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Epicor Software Corp.- ERP software Category Directory
www.epicor.com

 

Sales

$153 million

 

Business Description 
SEpicor Software Corporation (Epicor or the Company) designs, develops, markets and supports enterprise and e-business software solutions for use by mid-sized companies as well as divisions and subsidiaries of larger corporations worldwide. The Company’s business solutions are focused on the midmarket, which generally includes companies between $10 million and $500 million in annual revenues. Epicor’s solutions are designed to help companies focus on their customers, suppliers, partners, and employees, through enterprise-wide management of resources and information. This collaborative focus distinguishes the Company from conventional enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors, whose primary focus is improving internal business processes and efficiencies. By automating and integrating information and critical business processes across their entire value chain, midmarket companies can improve not just their bottom line, but also their top line, allowing them to compete more effectively in today’s increasingly global economy.

The Company’s products integrate back office applications for manufacturing, distribution and accounting with front office applications for sales, marketing and customer service and support. Epicor also provides integrated e-commerce capabilities that allow companies to leverage the power of the Internet to allow their organization to further extend beyond the traditional “four walls” of their enterprise, and further integrate their operations with their customers, suppliers and partners.

The Company offers solutions in the following areas:

• Manufacturing - Epicor’s manufacturing solutions provide integrated ERP and e-business solutions for make-to-order and mixed-mode manufacturers. The Company’s solutions are designed to meet the challenges of today’s manufacturing environment typified by short product lifecycles, constant process improvement and mass customization. The Company’s products have been designed for specific types of manufacturers – from a small job shop to a large manufacturer of complex make-to-order components. The key industries on which Epicor focuses its manufacturing solutions include metal fabrication, capital equipment, electronics, consumer goods and aerospace.

• Distribution - Epicor’s solution for distribution is a comprehensive suite that includes warehouse and inventory management, financials, CRM, e-commerce and business intelligence solutions. The distribution suite automates customer acquisition and order management through to warehouse fulfillment, accounting and customer service. The distribution suite is an end-to-end solution set tailored for wholesale distributors including third party logistics providers.

• Services - Epicor’s solutions for services companies are focused on delivering a complete, end-to-end enterprise and e-business solution. Epicor’s enterprise services automation (ESA) solution provides service organizations with the tools to improve staff utilization, optimize resources and increase cash flow. The services suite includes integrated front office, back office, business intelligence, and collaborative commerce solutions tailored for specific industries including financial services, professional services, not-for-profit, and software and computer services.

• Hospitality and Entertainment - Epicor provides a solution tailored for the hospitality and entertainment industries. The solutions are designed for food service, hotel, sports & recreation, and other entertainment companies. The hospitality and entertainment solutions manage and streamline virtually every aspect of a hospitality organization — from point-of-sale or property management system integration, to cash and sales management, food costing, core financials, business intelligence and beyond—all within a single solution.

• Supply Chain - Epicor’s supply chain management solutions enable midmarket companies to extend and optimize their enterprises and more effectively collaborate with their customers, suppliers and partners. From business-to-business e-commerce applications to advanced planning and scheduling to warehouse management, forecasting and fulfillment, Epicor offers solutions that improve operational performance, while strengthening relationships across the supply chain to increase customer value.



• Supplier Relationship Management - Epicor’s supplier Relationship Management solutions include applications for strategic sourcing and e-procurement. These solutions enable an organization to dramatically reduce costs by driving inefficiencies out of the procurement process. They provide a complete

Web-based, buy-side commerce solution that can be rapidly deployed standalone or as part of an integrated enterprise solution.

• Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - Epicor’s award-winning customer relationship management solution enables small and midsize enterprises to manage their entire customer lifecycle. Epicor’s CRM solution enables businesses to gather, organize, track and share prospect, customer, competitor and product information, to boost revenues and increase customer satisfaction.

The Company’s software products incorporate a significant number of features localized to address international market opportunities, including support for multiple languages, multiple currencies and accounting for value-added taxation (VAT) and goods and services taxation (GST).

The Company offers consulting, training and support services to supplement the use of its software products by its customers. Midmarket companies require cost effective systems that have broad functionality, yet are rapidly implemented, easily adapted and highly configurable to their unique business requirements.

 

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Products



The Company designs, develops, markets and supports enterprise and e-business software applications that provide midmarket organizations with highly functional, technically advanced business solutions. The Company’s products are aligned according to the markets that they serve – Customer Relationship Management (Clientele), Distribution and Services (e by Epicor) and Manufacturing and Supply Chain (Avanté, Vantage, Vista).



Customer Relationship Management – Clientele



Clientele is an integrated, Web-based customer relationship management solution designed to meet the needs of rapidly growing, small and mid-sized organizations. Clientele allows organizations to support and manage their most important asset – their customers. Clientele enables businesses to easily gather, track, organize and share customer information to boost revenues and increase customer service levels. Clientele combines employee applications such as opportunity management with customer applications, such as Web-based order entry/inquiry to give companies and customers a true, up-to-the-minute picture of their relationship. Clientele provides marketing, sales force automation, customer service, support, and internal help desk functionality.



Clientele Sales and Marketing provides contact, lead, opportunity and account management. Clientele Customer Support provides call management, product tracking, RMA tracking, call queuing/follow-up and problem resolution. Clientele HelpDesk provides detailed call tracking, asset/knowledge management, service requests, maintenance and user profile tracking and management.

The Clientele Self-Service Portal enables customers to submit support calls as well as check on the status of existing calls, view their detailed product information and returned merchandise authorizations, or drill down into the usage and adjustment details of their service agreements directly over the Web. The Clientele Self-Service Portal is a companion product for Clientele CRM.NET Suite.

The Company continued delivering releases of its Clientele CRM.NET suite developed on the Microsoft .NET platform. The Company released enhanced versions of Clientele Customer Support and Clientele Self-Service Portal which provide an integrated software development kit (SDK) and released Clientele eMarketing, an e-mail marketing campaign manager.

Distribution and Services - e by Epicor

e by Epicor (incorporates products formerly named Platinum ERA and Clientele), an integrated, customer-centric suite of client/server and Web-based ERP software applications, is designed to meet the unique business needs of mid-sized companies worldwide (including divisions and subsidiaries of larger corporations). e by Epicor includes the following components: eFrontOffice (Sales Force Automation. Marketing Automation, Customer Support), eBackOffice (Financials, Distribution, Payroll/Human Resources, Warehouse Management, Assembly), eCommerce Suite (Storefront, Sourcing, Procurement), ePortal, eIntelligence, and industry-specific solutions delivered as Epicor for Your Industry.

e by Epicor is typically targeted to either a distribution or service-based business with revenues between $25 million and $800 million. These organizations require the functional depth and sophistication of traditional high-end enterprise business applications, but desire a rapid and cost-effective product implementation. The product is optimized for use with the Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 operating system and the Microsoft SQL Server relational database. e by Epicor leverages XML Web services to enable more robust integration with other applications within and external to the enterprise. In addition to the availability of XML Web services, e by Epicor supports various industry standard technologies including, Microsoft Message Queue Services (MSMQ), Transaction Services and COM+ architecture, which along with XML documents, improve componentization and support reliable message-based integration between applications and distributed servers. Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is also included to enhance client customization and allow easy integration with third party applications. In addition, eBackOffice is a 32-bit client that has been optimized for the Microsoft SQL Server database in order to fully utilize the capabilities of the client/server model of computing. This implementation results in a substantial reduction in network traffic as compared to other client/server approaches and provides scaleable high performance.

eFrontOffice provides integrated customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities that are tightly integrated with the eBackOffice applications. This integrated approach to CRM enables companies to have a 360-degree view of their customer relationships. eFrontOffice Sales and Marketing empowers organizations to focus on the right opportunities while providing access to timely information. eFrontOffice Sales and Marketing provides contact, lead, opportunity and account management in one package. eFrontOffice Support manages the support requirements of an organization’s external customers and provides call management, product tracking, RMA tracking, call queuing/follow-up and problem resolution. eFrontOffice IS HelpDesk provides detailed call tracking, asset/knowledge management, service requests, maintenance and user profile tracking and management. eFrontOffice is the integrated version of the Company’s Clientele product suite.

eBackOffice includes financials, distribution, warehouse management, and human resources suites of applications. eBackOffice Financials is an integrated accounting solution that enables a company to automate the financial aspects of their business. eBackOffice Distribution is a comprehensive solution designed to improve the efficiency and responsiveness of a company’s operations. It enables companies to effectively manage their distribution operations, including purchasing, quality control, inventory and order entry. The customer-centric focus of eBackOffice enables companies to respond quickly to customer demands and improve customer service. The integration of eBackOffice Financials and Distribution with the rest of the e by Epicor suite ensures that a company’s entire enterprise is synchronized — from the customer to the warehouse to the supplier. Presently the following back office financial and distribution applications are generally available in version 7.3: System Manager, General Ledger with FRx, Average Daily Balances, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Cash Management, Multi-Currency Manager, Asset Management, Import Manager, Credit and Collections, LockBox, Advanced Allocations, Sales Order Processing, Purchasing, Distribution, Assembly, Promotions and Rebates, Royalties and Customization Workbench.

eBackOffice Warehouse Management (eWarehouse) extends the distribution functionality for the eBackOffice product. It includes two applications: Data Collection Suite and the Management and Fulfillment Suite. These applications are tightly integrated with the Epicor eBackOffice Distribution suite so that information is available real-time. eWarehouse provides wireless shop floor data collection, the use of bar code technology to track inventory from the time it enters a facility until it is shipped to a customer, and additional warehouse management capabilities. With the eWarehouse solution in place, a company is able to streamline order fulfillment, closely track inventory, and prioritize resources on the shop floor.

eBackOffice Payroll/HRMS (offered via a reseller relationship with Ultimate Software) provides a complete workforce management solution. It consists of the following applications: HRMS/Payroll—Client and Server, Web—Manager and Employee Self Service, Business Intelligence. The Company’s Payroll/HRMS solution offers greater total business value by allowing a company to streamline human resource and payroll processes, easily report on and analyze key business metrics, and provide Web-based self-service to empower everyone in its organization. The solution delivers critical business value providing users the ability to increase efficiency and allowing the entire workforce to focus on key company objectives. The business intelligence tools enable strategic analysis of key business trends for better planning and informed decision-making. Ultimate Software’s UltiPro Workforce Management solution is available as a common component with the following Epicor product families: e by Epicor, Vantage, and Avanté. It is also available to companies looking for an HRMS/Payroll solution as the first step in building their enterprise solution.

eIntelligence is an integrated decision support suite offering a complete set of tools that allows a company to strategically analyze the data available throughout e by Epicor. eIntelligence comprises the following components: Decision Store (data warehousing), Analytics (OLAP visualization and packaged key performance indicators that drive strategic insights), Budgeting (active, continuous planning and forecasting, and enterprise performance management), Reporting, and Agents.

eCommerce Suite includes eCommerce Storefront, Sourcing, and eProcurement The eCommerce Suite enables companies to participate in a broad range of online activities, from posting product catalogs to selling products through an electronic storefront to linking with online marketplaces. Whether the focus is on consumers or businesses, the goal is more efficient transactions, lower costs of operation and more effective customer or supplier experiences. Electronically connecting customers with suppliers saves time and money, ultimately creating substantial business improvements and stronger trading relationships.

The eCommerce Storefront enables Epicor’s customers to sell products and services over the Web, providing consumers and trading partners a convenient, 24 x 7 order entry mechanism for making purchases. By supporting both B2B and B2C activity, the eCommerce Storefront is a versatile engine that can handle all of a company’s requirements. Through Storefront companies can rapidly and cost effectively introduce new products, enter new markets, or simply provide electronic access to a catalog of standard products, which can free up their salespeople to focus on closing more complex transactions. Most importantly, the business data entered over the Internet is captured and used by the other Epicor applications. In today’s market, an integrated product that supports all aspects of the customer experience is critical.

Sourcing provides a comprehensive solution to take strategic control of sourcing, purchasing and selling activities from complex auctioning and dynamic pricing to optimizing trading partners, terms, goods and services. Epicor Sourcing provides a highly configurable framework with the flexibility to rapidly deploy collaborative RFP/RFI/RFQ (RFx) and comprehensive forward and reverse auction capabilities. Sourcing streamlines manual process, to rapidly locate, source, and transact with qualified business partners and eliminate the inefficiencies in the procurement process for direct, indirect and spot purchasing.

eProcurement enables the streamlined integration of the entire procurement process. It provides employee-direct requisitioning and purchasing, catalog management, supplier management and policy enforcement. This integrated Web commerce application enables organizations to gain and improve control of operational resources by leveraging Web technology to connect large populations of frontline employees, management and suppliers. eProcurement provides a complete planning, execution and analysis system, designed to reduce costs, increase agility, and perform predictably. eProcurement facilitates a true trading network, allowing buyers and suppliers to maintain control over their trading relationships and provides a virtual and agile bridge between buyers and suppliers.

ePortal is a Web-based, self-service solution designed to help customers and suppliers access relevant information from both within the enterprise (such as account information, support activity) and from external sources (industry information, news feeds, weather, etc). ePortal consists of the ePortal Enterprise Information Server, which is then enriched by content specific information packs (Customer ePortal, Supplier ePortal, Employee ePortal). ePortal provides a compelling gateway to users to all of the information they require to carry out their jobs more effectively and assist them with decision support. ePortal makes use of a personalization paradigm to allow each user’s experience to be tailored to their specific role by filtering out “information overload.”

Epicor for Your Industry is a series of packaged solutions and application extensions that provide functionality and industry best practices for specific target industries. Historically, large enterprise application vendors have created vertical industry applications and practices designed for the Fortune 1000, in industries such as automotive, retail, government and healthcare. However, for the midmarket companies in these sectors, these vertical offerings are often too expensive and overly complex for their requirements. More importantly, many midmarket companies are not necessarily part of a traditional vertical market, but rather have unique processes, best practices and highly specialized functionality that are critical to their success. Through Epicor for Your Industry, Epicor provides focused solutions and services designed specifically for the unique requirements of target industries. Customers benefit through solutions that are easier to implement, easier to use and require less customization than a horizontal solution.

Since specific industries maintain common requirements, Epicor for Your Industry solutions enable customers to leverage not only a solution tailored to the unique needs of their market, but also focused industry expertise through the Company’s Professional Services organization. Epicor for Your Industry solutions are additionally complemented by strategic relationships with key partners to provide product extensions and domain expertise as part of an integrated, end-to-end solution. Today with the Epicor for Your Industry solutions, the Company is targeting industry sectors including: software and computer services, wholesale distribution, hospitality and entertainment, financial services, professional services, and non-profit organizations.

Epicor for Your Industry includes Epicor for Service Enterprises, the first Microsoft.NET Web services-based enterprise service automation (ESA) solution for the global midmarket. Epicor for Service Enterprises is designed expressly for midmarket service organizations to streamline business processes, empower them to expand their value chain, grow revenue and drive efficiency benefits straight to the bottom line. Whether it’s a professional services organization (PSO), embedded service organization (ESO), global development organization (R&D), or software and computer services business, Epicor for Service Enterprises provides a comprehensive ESA solution that offers strategic value with a quick return on investment.

Manufacturing and Supply Chain

The Company’s manufacturing applications include Avanté, MANAGE 2000, Vantage, and Vista. The Company also offers an advanced planning and scheduling application, eScheduling.

Avanté is a fully integrated ERP solution that provides both a complete front and back office business performance solution to tie together every aspect of a manufacturing operation, from customer relationship management to supply chain management. Avanté’s capabilities are geared toward high growth, midrange manufacturers of discrete, highly engineered products with complex manufacturing requirements in eight principal industries: industrial equipment, computer/office equipment, consumer electronics, instrumentation and controls, medical/dental products, transportation/aerospace products, capital equipment and contract manufacturers. Avanté combines ease-of-use with advanced functionality and technology to provide manufacturers of discrete, complex products with an affordable and comprehensive business performance solution. Avanté has the flexibility that discrete manufacturers in make-to-stock, mixed-mode, and lean environments require. Built on proven technologies, Avanté is a cost-effective and rapidly deployable solution that has the built-in flexibility midmarket manufacturers need to meet the challenges of constant production process improvements, global sourcing and mass customization.

Avanté is comprised of groups of modules that comprehensively support a manufacturing company’s business process. These modules provide and integrate feature-rich applications for front and back office, and are built upon a common set of design and development standards and tools, which share a common database architecture. The following applications are presently generally available in Avanté version 9.2: Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Inventory Management, Asset Management, Job Order Tracking, Barcode Document Manager, Master Production Scheduling, Bills of Material, Material Requirements Planning, Capacity Requirements Planning, Multi-Plant Planning, Cost Accounting, Product Costing, Cash Management, Purchasing, Distribution Requirements Planning, Quality Management, Equipment Maintenance & Repair, Return Material Tracking, Estimating & Quotations, Sales Order Processing, Executive Information System, Shop Floor Control, Focus Factory Management, Work Centers & Routings, Expert Product Configurator, Service Suite, Front Office, Decision Support, Material Real Time Tracking, Barcode Shipping, Shop Floor Control/Time & Attendance, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, Human Resources, Payroll, Sales Analysis DataMart, and Operational Data Store. Avanté is highly modular in nature and can be scaled from small to large configurations on a variety of platforms supporting the Microsoft NT and UNIX operating systems. This enterprise-wide system can be implemented in a variety of multi-currency, multi-company and multi-plant environments networked through client and host-based configurations. Avanté also includes front office applications through its integration with eFrontOffice.

MANAGE 2000 is an extended ERP solution designed for discrete manufacturers operating in a variety of manufacturing environments including make-to-stock, repetitive, configure-to-order, make-to-order and mixed-mode. MANAGE 2000 meets the requirements of manufacturers in a number of industries including consumer goods, industrial machines, electronics and fabricated metal products.

MANAGE 2000 is a comprehensive, end-to-end solution that includes sales order management, financials, eBusiness, product data management, planning & scheduling, production, supply chain management, customer relationship management and automated workflows. MANAGE 2000’s features were specifically designed to improve the agility of an organization and meet competitive pressures for increased collaboration and quick-response manufacturing.

Vantage is an integrated ERP solution that meets the dynamic requirements of discrete mixed-mode manufacturers who have a lean or ‘to-order’ manufacturing requirement. Vantage handles many manufacturing philosophies simultaneously including make-to-order (MTO), configure-to-order (CTO), engineer-to-order (ETO), make-to-stock (MTS) and flow manufacturing. Vantage is an easy-to-use, yet comprehensive solution that enables manufacturers to make the most of their expanding resources through its powerful tools for customer relationship management, estimating, visual scheduling, job tracking and costing, as well as shop floor data collection. Vantage can manage enterprises from a single site to multiple locations to large global multicompany enterprises whose systems span multiple servers and databases across different geographies and languages. Vantage is comprised of more than 25 fully integrated business modules and offers a complete solution, from front office functionality including sales force automation and customer support, advanced planning and scheduling, supplier relationship management, product lifecycle management and a complete e-business suite including customer, supplier and partner portals. Vantage provides strong scheduling and online information access capabilities. With its graphical scheduling tools and “what-if” simulation, Vantage enables users to create and execute realistic production schedules, based on the available resources, and react quickly and efficiently to schedule changes. Vantage is optimized for the rapid deployment, minimal support and price/performance requirements of midmarket manufacturers in the $10 to $500 million revenue range.

Vantage is comprised of groups of modules that can be differently configured to comprehensively support a customer’s business processes. The following applications are presently generally available in Vantage version 6.1: Customer Connect, Supplier Connect, Sales Connect, Mobile Connect, Marketing, Sales, Support, Quote Management, Order Management, EDI, Product Configuration, Material Requirements Planning, Scheduling, Advanced Planning & Scheduling, Multi-Site Management, Job Management, Advanced Bill of Materials, Product Lifecycle Management, Data Collection, Quality Assurance, Field Service, Document Management, Advanced Material Management, Inventory Management, Shipping/Receiving, Supplier Relationship Management, Purchase Management, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Currency Management, Payroll, Fixed


Asset Management, Multi-National Financials, Vantage Business Intelligence, FRx, Active Planner, and ShopVision.

Vista is an enterprise software solution specifically designed for needs of small job shops and the MTO departments of larger businesses that have less developed infrastructures, lower IT budgets, require a shorter deployment period and seek established, user-friendly products. Vista fully integrates over 20 business modules: Customer Connect, EDI, Contact Management, Quotes, Orders, Shipping/Receiving, Jobs, Scheduling, Data Collection, Quality Assurance, Advanced Bill of Materials, Document Management, Inventory, Purchasing, Advanced Inventory Management, Purchasing RFQ, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Payroll, Currency Management, and Vista DashboardTM

Epicor eScheduling (formerly Epicor APS and C-Way) is an advanced planning and scheduling solution designed to help manufacturers realize shorter lead times, accurate real-time order promising and smaller inventories. eScheduling allows a company to create and maintain schedules that coordinate all aspects of its manufacturing environment, based upon its unique business practices and customer needs. eScheduling is designed as a real-time system —there are no overnight batch processes to run— which removes delays between collecting and actually using information. This ensures that schedules include the most up-to-date information. eScheduling provides forward and backward scheduling capabilities, as well as minimum WIP, rule- and dynamic constraint-based scheduling and dispatching. eScheduling can be used as a standalone product, or as a powerful enhancement to the scheduling capabilities included in Epicor’s manufacturing solutions including Avanté and Vantage.

Other Products

The Company serves as an original equipment manufacturer vendor or reseller for certain third-party software applications and pays royalties to various organizations in connection with the distribution of third-party software and the sale of products that incorporate third-party technologies. In addition, in certain cases, as part of solutions requested by customers of Avanté, the Company resells third party computer hardware systems and related peripherals. The Company does not carry inventory of computer hardware.

Professional Services, Technical Support and Software Maintenance

The Company’s professional services organizations, including those within the product lines, provide consulting services to customers in the implementation and integration of the Company’s software products, as well as education, training and other consulting and programming services. These professional services are rendered in both domestic and international markets. Professional services are generally provided on a time and materials basis, although the Company does occasionally enter into fixed fee arrangements or arrangements in which customer payments are tied to achievement of specific milestones. The Company believes its professional services, in conjunction with its current and planned product offerings, facilitates the licensing of technology to customers, stimulates demand for the Company’s products and provides a key market differentiator over its competition.

The Company is committed to providing timely, high-quality technical support, which the Company believes is critical to maintaining customer satisfaction. The Company provides technical support by offering telephone support, e-mail support, facsimile support and communications through its Web site. Telephone support is available five days a week during normal business hours on a nearly worldwide basis, with extended hours and emergency support additionally available. The Company also believes customer satisfaction can be maintained by ensuring that its Value Added Resellers (VARs), distributors and Authorized Consultants are able to effectively provide front-line technical support and assistance to end users. The Company offers comprehensive training, telephone consultation and product support for its VARs, distributors and Authorized Consultants. Training courses are held regularly in major cities worldwide.

The Company’s software maintenance programs are the customer’s sole avenue for product updates and technical support. The annual maintenance fee is based on a percentage of the list price of the software purchased. Customers who subscribe for maintenance receive telephone and technical support, timely information on product enhancements and features and product updates and upgrades. Revenue from these software maintenance agreements is recognized ratably over the maintenance period. The Company provides a warranty for the media on which its products are licensed and also provides a performance warranty on certain products ranging from three months to one year.
 

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