Sharpen Your Edge in the Global Market
Improve efficiency and differentiate your services with Epicor solutions designed for metals service centers.
The Right ERP Partner Helps You Stand Out From the Crowd
Volatile raw material costs, uncertain mill lead times, and changing customer forecasts all create a delicate balancing act for metal service centers. If your ERP doesn’t meet the requirements of your industry’s unique operations, you risk getting lost amid the competition. Epicor solutions can help make a difference to your bottom line and to your customers:
- Deliver competitive pricing with margin analysis available at the time of order
- Consistently manage your inventory across multiple locations
- Offer new value-added services to optimize margins and outperform customer expectations
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Value-Added Services
Use Epicor solutions to get support for additional services like engineering, manufacturing processes such as sizing, plating or grinding, and specialized delivery.
Offer Customers More Value with Data-Driven Operations
Connect Processes Across the Yard, the Warehouse, and the Sales Office
Integrated ERP technology allows your business to eliminate inefficient processes like re-keying information. You get more accurate, updated information about inventory and machine utilization, so you can make faster adjustments. Epicor Kinetic offers a single solution for marketing, sales, quoting, production and planning, sourcing, procurement, customer service, and finance—all built to handle the needs of metal service centers.
Deliver Solid Customer Service at Every Step
Your customers are counting on you to know their business inside and out. Luckily, we know yours. With Epicor, you have the tools you need to keep the right materials in stock, quickly deliver customer quotes, efficiently schedule orders, and maintain delivery performance.
Control the Levers of Profitability
Speed matters for purchasing and inventory management. A connected ERP system connects all the dots for you, so you can control costs and create more value for customers. 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 keep equipment running.
Challenges We Help Solve
Effectively Manage Inventory Across Locations
Epicor provides a comprehensive view of your inventory, so you can see at a glance what’s available for sale.
- Manage, track, plan, and sell inventory based on attribute sets, including heat certifications and test report information
- Transact and visualize your inventory in multiple units of measure
- Create new stock items as needed, including for offcuts that avoid waste
- Stay connected with wireless mobile capabilities for warehouse and yard workers
Deliver Rapid Estimates
Because Epicor brings all your information together, it enables you to produce accurate estimates quickly when new orders come in.
- Track expected cost and gross margins job by job
- Digitize each step of cost-based estimates with customer signoffs
- Link and share customer specifications for greater efficiency
Manage Just-in-Time Deliveries
Use Epicor to help ensure accurate delivery scheduling, while simplifying picking and shipping via mobile access in the yard. You’ll be able to reduce the risk (and associated costs) of incorrect deliveries and keep your customers happy.
- Advanced production scheduling improves lead times
- Embedded lean activity metrics and Kanban functionality enhance collaboration across the supply chain
- Automated fulfillment processing reduces the effort needed to send to picking.
Maximize Equipment Effectiveness
Reduce Waste in the Supply Chain
Kinetic promotes tighter collaboration with your business partners while analyzing the same metrics that you are measured on, such as supplier shipping performance or quality ratings.
- Automate processes for requesting RFQs and sending change orders to suppliers
- Build direct connections to customers via EDI for rapid response to shipping schedules
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