Global manufacturers today face mounting pressure from supply chain disruptions, new regulations, and rising customer expectations. With the 2025.2 release of Kinetic, Epicor is delivering practical innovations that put customer challenges at the forefront.
This release brings:
- Smarter operations with Epicor Prism, our embedded AI copilot, helping teams streamline supplier communications, cut cycle times, and make faster, data-driven decisions.
- Sustainability infused into finance with carbon emissions tracking expanded into financial applications to align environmental and business performance.
- Faster, more intuitive experiences from reporting and logistics updates to usability enhancements inspired directly by customer feedback.
- Stronger integration across connected business applications, ensuring that data flows seamlessly across manufacturing, supply chain, and financial operations.
Kinetic 2025.2 is designed to equip manufacturers with industry-specific, intuitive capabilities, enabling greater productivity, compliance, and resilience in a fast-changing global environment.
AI That Works Where You Work
Artificial intelligence is no longer an experiment. It’s becoming an everyday advantage for manufacturers. By embedding AI directly into ERP workflows, Kinetic 2025.2 makes AI a practical assistant that helps teams move faster and make smarter decisions.
- Prism Business Communications automates supplier workflows, cuts RFQ cycle times, and introduces outcomes-based pricing, a first in ERP, so you only pay when RFQs convert to POs.
- Prism Integrations are extending into Quick Ship and ECM, helping logistics teams gain freight insights faster and automating content processes with less risk.
AI isn’t something you bolt on. It’s now woven into Kinetic, acting as a true assistant across procurement, logistics, and operations.
Sustainability and Compliance Built-In
Meeting new environmental and trade regulations is no longer optional. It’s a core part of doing business globally. The challenge is not just measuring them but embedding them into everyday operations. With Kinetic 2025.2, Epicor makes it easier to stay ahead.
- Carbon Cost Posting expands CO₂ tracking into financial applications, enabling manufacturers to track and report emissions in statistical accounts with the same rigor as financial data, aligning sustainability with cost centers and business performance.
- Epicor Financials introduces expanded Incoterms support, new e-invoicing formats, and country-specific tax enhancements that simplify global trade compliance.
- Epicor Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) adds BAQ mapping for more flexible, accurate reporting, making compliance part of the workflow, not an afterthought.
The impact is clear: fewer penalties, smoother audits, and a reputation as a manufacturer that takes responsibility seriously.
Resilient Operations, Less Manual Work
Efficiency isn’t just about automation; it’s about removing friction at every step. Kinetic 2025.2 brings updates that make operations more resilient while freeing teams from manual tasks that slow them down.
- Delivery Plans for Sales Orders auto-updates linked order lines when schedules change, eliminating rekeying, reducing errors, and saving hours of rework.
- Action Plans Workflows automate multi-step approvals across departments, cutting delays and bottlenecks.
- Connected Process Control (CPC) delivers multipiece processing and usability improvements that increase traceability and reduce factory floor errors.
- Grow BI Dashboards and a new IP&O Integration provide real-time MES and Commerce dashboards that give leaders instant visibility into production, downtime, and online sales activity, supporting quicker, data-backed decisions. The new IP&O integration to Grow Data Platform offers an easier way to import data fields to create custom user interfaces.
These aren’t just incremental features. Each of these enhancements targets everyday pain points, reducing errors, improving responsiveness, and building resilience into daily operations.
Cloud and Modernization on Your Terms
ERP modernization doesn’t happen overnight. It’s a journey that requires flexibility and control. Kinetic 2025.2 gives manufacturers more autonomy while helping them prepare for the future.
- The Epicor Cloud Management Portal brings more autonomy for cloud users with self-service tooling, including self-updates, database refreshes, and task agent management, giving you more flexibility and faster turnaround.
- The Power Tools Client is a free EpicWeb download that bundles critical utilities like Data Management Tool (DMT), Functions, Advanced Print Routing, and SDK Designer into one interface for efficiency. While licenses for these products are still necessary to use these tools, the Power Tools Client provides a way for customers to access the tools that won’t (yet) be supported by the Kinetic browser in 2026.
- IMPORTANT! Smart Client Sunset Reminder: The Classic Forms interface will be retired in May 2026. With 2025.2 as the final release supporting Smart Client, it is critical to plan your transition to the modern browser experience, one that offers greater usability, speed, and support for future innovations. Customers are urged to reach out to their customer account manager to access information and training resources to assist with this transition.
This is the kind of modernization that will instill confidence that you’re building on a future-ready foundation.
A Platform for What Comes Next
The manufacturing industry isn’t standing still, and neither is Epicor. The 2025.2 Release of Kinetic is more than a version number. The updates are about preparing manufacturers for what’s next:
- AI that moves beyond automation into intelligent decision-making, helping manufacturers shift from reactive to predictive.
- Sustainability metrics that become as central as financial ones, turning compliance into a strategic advantage.
- Cloud platforms that adapt as fast as customer demands change, giving businesses the agility to scale without disruption.
By embedding AI where it matters, bringing sustainability capabilities up to speed with financial abilities, eliminating manual friction, and modernizing the cloud experience, Epicor delivers the kind of ERP innovation that’s designed for real industry needs.
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With Epicor by your side, you’re not just adapting to disruption. You’re leading the way into a bold new future.
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Daniel Charvoz is a Product Marketing Manager at Epicor, where he works on the go-to-market strategy for Epicor's manufacturing ERP solution; Kinetic. He has an MBA from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, and lives in Minneapolis.
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