{"id":46207,"date":"2020-03-12T11:28:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T11:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=46207"},"modified":"2020-03-18T09:37:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T09:37:09","slug":"epoch-cosmetics-toiletries-enhance-efficiency-with-epicor-erp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2020\/03\/12\/epoch-cosmetics-toiletries-enhance-efficiency-with-epicor-erp\/","title":{"rendered":"Epoch Cosmetics & Toiletries enhance efficiency with Epicor ERP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UAE-based manufacturer drawn to manufacturing-centric and multi-region capabilities of market-leading solution. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Epicor\nSoftware Corporation, a global provider of industry-specific enterprise\nsoftware to promote business growth, has announced that Epoch Cosmetics &\nToiletries LLC has selected Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, Epicor\nERP, to improve manufacturing and warehousing operations and streamline\ninformation flow across the company. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Epicor\npartner, Cork Information Technology, will work with Epoch Cosmetics &\nToiletries\u2019 stakeholders to bring the full power of the Epicor platform to the\ncompany and its employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dubai-based\nEpoch Cosmetics & Toiletries produces aerosols, deodorants, air fresheners\nand cosmetics for markets all around the world-including its native United Arab\nEmirates (UAE), the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, India, West Africa, Egypt, Oman,\nthe UK, France, and the US. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ncompany supplies major brands-such as Elegant, Inspire, Pleasure, Hot &\nCold, Mehas and The Scent-to distributors, and also offers contract\nmanufacturing to other brands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having\ngrown from a handful of employees to a monthly production capacity of more than\ntwo million products in just 10 years, Epoch Cosmetics & Toiletries\nrealised they would need to replace their existing ERP solution to continue to\nexpand and grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs\nwe grew, our legacy system was not catering to our needs, especially in manufacturing,\nwarehousing and sales,\u201d said Abbas Hamid, Director at Epoch Cosmetics &\nToiletries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ncompany\u2019s warehousing issues stemmed from a lack of real-time accuracy and\nvisibility for on-hand stock levels from the front-end system. The necessity to\nimplement manual workarounds was impacting productivity, and inaccuracies were\naffecting stock valuation. In addition, stock retrieval was employee-driven,\nrather than system-driven, leading to further inaccuracies if goods were not\ncorrectly stored. Other complications existed based on the absence of a\nstock-taking module in the legacy ERP, requiring warehouse employees to perform\nan entirely manual reconciliation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn\naddition, the manufacturing module within the legacy system only captured the\ncost of materials, so labour costs and direct costs were never captured. These\nhad to be generated through manual calculations and estimations, which affected\nour financials,\u201d said Hamid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reporting\nwas also cumbersome, with pending PO reports and shipment tracking requiring\nmanual preparation, and the system offered no capability for real-time\nreporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Epoch\nCosmetics & Toiletries decided it needed an ERP system that was tailored to\ntheir business operations, was easy to deploy and use, and would be flexible\nenough to allow the company to grow unimpeded. After considering four major ERP\nvendors, Hamid and his team selected Epicor ERP due to the\nmanufacturing-centric focus and native functionality of the solution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile\nwe obviously needed some level of customisation, we were very clear that we\nwanted to adapt to a system and be in line with best industry practices, rather\nthan the other way around-where the system has to adapt to us,\u201d said Hamid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Epoch\nCosmetics & Toiletries\u2019 stakeholders were particularly drawn to the\nreal-time reporting functionality of Epicor ERP, as well as its multi-region\ncapabilities, so that future expansion plans would not be hampered and that\nconsolidated reports could be easily compiled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Implementation\nis expected to be completed by May 2020, and the company\u2019s project team is\ncurrently working with regional Epicor partner, Cork Information Technology, to\ndeploy the new solution to more than 40 users in the UAE. Supply chain, sales,\nCRM, manufacturing, finance and asset management will all be key areas of\nfunctionality that are expected to help enhance Epoch Cosmetics &\nToiletries\u2019 operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Epoch\nCosmetics & Toiletries\u2019 management team is hopeful that, with Epicor ERP in\nplace, its operations will be streamlined, allowing it to expand as needed and\nimplement international best standards in manufacturing. Also, given the\nability for Epicor ERP to integrate with multiple third-party solutions, the\ncompany plans to work with Epicor to integrate modules for business analytics\nand intelligent manufacturing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll\nacross the Middle East and North Africa region, manufacturing companies are\ntrying to digitally transform, so that operations are optimised continually,\u201d\nsaid Amel Gardner, Regional Director, Middle East, Africa and India (MEAI),\nEpicor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cProcesses\nthat are overly manual impede growth, so digitisation is the key to agility.\nEpoch Cosmetics & Toiletries realised its legacy architecture was holding\nback the fulfilment of its regional ambitions. When you have the vision to\nshake off the old and embrace the new, extraordinary things can happen. We are\nconfident that with Epicor ERP in place, the company will march quickly towards\na new horizon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UAE-based manufacturer drawn to manufacturing-centric and multi-region capabilities of market-leading solution. Epicor Software Corporation, a global provider of industry-specific enterprise software to promote business growth, has announced that Epoch Cosmetics & Toiletries LLC has selected Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, Epicor ERP, to improve manufacturing and warehousing operations and streamline information flow across the company. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":46208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3624,36,1173,3629,332,13,185,79],"tags":[11472,11473,420,427,455,11471,581,431,277,8299,184,10101],"class_list":["post-46207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies","category-case-study-newsletter","category-intelligent-technology","category-manufacturing","category-newsletter","category-software","category-top-stories","category-uae","category-used","tag-abbas-hamid","tag-cork-information-technology","tag-dubai","tag-egypt","tag-epicor","tag-epoch-cosmetics-toiletries","tag-manufacturing","tag-oman","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-software","tag-uae","tag-warehousing"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46207","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=46207"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46271,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46207\/revisions\/46271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}