Epicor Prophet 21

Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.

Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.

Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.

An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.

A number of third-party plug-ins are available to expand the core functionality of the software.

The software system supports a centralized authentication mechanism allowing the user to access multiple systems with a single, centrally managed password.

Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.

Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.

The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.

Users can create custom reports.

This includes the automation and tracking of payment to vendors and suppliers, with features such as payment scheduling, check printing, open purchase order alerts, document management, direct ACH bill payment, and vendor records.

This includes the management and automation of invoices and collections, with features like statements, invoices, receipts, payment reminders, customer records, auto billing, and refund checks.

Account using multiple ledgers, multiple currencies, and multiple entities

Record and report across multiple currencies and accounting standards with primary and secondary ledgers

Automate and synchronize ledgers and processes

Configure accounting rules and segments for each chart of accounts

Centralize financial management to facilitate standardized financial processes

The software syncs orders and stock to maintain a real-time picture of inventory and supports multiple methods such as LIFO and FIFO.

The software can be set up to automatically reorder a good when it falls below a certain threshold.

The software can track multiple goods across multiple locations.

Users can set up complex and unique pricing requirements.

Users can enter an order once, and the data flows to all the necessary units such as fulfillment and billing.

The software facilitates credit card processing.

The software calculates the direct costs attributable to a finished product, such as materials and labor, and includes roll-up pricing.

Define and execute order fulfillment processes for products as well as services on the same order.

Access role-based billing work area, perform discrete and recurring billing

Manage liquidity and cash requirements, asset transfers, disposals, reclassifications, and financial adjustments

Enter expenses from mobile devices, integrate credit card and travel booking, configure policy enforcement

Control spending at any budget level or time interval

Sustain fast close with integrated subledgers, intuitive dashboards, embedded collaboration

Establish project budgets and forecast future project financials

Standardize, track, and control costs at all project phases

Capture costs including those for procurement, financials or time and labor, including from external systems

Track and manage capital asset costs

Associate projects or tasks with customer contracts, and lines within contracts, to meet billing terms

Recognize project contract revenue in line with accounting policies and regulations

Interactive Gantt chart for establishing tasks, durations, and delivery schedule

Project manager visibility into task progress of team members

Capabilities for project functions such as updating and monitoring task progress and timecards from mobile devices

Definable and hierarchical resource pools of potential project resources

Manage the life of program funding awards from initial funding to close-out

Evaluate, compare and recommend across multiple bids in real-time using diverse user selected criteria and graphical analytics

Document authoring with guided navigation, negotiation templates and productivity tools for reviews and collaboration

Secure and searchable contract repository leveraging standard company language components, structures and formats

Create touchless purchases using purchase orders generated automatically per rules from approved requisitions

Broadly manage and report comprehensive supplier profiles, capabilities and performance; identify bottlenecks; balance allocations, workloads

Idenity, document, and manage business risks in a unified repository

Establish and update risk and controls matrix, control test plans, and instructions

Assess control effectiveness on criteria such as geography, business unit, compliance requirements, etc

Detect and create issues as part of the assessment flow

Create and update remediation plans and certify controls

Plan shipments across all modes of transportation via lowest costs/highest service

Execute and track shipping orders

Manage duties, tax rates, customs documents, and other data required for products shipped in and to specified countries

Support for multi-channel demand and execution fulfillment processes

Set goals, measure actuals, and analyze productivity for warehousing tasks and activities

Define data for plant hierarchy, process standards, work areas, calendars and standard operations

Centralized critical status information for production supervisors

Capture and process customer configuration orders

Monitor procution status, manage work orders for standard and non-standard production, enforce tight controls on serialized products

Estimate, plan and monitor costs and variances by plant. Capture resource costs using standard, actual, LIFO, FIFO or multiple costing methods.

Statistically forecast based on historical patterns and sales input, monitor accuracy and estimate new demand

Establish projected inventory levels, monitor actual levels and compare with projected levels

Analyze business metrics and compare actual performance to plans, identify issues, prioritize demands and respond to changes

Capture budget, resource, and benefit expectations for proposals

Create, classify, and manage product items, BOMs and product changes