Epicor 9 – Ten reasons to purchase or upgrade to
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ADVANCED BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE
As your organization continues to grow, you need a business architecture
that allows you to take advantage of modern technology developments.
Epicor ICE (Internet Component Environment), the underlying technology
framework for Epicor, merges the flexibility of a true service-oriented
architecture (Epicor True SOA™
) with Web 2.0 concepts to not only meet
business requirements today, but offer the flexibility to adapt to
future opportunities. -
INCREASE USER PRODUCTIVITY
Enabling continuous performance improvement within your business means
empowering your employees to be more productive. Epicor True SOA™
features the Epicor Everywhere™
Framework, a unique technology that
allows you to extend your current applications to Microsoft®
Windows®, Web browsers and mobile devices. By extending Epicor to familiar and
convenient productivity tools and leveraging Web 2.0 concepts, such as
enterprise search, presence, and real-time communication, ICE enhances the
user experience and productivity. -
HIGHER QUALITY AND LOWER COSTS
Lean manufacturing and total quality initiatives are critical to continued
success in a highly competitive market. Epicor’s next-generation solutions
are well positioned to support just that with business process management
(BPM), a solution that lets you create and model your business processes
within your Epicor business application. The system can put records on hold,
automate notification, invoke custom code, and require additional data
entry (such as a password for electronic signature) based on your unique
business rules. Additionally, product data management capabilities include
document vaulting in Microsoft Office®
SharePoint® for rapid retrieval and collaboration. -
OPTIMIZE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN
End-to-end management of goods from sales order to shipment requires
streamlined processes both internally and with suppliers. Maximizing
effectiveness of your supplier network requires utilization of new tools such
as Service Connect, a business orchestration and integration tool that
enables faster and more efficient application-to-application and business-tobusiness connectivity. Enhanced solutions for efficiently managing internal
supply chains coupled with tightly controlling inventory resources and
orchestration of these resources, maximizes the effectiveness of your
supplier network while controlling costs. -
CHOICE AND FLEXIBILITY
Epicor ICE 2.0 builds upon an already extensive set of integrated tools for
enhancing and extending Epicor. Applications and business processes can
easily be tailored to meet your organization’s specific needs and everchanging business requirements. User interfaces can be modified to specific
roles, workflow and preferences, significantly improving the end user
experience. ICE provides the ability to meet the unique needs of your
organization and individual employees. -
MAXIMUM BUSINESS INSIGHT
You need analysis tools that logically and dynamically align with your core
enterprise applications and your users. Epicor Enterprise Performance
Management (EPM) places a heavy emphasis on the active use of the
right information at the right time for the right people. It proactively
guides and readjusts the course of your business rather than just passively
measuring its progress or reserving business intelligence tools for a
chosen few. -
GLOBAL SOLUTION WITH LOCAL EXPERTISE
Epicor next-generation enterprise applications feature a unique
“configurable engine” approach, which makes it easier to adopt the legal
and legislative requirements of the world’s economies and the
international standards including IAS, IFRS, and GAAP. Epicor created a
truly configurable ERP platform that can be tuned for small, medium and
large businesses, different industries, local firms or multinational
conglomerates without the need for complex source code changes. Epicor
makes business anywhere a reality. -
STANDARDIZATION AND CONSISTENCY
Epicor provides a consistent, repeatable single solution approach that
integrates your corporate headquarters with divisions and operating
locations. Epicor enables the local, regional, or centralized deployment of
master data and standard processes within a consistent, pervasive security
framework. This ensures that operational information produced locally,
cascades upwards into a single consolidated view of global activities that
accurately reflects your organization’s performance. -
STAY CURRENT WITH YOUR CROSS INDUSTRY NEEDS
Epicor understands that many businesses, manufacturing in particular,
have diversified the industries they serve in an attempt to strengthen
business performance and reduce risk in uncertain times. As a result,
deploying solutions that fit cross industry requirements and stay current in
the changing environment of business is critical. Recent updates for Epicor
solutions follow this theme and particularly strengthen functionality in key
areas for some of our customers’ industries. -
SEAMLESS BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
A complete end-to-end resource based on more than a dozen modular
business suites, Epicor places significant emphasis on embedded
capabilities, like customer and supplier relationship management,
advanced planning and scheduling, business process management, field
service management and product configuration all available as system
wide processes. Through a unique combination of sophisticated global
business management, distributed deployment and master data
management facilities, you can truly virtualize your enterprise.










