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Global Business Management

Whether through acquisition or organic growth, more and more companies are wrestling with the complexities of managing multiple business entities. Epicor Global Business Management ensures that no matter how distributed your organization becomes you can maintain business without barriers.
Managing disparate business units offers unique challenges and opportunities with respect to centralized or distributed operational control, enterprise-wide visibility, inter-company supply chain management, and financial consolidation. To support the needs of today’s increasingly distributed business; Epicor offers robust global business functionality within its design. Alongside comprehensive multicompany functionality is end-to-end multisite management which provides companies with multiple facilities and flexible options when setting up operations. Some companies may prefer to run most business functions centralized within the same company but at multiple facilities, or they may run completely separate company entities with the ability to consolidate financial information at month or quarter-end. However you choose to define your
business, Epicor supports transactional functions between systems and entities including inter-company transactions such as inter-company orders, transfer orders, and shipments between plants and arehouses. Epicor facilitates these scenarios within a single application that is flexible enough to grow with you as you expand your business. Epicor Global Business Management offers organizations the essential tools needed to create and maintain a single version of the truth.

Multicompany Management

Epicor Multicompany Management capabilities can assist your business in consolidating operations such as procurement and accounts payable as well as offer enhanced tools to improve operational visibility across companies. Automation of inter-company financial transactions as well as financial recognition optimizes enterprise performance to shorten lead times on key product lines. Additionally, from a financial erspective, multicompany organizations may choose to not only report as individual entities but also consolidate
multiple currencies and report across business entities to a single consolidation company. Underpinning this functionality is a complete technology framework to support global enterprises that is scalable, offers
choice in deployment, and includes a set of productivity
enhancing tools designed for global business operations.

• Multicompany Menu
• Global Customers, Parts, and Suppliers
• Credit Checking
• Forecasts
• Unique Accounts
• Centralized Payment
• Consolidated Purchasing
• Financial Consolidation
• Multiple Currencies
• Global Supplier Price Agreements
• Multicompany Journal Entry
• Inter-Company Trading
• Inter-Company Eliminations
• Subcomponent Security
• Virtual View
• Unlimited Hierarchy
• Scalable Deployment

Global Multisite Management

Best-In-class enterprises are outpacing their competitors today with new initiatives to drive out redundancies in corporate operations. Maximizing the use of internal supply chain resources can be a key differentiator. Supply chains demand synchronization of production with distribution and logistics. This is most effectively accomplished with a single system
providing visibility and consolidation of resources in multiple facilities. Companies may also prefer to run business functions centralized with separate production and distribution functions, or they may run them separately with the ability to consolidate financials at month- or quarter-end. Epicor
supports both scenarios within one application. Multisite Management provides support for centralized accounting and
purchasing, while allowing separation of production and
distribution facilities. Financial consolidation through Epicor Multicompany
Management is only one way that Epicor Multisite
Management helps businesses achieve their goals. For
example, manufacturing and distribution organizations can
leverage the planning and scheduling efficiencies with Epicor’s
robust multi-plant functionality. Not only are manufacturers
and distributors looking for new tools to oversee multi-plant
and warehouse operations, they are also looking to maximize
the use of existing resources.

• Sourcing by Plant
• Production Plants
• Virtual Plant Support
• Shared Warehouses
• Costing Workbench – Cost by Plant
• Alternate BOMs and Routings per Plant
• Plant Scheduling Functions
• Subcomponent Security

Multilingual Data Management

Corporate growth and expansion inevitably leads to new markets and new geographies. Epicor Multilingual
Management, alongside Epicor Global Configurable Engines facilitates this growth, with resources that can manage your business wherever you take it, or it takes you, with support for country-specific requirements around tax, currency
and languages.

• Translation Layer

Master Data Management

As organizations grow, decentralize, or make acquisitions, the potential for multiple, inconsistent versions of the same data in different parts of the company can cause real problems with the quality, reconciliation and potential redundancy of data.
The recent emphasis on regulatory compliance, the advent of SOA, and mergers and acquisitions has made the creation, stewardship and maintenance of accurate and complete master data a business imperative. Epicor Master Data Management (MDM) can help to ensure that your Multicompany and Multisite data meets regulatory requirements and also provides the consistency needed for real-time distributed operations, leading to greater customer
satisfaction, operational efficiency, and
business performance.

• Extensible Markup Language
• Transformation Engine
• Global and Local
• Data Hierarchies
• Field Level Management

Epicor Service Connect

Today’s business world is a connected world and integration and automation is everywhere—linking sales staff on the road, warehouse staff in the bays, engineers on the shop floor, customers and suppliers together in a seamless web of commerce and connecting your distributed organization
around the world. Epicor Service Connect is a business integration platform that functions as a central integration point for secure workflow
orchestrations within Epicor applications as well as external connectivity to Epicor and non-Epicor applications. Users can automate tasks and processes within the application to promote lean principles, continuous performance initiatives
and Six Sigma quality within the organization or across the supply-chain. Service Connect lets employees focus on value added activities and management by exception instead of repetitive data (re)entry tasks. Built to support collaborative processes, Service Connect links different business entities,
applications or users using open, industry wide standards and technology that enables businesses to deploy solutions— confident that their investment will remain intact for the future. Service Connect harnesses the openness of XML and includes service-bus functionality for Security, Messaging,
Orchestration, Transformation, Scheduling, Notification, and Exception Handling to deliver rock-solid reliability combined with ease of use.

• Much More than a Programming Interface
• Added Value for a Service-Oriented
  Architecture Foundation

For further information, please contact us at (852) 2581 9373 or email at salesenquiry@polyasia.com

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