Elastic Computing Revolutionizes Business Dynamics
Cloud Resources are Changing the Manufacturing and Distribution Industry Landscapes In the world of cloud options for businesses, elastic computing refers to the ability to dynamically scale computing resources up or down based on demand, without the need for...
SYSPRO UI & Layout Problem Solving
Troubleshooting user interfaces and personal layout issues in SYSPRO Throughout the various releases and versions of SYSPRO, user interfaces and layout issues are common. Despite several significant changes to the methods of how SYSPRO stores and saves user settings,...
SYSPRO Data Integrity: A Guide to Balance Functions
How to Ensure Data Integrity Within SYSPRO - Balance Functions Explained Ensuring data integrity is a top priority for any software product, especially for an ERP such as SYSPRO. As users go about performing their daily activities, various problems can arise, even...
How to Use SYSPRO Form Actions
SYSPRO Customization Station When it comes to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), SYSPRO is the ultimate software choice for manufacturing and distribution companies in search of flexibility and customization. EstesGroup has an expert understanding of the SYSPRO User...
EstesGroup Fall ’23 Prophet 21 Summit
Mastering Prophet 21 in 2023 This past February, EstesGroup's own Brent Merritt presented to the Carolinas' Prophet 21 World Wide User Group chapter on the subject of P21 architecture best practices. Then we went out to a very fine Cajun restaurant with a live band...
How to Optimize Prophet 21 Performance
Load Balancing the P21 Server Stack into an N-Tier Architecture Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system scalability is always a concern. Your user count grows. The database gets larger. The organization adds branches. As this all snowballs, several interconnected...
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:...
The Distributor’s Guide To Breaking Operational Silos
DCKAP WEBINAR: The Distributor’s Guide To Breaking Operational Silos WHEN: November 30th at 10AM to 11AM (Eastern) WHERE: @ ESTES INTEGRATE 2022 - an Epicor Prophet 21 community event WHY: The DCKAP Integrator is the ultimate solution for problems that result in...
ERP Integration Event: ESTES INTEGRATE 2022
Upward and Onward: ERP Integration Software Options Integrations are a key consideration in the management of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Epicor's Prophet 21® application has long-been an ERP platform conducive to third-party integrations, and the...
Data Center Strategy: How To Cloud Up For Uptime
A Cloud is a Data Center and a Data Center is a Cloud? Cloud applications ultimately sit upon the foundation of a server stack. You can view a cloud-based server as someone else’s computer, and picture these servers housed in a data center, which is their most likely...
Prophet 21 Middleware Server Going Up
Moving Your Distribution Operations to the Cloud? How to Understand Prophet 21 Client Deployments As we near the point to which Epicor will no longer support the legacy P21 desktop application, it feels like a good time to once again review the architectural changes...
Understanding Your ERP System & Your Users
I once had a mentor tell it to me straight: Those who learn earn. Not bad advice... Read on to learn more about how to apply this to your ERP system users. If you want to understand your application and your ERP system users, you had better be ready to learn. Why? ERP...
The Distribution Industry Heads to Texas
On August 29th, EstesGroup heads to Texas for one of the most important events in the distribution industry. Visit us in booths 6 and 7 at P21WWUG CONNECT 2022 in San Antonio August 29th - August 31st! We are proud to be the Platinum Sponsor for this year's show!What...
Common Epicor Project Terms You Should Know
It seems that every discipline has its share of jargon. You see it when accountants throw around terms like “EBITDA”, engineers speak of “TQM”, and I.T. staff reference “API” or “DMZ”.These are the words and phrases used by specialists as they discuss their work. The...
Walk for Charity at P21WWUG CONNECT in San Antonio
Technology is on the move. Chase it down at P21WWUG CONNECT in San Antonio this August. Cloud options, web client deployments, integrations, middleware installations: the road ahead is replete with opportunities and obstacles, with shortcuts and fast lanes — not to...
Low Code or No Code: Citizen Developers on the High Road
I’m a project manager. So I was looking at some Project Management information on the web. And something caught my attention. I noticed that there is a new certification for a “Citizen Developer”.Hmmm. What’s that about, I wondered. I found that this is a new persona...