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...
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...
6 Tips to Save Time & Money When Customizing Your Epicor Application
Here at EstesGroup, we do a lot of customizations for Epicor ERP and P21 systems. These include adding new logic to processing, adding / changing reports, updating screens to add custom information and creating new dashboards to simplify business understanding. We...
Paying the Piper in Epicor E10, Kinetic & Prophet 21
Best Practices for Paying Supplier Invoices in Epicor ERP There are many challenges when it comes to paying supplier invoices in Epicor E10, Epicor Kinetic (E11), or in Epicor Prophet 21. In simple terms, a company purchases goods from a supplier according to...
Leveraging Union Queries in Epicor Kinetic BAQs
BAQs — Becoming One Data A fundamental value of your Epicor ERP system is the data that it holds — all that data sits there, nicely organized and begging for consumption. But good data needs to be converted into information to be of value. As such, getting good data...
3 Ways to Spring your Epicor Installation Ahead
Spring Cleaning & New Growth for Epicor ERP While individuals differ in their opinion of daylight savings time, the metaphor of “springing ahead” feels perfect for the enterprise resource planning (ERP) season. Spring is, after all, the time of growth and...
3 Things to Consider When Upgrading From Epicor 905 to E10
People, Infrastructure, and Scope in an Epicor 905 Migration A customer on the front end of an upgrade from Epicor 905 to E10 asked me for advice on ERP upgrade planning. I’ve long reflected on some of the keys to a successful Epicor 905 upgrade to E10—the lessons...
Epicor Part & MOM Settings: Learning By Example
Epicor Cover: Lessons From the Trenches Sometimes the best way to understand the inner workings of an ERP system is to review examples of its activities and to trace them back to the underlying setup that generated the activities themselves. In the Epicor ERP context,...
Epicor Process Set Maintenance: Bundle Up
Scheduling ERP Processes Batch processes have been with us since the inception of business computing. You can complete a batch of tasks as a single process for sake of efficiency. The benefits of such processes are clearly time-saving for an Epicor administrator....
Epicor Server File Download: Serving the Process Server
The Pandora's Box of ERP Epicor processes can be a Pandora’s box of complexity. Rumbling under the surface, these processes perform innumerable tasks that allow an ERP system to function effectively. But when these processes fail to deliver the expected functionality,...