A highly effective supply chain is critical to the success of your strategic growth
initiatives. Top-performing manufacturers are empowering supply chain
processes with innovative technology that is best-fit for unique operational
needs, easy to use, and informed by industry best practices. Drive out costs,
increase velocity, and enhance your customer experience with a strong supply
chain that is ready for the future of manufacturing. Offering rich visibility and
digital prowess, Epicor provides effective coordination from initial raw materials
to the ultimate delivery of the finished product, transforming your supply chain
into a results-driven value chain.
Epicor Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a full suite of enterprise application
capabilities—including purchase management, sourcing and procurement,
inventory management, advanced material management, shipping and
receiving, and warehouse management—and is complemented by forecasting,
order management, and analytics capabilities. Combined, you have the solution
you need to meet—and even exceed—customer expectations in today’s
increasingly global market place.
📌 Purchase Management
Purchase Management handles purchase order writing and the tracking of supplier
performance to optimize results and improve negotiations. Multiple detailed
line items indicate planned receipts to inventory or a job, direct receipts
to a sales order or direct receipts to a manufacturing job, although the
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 a 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 help increase your profit levels. Purchase
Management capabilities include:
📁 Automated purchasing tools
📁Supplier cross-referencing
📁 Supplier approval capability
📁 Mass purchase order receipt
📁 Multiple location receipts
📁 Part master price breaks
📁 Purchase requisition
📁 Purchase history
📁Purchase order tracker
📁 Supplier tracker (See figure 6)
📌 Purchase Contracts
Epicor Purchase Contracts is designed to automate the process of purchasing
inventory items on a recurring basis— including the establishment of recurring
delivery schedules. Contract line items can be assigned to purchase
orders, which automates your delivery schedules with delivery dates, prices,
and corresponding quantities. Automatic requirement calculations—based on
generated PO suggestions—are factored into delivery schedules, which you
can adjust automatically to conform to supplier requirements or help with
inventory control, production efficiency, and business expediency. Complete
functionality includes part schedule maintenance for establishing the
combination of part, plant, and calendar that makes up the part schedule, as
well as periodicity code maintenance to establish the rules and terms under which
orders periodically arrive from suppliers.
📌Supplier Connect
Strengthen your competitiveness by offering customers and business
partners the ability to interact with your brand online. Supplier Connect
is a supply-chain-focused feature of Epicor Commerce Connect—a complete,
connected, and the customer-proven business solution for modern digital commerce
and omnichannel enablement commerce and omnichannel enablement. By providing the means for the customer and supplier self-service on a whole range of inquiries—such as open orders, part information, and access to old invoices— Epicor Commerce Connect eliminates the need for inquiries to come in via email, phone, or fax to significantly reduce the amount of time staff need to spend answering them.
Figure 6.1 Supplier Connect—improves communication with suppliers to accelerate time to market, ensure accuracy, and drive out costs in your supply chain.