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...
Introducing Epicor Automation Studio
There’s always something new with Epicor Kinetic and P21. And here’s something new that is coming!At the annual Epicor Insights conference, in Nashville, there was an announcement about “Epicor Automation Studio”. The word “Automation” caught my attention because it...
Taming Your ERP System With Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud ERP: Confused as a mollusk and dumber than a brick wall? In discussing integrated application ecosystems, metaphors are often helpful in understanding the challenges associated with cloud migrations and the implications associated with the options selected when...
Out-of-the-Box vs. Best-in-Breed Credit Card Processing
The (ERP) Credits Are Rolling ERP was once a battle between “comprehensive” and “best-of-breed” solutions. While the “comprehensive” solution providers claimed to offer a one-stop-shop of business functionality, providers working under a “best-of-breed” model...
ERP Vendor Bender: How To Manage Vendor Relationships
Managing ERP Management from Selection to Upgrade Your business is not alone. Manufacturers and distributors operate in an interconnected web that is often as expansive and elusive as the internet, or even the galaxy. Add constant digital connectivity to this already...
Cybersecurity Insurance Policy Pleasantries
Do you feel like your business insurance policy will cover you in the event of a digital disaster? If you're online, you're at risk, and small and medium businesses that engage in e-commerce are especially vulnerable to threats. To prepare for zero-day cyber attacks...
How ERP Deployment is an Environmental Decision
Have you wondered if your business is making sustainable decisions when it comes to choosing and managing the hardware and software systems that maintain your enterprise? Let's look at enterprise resource planning (ERP) deployment options to see why hosting your...
Doctor Who Regeneration for Digital Transformation
Regeneration as a Metaphor for Digital Transformation As a Canadian living in the American diaspora, I’ve had fun, at times, playing with my adopted country’s misconceptions of my homeland. I once convinced a room full of Texans that I had a pet wolf back home, à la...
Go Hybrid Workforce, Go Hybrid Cloud
As part of a post-pandemic plan, businesses are solidifying and strengthening remote worker infrastructure and allowing employees to bounce between casual and corporate office settings. As a long-term commitment to flexible work environments and work-life balance,...
P21 Integrations: Best Practices & Lessons Learned
Epicor Prophet 21 System Software Integrations The most challenging part of a Prophet 21 migration are the P21 integrations. For many companies, third-party integrations are a necessary component of their P21 ecosystem. Compared to many ERP applications, Prophet 21...
Putting Your Software Testing Strategy to the Test
Testing is the process that should use the most time in any software implementation. Why test? You selected this software and, of course, it should process transactions, shouldn't it? Start testing, and some surprises will be exposed.Testing basics, testing methods To...
Staff Security Training Tips: What You Get Is What You Click
Security Training for Your Employees is Critical in Times of Pandemic and Political Unrest Do you have a “get this spam away from me” approach to digital communication management? It can be tempting to be strict, to set privacy and filtering settings at the max and...
Understanding the Value of a Project Manager
Project Management & the Future of Your Business In the next 5 years almost 88 million people around the world will be working in Project Management. More importantly, project-oriented activity will have reached $20 trillion in value. With this many projects and...
Cloud Migrations: “Lift & Shift” vs. “Build-from-Scratch”
EstesGroup is excited to announce that we are sponsoring Third Stage Consulting Group's Digital Stratosphere event on February 8th - February 10th, 2022. “Lift & Shift” vs. “Build-from-Scratch” Cloud Strategies Our keynote presentation at Digital Stratosphere 2022...
Who Knows What You’re Doing For Data Privacy Week?
The EstesGroup 2022 data privacy initiative focuses on educating businesses on best practices for collecting data and promoting transparency, respect, and security.Every second, EstesGroup cybersecurity experts work to protect the data of our customers, our employees,...
This Old IT: The Modify vs. Rebuild Software Quandary
When should you start from scratch? When I was about ten years old, my family lived in an old frame house. I have a lot of fond memories from our time there, but it had some quirks.Originally a two-bedroom house, a third bedroom had been added onto one side. Built in...