Epicor Functionality in the Admin Console, Unwrapped
New User Access, New E10 Functionality Managing the Epicor functionality available to the user community is one key role of an Epicor Administrator. In this light, it’s not uncommon for customers using the Epicor application to continue to add new modules. An...
Working from Home: Advice from an ERP Consultant
Tips to Survive a Transition to Remote Work Several years ago, I made the switch from working each day in a manufacturing plant to working from home as a consultant. My home office was a dramatically different environment, and I wasn’t prepared. As a...
Epicor Optimization Success for Remote Teams
Rock the House by Refining Your Epicor Application After completing an implementation, you can continue fine-tuning your processes to gain maximum return on investment through Epicor optimization. If your team is working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic,...
COVID-19 Remote Consulting Strategies in Epicor ERP
Why Remote ERP Implementation is Essential Remote ERP consulting in Epicor has become a necessary service for manufacturing and distribution industries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Coronavirus quarantines and stay-at-home decrees have disbanded ERP project...
Latest Version Epicor Multi Warehouse Tips And Tricks
Epicor E10 Multi-Warehouse Inventory Management Epicor E10 adds optimal supply chain functionality to your manufacturing business by providing comprehensive inventory management strategies, all within a single management system. For example, the new ability to...
COVID-19 Remote Work Support: Message from CEO Bruce Grant
COVID-19 Remote Work Support: Message From EstesGroup Dear Clients, Partners & Friends-- I wanted to share an update on what EstesGroup is doing today to keep our community safe and our delivery services moving forward, as well as specific steps we are taking to...
Prophet 21 Rebate Management is Right On the Money
Right on the Money: Epicor Prophet 21 for Rebate Management Achieving profitability through distribution management software has never been easier. With the technology available in Epicor’s Prophet 21, automation can quickly optimize workflow across the...
What Are My ERP Private Cloud Options
Not All Clouds are Created Equal: Reviewing Your ERP Private Cloud Options It’s no secret that cloud computing has been increasingly finding its way into businesses by providing reliable solutions to increasingly challenging problems. But for ERP customers...
Epicor MRP Keeps You On-Time and Customers Happy
ERP! ERP! How do I love thee? Let me Count the Ways: A Robust Materials Resource Planning ( MRP ) Engine One of my favorite movies growing up was The Wizard of Oz. One of my favorite scenes was when the “Wizard” was exposed as the “man behind the...
Manufacturers are in Love with Epicor ERP
ERP! ERP! How do I love thee? Let me count the ways! I’ve often remarked that the best way to get a company to fall in love with their legacy ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system is to implement a new one. When I was a customer, we moved from one of...
Epicor ERP Multi-Level Pegging & Supply Chain Management
Blessings and Curses of Supply Chain Inventory Inventory. That word can hold a lot of different meanings for manufacturing companies. Production Personnel see it as the ingredients for making their products. Supply Chain Professionals base much of their career...
In-House Hosting vs. Cloud Based Hosting
If you've recently decided to implement an ERP system like Epicor ERP at your company, you have a couple of options for where to deploy the system. You can either have it hosted on your in-house server or it can be hosted on a cloud server. Here is a look at each of...
5 Ways EstesGroup Helps with Your CMMC Compliance
You might be reading this post if you are researching Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), your company needs to become compliant, or your company is already compliant with CMMC but you have need of more IT services. In 2019 the Department of Defense...
What is CMMC: Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification?
CMMC: The Looming Cyber-Security Certification that Affects 60,000+ Companies. In 2019, the U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced a new security protocol program for contractors, called Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). CMMC is a DoD...
Configuring Epicor 10 ERP to Launch a Form’s Custom Version
Making a form custom version in Epicor ERP gives businesses the information and flexibility they need to succeed. While administering our ECHO Epicor Hosting platform, we’ve had customers frequently ask us to help them configure the system to utilize a...
12 Days of ECHO, Twelfth Day: My Admin Gave to Me, Ransomware 2020 the Good, Bad, and Ugly
Ransomware the hits keep coming going into 2020 By now, we’ve all heard about someone affected by ransomware. If it wasn’t a friend’s business, or a company you do business with, or the town you live in, or the hospital you visit - all you have to do is look at...
12 Days of ECHO, Eleventh Day: My Admin Gave to Me, notes on Online Transaction Processing vs. Decision Support!
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): Online Transaction Processing vs. Decision Support So, you’ve got your ERP system up and running, and before long, the management team wants reports, dashboards and executive data out of the system. That makes perfect...
12 Days of ECHO, Tenth Day: My Admin Gave to Me, Epicor Performance and Diagnostic Tool Checks!
SQL and the Reporting Engine Epicor ERP 10 provides the Performance and Diagnostics Tool as part of your Epicor Administration Console. While the tool is often installed when setting up an E10 solution, it’s often forgotten about afterwards. The full tool has...
12 Days of ECHO, Ninth Day: My Admin Gave to Me, Fixes so SSRS Won’t Hog Epicor CPU!
SQL and the Reporting Engine Epicor ERP 10 requires two primary SQL functions, the SQL Engine and the Reporting Engine, also known as SSRS – SQL Server Reporting Services. Each require a SQL licensed, but if you run both on the SAME operating system instance,...
12 Days of ECHO, Eighth Day: My Admin Gave to Me, Tips on Epicor SQL Transaction Log Maintenance!
Epicor and Microsoft SQL Transaction Log Maintenance - Performance Tips and Tricks Many Epicor 10 ERP installations suffer from a “lack of DBA”. It’s not for lack of desire, but keeping a full-time DBA (Database Administrator) on staff can be expensive. ...
12 Days of ECHO, Seventh Day: My Admin Gave to Me, Tips on Epicor ERP 10 Server Disk Space!
Epicor ERP 10 Server Disk Space – Where'd It Go? Do you ever wonder where your server’s disk space goes? Many times, you might not even notice until a server crashes with an ‘out of disk’ error message, or some application stops working. Only then might you start...
12 Days of ECHO, Sixth Day: My Admin Gave to Me a Fix for Microsoft IIS Log Sprawl!
On the Sixth Day of ECHO, my admin gave to me, some tips about Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and log files! Every Epicor E10 and Prophet 21 Middleware server uses Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) to get their job done. And by...
Overcoming Industry Challenges with Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing ERP
The A&D industry is facing growth and dynamic change. In striving for quality and status, it is facing challenges in maintaining both. From the procurement of raw materials to the introduction of new technologies that will impact production (and everything in...
12 Days of ECHO, Fifth Day: My Admin Gave to Me Too Much RAM for My Epicor VM!
Too Much CPU & RAM for Epicor Application Server Sometimes, more memory is not better. Often, server admins will throw more resources (CPU and RAM) at a server to make it go faster. Check our tidbit on SQL Licensing to see what that might hurt your licensing...
12 Days of ECHO, Fourth Day: My Admin Gave to Me Tips on SQL 64k Clusters!
Tips on SQL 64K Clusters and Epicor SQL Services Database Bytes Microsoft SQL likes to do all it’s input/output in 64k chunks, but Windows likes to format hard drives in 4K chunks called "clusters". Studies have shown that formatting the volumes that store SQL...
12 Days of ECHO, Third Day: Some Notes on Epicor ERP Auto-Login and SysConfig!
On the Third Day of ECHO, my sys admin gave to me, swift yet safe: Auto-Login in Epicor 10.1 and beyond. Interacting with technology can become a perpetual struggle between ease-of-use and security-of-use. The two seem at odds, such that increases in security...
12 Days of ECHO, Second Day: SQL Licensing
On the First Day of ECHO, my System Admin gave to me, SQL Licensing! You probably already know that Microsoft SQL Server is required for Epicor 10 and Prophet 21, but do you know if you are in Microsoft compliance? SQL licensing can be confusing, but in most...
12 Days of ECHO, First Day: Relating Epicor Extended Tables via SysRowID
On the first day of ECHO, my admin gave to me, some notes about my SysRowID! Relating Epicor Extended Tables via SysRowID As part of an ERP implementation, it’s not uncommon for companies to find the need to store information that does not easily fit into...
12 Days of ECHO: EstesGroup ERP Admin Tips and Tricks
This Holiday Season, EstesGroup would like to give you "12 Days of ECHO" tips and tricks for those ERP System Admins out there. We understand this time of year there is a lot going on for companies, such as: year end preparations, budgeting for the next year,...
Understanding Epicor ERP’s “Default Revenue Recognition Method” Error is Part of Company Configuration
Revenue Recognition is Everything When I was still part of the user community, I was involved in a planned implementation of Epicor at one my company’s divisions. The division was in the construction industry, and the ERP systems of the time...