Revolutionizing Worker Productivity with AI and Prism

Experience a paradigm shift in manufacturing productivity with Epicor Kinetic 2025.1, featuring leading AI-driven tools that take worker efficiency to the next level. The new release sets a new standard as the ERP for manufacturing, boosting operational capabilities with cutting-edge technology designed to streamline workflows and maximize productivity. At the top of its list of innovative advancements is Prism, an ECM (Enterprise Content Management) agent fully integrated into the Kinetic platform.

Prism: Enhancing Efficiency through Intelligent Automation

Prism offers a fundamental shift in how document management and task automation are approached using AI in manufacturing. Consequently, this tool gives users everything they need to boost their operational efficiency and streamline workflows. Prism revolutionizes worker productivity on many different fronts:

• Document Management Reinvented: Document handling is simplified by smarter categorization, organization, and information storage. Critical documents are always readily accessible, which is a huge time saver.
• Accelerated Information Retrieval: Advanced search algorithms are used to rapidly retrieve key information from even the largest repositories. Users can easily find and extract what they’re looking for quickly, helping them make quicker, informed decisions.
• Automated Task Execution: One of Prism’s best features is the ability to automate repetitive tasks across a manufacturing workflow, saving workers valuable time to spend on more important matters. It can reliably handle everything from simple data entry to more complex tasks with greater accuracy.
• Intuitive User Experience: Designed to improve the user experience, Prism can easily integrate with existing workflows without disrupting your operation. Users of all skill levels can use its intuitive interface and interactive features to use the power of its AI-driven enhancements.

With Prism within Epicor Kinetic 2025.1, manufacturers will see administrative overhead greatly reduced and time-to-market projections for new products accelerated. It’s a transformation tool setting a new standard for productivity in manufacturing that will pave the way for smarter operations.

Supporting Sustainable Manufacturing with New Capabilities

As global expectations for manufacturing sustainability increase, manufacturers scramble to face the growing pressure of guaranteeing their operations are aligned with environmental initiatives. Therefore, Epicor Kinetic 2025.1 meets this challenge by introducing innovative tools that give manufacturers what they need to measure and reduce their environmental footprints.

Tracking and Reducing Environmental Footprints

The new Epicor Kinetic release introduces the Carbon Cost Rollup for Purchase Orders, Jobs, and Quotes as one of its standout features. It’s an advanced tool that allows manufacturers to thoroughly analyze and track their carbon footprints across every facet of their operations.

• Comprehensive Carbon Footprint Analysis: Kinetic 2025.1 integrates carbon tracking into core operations, giving manufacturers the ability to measure the environmental impact of their activities. It gives a comprehensive view of carbon contributions through the manufacturing lifecycle, including emissions associated with purchase orders, production jobs, and project quotes.
• Data-Driven Sustainability Insights: Using detailed analytics and reporting, manufacturers now receive actionable insights into their environmental footprint. The Carbon Cost Rollup feature gathers data from different operational sources, giving them the information they need to make informed decisions on how to reduce carbon emissions and optimize resource use.
• Alignment with Global Sustainability Standards: Kinetic 2025.1 also helps manufacturers meet compliance regulations and stakeholder demands.  With the ability to monitor and manage environmental impacts, businesses can be responsible corporate citizens and meet their long-term sustainability goals.
• Operational Efficiency and Cost Savings: Managing resource usage and reducing waste through sustainability initiatives can save a lot of money and streamline operations. Kinetic 2025.1 gives manufacturers the tools they need to identify areas for improvement, implement new sustainable practices, and boost overall business performance.

In addition, Kinetic ERP gives manufacturers a competitive edge in a sustainability-focused market landscape. The development of carbon tracking and environmental management tools is Epicor’s pledge to driving meaningful change in the manufacturing sector.

Delivering Customer-Driven Improvements and Accelerating Digital Transformation

As a result, Epicor Kinetic also supercharges the way manufacturers address the needs of their customers through a digital transformation within their operations. This newest release uses extensive feedback harvested through Epicor Ideas, generating 1,346 enhancements to enhance both system productivity and user experience.

Key Enhancements in Kinetic 2025.1

• New Warehouse Inactive Option: The new Warehouse Inactive Option helps streamline inventory management. Manufacturers can optimize warehouse space and other resources by effectively managing inactive or slower-moving inventory items. A reduction in inventory carrying costs and smarter space usage helps manufacturers better use their resources and save money.
• Reason Code Maintenance Improvements: Improvements in Reason Code Maintenance gives manufacturers smarter reporting capabilities.  Kinetic 2025.1 simplifies data analysis and reporting by standardizing and automating the process of assigning reason codes to operational events and transactions. Manufacturers will be able to identify and pinpoint issues, trends, and opportunities for improvement faster than ever before, improving their ability to make data-driven decisions.
• Enhanced MRP Urgent Planning: Kinetic 2025.1 took dynamic market demands into consideration and improved Material Requirements Planning (MRP) Urgent Planning capabilities. Manufacturers can now quickly respond to demand or supply disruptions, guaranteeing production schedule continuity.  This improvement in production planning and inventory management allows manufacturers to respond faster, shorten lead times, and exceed customer expectations.

Expanding Integrations for Enhanced Digital Transformation

In addition to these cutting-edge enhancements, Epicor Kinetic 2025.1 continues to add integration capabilities across popular key solutions. These integrations are vital in enabling manufacturing enterprises to speed up their digital transformation journey and improve their overall operations.

Integrations Across Solutions

Kinetic integrates seamlessly with a range of ERP cloud solutions, including:

• Grow: Makes business growth strategies easier through enhanced insights and scalability.
• ECM (Enterprise Content Management): Streamlines document management and information retrieval.
• Quick Ship: Greatly improves order fulfillment and logistics management to boost customer satisfaction.
• Automation Studio: Streamlines repetitive tasks to make automations better.
• CPQ (Configure Price Quote): Complex quoting processes make accelerating sales cycles and improving accuracy easier.
• Epicor IP&O Quickstart: Provides a rapid deployment solution for Inventory Planning and Optimization (IP&O).
• Field Service Management (FSM): Improves service delivery and customer experience using field service operations.

Therefore, these integrations give businesses data-driven insights, automate critical workflows, and enhance collaboration across departments. Kinetic 2025.1 allows manufacturing organizations to adapt swiftly to market demands and drive sustainable growth by using a unified approach to digital transformation.

Unlock the Full Power of Kinetic 2025.1

The future of manufacturing is smarter, greener, and more connected today than it has been before.  This Epicor Kinetic update gives you what you need to be a leader in this transformative era. Are you ready to harness these new capabilities and propel your business forward?

Contact us today at Encompass Solutions and let us show you how Kinetic 2025.1 can revolutionize your operations, help you reduce your environmental footprint, and help you reach your goal of digital excellence faster. Stay ahead of your competition and embrace the power of Kinetic ERP to shape the future of manufacturing.