Transforming ERP from a System of Record to a System of Action
To meet the needs of today’s business environment, ERP needs to transform from a system of record to a system of insights and action. At Epicor, we are innovating with AI to deliver on this exciting future, a vision we call Cognitive ERP. AI-infused ERP will drive significant advancements in decision-making, forecasting, customer service, and overall operational efficiency. This transformed ERP software is the dynamic tool that can propel industries into a new era of technological empowerment.
Epicor Unveils Integrated Portfolio of AI and Data Management Capabilities Built Specifically for the Supply Chain Industries.
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Epicor Grow AI transforms the ERP experience with AI that is easy-to-use, practical, and outcomes-focused. Epicor Grow AI surfaces insights with high speed and accuracy to solve industry-focused challenges in the familiar context of a customer’s Epicor solutions.
Epicor differentiates with a unique combination of industry-focused ERP, data structure, and AI that keeps your people at the center, reducing friction, and automating connections with machines, so you experience higher accuracy of data retrieval to deliver more value for your business.
94%
of business leaders surveyed say AI is critical to success over the next 5 years
Source: Deloitte
86%
of IT leaders expect generative AI to play a prominent role in their organization
Source: Salesforce
50%
of strategic planning and execution could be partially or fully automated
Source: Gartner
79%
of leaders surveyed have deployed 3 or more AI apps
Source: Deloitte
Benefits
Epicor FP&A utilizes AI and ML to transform financial and operational data, offering insights from diverse sources, including ERP and SCM systems. This facilitates improved forecasting accuracy and strategic planning, empowering businesses to make data-driven decisions
Epicor ECM with AP Automation unlocks efficiency and emerges as a transformative force. By seamlessly weaving intelligent data capture and AI into the fabric of content and process automation, it reshapes the procure-to-pay landscape. Using AI algorithms, our solution can automatically classify documents, be it invoices, purchase orders, or receipts. AP Automation provides a streamlined process that eliminates manual sorting and accelerates decision-making.
Epicor Smart Inventory Planning & Optimization (IP&O) offers an easy-to-use, AI-driven inventory planning and optimization suite of web applications that extend Epicor ERP functionalities with new and functionally deep strategic planning capabilities. Smart IP&O fine-tunes demand forecasts and stocking policies, ensuring optimal daily ordering within the trusted Epicor ERP system. By intelligently extending ERP functionalities, Smart IP&O predicts future costs, spending, and service levels to empower businesses to make strategic inventory decisions that align with business goals and boost profits.
Elite EXTRA route optimization utilizes advanced genetic algorithms and Ant Colony Optimization to efficiently tackle complex delivery challenges, including time constraints and sequencing. Our expert system rules engine automates order assignments to delivery providers, boosting efficiency and reducing costs by optimizing routes and decisions in real-time.
Challenges We Help Solve
Epicor Automation Studio, powered by Workato, addresses the intricacies of business operations through its low-code integration and automation capabilities. With over 1,000 built-in connectors and over 500,000 recipes to build from, Automation Studio helps you automate manual processes and make the complex simpler. The Workato AI@Work Azure OpenAI ChatGPT connector is ideal for setting up specialized, on-demand automation needs for entering data into the ERP that are not covered by off-the-shelf workflow solutions. For example, it can help workers report quality issues directly into the system through conversational emails, with automatic issue logging.
AUTOMATION STUDIOEpicor Smart IP&O for manufacturers and distributors and Epicor Predictive Inventory Assistant for the Automotive Aftermarket use ML for advanced materials planning and forecasting. By eliminating manual data entry/data prep and automating data forecasts while accounting for trends, seasonality, obsolescence, and intermittency, businesses can optimize cost savings, improve resource utilization, and run smoother operations.
SMART IP&OInaccurate financial forecasting is a significant business issue, often due to outdated methods that are time-consuming and error-prone. Epicor FP&A tackles this challenge by leveraging AI and ML. It gives you a starting point in the budgeting and forecasting process while requiring almost no effort or configuration at all. For example, it looks at your historical data and fits a set of models to it. The best-performing model is then retrained on all historical data and used to make the forecast you will see. To give you a better understanding of your result, you can see what model was used, a short description of it, and how it performed on known and unseen data.
EPICOR FP&AEpicor IDC (Intelligent Data Capture) revolutionizes document management by using AI-driven neural networks for automated document classification and data extraction. It drastically reduces manual data entry, achieving 60–90% efficiency gains, and ensures higher accuracy with validation checks. Integrated with Epicor ECM, it streamlines content management, enhancing productivity and accuracy in business process automation.
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According to a recent Gartner® report, “Supporting digital supply chain transformation with the use of emerging technologies remains a top-funded initiative for supply chain organizations.”
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