| COGITA EPICOR ERP MANUFACTURING SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
Job Shops, Industrial Machinery, Electronics and Electrical Equipment, Furniture and Fixtures, Rubber and Plastics, Medical Devices, Fabricated Metals, Automotive, Aerospace and Defence and more.
Manufacturers face constant pressure to produce and deliver top quality product -- on time, profitably, every time. Economic fluctuations and the market place add to the complexities manufacturers face every day. Striving to reduce costs and increase profitability while remaining competitive is no easy task.
What Results you can expect out of implementing Epicor ERP manufacturing software?
Here’s a sample of what results our clients have experienced using Epicor ERP:
- Turnover has trebled – Camm4/Shears & Mac4
- Visibility has given cash in hand – Entech Group
- Triple output with the same staff – Southern Spars
- Manufacturing variances reduced from 30% to 10% - Marque Magnetics
- Savings of more than $100,000 a year! – Trimax Mowers
- Month end takes half the time – Supreme Steel
Epicor ERP manufacturing software is fully integrated, providing the basis for companies to economically manufacture and distribute products. Planning the resources of your business in an integrated manner is the key to successful fulfilment. Whether you make ‘one off items’, produce ‘standard items’ to order (maybe configure to order) or have a ‘mixed mode’ operation, Epicor ERP provides the platform for your success.
Epicor ERP is an integrated software solution that enables you to quote, plan, schedule, execute and monitor the entire manufacturing and distribution business. From raw materials to final product, Epicor ERP provides the greatest level of flexibility and agility possible. This means that manufacturers are able to make informed decisions at critical points in the process, to maximise profitability and customer service. It is designed to support various manufacturing processes including discrete, make-to-order (MTO), engineer-to-order (ETO), configure-to-order (CTO), mixed-mode and make-to-stock environments. Epicor ERP also extends to look after warranties and after-market service commitments.
Epicor ERP combined with COGITA’s expertise of more than 25 years implementing in manufacturing and distribution companies delivers extensive benefits to its customers. COGITA’s expertise and resulted in receiving Epicor’s Partner of the Year Award two years in a row. (in consecutive years)
Typical benefits that COGITA’s Epicor ERP clients receive:
- Partnering up with a manufacturing software solutions company that has been around for 25 plus years has the advantage of getting sound expert advice.
- Conduct business from anywhere at anytime easily and cost effectively – all integrated in one complete package
- Find more prospects and quickly convert them to satisfied customers, ultimately increasing your bottom line with a smart easy to use CRM system that instantly spills down through to manufacturing.
- Give accurate revenue forecasts to management and automate many administrative tasks saving you money.
- Remove processes that do not add value to meeting your customer demands for lower cost and faster delivery.
- Improve your Management capability with intelligent integrated financial management.
Uniquely positioned to manage the requirements of multiple industries, Epicor ERP has vertical specialisation for industries such as: Industrial Machinery, Automotive, Aerospace and Defence, Medical Devices, Electronics and Electrical Equipment, Fabricated Metals, Furniture and Fixtures, Rubber and Plastics, Job Shops, and more. COGITA has delivered successful, highly beneficial implementations of Epicor ERP right through this mix of industries. Epicor ERP has been developed to fit the unique requirements of these industries with robust next-generation software functionality.
COGITA implemented systems include:
- Centralised customer relationship management (CRM)
- Efficient sales and service management
- Rules-based product configuration
- Real-time production management
- Quality and compliance management
- Extensive product data management including product lifecycle management (PLM)
- Embedded planning and scheduling
- Extensive materials management including cradle-to-grave serial and lot control
- Support for lean initiatives
- Comprehensive supply chain management
- Improved financial transparency and accountability
- Portals, for managed connectivity from external sources
- Dashboards, business process management for improved management control
- Enterprise search to support business performance management initiatives
- Global deployment, some in countries from Europe and Africa to the USA
Embracing the latest in technology and built on a single unified data model, Epicor ERP software provides a real-time, accurate view of your manufacturing process, so you can easily manage your operations with confidence. Embedded business process management provides the flexibility you need to do business the way you want to do it.
Lean Initiatives
With increased global competition and customer influence for product flexibility and more frequent orders, businesses are widening the scope and focus of lean principles to focus not only on manufacturing processes, but to encompass all processes that contribute to the bottom line.
Epicor is uniquely positioned with fully integrated modules and features such as customer relationship management, supplier relationship management, work orderless “Kanban” control on the shop floor.
Epicor has adopted the Microsoft Service Oriented Architecture (Epicor True SOA™) which allows faster deployment of new functions and more simple user customisation, making. This makes the entire system more simple to use.
You can take an indepth look at Epicor’s ERP core modules here.
Industry-Specific Epicor ERP Manufacturing Software Solutions
Industrial Machinery & Capital Equipment
- CAD integration to produce quotations and or jobs cuts out errors made in transition from one system to another
- Reduce labour and material costs through implementation of lean strategies and efficient production management via workbenches
- Increase profits and maximise sales opportunities with customer relationship management capabilities
- Ensure high quality products are delivered to customers with robust quality assurance
- Support production of complex products with product configurator and project management capabilities
- Improve visibility with a comprehensive end-to-end solution containing built-in dashboards
- Increase throughput and profitability.
- Reduce labour and material costs with lean manufacturing and product configuration.
- Eliminate bottlenecks before they get to the shop floor.
- Have more accurate and up to date view of products.
- Abolish dual entry of data and speed shop floor processes.
- Increase profits and maximise sales opportunities through powerful CRM and Supplier Relationship Management.
- Deliver higher quality products to your custome4rs with Quality Assurance and Product Configuration.
- Get the right information at the right time to the right person, giving you the power to make cost-effective decisions.
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Electronics and Electrical Equipment 
- Streamline your quoting capabilities and comparisons with actual costs
- Optimise your planning, production, purchasing and sales to become leaner and more agile against your competition.
- Drive your production efficiency upwards, improving your bottom line with integrated planning and forecasting.
- Have higher asset uptime and lower unplanned order ratios.
- Less downtime with strong preventative maintenance tools.
- Produce a quality product at the best price, putting more money in your bank.
- Manage your business proactively with easy to use Business Intelligence tools.
- Be your customer’s preferred supplier and partner.
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Furniture and Fixtures
- Whether quoting for a single job or a project worth $millions, Epicor can provide a basis for management that will increase the bottom line and reduce effort ingetting there
- Use Epicor's Material Requirements Planning (MRP) system to accurately manage the ever-increasing array of materials you consume. Forecast end-product requirements, adjust production as forecasts change, and generate suggested purchase orders to fill anticipated gaps in your raw material inventory.
- Closely manage costing of production, including product-based and production set-based reporting.
- Embedded Scheduling and Advanced Planning and Scheduling functionality help reduce your lead times.
- Epicor’s comprehensive Quality Suite automates the regulatory compliance process, helping you meet ISO requirements.
- Embedded Customer Relationship Management (CRM) functionality enables you to turn leads into firm orders and manage customer demand.
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Rubber and Plastics
- Closely manage the costing of each production run, including part-based and run-based reporting.
- Embedded Scheduling and Advanced Planning and Scheduling functionality designed to help you meet your customers’ demands.
- Epicor’s robust infrastructure coupled with its Quality Suite offers a comprehensive approach to automating the compliance process, including meeting the requirements of ISO/AS/TS.
- Material requirements planning (MRP) tools help manage the ever-increasing array of plastics that you work on. Epicor's MRP tools can forecast parts requirements, adjust production as forecasts change, and generate suggested purchase orders to fill anticipated gaps in your raw material inventory.
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Medical Devices
- Trace a product’s life cycle—from design through manufacture to post-sale.
- Conform to strict FDA requirements with batch and serial number management
- Leverage a central knowledge repository for process and product history with our robust product lifecycle management (PLM) solution.
- Integrate with 2-D CAD, 3-D CAD and E-CAD solutions.
- Rely on a framework for compliance with regulatory and industry standards.
- Improve lead times and reduce waste through implementation of lean strategies.
- Strengthen inventory and warehouse management with use of barcode technology.
- Improve visibility with Epicor’s comprehensive end-to-end solution designed for companies like yours.
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Fabricated Metals 
- Quote faster and with more accuracy. Quickly modify and re-submit quotes. Automate RFQs and supplier pricing
- Add some fat to your bottom line with improved visibility and seamless collaboration with suppliers.
- Remove redundant processes and leverage Epicor’s support for Kanban — trimming your operational costs and improving operational efficiencies.
- Improve accuracy of information to provide better customers service.
- Reduce costs without compromising quality.
- Become more profitable by being able to respond quickly to customer needs.
- Cut down lead times and reduce waste with lean initiatives.
- Meet your customers’ changing demands and improve lead times.
- Maximise inter-plant, inter-company, enterprise-wide visibility.
- Respond to continual pressures for strict quality standards.
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Pharmaceutical, Chemical and Allied Industries
- Epicor ERP integrated solution includes a customer relationship management (CRM) solution that exposes the detail you need from the warehouse, manufacturing and quality control data, so that your sales staff can interact with customers, providing the most up-to-date and accurate information possible.
- FDA requirements are met and provide users of Epicor ERP to with confidence legal requirements match the ease of use provide throughout the ERP system
- Lean Business Practices across Your Entire Infrastructure — efficient best practice processes and simplified integration both internally and with your trading partners is the key. From marketing and sales, through production and planning, sourcing and procurement, quality and delivery efficiency.
- Regulatory Compliance — Epicor ERP offers a robust framework in support of certification and audit, including comprehensive change logs with time and date stamp, business process management that can deliver approval criteria for key processes, and requested password validation for system-wide electronic signature capabilities. Additional business benefit is delivered via Epicor Service Connect, an orchestration tool used to automate processes, reducing time to delivery by eliminating human intervention.
- Product Traceability and Quality Control — Epicor ERP includes integrated quality control options and lot tracking that is designed for collaboration. Quality can be defined according to your specific needs, along with details of how to measure and test quality, and the results of such tests. Traceability starts with the raw material and flows through manufacturing, warehouse movements, finished goods, and into the final disposition of the items. Designed for the business needs of the future and leading edge warehousing today, Epicor delivers full radio frequency (RF) capability on the plant floor to track products in process alongside inventory and finished goods, including product labelling, to assist in the battle with counterfeit products. Complete traceability throughout provides relief in the event of audit or recall.
- Meeting Strict Guidelines for Product Data Management —Epicor’s robust Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a complete end-to-end solution developed to manage all aspects of a product’s lifecycle, as well as enabling enterprises to control the enormous amount of electronic documentation that they produce.
- Supporting Extended and Global Operations — Epicor ERP offers comprehensive multi-site capabilities coupled with global presence to meet your company’s requirements for local support. Competing globally and domestically—bridging geographic and strategic diversity and eliminating supply chain inefficiencies—can be accomplished with technology, as it enables companies to streamline intra- and inter-company processes and communicate quickly and accurately. Synchronization of complex relationships which determine supply, demand, and fulfillment is the means to reaching new, industry-leading levels of business performance.
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Epicor ERP for Aerospace and Defence
- Increase bottom line revenues through greater visibility into office and shop floor operations.
- Improve delivery and quality and reduce waste with lean methodologies.
- Enhance profit margin with accurate estimating and quoting.
- Avoid delays by meeting strict guidelines for product data with product and lot traceability, serial tracking and revision change control.
- Control costs with unique analysis and reporting.
- Streamline business processes and increase customer satisfaction and overall business performance.
- Compete globally and domestically – eliminating supply chain inefficiencies by communicating quickly and accurately.
Get more information on Epicor ERP for Aerospace and Defence here.
Epicor ERP for Automotive 
- Communicate with your suppliers easily, leading to on-time delivery and happy customers.
- Strong product configuration allows customisation on-the-fly — saving costs.
- Synchronise your manufacturing operation globally across multiple company, servers, databases, countries and language.
- Reduce manual transactions with automated Currency Management.
- Substantially reduce expenditure when retrieving documents and specifications with Product Lifecyle Management.
- Reduce scrap, rework and warranty exposure and improve time to market with Epicor ERP Advanced Quality Management
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