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

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Structural Metals

Epicor delivers dimensional inventory capabilities to help meet your need for quoting, fabricating, and selling.

Hardware and Tooling

Manufacture efficiently with processes to support high run and to order in the same solution. Keep costs low and productivity up.

Containers

From shipping containers to computer cases, Epicor provides the capabilities needed to make, move, and sell profitably.

Added Value Processing

Epicor solutions support processes for plating, heat treating, engraving, grinding, and more – so you can manage costs.

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
Digitise 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 optimise material utilisation and reduce scrap
Epicor Advanced MES provides automatic production monitoring
Machine-related data helps you pinpoint issues

Challenges We Help Solve

Implement Lean Manufacturing and Demand Pull Systems

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

Maximise Equipment Effectiveness

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.

Reduce Waste in the Supply Chain

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

Maintain Traceability Throughout the Manufacturing Process

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.

Grow Your Business Globally

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

Manage Dimensional Attributes Within Your Inventory

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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