new integrated IT system that could offer the control and visibility required to manage the operations as one business model, and provide a platform for further company growth.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Need for a new integrated IT system offering control and visibility
  • Create a platform for further growth Solution
  • Epicor Tropos ERP

Benefits

  • Integrate its complex production, supply, and sales operations through a single enterprise-wide solution
  • Collaborate with multiple suppliers and distributors
  • Eliminate stock irregularities at its warehouses through real-time reporting
  • Have reduced stocked goods by 35%
  • Improve production and product visibility across the enterprise
  • Increase margin and cost control through CODA financial ledgers
  • Predict demand through accurate forecasting tools

 

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.


Rainier Industries launched its e-commerce site in late 2017 to modernize customer orders. The manufacturer of custom-built shade, shelter, and art displays—like “The Canyon” overhead art at Salt Lake City International Airport pictured here—got a lot more than it expected online.

 

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.


Smurfit Kappa Ireland implemented Epicor to enable multi-plant sales and stock management with purpose-built corrugated packaging manufacturing software.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • A centralized database model
  • Route sales orders to any SKI plant for manufacturing
  • Manage work from plant to plant, with a consolidated view of all orders
  • Standardized business and management reporting, business procedures, and documentation
  • Full stock visibility and unit-based tracking

Solution

  • Epicor BVP, an extension of Epicor ERP, the world’s leading business software solution for the corrugated packaging industry

Benefits

  • Order routing for cost savings and maximum efficiency
  • Order tracking in all plants, across the entire organization
  • Improved information sharing across all business units
  • Business intelligence dashboards and reports on key performance indicators
  • Full visibility and traceability of inventory

 

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.


You never get a second chance to make a first impression. That’s why The Tool Crib, Inc. decided to leverage the Epicor Integrated Forms Design and provide a personalized touch.

Success Highlights

Challenges

Help a Knoxville, Tennessee-based tools wholesaler offer personalized customer service.

Solution

  • Epicor Integrated Forms Design

Benefits

  • Eliminated printing and programming costs
  • Created high-quality, professional forms
  • Produced customer-specific forms
  • Improved customer service

 

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.