Epicor BisTrack vs. Epicor CMS

Epicor BisTrack is well-suited for the following scenarios:

• Lumber Yard Management: useful for managing lumber yards, including inventory tracking, order processing, and sales. It helps businesses optimize stock levels, streamline customer orders, and track various lumber products efficiently - can combine with other warehouse management software
• Building Materials Distribution: It excels in businesses that distribute building materials, such as wholesalers and distributors. The software handles order management, pricing, and supply chain operations effectively - this is my company's main course of business Epicor BisTrack is not suited for the following scenario(s):
• Epicor BisTrack is pretty specific to the lumber and building materials industry, so it won't be suitable for usage outside of this industry.

Epicor BisTrack is well-suited for the following scenarios:

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CMS is well suited for automotive manufacturing businesses.

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• Inventory Management
• Pricing and Quoting Features
• Sales and Order Processing
• Business Analytics

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• EDI Order Processing
• Serialized Inventory Tracking
• Order Processing

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• Easier User Interface; hard to navigate or learn
• Financial module could use improvement; i.e. the Accounts Receivable function is lacking and hard to find information easily
• More customization of the built-in reporting and analytics

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• Visual interface
• Report Customization

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Epicor BisTrack is essential for those in the lumber and building materials industry, especially if they are in the wholesale/distribution side of things. I provided the rating because I feel that BisTrack has contributed a lot for my company and provided with essential information for decision-making on a day-to-day basis. The score also reflects that while BisTrack is an essential software for my business, there is also room for improvement so that the end users will be able to obtain what they need from the software.

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CMS takes time to learn and use the menu driven green screen. However, once you are familiar it makes for fast navigation.

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Apologies, our company's IT department contacts support on our behalf. I have never contacted Epicor BisTrack's support myself; only through my company's IT team.

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Support is getting better but can still be slow to respond.

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We have more control over the backend of CMS and the fact it runs on a 5250 emulator it run a lot faster for data entry.

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• Increased overall efficiency in inventory management by 5%
• ROI is positive
• BisTrack provides a way for our business to conduct its day-to-day operations

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• Inventory tracibility
• Order Processing
• Customer Integration
• EDI Processing

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