Epicor 10.1 Key Features – Speculation

Originally published in 2015, this article explores the features introduced in Epicor® 10.1—a key milestone in ERP history. While many businesses have since moved to Epicor® Kinetic, understanding legacy functionality remains important for upgrade planning and system comparisons.

What Does the Epicor® 10.1 ERP Upgrade Mean for Your Company?

The release of Epicor® 10.1 represents a significant shift in quality control and stability. Epicor® has restructured their approach, implementing new leadership teams up to the executive level to address historical quality concerns with their releases. While Epicor® has consistently been recognized as an innovator in the ERP space, often being first-to-market with new features, this has sometimes come at the expense of stability and reliability.

At the Epicor® Users Conference (Insights) in spring 2015, version 10.1 was prominently featured, with multiple sessions dedicated to discussing these quality improvements. Many organizations have been waiting for this more stable release before upgrading their systems.

Key Features in Epicor® 10.1

• Planning Contracts
  • Enables planning for long lead-time items without requiring job release or sales order creation
  • Allows creation of planning contracts linked to projects
  • Supports purchasing demand against contracts with dedicated bin storage
• MRP by Part
  • Introduces ability to run Material Requirements Planning (MRP) for individual parts
  • Eliminates need to run full MRP for urgent single-item requirements
  • Particularly useful for testing and hot-item management
• Zero Quantity BOMs
  • Developed in response to EUG (Epicor® Users Group) request
  • Allows addition of zero-quantity items to Bills of Materials
  • Enables listing items without creating inventory or purchasing demand

Additional Notable Epicor® Features of 10.1

• Multi-Job Scheduling
• Packaging Control

This release aims to balance Epicor® ERP’s innovative approach with the stability and reliability that enterprise customers require.

From Epicor® 10.1 to Kinetic

While this look back at Epicor® 10.1 provides interesting historical context for Epicor’s development journey, the landscape has evolved significantly with the introduction of Epicor® Kinetic. Many of the foundational improvements introduced in 10.1 – from enhanced stability to user-requested features – laid the groundwork for Kinetic’s modern cloud-first platform. Today’s Kinetic environment offers these capabilities and much more, with improved user experience, cloud-native architecture, and advanced features like artificial intelligence and mobile-first design. Organizations still running older versions of Epicor® can appreciate how each release has built upon previous improvements, making today’s upgrade path to Kinetic a natural progression that delivers on the promises of both stability and innovation that began with releases like 10.1.

Still patching things together as you run on Epicor® 10.1? Wondering what Epicor® features mights be right for you in 2025 and beyond? Talk to our experts about what’s next—whether it’s a targeted upgrade, a Kinetic migration, or a hybrid cloud solution built for growth.