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Nominations Close September 4: A Deeper Look at Distribution ERP
The Epicor Distribution Leadership Summit is closing in fast and the window to nominate your team closes September 4. The event itself runs November 9–11 at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, TX. Most...
Shelf-Life & Spoilage Risk in Plant-Based Dairy: Fixing Inventory & Distribution
Plant-based dairy alternatives - oat, almond, soy, pea, and coconut-based milks, creamers, and yogurts - are among the fastest-growing categories in the beverage and dairy case. But growth has...
You Don’t Need More Staff. You Need Fewer Spreadsheets.
You didn't start a distribution company to become an expert in spreadsheet reconciliation. Unfortunately, that's where most nights end up without an ERP that fits what you do. Now you’re spending...
Cloud vs. On-Premise ERP for Bottled Water & Beverage Manufacturers
Bottled water and water treatment beverage manufacturers operate in one of the most tightly regulated, margin-sensitive corners of the F&B industry. Water sourcing, treatment, filtration,...
Five Working Days to Answer a Recall. How Long Would It Actually Take You?
The manufacturer calls on a Tuesday to tell you Lot 88-4402 is being recalled, and they need to know where every unit went. The answer exists somewhere. The units that shipped clean are in the ERP,...
AMS vs. In-House ERP Support: Which Is Right for Your Business?
At some point after go-live, every ERP-driven organization faces the same operational question: who keeps this system running day after day? The instinct for many businesses is to build an internal...
Hazardous Material & Multi-UOM Management ERP for Chemical Manufacturers
 Two Kinds of Complexity, One Inventory Record Chemical and life sciences manufacturers manage a form of inventory complexity that few other industries face in combination. Raw materials and...
3 Questions Fluid Power Distributors Should Ask Before Switching ERPs
If you're a fluid power distributor dealing with hydraulics, pneumatics, pumps, AKA the whole supply chain that keeps industrial equipment moving, you know your operation doesn't run like a generic...
Multi-UOM Bulk-to-Retail Conversion ERP for Spice Manufacturers
 Why Bulk-to-Retail Conversion Is Harder Than It Looks Spice and seasoning manufacturers live in two units of measure at once. Raw material arrives and is processed in bulk - kilograms, pounds, or...
You Won the Job. Did You Make Money on It?
The machine shipped in June and is running at the customer's plant. It passed acceptance and the final invoice cleared. By every measure that shows up in a status meeting, it was a good job. Now to...
Why Retail Returns Are Draining Profitability – and How ERP-Driven Reverse Logistics Fixes It
 The Return You Don't See Coming Every retailer plans for sales. Far fewer plan, with the same rigor, for what happens after a customer decides to send something back. Returns have quietly become...
When the Recall Notice Arrives, How Long Does Your Trace Take?
The notice comes in at 3:40 on a Friday. A manufacturer is pulling a lot of sterile procedure trays with one lot code, a date range, and a request. The request is that you identify and quarantine...
Multi-Temperature Warehouse ERP for Frozen Food Manufacturers
 One Warehouse, Three Temperature Worlds Most frozen food manufacturers assume their biggest operational challenge is the freezer. In practice, the freezer is only one-third of the problem. Raw...
The Hidden Cost of Manual Compliance Tracking in Medical Device Manufacturing
It's Thursday afternoon and a customer is waiting on a lot release. Your quality engineer is standing at a filing cabinet with a half-signed device history record, trying to establish whether the...
Choosing the Right ERP for Construction: Project-Based vs. Service-Based Work
Many construction firms no longer fit neatly into a single operating model. A general contractor running large capital projects may also maintain a growing service division handling warranty...
Replacing an End-of-Life ERP in Machinery Manufacturing: What to Require From the Next System
You already know the symptoms. The ERP running your plant hasn't had a meaningful update in years. The person who built your customizations retired, and nobody left on staff can safely touch them....
Formula & Recipe Management for Beverage Manufacturers: Spreadsheets vs. ERP-Native
Most beverage manufacturers didn't set out to run formula and recipe management on spreadsheets forever. It started as a stopgap - a quick way to document a juice blend ratio, a carbonation level,...
Why Are Industrial Distributors Competing With Amazon Business? What the Right ERP Has to Do With It
Somewhere in your customer list, a purchasing manager placed an order late last night. The open question is whether or not they placed it with you. If your branch was closed, your webstore couldn't...
Equipment & Asset Management in Acumatica for Construction Companies
Heavy equipment is often the second-largest cost on a construction project after labor - and one of the least understood. An excavator sits idle on one site while a project manager across town...
Prophet 21 vs. the Field: What Actually Sets It Apart for HVAC Distributors
Prophet 21 is Epicor's ERP for wholesale distributors, built with over fifty years of distribution-specific expertise. HVAC is one of the distribution industries it is specifically designed to...
Acumatica ERP for Snacks & Packaged Foods: Managing Variable Packs, Co-Packing & Promotions
A bag of chips looks simple sitting on a retail shelf. Behind it is a web of operational complexity that most snack and packaged food manufacturers manage with a patchwork of spreadsheets and...
ERP vs. Standalone POS: Choosing the Right Foundation for Your Retail Business
Every retail business starts somewhere, and for many, that starting point is a point-of-sale system. POS software is fast to deploy, familiar to staff, and handles the core job of ringing up sales....
Connected Process Control, Part 4 : Torque Tool Integration – Precision, Control, and Documentation in One Step
This is Part 4 (final) of a 4-part series on Epicor Connected Process Control (CPC). Part 1 covered how CPC turns paper work instructions into guided, step-by-step assembly. Part 2 looked at...
Why Confectionery and Sweets Manufacturers Are Outgrowing Their Systems
Confectionery is one of the most deceptively complex categories in food manufacturing. A candy bar or a box of chocolates looks simple on a shelf, but getting it there involves precise temperature...
Connected Process Control, Part 3: Traceability and Reporting – Full Visibility From Order to Delivery
This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on Epicor Connected Process Control (CPC). Part 1 covered guided, step-by-step work instructions that help operators get complex assembly right the first time. Part...
Closing the Field-to-Office Data Gap: An ERP Feature Deep-Dive for Construction Firms
Ask any construction controller where their biggest source of cost overruns comes from, and a surprising number will point not to material prices or labor rates, but to the gap between what happens...
Connected Process Control, Part 2: Advanced Error-Proofing – Catching Mistakes Before They Become Defects
This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on Epicor Connected Process Control (CPC). Part 1 covered operator-guided assembly. Part 3 covers traceability and reporting to provide full visibility from order...
Formulation & Recipe Management: The ERP Feature Flavor and Ingredient Manufacturers Can’t Operate Without
Flavor and ingredient manufacturers occupy one of the most formulation-intensive corners of the food and beverage industry. A single flavor house might maintain thousands of active formulas, each...
Connected Process Control, Part 1: How Operator-Guided Assembly Cuts Errors on the Shop Floor
This is Part 1 of a 4-part series on Epicor Connected Process Control (CPC). Part 2 covers advanced error-proofing, Part 3 covers traceability and reporting, and Part 4 covers torque tool...
Equipment Cost Creep: Managing Fleet Tracking, Rental vs. Purchase, and Maintenance Bleed
The Silent Margin Killer: Uncontrolled Equipment Costs Equipment is one of the largest operating costs in construction. Yet many contractors have limited visibility into where equipment is, what it...