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Planning and Scheduling

Performance-driven companies have mastered the art of predicting and responding quickly to changes in customer demand with minimal business interruption. Whether you are a global, multisite enterprise or a single site manufacturer or distributor, precise and flexible planning and scheduling is imperative to efficient and profitable operation. Epicor offers a comprehensive solution for forecasting, material requirements planning (MRP), scheduling, and advanced planning and scheduling to meet the needs of today’s agile businesses. For companies with complex processes that require project management and resource management capabilities, Epicor Planning and Scheduling offers a comprehensive solution that is baked into the fiber of the product for unparalleled operational visibility

Project Management

Epicor Project Management is a comprehensive solution for project managers who plan and execute simple or complex projects that can require intricate multi-level phases as well as strict costing. Embedded within the robust capabilities of
Epicor, Project Management utilizes the detailed estimation, planning, scheduling, costing, and supply chain logistics of Epicor for complete control and analysis (including cross analysis) of any project.
Supporting the needs of industries with large capital projects, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) capabilities offer multi-level phases within a project. Fully embedded within Epicor, Project Management offers the robust Epicor scheduling engine for
complete visibility and management of the project schedule.
Additionally, the ability to accumulate and roll up costs for a
WBS Phase to the main project, as well as support budgets,
estimated completion values, calculated, estimated and actual
costs accumulated at the WBS Phase level or at the project
level. For complete visibility of costs and cross analysis, all of
the costs are rolled up through the project structure. Added
analysis offers cross project analysis of key elements such as a
material class or labor type.
Bi-directional integration with Microsoft Office Project gives
project managers an additional tool to use to easily manipulate
the schedule and simplify the planning of any project.

• Multi-Level Work Breakdown Structures
• Project Generation
• Project Budgets
• Project Inventory
• Microsoft Project Integration
• Associate Multiple Internal Contacts With the Project
• Project Schedule
• Business Process Management
• Invoicing
• Project Analysis
• Cost Analysis
• Revenue Analysis
• Revenue Recognition Workbench
• Advanced Project Analysis
• Responsive Visibility

Forecasting and Master Production Scheduling

Forecasting and Master Production Scheduling (MPS) in Epicor are designed to assist manufacturers and distributors with both day-to-day control and long-range planning and decision making. Forecasting and MPS support your business strategies, as well as those businesses that operate multiple, mixed-mode strategies simultaneously. Forecasts can be generated from multiple historical sources (e.g., sales, invoice, and inventory usage history).

• Manual Forecast Entry
• Forecast Import
• Forecast Methods
• Forecast Buckets
• Forecast Analysis
• Inter-Company Trading
• MPS Entry
• Forecast to MPS
• Driving Capacity and Raw Material Procurement

Material Requirements Planning

Built for the needs of the single site as well as extended enterprise, MRP offers cross plant and cross company planning. Enhanced to offer plant source as well as product group sourcing of materials and assemblies, MRP automatically and visually extends the enterprise to efficiently
manage supply and demand.

• Forecast
• Manual Forecast
• Forecast Export
• Forecast Import
• Master Production Schedule
• MRP Generation
• Log File
• Material Planning
• Material Requirements Planning Technical Reference
• Dynamic Lead-Times
• Part Planning Tools
• Planning Horizon
• Multisite
• Multi-Level Pegging
• Sourcing By Plant
• Available-to-Promise
• Planning Types
• Short Horizon Days of Supply
• Short Horizon Planning
• Bill of Materials

Scheduling and Resource Management

Multiple resource views and online scheduling tools such as the change impact informer offer the master scheduler and manager the ability to visually locate overload problems and slack conditions, then perform cost and throughput analysis on schedule changes before they are firmly committed.
The scheduling engines uses several factors that affect production quantity, setup time, production time, capacity, priority, and so on to calculate how long it will take each job to complete. It then displays the schedule through the Job Scheduling Board, the Resource Scheduling Board, and the Multi-Resource Scheduling Board.

• Production Scheduling Board
• Alerts
• Finite Scheduling
• Start Time
• Drag-and-Drop
• Operation Complete Quantity Displayed
• Operation Complete Time Displayed
• Overload Informer
• Multi-Level Assemblies
• What-If
• Setup Grouping
• Capabilities with Zero Priority
• Change Impact
• Dual Resource Constraints
• Conditional Forward Schedule
• Resource Group
• Finite Load Horizon
• Resource-Based Schedule
• Reschedule Delta
• Rough Cut Scheduling
• Rough Cut Scheduling - Save Resource Load
• Scheduling Blocks
• Global Scheduling Component Process
• Material Constraints Displayed
• Scheduling Technical Reference Guide
  

Advanced Planning and Scheduling

Available as an extension to Scheduling, Epicor Advanced Planning and Scheduling incorporates the strength of the Scheduling engine and enhances it with advanced functionality such as multiple constraint scheduling, a wide range of scheduling methods, visual drag-and-drop scheduling, capability and dependent capability-based scheduling, real-time capable-to-promise functionality, and advanced material planning functionality.

• Capable-to-Promise
• Multiple Resource Scheduling Board

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Vantage Project Management integrates cost-effective management, tracking, revision, review, and analysis to simplify and streamline all aspects of project administration.

Projects can be generated, modified, reviewed and analyzed— at any time. And project functionality is entirely embedded within Vantage, eliminating the need for additional project management software.

• Project generation
• Project budgets
• Microsoft project integration
• Associate multiple internal contacts with the project
• Project schedule
• Responsiveness and visibility
• Invoicing
• Project analysis
• Cost analysis
• Revenue analysis

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

For the product details, please refer to the official web page of Epicor Software Corporation at http://www.epicor.com