{"id":45411,"date":"2020-02-05T12:20:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T12:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=45411"},"modified":"2020-02-05T13:58:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T13:58:57","slug":"epicor-expert-on-the-latest-erp-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2020\/02\/05\/epicor-expert-on-the-latest-erp-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Epicor expert on the latest ERP developments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Terri Hiskey, Vice President of Product Marketing for Manufacturing at Epicor Software, tells Intelligent CIO about the latest developments in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software and reveals what questions companies seeking to deploy ERP solutions need to ask. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you tell us about the\nlatest developments in ERP solutions?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ERP solutions are starting to\nadopt and integrate various industry 4.0 technologies such as Artificial\nIntelligence (AI), Machine Learning, analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT)\nto gather data in order to make better, faster decisions and to even identify\npotential opportunities for growth and\/or improvement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delivering a better customer\nexperience is something that all industries are struggling with, and the\napplication of innovative new technologies can make a difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you cater for\ndifferent verticals?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Epicor ERP was built to\nsolve problems not just for manufacturers in general but has specific strengths\nand capabilities that better enable make-to-order (design-to-order,\nengineer-to-order, configure-to-order) manufacturers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most manufacturers today –\nprompted by customer behaviour and enabled by the latest technologies – have\nbeen slowly decreasing the amount of \u2018make-to-stock\u2019 items that they make, and\nare instead starting to manufacture smaller quantities of items that are customised for each customer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a consequence, we\nare starting to see the need for ERP software that can manage various modes of\nmanufacturing in sub-verticals that are more likely\nto produce make-to-order products like fabricated metals, industrial machinery\nand electronics. This is where Epicor stands apart in terms of features and\ncapabilities it offers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When an enterprise is\nlooking to deploy an ERP solution what are the factors they need to consider?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the biggest\nconsiderations to think of today is whether or not to deploy in the cloud. We\nare seeing more and more companies that, as they are looking to deploy an ERP\nsolution, are considering the value that a cloud implementation can bring –\nthere is no need to worry about hardware and maintenance as it is all included\nas part of the cloud value proposition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In looking at the cloud,\ncompanies also need to consider plans for scale – including where they plan to\nexpand in terms of global support – because it is essential to have a partner\nthat can support the growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are the main benefits\nan enterprise should profit from following an ERP implementation?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of our customers see\nalmost immediate productivity gains from users being able to find and produce\nrelevant information more quickly. There might also be improvements in the time\nit takes to process\/schedule orders as they come in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Better visibility can help with better\ndecision-making, so when it comes to\npricing, if users have a better idea of the cost of various parts, then\ncompanies can price end products with maximised margin. And finally, it\u2019s the\nuser experience – delivering a great experience to your employees that use our\nnew, modern Epicor ERP solution is important to retaining your workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What questions should an\nenterprise looking to deploy an ERP system ask of vendors that supply such\nsolutions?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022          Is your solution delivered in the cloud or on-premises or\nboth? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022          What is the difference in the on-premises version versus\nthe cloud solution? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022          How safe is my data in the cloud?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022          How can I get my workforce trained and excited to use this\nsolution?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022          Can your analytics provide our executives with dashboard\nviews into what is going on with the business?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022          Can you share with me some success stories of other\ncompanies who are similar to me that have achieved their goals using your\nsolution?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Terri Hiskey, Vice President of Product Marketing for Manufacturing at Epicor Software, tells Intelligent CIO about the latest developments in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software and reveals what questions companies seeking to deploy ERP solutions need to ask. Can you tell us about the latest developments in ERP solutions? ERP solutions are starting to adopt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":45412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[332,13],"tags":[3355,22,455,456,315,284,3430,5967],"class_list":["post-45411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","category-top-stories","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cloud","tag-epicor","tag-erp","tag-internet-of-things","tag-iot","tag-machine-learning","tag-terri-hiskey"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45411"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45417,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45411\/revisions\/45417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}