Before embracing Epicor ERP, Okeanus encountered many hurdles. Replying on Quickbooks created silos between finance and manufacturing, hindering operational efficiency and internal collaboration. Learn how Epicor Kinetic Cloud closed the gap between departments and aligned the parent company and its subsidiaries.


Before implementing Spreadsheet Server, Caymas Boats was using Epicor ERP’s standard reports alongside Epicor XL Connect, a Microsoft® Excel® add-in, for their more in-depth and custom reporting needs.

Tyler Smith, the Senior Accountant at Caymas Boats, says that while the team liked using Epicor XL Connect when it came time to create or modify their reports, they had to rely on outside consultants because report writing still required a level of technical expertise.

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, or renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.


Mohawk Fine Papers manufactures and distributes premium uncoated paper and coated stock. They pride itself on being the first major manufacturing company to derive 100% of its electricity from wind power. Mohawk ranks as the largest maker of premium printing, writing, and imaging papers in the country.

The privately owned, over 150-year-old company runs three paper mills—one in Cohoes, NY another in nearby Waterford, NY, and a third in Hamilton, OH. It also operates a distribution center in Albany, NY, a warehouse and converting center in Saybrook, OH, a sales office in Scotland, and a distribution center in the Netherlands. In all, the company employs roughly 725 people—including 75 corporate office employees. Today Mohawk distributes papers in more than 50 countries worldwide.

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, or renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.


Pattison Sign is a full-service sign manufacturing company in North America, with locations in Tennessee and Ontario. They specialize in creating electronic message centers, LED displays, digital signs, and traditional signage. Pattison Sign takes care of signage needs from beginning to end, manufacturing, installation, ongoing maintenance, and repair for some of the most well-known brands worldwide. These brands include Hilton, Jaguar, Waldorf Astoria, KFC, MassMutual, and more.

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, or renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.


Dexter Magnetic Technologies offers superior magnetic solutions for products ranging from aerospace radar systems to nuclear magnetic-resonance imaging machines, hearing aids, and pacemakers. The company’s philosophy of continuous improvement and customer satisfaction has earned it a solid reputation as the original architect of magnetic technology.

Founded in 1951 as Permag Corporation, Dexter has grown to be a full-service manufacturer and designer of complex magnetic assemblies for a global customer base, including the U.S. Department of Defense, medical device companies, and others that require exacting documentation and certification of parts and finished products to comply with regulatory requirements such as ITAR.

Challenges

  • Improve on-time delivery by reducing lengthy quality control document search and-retrieval times and refining manufacturing execution.

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP functions:
    • Finite Scheduling
    • Available-to-Promise
  • Epicor® ECM (DocStar®)
  • Epicor® Data Analytics (EDA)
  • Epicor® Quick Ship

Benefits

  • Achieved company-wide goal of improvements in on-time delivery with an investment of less than $50,000.
  • Reduced time needed to search and retrieve all necessary documentation for packing and shipping from 10,000 employee hours to less than 3,000 annually.
  • Leveraged Epicor ERP functionality for improved business intelligence and more efficient planning and scheduling.

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, or renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.


Since its founding in 1985, Axelgaard Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has been recognized as an international leader in the design, development, and production of premier neurostimulation and sensing electrodes. Today, Axelgaard’s product line has expanded to include a full range of hydrogels for a variety of applications, as well as countless custom solutions for their customers’ specific needs.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Consolidate business systems and separate from the competition without compromising cost or quality

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Provided visibility and analytics into every part of the manufacturing process to identify potential improvement
  • Consolidated various business software systems into one
  • Improved processes and enabled time savings, freeing staff to focus on other projects

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.


Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Traeger Grills specializes in the design and manufacture of wood pellet grilling systems that bypass conventional propane and charcoal burner capabilities—creating healthy foods with a flavorful, smoky taste.

Offering a complete line of grills, hardwood pellets, sauces, and accessories, Traeger surpassed its expectations by increasing year-to-year sales by nearly 40 percent over the last three years. Among the driving forces behind this sales boost was an expanded retail channel consisting of big box and specialty dealers, online venues, and specialty events that dramatically generated greater awareness among key audiences—ranging from barbecue enthusiasts to world-renowned chefs.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Easily fulfill a dramatic increase in orders generated from new markets and expanded sales channels

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP Cloud

Benefits

  • Reduce delivery times and costs
  • Identify stock availability and location in real-time
  • Quickly secure additional IT resources during peak times with minimal expense
  • Shifted IT from a capital expenditure to an operational expenditure

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.


Founded in India in 1972, A.C. Brothers is a market leader in gifts and home accessories. Today, the company makes hard goods such as wooden and metal designer home furniture and accessories using the traditional skills of local artisans. The company’s goal is to supply top-quality accessories and furniture with international designs—all while building strong ties with its customers.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Lacked a single source of data throughout the supply chain.

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Delivered accurate business data to improve decision-making
  • Increased production through more efficient use of resources
  • Reduced customer delivery delays from 18% to 14%
  • Freed up capital and space with a 5% reduction in inventory carrying costs
  • Vastly improved customer and supplier satisfaction

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.


Founded in 2009, Aimtron is a highly sophisticated printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) manufacturer that delivers thermal management technology to verticals such as medical, military, automotive, consumer, commercial, gaming, and alternative energy. Its capabilities range from small, rapid-turn prototypes to high-volume domestic and offshore manufacturing.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Inability to plan at the group level because of poor alignment across different departments
  • The legacy system could not cope with new acquisitions
  • Inadequate supply chain planning
  • Tough compliance laws

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Increased efficiency with the consolidation of data across multiple legal entities and real-time data monitoring
  • Eased compliance with U.S. industry regulations
  • Integrated platforms across the entire supply chain
  • Saved more than seven percent on inventory costs
  • Reduced production staffing costs by 23 percent

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.


Applied Composites Engineering (ACE) is a premier supplier of aviation and aerospace products and services. This includes creating products from concept to finish for the international commercial, corporate, and military aircraft industries.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Tie together operations end-to-end and ensure all manufacturing processes, products, and services meet stringent government and industry regulations

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Visibility to make on-the-fly changes based on customer requirements
  • Review details, communicate changes, and make informed decisions in minutes
  • Create automated procedures ensuring all processes meet certification standards
  • Increased profitability by tracking the shelf life of materials and reducing the amount of inventory kept on hand
  • Better identify the time and activity spent on each operation

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.

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