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Legacy ERP Solutions Frustrate, Throttle Innovation, and Create Increased Risk

Legacy ERP applications often pose significant challenges for businesses. These systems can be inflexible and difficult to integrate with modern technologies, leading to inefficiencies and increased operational costs. These can include:

  • Inflexibility: Difficult to integrate with modern technologies, leading to increased inefficiencies.
  • Security vulnerabilities: Older systems may not handle current cybersecurity threats well.
  • Lack of scalability: May not support growing businesses effectively.
  • Innovation hindrance: Limitations can prevent companies from innovating and staying competitive.
Legacy ERP Challenges We Help Solve
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Fabricated Metals

Price sensitivity, volatile raw material costs, shorter product lifecycles, and new competition are driving fabricated metals manufacturers to look for new ways to operate. With aging ERPs and manufacturing systems that weren’t designed to handle many orders from one piece of material, it can be hard to drive improvement across the business

Industrial Machinery

Industrial machinery manufacturers face daily challenges, including price reduction pressures, rising raw material costs, and labor shortages. To stay competitive, businesses are streamlining and adopting new technologies to automate processes, reduce waste, and achieve faster lead times.

Electronics and High-Tech

In the dynamic world of electronics and high-tech, speed and agility reign supreme. With products evolving and changing by the moment and global contenders at every corner, you need an edge. Navigate short product lifespans with extended after-sales and propel your enterprise to the front.

Rubber and Plastics

Although rubber and plastic production continues to increase, manufacturers face price-sensitive customers, more competition, and ever-shrinking timelines for new products. Manufacturers must build flexibility in their systems for innovation, while efficiency remains a top priority amid an uncertain landscape.

Furniture and Fixtures

Flexibility to keep ahead. Uncertain demand, volatile costs, and shifting tastes all put pressure on furniture and fixture manufacturers—with pandemic supply chain woes barely over. To stay ahead of the competition, manufacturers must constantly adjust their processes to correctly price new products and custom orders.

Medical Devices

Helping you scale to match the growth of your business requires operational controls that optimise productivity and efficiency, while maintaining high standards for traceability and compliance. Epicor Kinetic offers a complete solution designed to meet your needs.

Smarter Manufacturing Starts With a Modern ERP Solution

A Digital Foundation for Success - With Efficient IT

Epicor’s cloud ERP deepens your connections to customers, business partners, and equipment without building more tech debt for your IT team.

From mobile access on the shop floor to instant communication with key suppliers, you can do more with the same IT resources. And, moving your ERP to the cloud puts Epicor security experts on your team, 24x7x365.

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Drive Greater Business Efficiency with an Empowered Workforce

With greater personalisation, flexibility and insights, Kinetic helps your workforce work smarter, safer, and better.

• Aggregate, transform, and apply data for improved operational performance
• Drive adoption and new levels of innovation with easy-to-use systems and digitally connected teams
• Predict disruption and manage it with people-centric AI and cognitive ERP

Precision in Inventory Management

Epicor ERP solutions excel in enhancing inventory management for manufacturers, supporting precise control and efficiency in every step of the supply chain. Sophisticated supply chain control and collaboration capabilities help you:

  • Streamline procurement: Optimise purchasing processes with automated workflows, reducing lead times and costs.
  • Keep materials flowing: Dig into comprehensive insights into inventory levels, order statuses, and supplier performance.
  • Quickly respond to market changes: With a composable ERP design, Epicor makes it easier to implement process change whenever you need to.
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Improve Productivity at Reduced Cost With Smart Manufacturing

Listening to the signals of your plant floor with data collection and IoT-enabled MES provides needed oversight into equipment, efficiency, and quality metrics. Enable your production team with Kinetic to deliver results across your new product design and plant floor operations.


• Leverage sustainable engineering and PLM solutions to meet your needs for rapid innovation and prototyping
• Adapt with AI-infused insights and digital twin analysis that helps you grow, scale, and stay one step ahead
• Continuously improve operations with automation for greater business productivity.

Legacy ERP Challenges We Help Solve

Integration Challenges

Integrating new technologies with legacy ERP systems can be complex and costly. Custom development work is often required to ensure compatibility, leading to increased costs and extended project timelines. Additionally, legacy systems may lack the necessary APIs and integration capabilities to connect with modern applications and technologies.

System Downtime

Legacy ERP systems are more prone to performance issues and system crashes, leading to unplanned downtime. Downtime can disrupt business operations, resulting in lost productivity, delayed orders, and dissatisfied customers. The financial impact of downtime can be significant, especially for manufacturing companies that rely on continuous production processes.

Increased Manual Work

Legacy ERP systems often lack automation capabilities, resulting in increased manual work for employees. Tasks such as data entry, inventory tracking, and order processing may require significant manual intervention, leading to higher error rates and reduced productivity. This manual work can be time-consuming and prone to human errors, which can have costly repercussions.

Growth Limitations

Legacy ERP systems can hinder business growth. As companies expand, these systems may struggle to handle increased data volumes and user loads, leading to performance issues and system crashes. This can result in downtime, lost productivity, and frustrated employees.

Difficulty Attracting Talent

Modern job seekers, especially those in the technology and manufacturing sectors, expect to work with up-to-date and innovative tools. Companies relying on legacy ERP systems may struggle to attract top talent, as potential employees may be deterred by the prospect of working with outdated technology. This can impact the company's ability to build a skilled and highly motivated workforce.

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