Epicor Kinetic

Score7.2 out of 10

121 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Epicor Kinetic?

Epicor Kinetic is a customizable, scalable, product-centric cloud ERP designed specifically for manufacturers.

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Cost Capture
Capture costs including those for procurement, financials or time and labor, including from external systems
Category average: 7.9
Automatic reordering
The software can be set up to automatically reorder a good when it falls below a certain threshold.
Category average: 7.4
Role-based user permissions
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Category average: 7.9

Issue Detection
Detect and create issues as part of the assessment flow
Category average: 6.5
Direct deposit files
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
Category average: 7.6
Credit card processing
The software facilitates credit card processing.
Category average: 7.3

Verified User

Professional in Finance and Accounting (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Epicor Kinetic for A/R invoicing as well as for general ledger reconciliation. It is a decent software package for manufacturing companies. This software is easy to use across our sites around the world and people can pick up on it relatively quickly. It is straightforward to use and has helpful reports.

Pros

Good for reporting
Provides good information regarding shipping
Can limit what employees have access to

Cons

Software sometimes crashes
Sometimes run into issues because we want more customized reports
Sometimes the system runs really slow and we don’t know why

Return on Investment

It is overall a reasonable system to use. Unfortunately the invoices it generates is not compatible with some of the rules in foreign countries we operate in. Therefore the people have to do double-duty work in A/R invoicing.

Usability

Verified User

Employee in Engineering (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the software for planning production. We currently have a plastic injection molding facility in California. We use this software to also communicate cross-functionally and make decisions and priorities on the production planning and inventory control. Supply chain management module is also used extensively for supply planning high-risk suppliers.

Pros

Planning
Inventory management
Tracking
Supply Management

Cons

Report pulling
Cloud system
Mobile integration

Return on Investment

It is good investment as we replaced various other software
cost management
HR, production, Logistics and Supply Chain is now linked

Usability

Verified User

Professional in Manufacturing (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Epicor Kinetic for purchasing, receiving, shipping and invoicing. The problem we used to have before Epicor Kinetic is having to use two different softwares to complete everything Epicor Kinetic can do. The scope of our use case helps clarify communication to ensure there's understanding of what Epicor Kinetic aims to accomplish by building what the business needs.

Pros

easy to customize home page
user friendly
custom reports

Cons

move the delete button away from the save button
being able to obsolete an MPN for a part and having it be grayed out
being able to rate MPN's for part by preference

Alternatives Considered

QuickBooks Desktop Premier

Other Software Used

Paylocity

Bob Ladd View profile

Vice President Global Procurement & Manufacturing in Information Technology at Potter Electric Signal Co. (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

Handling all types of orders - jobs, purchases, and customer orders.
MRP scheduling is very good and easily modified by part or group.
Easily getting other info about a key field by right-clicking and traveling to a new form.

Cons

RMA and DMR. Although it can handle these, the function seems like an afterthought. It isn't as smooth as the rest of Epicor.
Reporting is ok but it runs slowly. We are still using Crystal.
Barcoding in general but mostly the warehouse management part.

Return on Investment

Epicor has allowed us to easily develop new products and release them to our customer quickly.
Because the data in Epicor is open to 3rd party apps It's allowed us to improve process even farther.
My favorite tool is DMT. It has saved us some much time because we can modify data so quickly and efficiently. Also when we acquired new companies it allowed is to import the data in hours.
Because of the flexibility of the grid format on forms IT doesn't have to create one off reports. Also, Users can to small batch imports releaving IT workload.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Dynamics

Other Software Used

Tableau Server, Docuware Cloud

Michael Palecek View profile

IT Manager in Information Technology at TJ Hale (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

Customization.
Scheduling.

Cons

Complicated customization.
Many of the functions which are used by most companies need to be added by users.

Return on Investment

Allowed visibility into manufacturing performance.
Easy project cost calculations.

Alternatives Considered

Oncontact, Sage 500 ERP and Global Shop Solutions One-System ERP

Other Software Used

Oncontact, Autodesk Inventor, Microsoft Office 365

NetSuite ERP

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Infor ERP

SAP Cloud ERP

Epicor Kinetic

What is Epicor Kinetic?

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Cost Capture

Automatic reordering

Role-based user permissions

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Issue Detection

Direct deposit files

Credit card processing

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