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Fabricated Metals
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Built for today’s operations and your vision for tomorrow
Price sensitivity, volatile raw material costs, shorter product lifecycles, and new competition are driving fabricated metals manufacturers to look for new ways to operate. With aging ERPs and manufacturing systems that weren’t designed to handle many orders from one piece of material, it can be hard to drive improvement across the business. Metal fabricators need to:
- Re-engineer business processes to support lean initiatives
- Invest in more automation
- Adopt new quality initiatives and offer value-added services
- Enter new markets around the globe
Epicor Kinetic ranked a top ERP solution for manufacturers by G2
$121B
Annual Revenue Managed Globally
33
Countries in Which Customers Do Business
>75,000
Users Around the Globe
Grow Revenue and Profitability with Data-Driven Planning and Production
Gain Visibility from the Shop Floor to the Top Floor
Through integrated ERP technology, your business removes redundant processes, improves information accuracy, and builds a foundation for new value-added services. Epicor Kinetic brings together everything from marketing and sales through production and planning, sourcing, procurement, customer service, and finance. Add in contextual business intelligence, and you have insights when and where you need them.
Keep Customers at the Center of Your Business
Long-term customers are your best customers. With Epicor, you have the insights you need to quickly deliver customer quotes, efficiently schedule orders, and maintain delivery performance so you stay a supplier of choice.
- Deliver accurate quotes with cost-based estimating
- Look beyond simple MRP rules to manage production with “what-if” scenarios, multi-resource constraints, and capability-based scheduling
- Digitize each step of cost-based estimates with customer signoffs
- Close the loop with customers on every inquiry
Improve on Cost and Quality
Whether it’s implementing lean techniques, improving buying processes with just-in-time procurement, tightening collaboration throughout your supply chain, or proactively reducing downtime in the plant, Epicor solutions have you covered.
- Kinetic provides inventory control alongside material requirements planning (MRP)
- Nesting software integrations help you optimize material utilization and reduce scrap
- Epicor Advanced MES provides automatic production monitoring
- Machine-related data helps you pinpoint issues
Challenges We Help Solve
Lean methodologies improve lead times, customer satisfaction, and business performance. Kinetic’s integrated capabilities streamline your business processes.
- Support for cell-based strategies improve lead times
- Demand pull systems improve material efficiencies and reduce inventory carrying costs
- Embedded lean activity metrics and Kanban functionality help you manage electronic signals for Kanban control
Equipment uptime and usage can make or break your gross margins. In addition to automatic production monitoring, Advanced MES supports digital and analog machine signals directly from sensors or PLCs, or via OPC-compliant PLCs so you can pinpoint issues, manage quality, and reduce waste.
Kinetic promotes tighter collaboration throughout the supply chain while analyzing the same metrics that you are measured on, such as supplier shipping performance or quality ratings.
- Track material sourcing and consumption to support sustainability goals
- Automate processes for requesting RFQs and sending change orders
- Utilize electronic queues on supplier portals or direction connections via EDI
Epicor offers a robust solution that tracks materials as well as finished and semifinished products. Epicor also provides compliance capabilities specifically designed for fabricated metals used in industries such as automotive, aerospace & defense, medical devices, and industrial machinery.
Kinetic’s multisite capabilities and global presence mean that you can expand to new markets, shift production, and react to customer needs – across the globe.
- Multisite, multi-currency, multi-language product capabilities and country-specific financial functionality
- Global data center footprint to support regional compliance requirement as well as government needs
- Global services and support in 18 languages
With Epicor Kinetic, manufacturers can accurately cost, forecast, and find inventory quickly and easily with a functionality called Advanced Unit of Measure (UOM). The solution delivers a simplified approach to managing dimensional inventory by segmenting inventory with attributes such as hardness, strength, elasticity, or density.
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Demo: Epicor Kinetic for Fabricated Metals Manufacturers
Watch this demo for an inside look at why Epicor Kinetic, our AI-powered cloud ERP, is tailored specifically to meet the modern challenges of fabricated metals manufacturers. Includes chapters on quote to sales order, dimensional inventory, inventory planning, wireless warehouse, material certifications, nesting, shipping, business intelligence with Grow and FP&A, Prism AI, and more.
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