Every day Epicor ERP software generates orders and production quantities based on user-specified planning parameters such as lead times, safety stocks, reorder points, order quantities, and min./max. levels. Unfortunately, approaches for determining these parameters are often user-defined rule-of-thumb methods that do not account for inherent demand and supply variability. Formal updates of these planning parameters tend to be manual and take weeks or months to complete, resulting in infrequent updates that do not account for continual changes in demand, lead times, item importance, and evolving business goals.

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm specializing 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.


As your business responds to changes in your industry, customer demand, and the competitive landscape, you should expect your technology partner to anticipate your requirements and enable your business growth. Epicor has designed Epicor ERP Cloud for flexibility, security, and performance—to fit your business needs, adapt as your needs change, evolve with technology, and enable you with manufacturing and technology innovations that help your business grow.

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm specializing 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.


Headquartered in Hixson, Tennessee, Card-Monroe Corp. (CMC) is the world’s leading manufacturer of custom-built tufting equipment used to manufacture carpets for a variety of flooring markets and applications. This ranges from residential to commercial applications of carpeting, combining a vast array of textures and color options. This includes artificial turf for sports fields and hospitality carpet with sophisticated styles found in hotels, restaurants, corporate offices, and convention centers.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Integrate manufacturing, inventory control, and accounting processes into one comprehensive ERP system

Solution

  • Epicor ERP
  • Epicor Data Management Tool (DMT)

Benefits

  • Improved ability to manage customer orders from quote entry throughout production, shipping, invoicing, and follow-up
  • Enhanced shop flow and collaboration among employees resulting in efficiencies that reduced assembly cycle times by 30% and machine shop work-in-process by 40%
  • Transported more than 670,000 records during implementation from differing sources into the Epicor ERP solution with complete accuracy

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 1952, L.B. White has grown to become one of the world’s leading manufacturers of direct-fired heaters for the agricultural, construction, and rental industries. Approximately 50 employees support the production and global distribution of more than 50,000 SKUs from the company’s headquarters in Onalaska, Wisconsin.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • The reporting system was difficult to use, and the data was hard to read
  • Software required users to have more advanced computer skills

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP
  • Epicor Data Analytics (EDA) powered by Phocas

Benefits

  • Tightly integrated EDA simplified the deployment process
  • Out-of-the-box templates made it easy for sales and inventory teams to get started
  • Eliminated IT bottlenecks and the need for VPN access when outside the office
  • Allowed users to access EDA whenever and wherever they need it
  • Data is constantly updated to provide users with the most current information

 

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.


Since 1962, Madsen’s has been engineering and producing some of the most noteworthy and innovative millwork products in Canada. The company prides itself in its veneering capabilities—searching the world for the finest veneers and lumbers to ensure its clients receive the best possible quality.

The company’s prior enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions consisted of various, disconnected systems and lacked real inventory metrics. “Before we switched to Epicor, we struggled with functionality between multiple platforms and experienced material losses, labor losses—different things like that impacted the business,” recalled Craig Leach, sales manager, Madsen’s Custom Cabinets.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Find an ERP system capable of integrating disparate business departments

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Saved CAD 200,000 per year in throwaway material, over-ordering, underordering, and incorrectly issuing materials
  • Reduced the time it takes for information to pass from shop floor to office
  • Provided real-time business metrics to anyone with access to the Epicor ERP system

 

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.


Perlick has been innovating in the refrigeration and bar dispensing industry for more than 100 years. Starting as a family-owned business, the company has held strong with its reputation for being best-in-class while also staying close to its family-owned roots. As Perlick continued to grow, they recognized they needed to implement Epicor ERP at the beginning of 2018. However, Perlick’s accounts receivable (AR) department still needed more help and automation to manage its expanding cash flow of 1,300 active accounts.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Lacked centralized customer account information which caused bottlenecks in the collection process

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP
  • Epicor Cash Collect

Benefits

  • Automated workflows and collector transparency
  • Decreased DSO to 37 days
  • Increased current AR percentage to 95.7%
  • Saved 54 work hours per month with automation

 

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.


For more than 60 years, The Baker Company, Inc., has helped advance science, discovery, and clinical care by pioneering innovative solutions for air containment, contamination control, and controlled environments. Baker manufactures biological safety cabinets, clean benches, fume hoods, and pharmacy isolators providing unparalleled user and product protection for a variety of applications, ranging from pipetting to drug manufacturing to the handling of dangerous pathogens such as Anthrax.

Success Highlights

Challenges and Opportunities

  • Sought an ERP platform designed for ease of integration with today’s new technologies and systems
  • Needed strong product configurator and manufacturing ERP capabilities to support its high volume make-to-order production environment

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Improved productivity, collaboration, security, and system integrity
  • Improved functionality and easy-to-use user interface offer immediate access to data
  • Easier satisfaction of RoHS compliance requirements
  • Seamless integration with third-party software for sales tax, shipping, document management, and CAD/CAM design

 

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.


Greno Industries hosted an onsite Epicor Value Exchange Workshop to improve their understanding of Epicor systems, prepare for an upcoming upgrade and facilitate workforce training from experienced Epicor consultants. Greno Industries, headquartered in Schenectady, NY, offers machined parts for steam and gas turbines, generators, compressors and pumps, pulp and paper, and mining, among others. They are looking to expand into other industry verticals.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Underutilization of Epicor 10.2.300.2
  • Prepare for an upgrade to the next version of Epicor ERP
  • Leverage the expertise of Epicor account professionals in-person

Solution

  • Epicor® Value Exchange Workshop – Epicor ERP Education and Training

Benefits

  • Creating better processes as Greno Industries move more into aerospace
  • Better utilization of basic Epicor functionality (Dashboards and BPMs)
  • Bring disparate systems together
  • True implementation of scheduling visibility
  • Better capture of indirect labor costs

 

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.


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.