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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Epicor Kinetic

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AEpicor Kinetic is a customizable, scalable, product-centric cloud ERP designed specifically for manufacturers.N/A

    Winshuttle

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AWinshuttle is an SAP-focused data management and robotic process automation platform. It is designed to enable the building and adaptation of Excel and SharePoint-based interactive forms and workflows for SAP without programming.N/A
    Pricing
    Epicor KineticWinshuttle
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Epicor KineticWinshuttle
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Epicor KineticWinshuttle
    Considered Both Products
    Epicor Software
    No answer on this topic
    Winshuttle
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    169 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    126 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    162 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    77%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    67 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    70%
    Implementation went as expected
    93 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Epicor KineticWinshuttle
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of Epicor Kinetic and Winshuttle
    Feature
    Epicor Kinetic
    7.9
    52 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Winshuttle
    -
    Ratings
    Pay calculation8.250 Ratings00 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration8.129 Ratings00 Ratings
    Direct deposit files7.537 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Epicor Kinetic and Winshuttle
    Feature
    Epicor Kinetic
    8.0
    151 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Winshuttle
    -
    Ratings
    API for custom integration8.3145 Ratings00 Ratings
    Plug-ins7.7120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Epicor Kinetic and Winshuttle
    Feature
    Epicor Kinetic
    8.4
    177 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Winshuttle
    -
    Ratings
    Single sign-on capability8.8149 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.1174 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Epicor Kinetic and Winshuttle
    Feature
    Epicor Kinetic
    7.6
    186 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Winshuttle
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards7.2178 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports7.4183 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports8.1174 Ratings00 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Epicor Kinetic and Winshuttle
    Feature
    Epicor Kinetic
    7.3
    199 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Winshuttle
    -
    Ratings
    Accounts payable8.7189 Ratings00 Ratings
    Accounts receivable8.6184 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global Financial Support7.8103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Primary and Secondary Ledgers8.2126 Ratings00 Ratings
    Journals and Reconciliations7.6151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Configurable Accounting8.1136 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standardized Processes8.0159 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of Epicor Kinetic and Winshuttle
    Feature
    Epicor Kinetic
    8.4
    186 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Winshuttle
    -
    Ratings
    Inventory tracking8.0185 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic reordering7.9111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location management7.7145 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of Epicor Kinetic and Winshuttle
    Feature
    Epicor Kinetic
    8.3
    189 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Winshuttle
    -
    Ratings
    Pricing8.4176 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order entry8.3187 Ratings00 Ratings
    Credit card processing7.688 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost of goods sold8.1165 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order Orchestration7.8119 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subledger and Financial Process
    Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Epicor Kinetic and Winshuttle
    Feature
    Epicor Kinetic
    8.5
    161 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Winshuttle
    -
    Ratings
    Billing Management7.8142 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cash and Asset Management7.7137 Ratings00 Ratings
    Travel & Expense Management7.580 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting7.981 Ratings00 Ratings
    Period Close8.2144 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Financial Management
    Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Epicor Kinetic and Winshuttle
    Feature
    Epicor Kinetic
    9.2
    19 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Winshuttle
    -
    Ratings
    Budgeting and Forecasting9.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Costing8.016 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost Capture10.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Capital Project Management9.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Contract Compliance9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Revenue Recognition9.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Execution Management
    Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Epicor Kinetic and Winshuttle
    Feature
    Epicor Kinetic
    7.7
    74 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Winshuttle
    -
    Ratings
    Project Planning and Scheduling7.767 Ratings00 Ratings
    Task Insight for Project Managers7.154 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Mobile Functionality7.244 Ratings00 Ratings
    Definable Resource Pools7.051 Ratings00 Ratings
    Grants Management
    Comparison of Grants Management features of Epicor Kinetic and Winshuttle
    Feature
    Epicor Kinetic
    7.9
    33 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Winshuttle
    -
    Ratings
    Award Lifecycle Management8.529 Ratings00 Ratings
    Procurement
    Comparison of Procurement features of Epicor Kinetic and Winshuttle
    Feature
    Epicor Kinetic
    8.0
    138 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Winshuttle
    -
    Ratings
    Bids Analyzed and Compared7.559 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract Authoring7.456 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract Repository7.758 Ratings00 Ratings
    Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated7.696 Ratings00 Ratings
    Supplier Management7.6130 Ratings00 Ratings
    Risk Management
    Comparison of Risk Management features of Epicor Kinetic and Winshuttle
    Feature
    Epicor Kinetic
    7.8
    49 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Winshuttle
    -
    Ratings
    Risk Repository8.139 Ratings00 Ratings
    Control Management7.744 Ratings00 Ratings
    Control Efficiency Assessments7.440 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue Detection8.545 Ratings00 Ratings
    Remediation and Certification7.739 Ratings00 Ratings
    Logistics
    Comparison of Logistics features of Epicor Kinetic and Winshuttle
    Feature
    Epicor Kinetic
    7.6
    103 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Winshuttle
    -
    Ratings
    Transportation Planning and Optimization7.971 Ratings00 Ratings
    Transportation Execution Management7.965 Ratings00 Ratings
    Trade and Customs Management7.556 Ratings00 Ratings
    Fulfillment Management8.086 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warehouse Workforce Management7.973 Ratings00 Ratings
    Manufacturing
    Comparison of Manufacturing features of Epicor Kinetic and Winshuttle
    Feature
    Epicor Kinetic
    7.9
    148 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Winshuttle
    -
    Ratings
    Production Process Design7.9119 Ratings00 Ratings
    Production Management8.2139 Ratings00 Ratings
    Configuration Management7.6106 Ratings00 Ratings
    Work Execution7.6109 Ratings00 Ratings
    Manufacturing Costs7.7132 Ratings00 Ratings
    Supply Chain
    Comparison of Supply Chain features of Epicor Kinetic and Winshuttle
    Feature
    Epicor Kinetic
    8.1
    134 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Winshuttle
    -
    Ratings
    Forecasting7.1107 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inventory Planning7.7131 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance Monitoring7.8104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Product Lifecycle Management
    Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Epicor Kinetic and Winshuttle
    Feature
    Epicor Kinetic
    7.9
    67 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Winshuttle
    -
    Ratings
    Proposal Management8.254 Ratings00 Ratings
    Product Master Data Management8.063 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Epicor KineticWinshuttle
    Small Businesses
    Zoho One
    Score9.1 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Zoho One
    Score9.1 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Microsoft Dynamics AX (discontinued)
    Score4.8 out of 10
    Informatica MDM & 360 Applications
    Score5.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Epicor KineticWinshuttle
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (222 ratings)
    9.0
    (34 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (13 ratings)
    Usability
    8.1
    (182 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.5
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.6
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Epicor KineticWinshuttle
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Epicor Software
    I think it depends on the industry and complexity of the company. In our situation, we primarily use Epicor for financials, in a relatively simple manner. I don't think that Epicor is the most intuitive or simple to set up for our situation. I think Epicor is better suited for its target industry of manufacturing, where building out the multiple layers let's Epicor's strengths come to bear.
    Incentivized
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    Winshuttle
    Winshuttle is well suited to help any company who has data that needs to move from SAP to 'somewhere'. The output file can be Excel, Text, or Access. Query has been greatly expanded in its ability to use SQL statements directly in the product at the 'pre-download' point. For example, you want to have one column do calculations on the data that is being pulled out of SAP via the Query and placed in a specific cell - this can be done - right in the Query script and the result will be produced in your receiving Excel file. I have another small scenario I call 'On the fly" uses. When our asset team had to change their depreciation on a very large number of assets mid-year, Winshuttle Transaction was very helpful. The update would have taken DAYS and lots of shredded nerves to update.
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    Pros
    Epicor Software
    • MRP Processing, PO Suggestion processing and maintaining Inventory/Accounting cost consistency.
    • Freighting with speed and precision allows us to ship on time with over 10 shipping stations they all run seamlessly.
    • Using ECM, we've streamlined our AP Invoicing process and increased our teams throughput at least 2x with more speed projected.
    • Using Co-Parts with Advanced Production, we've increased inventory accuracy and accounting for parts cost in a more transparent way.
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    Winshuttle
    • "Training" I feel Winshuttle was extremely easy to learn' my team and I went to a week long training class on the uses of the software upon finishing the course we all became internal (company) support as well as expert functional users.
    • "Ease of use" once a user learns the basics processes of the software it is functionally very easy to use and if there are problems with in the processing that cannot be supported internally Winshuttle community and support quickly helped clear up those issues, "if they occurred"
    • "Processes data FAST" once the transaction is mapped and recorded the user can move through (process) large amounts of data very quickly, saving lots of time by eliminating manual steps.
    • "Data Error Correction" through the transactional processing of large amounts of data, nothing is ever perfect, usually during data migration process if a single line fails the process stops, the correction is made to the data and the process starts all over again. Winshuttle data migration process doesn't stop it will provide a list of exceptions upon completion of the data load. It does this by only processing the "good" data and when bad data is encountered it is skipped and an error message is created and added to the data sheet. With this process the user now only has to worry about exceptions that didn't load and also knows why the line failed so making correction are easier and faster.
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    Cons
    Epicor Software
    • In Application Studio, there are quite a few things that you just have to know in order to really get it to work right. Such as when you are updating a dataview you have to save them refresh and then go back to the wizard to get the added fields that you may have added from a BAQ.
    • When running MRP it has a tendency to stall or not finish on occasion. This is a problem as we do not get any PO Suggestions when this happens.
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    Winshuttle
    • The use of Winshuttle is particularly helpful with systems where data volumes are always very high. If data volumes are not an issue, the use of Winshuttle for cut-over activities might not result in a significant perceivable difference in time savings.
    • For businesses and sectors that rely on business processes that are complex and tedious with a lot of manual interventions, Winshuttle comes in real handy. However, in situations of fairly straightforward business cases, it would be hard to see perceivable gains from the use of Winshuttle.
    • At times, the use of complex business process with multiple fields from one transaction needs to be fed into the next for further processing, if the screen sequence changes based on each set of information, the processing could fail. However, these could be overcome by grouping similar screened transactions into one chunk and others into another.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Epicor Software
    Easy to use, reliable, known product, best product configurator, Epicor continues to offer improvements every year.
    Incentivized
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    Winshuttle
    Fantastic tool and honestly the best out there for the particular need. I cannot think of any reason we wouldn't renew as it truly offers the perfect solution to what is often a supremely difficult process. Also, I believe that from a cost perspective it is quite agreeable given the amount of benefit/ROI received
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Epicor Software
    There is always room for improvement! I've used Great Plains ERP/MS Dynamics and Epicor my entire career. both do some things really well. Both could learn from each other. The KInetic user interface is much better than the classic windows overall. Please keep adding more functionality to the core financials!!! You need the accountants to be on your side.
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    Winshuttle
    - I have used Winshuttle Transaction and Direct and the interface is simple, intuitive and easy to understand. - Not much technical knowledge of SAP is required before loading the data. - Data can be loaded for any sheet of an Excel spreadsheet - Output messages from Winshuttle are very clear and can be used to as an input to other data loads that use these output data
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    Support Rating
    Epicor Software
    If the answer to your problem is not readily available in an answer book, your response or solution will take months, if you get one at all. Problems need to be sent to support and duplicated by them before they try to fix it. This is extremely frustrating because you have to prove to Epicor that you are having an issue. If by some miracle you get by this barrier, your problem is submitted to development for review. You can't speak to them or communicate in any way directly. This group appears to be completely unconcerned about user issues or customer service. Our experiences have been negative across the board.
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    Winshuttle
    The winshuttle staff are some of the best in the business. I have been working with them for several years and always have had a positive interaction. There support staff are very knowledgeable. There product managers are very supportive as well and always open to hear feedback on how you like the product and any gaps that you would like to find a solution to better improve the products.
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    Implementation Rating
    Epicor Software
    No answers on this topic
    Winshuttle
    No, I do not have it.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Epicor Software
    Most of my histories with SAP directly. I didn't really have any negative experiences. The only thing I could say is that I always had to go to somebody else to solve the problem that I can solve first person now with Epicor Kinetic.
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    Winshuttle
    Winshuttle works better with SAP than UiPath does in terms of performance and stability. The time to deploy a Process in Winshuttle is faster and less complex. It doesn't require coding skills as much as for UiPath. Winshuttle excels in batch input operations and also has a useful query reporting tool.
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    Scalability
    Epicor Software
    Using the word Scalability usually implies an increase of use, or adding the use of other features. Making the product put to good/proper use for small companies without the need for full-time support, whilst integrity is maintained it is an entirely different topic. In my view, the current company may have acquired a full truck with options, where initially a small pick-up may have been better suited.
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    Winshuttle
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Epicor Software
    • We have increased our lead time of orders by about a week.
    • We have increased our output of product by 10% with the same amount of staff.
    • We were able to leverage Kinetic to optimize our business while moving two facilities.
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    Winshuttle
    • We've been able to automate several time consuming, high volume tasks so that our analysts could focus on actual data quality and not data entry.
    • We've been able to create reports and forego custom IT configuration by using Query and Transaction to come up with our own solutions.
    • We've been able to pivot our strategy more quickly by easily adjusting and updating master data when processes change.
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    ScreenShots

    Epicor Kinetic Screenshots

    Screenshot of Production ManagementScreenshot of Role-Based Analytics and Business IntelligenceScreenshot of Planning and SchedulingScreenshot of Shipping and ReceivingScreenshot of the General LedgerScreenshot of Training and Development

    Winshuttle Screenshots

    Screenshot of Winshuttle Studio users can develop scripts and update records in SAP in 3 simple steps - Record, Map and Run.