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Supply Chain Management

Linking the trading partners, processes, and systems that make up your supply chain has become the differentiation you need to achieve industry-leading performance. Removing processes that do not add value and synchronizing processes within and outside a company enable you to meet customer demands for lower cost and faster delivery. Epicor provides the most effective coordination from initial raw materials to the ultimate consumption of the finished product by providing the visibility you need throughout your value chain. Epicor offers you a full range of Supply Chain Management (SCM) capabilities, built within a single business platform, based on industry leading service-oriented architecture (SOA). Epicor SCM is a full suite of enterprise application capabilities including purchase management, sourcing and procurement, inventory management, advanced material management, and warehouse management, and is complemented by order and demand management capabilities of Epicor Sales Management. Combined, you have the solution needed to satisfy customers and customer demand in today’s increasingly global market place.

Purchase Management

Purchase Management handles purchase order writing and the tracking of supplier performance. Detailed line items indicate planned receipts to inventory or a job, although their destination may be changed at the time of actual receipt entry. Purchase order receipt processing updates suggested supplier and detailed purchase history files, which provides continual reference to aid in making purchasing decisions.
With Purchase Management, you can reduce inventory levels, improve on-time deliveries, enhance your cash flow, and increase your profit levels.

• Approved Suppliers
• Automated Purchasing Tools
• Cross-Referencing
• Mass Purchase Order Receipt
• Multiple Location Receipts
• Part Master Price Breaks
• Purchase Requisition
• Purchase History
• Purchase Order Printing
• Purchase Order Tracker
• Supplier Tracker
• Supplier Portal Content Pack

Purchase Contracts

Epicor Purchase Contracts is useful for purchasing inventory items on a recurring basis. You can establish delivery schedules that are regularly re-issued, against which recurring deliveries are made.
The advantage of this functionality is ease and accuracy. For example, if you need a quantity of Part ABC to be purchased monthly, you need not enter a discrete purchase order each month. Rather, you can set up a contract PO schedule and maintain this record. Contract line items can be assigned to purchase orders. These line items automate delivery schedules, with delivery dates, prices, and corresponding quantities. Requirements determined by Generate PO Suggestions are calculated and realized into delivery schedules. The schedules can be adjusted
manually in order to conform to supplier requirements,
inventory control, production efficiency, and
business expediency.

• Part Schedule
• Periodicity Code

Sourcing and Procurement

Strategic sourcing is the most important, value-added activity that procurement professionals perform for their company. Doing it well requires a wide range of skills and subject matter expertise. Sourcing by “old school“ methods requires an inordinate amount of time gathering and comparing offerings from multiple suppliers. Automating those tasks with Epicor
Sourcing not only allows the purchasing professional to focus more time and energy on strategic activities, it also provides for online collaboration and fosters competition that amplifies the value of their work.
Electronic sourcing solutions give companies the tools they need to negotiate optimal agreements with their suppliers and to provide the best value to the organization. Left to manual methods, organizations can only afford to manage competitive bidding processes for a very small number of contracts.

• Configurable Sourcing
• Automated Electronic Requests
• Weighted Attributes
• Side-by-side Comparison
• Graphical Bid Analysis
• True Online Collaboration
• Supplier Relationship Management
• Buyer’s Workbench
• E-mail Integration
• History Reports
• Part Price-Break Tables
• Partial Job Quotes
• Review Worksheet
• RFQ Decision Wizard
• Search Capability
• Supplier’s Workbench
• Supplier/Part

Inventory Management

Inventory Management provides the key functions necessary to update and maintain raw materials, WIP, and finished goods inventory quantities and costs. MRP creates inventory allocations for jobs entered through Job Management or generated from Order Management. These allocations are relieved as inventory items are issued to the job, or as purchase
order receipts are posted. Issued inventory reduces quantities on hand, which are continually replenished through the processing of purchased or manufactured item receipts into inventory. Receipt processing provides a continual update of inventory average,
FIFO, lot or last costs for every item. A variety of screen inquiries provide management analysis of MRP, shortage monitoring, reorder analysis, stock
status, valuation, and critical items.

• Alternate Parts
• Costing
• Cost Tracking
• Country of Origin
• Cycle Counting and Physical Inventory
  • Detailed audit control over the selection of items to
    be counted
  • The frequency over the number of times these items
    are counted
  • The tracking, recording, and review of variances for the
    items counted
• Global Trade Standards
• Lot Tracking and Lot Attributes
• Manufacturers Part Cross Reference
• Online Part Tracker
• Part Cross Referencing
• Part Master Price Breaks
• Physical and Perpetual Inventory
• RoHS
• Serial Tracking
• Serial Documentation
• Serial Number Tracker
• Serial Number Assignment to Parts
• Serial Number Formatting
• Voided Serial
• Time-Phased Material Inquiry/Report
• Unit of Measure

Advanced Material Management

Advanced Material Management (AMM) enables businesses to
produce electronic requests for materials, dispatch those
materials, and track inventory movements of all inventory
including raw materials and work in process. Using wireless
terminals and bar coding technology you are able to track
inventory in real-time with complete control and visibility of
raw materials and work in process as it travels throughout
the enterprise.

• Bar Coding on Demand
• Handheld
• Material Handler Interface
• Material Movement
• Prioritizing Orders
• Reserving Inventory
• Sales Order Allocation
• Scanning

Shipping & Receiving

Shipping and Receiving provides a central application within Epicor to monitor incoming and outgoing items, whether they are shipments against an order, subcontract parts being sent to a supplier, raw material being received from a purchase order to a job or into inventory, or filling an order from stock.
All activity relating to shipments and receipts can be
performed and tracked. Online transaction processing
promotes efficiency and ease of use, while online editing promotes accurac. With Shipping/Receiving, a consistent interface processes all shipments and receipts in an efficient, accurate and cost-effective manner.

• Auto-Invoice
• Bill of Lading
• Container Tracking
• Customer Shipment Tracker
• Landed Cost
• Manifesting and Freight Management
• Mass Ship
• Subcontract Parts
• Receipt Tracker
• Miscellaneous Shipment Tracker
• Miscellaneous Receipts
• Pack and Ship/Pack Out Processing
• Pack IDs
• Master Pack
• Phantom Pack
• Label Forms
• Auto-Print Integration
• Shipping Labels
• Shipping Performance

Warehouse Management

Management of the supply chain requires robust logistics capabilities as part of the overall system. Epicor’s Warehouse Management System (WMS) leverages Epicor True SOA, mobile ID data collection, and wireless communications to seamlessly link your warehouse with your order processing and
manufacturing operations to optimize your pick, pack, ship, and receiving processes. With Epicor, your warehouse becomes a key part of the supply chain.

• Bin Tracking
• Bin Wizard
• Warehouse Teams
• Customer Managed Inventory
• Supplier Managed Inventory
• Fulfillment Workbench
• Allocation Templates
• Wave Picking
• Cross Dock Tracker
• Paperless Picking
• Queue Handling
• Queue Manager
• Queue Tracker

Handheld

Whether doing physical inventory, material moves, or looking
up serialized part information, the Epicor Handheld application
offers an easy to use interface that is designed for plant and
distribution employees.
Offering, comprehensive inventory visibility and control, the
Epicor Handheld module allows you to track your inventory as
it moves throughout your enterprise. Through the use of
barcode scanning using stationary, portable, wired or wireless
(radio frequency) equipment, users can quickly complete
inventory transactions as they happen on the floor. Real-time
data capture eliminates the need for data entry as a
second step which will aide in improving inventory accuracy and
speeding up the order-to-ship cycle. Epicor Handheld transactions provide your users with eventbased directing and routing of all managed tasks in real-time.
Additionally, you can maintain complete transaction event
history for analysis and reporting purposes. Flexible to deploy, Epicor handheld technology uses industry
standard Microsoft Terminal Services for handheld devices to enable virtually any device to be used. Just like any screen in Epicor, it is highly customizable so users can change workflow,
add or remove options, and even resize a bit if their devices don’t fit the 240 x 320 screen size requirements. Including support for Advanced Material Management transactions, the Epicor Handheld better manages material handling capabilities by putting the update and review functionality in the hand of the material handler or forklift operator. Coupled with Handheld transactions for real time
processing, Advanced Material Management offers detailed tracking of material requirements and work in process information through mobile access to the material and picked orders queue.
Eliminating manual entry of data, Epicor supports auto print control functionality which handles the automatic printing of forms and barcode labels upon the completion
of a pre-determined list of Epicor transactions. Auto print control lets you define the events that trigger the printing, rules that define the conditions, and the action to take on a form-by-form basis.
Epicor is an Honors Partner and reseller of IntermecR
Technologies Corporation and the Epicor handheld transactions are tested on Intermec equipment. This does not preclude you from using other vendor’s equipment. If you choose to use another hardware vendor you must adhere to the above requirements. Epicor is a Software Partner of Seagull Scientific, Inc. and the Epicor Handheld solution is compatible with their Seagull
Scientific, Inc. BarTenderR labeling technology.

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