
As an
Epicor 9 consulting and development company, we come across situations where customers are held back from implementing the best and most logical business process because their stock installation of Epicor doesn't have an ideal solution to fit the process. Almost every business has unique processes that make them competitive and its critical that they be able to customize Epicor 9 to make it fit those processes rather than simplify their process to fit the software.
Mobile is such a huge area of focus by ERP vendors today. And it should be. The ability to interact with an ERP right from the manufacturing floor or warehouse is critical to increasing the efficiency of these areas and ensuring that data is as close to real-time as possible. We are therefore pleased to present the release of a new extension for Epicor® 9, called Scan to Ship.

Since .NET evolves with each new release, we recently took a look at how data handling has changed in the later versions of .NET since we typically have been using direct SQL communications through the SQL client. Getting some familiarity now will be important since Epicor is utilizing a data model with linq for performing queries in the new E10.

A SaberLogic client asked us to write an integration module with SalesForce.com and their ERP platform, Epicor® Vantage 8.03. When sales orders were submitted on SalesForce.com, they were then pushed into Vantage. By automating the sales order entry process entirely, they lost the ability to easily print and sent out Sales Order Acknowledgements to their customers. They needed to be able to utilize their new sales order entry system, but still send out SOA’s for each order.
The solution here posed two problems. First, we needed to automate the sending of a sales order acknowledgments from a designated customer e-mail account. Secondly, we had to determine how to have this process happen automatically as all of the processing for sales order entry are now server side, with no client machines involved.

Every business is unique and yet ERP systems must be generic enough to work with many clients. That's why the ability to customize an ERP is so important. One of our clients was replacing a legacy quoting system with a new system inside of Epicor® Vantage 8. How do you convert requests for quotes into parts with fully configured methods of manufacturing? Learn what customizations we made to Epicor® Vantage!