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Articles To Improve Your Business Process And Move Forward.5 Reasons to Visit BOOTH 40 at CONNECT 2023
Do you have questions about your Epicor Prophet 21 ERP software performance or its underlying technology? Come see us in Booth 40 this August in Dallas at P21WWUG CONNECT 2023! EstesGroup is proud to be a GOLD SPONSOR for this year's event!EstesGroup’s mission as an...
RPA DNA – What is Robotic Process Automation?
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a new software technology that has the potential, in conjunction with AI technologies, to transform business processes, policies, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.RPA removes workers’ mundane, time-consuming tasks so...
ChatGPT Security? Tell Me About Your Motherboard
ChatGPT security concerns reveal that business owners are hesitant to let AI replace humans. In November 2022, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT, an artificially intelligent, natural language chatbot. ChatGPT interacts with its users in uncannily humanistic and intelligent...
P21 Public Web Client Access – Who’s Your Proxy?
ERP systems have traditionally had a functionality-accessibility problem: ERP systems were highly functional, but not especially accessible – they normally required desktop fat-client applications for access, and these were often hamstrung by local access...
Epicor Prophet 21 Performance – Real-World Issues
Recently, I met with an Epicor Prophet 21 customer on a discovery call to review the issues they were encountering in relation to some ongoing P21 web UI slowdowns. ERP system performance is a common challenge across the ERP community, and in the Prophet 21 community,...
5 Ways Cloud Deployment Changes SYSPRO ERP
SYSPRO ERP Cloud Deployment vs. On-Premise Infrastructure Top manufacturers and distributors are choosing private or hybrid cloud deployment for enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. This is especially true for cloud-ready ERP systems, like Epicor Prophet 21...
Going for the Gold at P21WWUG CONNECT 2023
EstesGroup is proud to be a gold sponsor for the P21WWUG CONNECT 2023 conference in Dallas, Texas. That’s metal! This year, Estes is going for the gold as Gold Sponsor of the ultimate educational and networking event for anyone in the distribution industry! Are you...
How to Respect Data Privacy in 2023
Data Privacy Week is an annual expanded effort from Data Privacy Day -- taking place from January 22 – 28, 2023. The goal of Data Privacy Week is to spread awareness about online privacy among individuals and organizations. The goal is twofold: to help citizens...
License to Go Live: Accessing Epicor License Info
Manufacturing a License to Be Different No two Epicor implementations are quite the same. One of the primary reasons for the differences between the configuration of two Epicor® Kinetic environments has to do with licensing. The Epicor® application has a broad suite...
How to Use Technology to Manage Freight Costs
Freight costs are more important than ever in our turbulent times. With ongoing inflation, and the possibility of a recession looming, runaway freight costs threaten to take distributors' profit margins for a ride.Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions often...
Boosting P21 Sales Through CRM
If you’re in the distribution industry and planning for 2023, you might be asking, “How do I land more accounts and close more deals?” Leveraging CRM as the customer-facing side of your ERP system can help answer these questions. But ERP systems routinely fall short...
How to Prepare Your Supply Chain for 2023
Over the last few years, I've seen companies perform every possible inventory management tactic to mitigate the supply chain challenges that afflicted the nation as a function of the pandemic. Some strategies proved to be detrimental, with manufacturing and...
Bringing A/R Innovation to Life in Prophet 21
Epicor Prophet 21 and automation go hand-in-hand: successfully integrating your P21 ERP system with a best-of-breed solution can help automate manual and paper-based processes that burden organizations.When it comes the challenge of automating your P21 Accounts...
Document Management in an ERP Implementation
Many manufacturers and distributors have some form of document management requirements, and yet if I were to ask my collective Epicor Prophet 21 customer base about their use of document management as part of their ERP system, most of them would likely tell me that...
Recurrency: Sales & Purchasing Automation in P21
WEBINAR: Sales and Purchasing Automation in P21 Recurrency is the leading sales and purchasing automation platform for Prophet 21. At ESTES INTEGRATE 2022, Sam Oshay, Recurrency Founder & CEO, will discuss how distributors can leverage ERP automation to:...