For generations, change has always occurred in industry, and that is also the core of success in manufacturing. Businesses use resources and raw materials to create products of high value and application in life. Until recent years, world development has helped the manufacturing industry become stronger thanks to technology.
Think about the feeling when you’re sitting at your office and the machines tell you they need to be repaired by the end of next month. Imagine that technical staff and information technology staff operate without needing to go to the office. Imagine daily data reports automatically notified to your phone and laptop screens. And ERP enterprise resource planning solutions have done those things to make the manufacturing industry more modern.
Rescue your business’s machines from the risk of damage.
During the production process, there will be many difficulties, such as difficulty controlling machine data, machine operating status, and machine maintenance time. When businesses apply ERP solutions to their production lines, mechanical problems are quickly resolved.
The job of Epicor ERP is to schedule maintenance to ensure machines are always in the best operating condition. Besides, the solution also helps businesses detect leisure time in the machine system. From there, businesses can control resources and make production plans.
For example, Axelgaard is a world leader in the design, development, and manufacturing of patient-supporting electrodes and hydrogel medical devices. Christian Boddaert, IT Director at Axelgaard, shared “There is a lot of feedback from the machines on the shop floor, so we can look at that data to make better business decisions. Real-time information is important for production planning, especially when we manage incoming orders during the day. Importantly, we have timely, updated information to provide to customers and dealers.”
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Easy communication between leaders and employees
Enterprises have many projects; each project has many departments and many different places. This makes it difficult to reach consensus from many sides when a problem occurs. Because of that, data synchronization is most important because it helps businesses develop data-driven business intelligence.
Business insights make everyone’s job easier, letting them know exactly what work is needed to get done. But more importantly, the information contained in this data will be consolidated and unified across the entire system, giving all employees equal access and ensuring that everyone is working towards the same goals.
Next, sales activity data can let manufacturing teams know exactly how much they need to produce. Supply managers can use this data to inform suppliers and sales, understand how much supply to order, and when it is most needed.
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Well manage the product research and development process.
Businesses have had to spend a lot of time and money conducting research and product development to increase their competitiveness with competitors. This process happens efficiently when businesses work with the right details.
Reporting and analysis help expand the R&D scope of the enterprise. Instead of doing it individually, analytics allows you to do R&D in collaboration with suppliers and customers. Many ERP systems have the ability to create a co-creation platform where customers and suppliers can influence the design of new products with crowd-sourced input.
This eliminates the guesswork, ensuring better value-driven design margins. Traditional point-of-sale data is also supplemented with information from new sources, such as social media interactions and market trends. This form of deep, predictive analysis can accurately determine the direction of the market and know exactly how a business needs to change to keep up.
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Operate the supply chain effectively.
Normally, businesses will encounter difficulties such as raw materials needed in large quantities and frequently changing, lots of order information, supplier information, raw material pricing, or product pricing.
ERP systems help solve the above problems in that they make it easy to manage and are driven by data that brings a new perspective on operations within the supply chain. Businesses will know when, how much, and who orders raw materials for the factory. Besides, it also helps leaders have a clearer view of their own goods and determine how long they have in stock through sales data and external factors.
A typical business like General International Group shares the benefits of the solution, saying, “New visibility through a robust reporting system, allowing us to receive periodic reports comparing weekly performance. We have specifically applied this system during the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing the impact of the crisis on business operations. We’re also working on customizable reports for accounts receivable, supply chain, sales, and other reports that previously had to be done manually. With Epicor, we have reliable, real-time data from which we can derive actionable business intelligence. We make faster decisions, smarter strategies, and more cost-effectively.”
Indeed, businesses can create reports on all current suppliers as well as relationships with other potential suppliers within a certain range. This will allow manufacturers to make choices based on price, inventory, and potential surrounding constraints. It also allows for better negotiating leverage and the ability to consolidate the supply chain across as few suppliers and pricing models as possible.
In short, the Epicor ERP solution is full of features to help businesses operate more smoothly. The business plans to enhance its value in the market through data analysis updated by the ERP solution.
3S Software Co., Ltd.
3S Company is the leading and longest-standing partner in Vietnam of Epicor Software Company (USA) since 2004, one of the 5 largest business management software solution providers globally. 3S not only brings software or a program to customers but also a comprehensive, flexible management solution suitable to the scale of each business. Solutions provided by 3S are always of high quality, but at very reasonable costs. Along with complying with the Epicor Signature Project Implementation Methodology drawn from thousands of projects globally, 3S always brings the most suitable solution to customers.
The 5 main solutions to 3S include:
Epicor ERP is an enterprise resource planning solution.
Epicor MES is a production execution management solution.
BPM XSOL Solution: A Solution for Modeling Activities in Businesses
ECM DOCSTAR solution: digital content management software solution
Epicor CADLINK Solution: A solution that allows transferring information from CAD drawings such as AutoCAD and Solidworks to Epicor ERP
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