After careful deliberation, it was decided that this year’s Insights event should be cancelled over COVID-19 concerns. However, the Executive View component of this year’s event is still being offered as a virtual conference. A series of four industry-focused and very informative talks are being held on the following topics and dates:
Webinar 1: Industry 4.0 in a Changing World with Robert Parker, IDC
Held at Epicor’s annual Insights user conference, the Epicor Insights Executive View is an invite-only exclusive, interactive, educational seminar focused on helping you grow your manufacturing business, enhance productivity, and differentiate. Over two days, you’ll experience a mix of:
Live demonstrations from Epicor trainers and customers
Educational seminars from industry experts
Interactive discussions with peers from around the country
Opportunity to network with the largest collection of Epicor customers. A benefit of attending during Epicor Insights
The conference will again be held in Nashville at the Gaylord Opryland on Monday, May 4 (full day) and Tuesday, May 5 (half day), with an evening reception to kick off the conference on Sunday, May 3.
Epicor Insights Executive View FAQs
Here you’ll find answers to the most commonly asked questions regarding the Epicor Insights Executive View conference.
What is Epicor Executive View at Insights?
Held at Epicor’s annual Insights user conference, Insights Executive View is an exclusive, interactive, educational seminar focused on helping you grow your business, enhance productivity, and differentiate. Over two days, you’ll experience a mix of live demonstrations from Epicor trainers and customers, educational seminars from industry experts, and interactive discussion with peers from around the country.
Why attend Epicor Executive View at Insights?
Obtain a better understanding of who Epicor Software is and what we do
Opportunity to network with current customers and get honest and open feedback
All meals are covered with your registration for Executive View.
Monday – Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Entertainment
Tuesday – Breakfast and Lunch
What is the dress code for Epicor Executive View?
The attire for Insights is business casual. The meeting space can be cold, so please bring a jacket or a sweater for your comfort.
How do I book my hotel at Epicor Executive View?
Epicor will make your hotel reservation on your behalf based on the check-in/out dates and information entered in your registration.
*Epicor will cover 2 nights (May 3rd and May 4th) for 2 Executives from each company.
What if I want to extend my stay in Nashville pre/post-Epicor’s Executive View?
If you would like to extend your reservation, please enter this in your registration or contact sara.scandiffio@epicor.com and we will make every effort to accommodate this request at the group rate.
Epicor’s discounted group rate is $199 (9.25% sales tax and 6% tax plus $2.50 city tax per room night and $18 resort fee). Dates that are pre/post-May 3rd and 4th will be based on availability
Epicor Insights Executive View Registration
Epicor Insights Executive View is an event reserved for prospects entering the sales cycle with Epicor and Epicor Resellers. As a result, attendees are limited to those companies currently evaluating Epicor products as a complement to their business processes and systems. Epicor will cover event registration costs, event meals, and a two-night hotel stay for two attendees per certified partner.
How do I register?
You can register for the event – HERE. Be sure to get in touch with your Encompass Solutions sales representative to ensure your registration will be accepted. All you’ll need to cover are the travel and incidental costs to attend the event.
What if I need to cancel?
If you have already registered for the event and need to cancel your registration, please reach out toSara.Scandiffio@epicor.comto cancel your registration and hotel reservation.
Encompass Solutions, Inc. is an ERP consulting firm, NetSuite Solution Provider and Epicor Gold Partner that offers professional services in business consulting, project management, and software implementation. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems or addressing the emerging challenges in corporate and operational growth, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. As experts in identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of Industry.
Epicor recently sent out an Epicor ERP 10.2 Costing Issue Alert. This notification details a costing issue reported within the Core Application. If you use backflushing within job costing and are on an earlier version of 10.2 than the versions listed below, please contact Encompass Solutions, Inc. at support to receive an expedited fix:
10.2.200.34 GA 11/31/19
10.2.400.14 GA 10/25/19
10.2.500.3 GA 10/23/19
You may have received this notification because records indicate you are on a prior version of 10.2. If you feel you received this in error, you can update your version information on the portal by going to the Configurations > Product Configuration Profiles menu, or please let us know so we can help correct the version information on record. If you did not receive the notification and have observed any of the issues below, it may be because your version is incorrect in the Epicor ERP customer database. You can contact Encompass Solutions support to have the information updated.
Epicor ERP 10.2 Costing Issue Alert Details
Description of issue(s):
Incorrect job costing when backflushed is being used.
This is causing incorrect variance (MFG-VAR) calculations on jobs.
Multiple scenarios were found and corrected
Dollars to Inventory are not correct
Dollars seem to be doubled using the Qty x Cost Components
Dollars remain in WIP despite the job being closed
This may also be causing Negative Material depending on the costing components of the part.
Example:
Unit Material:
Unit Labor: (too high of an amount going to inventory)
Unit Burden: (too high of an amount going to inventory)
Unit Subcontract: (Not cleared out of WIP)
Unit Material Burden: (Not cleared out of WIP)
Epicor ERP 10.2 Costing Issue Alert Solution
How we’ll approach the fix is simple. We would install the latest version of Epicor 10 to your Pilot system and assist you with running the necessary tests to ensure this issue is addressed, as well as ensure that the patch doesn’t have negative implications to other system areas. This includes EDI and critical reports.
Finding your Current Version of Epicor ERP
Not sure of your current Epicor version? Follow the steps below to find your current Epicor software version.
For Active Homepage Users:
Navigate to the main menu and follow the path: Epicor Education > Main > System Setup > System Maintenance > About Epicor
A new window will pop up displaying your Epicor system information. The current version of your software will be located next to the Epicor logo in large black text.
For Classic users:
Navigate to and click the help icon in the top right-hand portion of the Epicor ERP interface.
Then, click the About Epicor link located towards the bottom of the options on the left-hand side of the screen.
A new window will pop up displaying your Epicor system information. The current version of your software will be located next to the Epicor logo in large black text.
Encompass Solutions, Inc. is an ERP consulting firm, NetSuite Solution Provider and Epicor Gold Partner that offers professional services in business consulting, project management, and software implementation. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems or addressing the emerging challenges in corporate and operational growth, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. As experts in identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of Industry.
ERP and automation technologies have grown by leaps and bounds to address small business’ need for efficiency, productivity, and profitability. Modern process automation and efficiency increases are essential to departments like finance, accounting, human resources, production, material management, quality management, distribution, and sales. Without a proper framework to bring these departments together and working in harmony, a business of any size risks catastrophic failure. ERP supply chain management solutions deliver focused tools to businesses, providing better overall performance, accountability, and customer satisfaction.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) And Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Affordable Enterprise Resource Planning software for manufacturers and accessible automation technologies for manufacturers enable competitiveness in an industry that is constantly evolving. Supply chain automation technology is in higher demand with each passing day. Built to increase the efficiency of operations that extend beyond the four walls of the factory, supply chain management software holds suppliers accountable, builds stronger trading partnerships, and delivers increased customer satisfaction that earns businesses brand loyalty.
How ERP Software Enables Better Supply Chain Management
When a business considers all the parties involved in the supply chain, from manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, retailers, and customers, it can be difficult to control. The process of keeping everything in line requires careful and diligent planning, execution, control, and ongoing monitoring of supply chain activities.
Businesses will find that an ERP system built with the supply chain in mind will be more than effective in handling the storing, transporting, managing demand for manufactured goods. From procurement to product delivery, the integration of material, information, and financial information flow cement ERP as an essential tool for efficient supply chain management.
The Roles Of ERP In Supply Chain Management Processes
From the global conglomerate the mom-and-pop job shop, ERP and SCM software may seem intimidating. However, their viability for businesses at any size cannot be overstated. It simply becomes a matter of size and scope of the software. Placing a focus on efficient supply chain activities and strategy going forward will enhance facility productivity, product quality, and cost-efficiency.
ERP software scales businesses, plain and simple. With growth, the subject of Supply Chain Management demands greater emphasis. Mixed-mode, make-to-order, make-to-stock, Engineered -to-order, and configured-to-order manufacturing operations all have a need for these advanced technologies. This doesn’t even consider the supply chain automation opportunities that arise when ERP systems in place. Replenishment, communications between partners, manufacturers, and customers, even automated profiling of suppliers to get the next replenishment from your favored vendors are possible with automated supply chain management software embedded within ERP.
ERP software doesn’t just enable supply chain management strategies, it informs your teams and keeps them running at peak efficiency. This ensures your business runs smoothly in the face of supply chain disruption. We can break down the role of Epicor ERP alongside supply chain management into eight main categories:
Purchase Management
Demand Management
Inventory Management
Shipping And Receiving
Warehouse Management
Advanced Material Management
Supplier Relationship Management
Supplier Connect
ERP Supply Chain Purchasing Management
Collaboration is key during the purchasing process to ensure orders move smoothly in and out of an ERP system. Tracking the performance of collaborative activities becomes more difficult as an organization grows. ERP fills the gap, providing businesses with the means to track, control, and comply with regulation and governance standards of their given industry. The result is accuracy, compliance, and security in supplier relationships.
Automated purchasing tools improve supplier collaboration, order accuracy, and negotiating while streamlining purchase order writing and tracking of supplier performance.
Improved on-time delivery reduces inventory levels, which improves cash flow and enables cross-referencing, mass purchase order receipts, requisition tracking, and more.
ERP Supply Chain Demand Management
Convert demand into sales orders and forecasts thanks to the efficient management of short- and long-term customer demand contracts. As a result, fulfillment decisions become second nature.
inventory management is made easy with statistical forecasting and planning tools that enable collaboration, consolidation, and aggregation.
Leverage invaluable insights to decrease on-the-shelf inventory, enhance flexibility, improve fill rates, and deliver a better customer experience overall.
Visual tools make interacting with supply chain demand data efficient and easy.
ERP Supply Chain Inventory Management
Digitize, automate, and simplify your processes for greater profitability at any scale, all while minimizing the inventory costs and risks associated with conforming to industry standards.
Meeting customer expectations becomes easy with superior visibility into costing, tracking, and country of origin.
From purchase order through manufacturing and shipping, material flow management becomes easy with an extensive suite of analysis tools, including shortage monitoring, reorder analysis, stock status, and many more.
Reduce annual audit costs significantly by leveraging automated control and regular inventory counting tools provided by ERP solutions for the supply chain.
ERP Supply Chain Shipping And Receiving Management
Ensuring accuracy and customer satisfaction becomes easy with the shipping and receiving logistics solutions provided by ERP. The ability to monitor incoming and outgoing items for orders, subcontract parts being sent to a supplier, raw materials being received, or filling an order from stock all contribute to the enhanced shipping and receiving tools found in a robust ERP solution.
Efficiency, speed, and a consistent interface promote the rapid processing of shipments and receipts to provide reliable tracking at every stage of the journey.
By tracking container shipments and regularly updating purchase orders with enhanced accuracy and information visibility, your business can improve reliability and deliver on expectations without sacrificing time, money, or customer goodwill.
By driving out the cost of freight, insurance, and import duties with landed cost processing functionality margins improve significantly.
ERP Supply Chain Warehouse Management
ERP systems link warehouses with order processing and manufacturing operations seamlessly to optimize pick, pack, ship, and receiving processes.
Drive out errors and wasted resources by automating pick-and-pack, mobile-driven, and pre-pack fulfillment processes.
Leverage greater visibility into resource utilization throughout your warehouse to optimize processes and improve efficiency.
Rapid fulfillment capability enables businesses to better compete not just on cost and quality but on speed, as well.
ERP Supply Chain Advanced Material Management
Track materials with real-time visibility and control with an advanced material management module, like that found with Epicor ERP. This function enables the monitoring of raw materials and work in process (WIP) activities throughout an entire enterprise using mobile devices and bar-coding technology.
By simply scanning a bar code tag you can produce accurate and timely electronic requests for materials.
Ensure that the right parts are delivered to the right resource at the right time utilizing an online queue of raw material and WIP parts
Track movement of raw materials and WIP to continuously improve efficiency
ERP Supply Chain Supplier Relationship Management
Supplier relationship management is a critical and ongoing process for manufacturers. Identifying the best partners to work with and improving supplier collaboration is easier with ERP supply chain management tools that enable buyers, procurement staff, and purchasing agents or those providing quotes, to request quotes for raw materials or subcontract services from one or multiple suppliers.
Make smarter and more informed sourcing decisions thanks to greater visibility and insight into supplier communications
Create centralized records for buyers, parts, and suppliers to maintain accuracy, simplify workflows, and eliminate redundant data entry
Reduce transaction times with automated tools that quickly convert supplier responses into actionable purchase orders
Epicor Supplier Connect For ERP Supply Chain management
Supplier Connect is unique to Epicor ERP and a feature of Epicor Commerce Connect. It is specifically tailored for suppliers It delivers an intuitive environment use to update their information via the supplier portal, answer requests for information, and confirm changes to purchase orders.
Enable business partners and customers transact with your brand online for a competitive advantage.
Improve collaboration by offering supplier self-service on open orders, part information, and access to invoice history.
Reduce staff time spent answering email, phone, or fax inquiries and increase efficiencies of your sales team.
The Competitive Benefits Of ERP Supply Chain Management
It’s a cutthroat world and businesses need every legitimate advantage they can get to ensure competitiveness. ERP competitive benefits are about as integral to the success of an enterprise as it gets. Providing visibility and efficiency across departments, automating workflows with ERP from procurement to product delivery leads to lower overhead and operational costs.
By streamlining the path materials, financial information, and operational data take from source to destination, Epicor ERP delivers SCM that results in better control over performance, costs, and customer satisfaction. Here’s how:
The cost of inventory is minimized through effective demand forecasting lean inventory levels. This ensures just-in-time production methods can be effectively put into practice to bring down production costs while maintaining supply chain flexibility.
Epicor ERP supply chain management reduces production bottlenecks between internal processes and your external supplier. By enabling procurement best practices, the supply of goods, services, and other resources throughout the supply chain are more readily accessible and more easily leveraged.
Whether production revolves around children’s toys or Aerospace and Defense, transparency throughout the supply chain is key to ensure quality, accountability, and safety. Epicor ERP supply chain management delivers that transparency alongside the consolidated supply chain visibility that a business needs to thrive.
How ERP Supply Chain Management Contributes To Organizational Growth
ERP and SCM software go hand-in-hand to contribute to the overall growth of an organization. By tying in all the essential components of the procurement process, warehousing, and sales, Epicor ERP supply chain management module informs the business to a much greater degree. As a result, businesses of every size using Epicor ERP gain greater insight and operational capability.
The Small Business – Take advantage of an agile, cost-effective supply chain management solution that scales rapidly, effectively future-proofing your business for long-term innovation and growth.
The Midsize Business – Accelerate entry into new markets, quickly add new product lines and engagement with customers more easily and effectively.
The Enterprise – Enable team flexibility and responsiveness across verticals, whether B2B, B2C or B2X, at a global scale.
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.