Stay on budget and manage limits through workflow-based approval and automation.
ARM offers manufacturers and service businesses an organized and unified solution to control spending better. Supporting the supply chain and manufacturing value stream without interruption depends on reducing waste and costs while having purchased items ready, at hand, and on time. Smart routing of requisitions significantly shortens approval times, increasing your competitive edge.
Benefits
First, you see lower costs with the shorter deployment, as ARM is tightly integrated with Kinetic. Secondly, your business benefits from increased efficiency in daily procurement administration. ARM helps organizations reduce running costs and improve margins.
Tailor the approval setup to your business needs with a flexible workflow and manage multiple levels, tolerance limits, dimensions, out-of-office approvers, and more. This powerful automation helps your business deliver faster, so you can stay one step ahead of the competition.
Achieve a smarter inventory by ordering what is needed just in time for your manufacturing operations. Thanks to the close integration with Kinetic, ARM helps procurers boost efficiency, contributing to healthier, more optimized levels of stock in the warehouse.
Capabilities
Reduce or eliminate external or paper-based systems for managing purchasing and stock transfers. Epicor ARM enables organizations to gain visibility and regulate procurement spending by providing an online workflow and purchase requisition tool.
No need to purchase an external tool to manage procurement approvals for your manufacturing needs. Save costs with ARM as the implementation times become shorter. ARM delivers full-cycle procurement functionality, improves efficiency, and reduces procurement lead time.
ARM supports Kinetic Cloud and runs on multiple mobile devices in any browser so that approvers can review requisitions on the go. Leave the paper-based hassle behind, plug in ARM, and enjoy a powerful requisition approval system that suits your schedule.
Minimize returns and entry errors with a catalog: a pre-defined, searchable list of goods and services with photographs and diagrams for setting up new requisition lines—similar to an online shopping cart. You can also make one-off purchases based on your level of authority.
Free up your team for more strategic activities by keeping them fully informed about requisition status, submissions, approvals, or denials, reducing the need for further clarification. Stakeholders gain visibility on who is purchasing what from whom, so they can more efficiently negotiate vendor discounts.
Using ARM, purchasers can “punch-out” directly to a vendor-managed website and choose items for the purchase request. The ARM integration with these external sites then transmits the relevant information to the buyer and the requisition. From there, the process continues as a normal requisition.
Control internal transfers better with ARM and make sure items are located where they need to be. ARM supports internal requests or transfer requisitions from one inventory to another within the company. The inventory transfers are routed through the same approval as the other requisitions.
In this demo, explore how we use ARM to tackle a typical real-world purchasing scenario.