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Epicor ERP Case Study – Baxter Manufacturing

Baxter Manufacturing—a subsidiary of ITW Food Equipment Group—is a worldwide leader in designing and manufacturing quality cookware and

Epicor ERP Case Study – Baxter Manufacturing

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Baxter Manufacturing—a subsidiary of ITW Food Equipment Group—is a worldwide leader in designing and manufacturing quality cookware and baking equipment. One of the advantages of being owned by the ITW consortium is that the company gives subsidiaries like Baxter resources to succeed, yet also lets them choose their technology systems. Several other ITW companies also successfully rely on Epicor ERP to grow their business, but Baxter stands out for staying on the leading edge of the system and being an expert in how to leverage the technology to help its customers create authentic experiences for consumers.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • The dated ERP system lacked the flexibility to accommodate the business’ fast pace

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Reduced production lead time from 2 months to 1 day
  • Offered out-of-the-box functionality with easy-to-use data mining capabilities
  • Provided real-time information with a 360-degree view of the business
  • Helped identify business opportunities with existing customers through manufacturing resource planning (MRP) and customer relationship management (CRM) modules

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.

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Epicor ERP Case Study – Bracalente Manufacturing Group

Bracelet Manufacturing Group (BMG) is a U.S.-based contract manufacturer of precision machined parts and assemblies. Founded in 1950,

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Bracelet Manufacturing Group (BMG) is a U.S.-based contract manufacturer of precision machined parts and assemblies. Founded in 1950, the family-owned and operated company’s advanced engineering and manufacturing capabilities cover initial design, production, packaging, and shipping. Today, BMG delivers its manufacturing and supply chain management services to global customers in the aerospace, medical, energy, automotive, industrial, agricultural, ordnance, and oil and gas sectors.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Streamline and standardize operations across multiple geographies
  • Simplify the management of in-country legal, taxation, and accounting standards
  • Achieve a single, transparent view into global operations

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Unified information flows enhanced decision-making across the business
  • Enabled business process reengineering with a global perspective
  • Fully aligned operations in U.S. and China with consistent, end-to-end business and costing practices

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.

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Epicor ERP Case Study – Carando Technologies

Carando Technologies is a production equipment manufacturer that specializes in equipment to make the insides of washers, dryers,

Epicor ERP Case Study – Carando Technologies

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Carando Technologies is a production equipment manufacturer that specializes in equipment to make the insides of washers, dryers, heaters, and 55-gallon oil drums. Founded in 1909, the company ships worldwide to leading domestic appliance manufacturers. Carando is unique in that it’s only one of two companies in the country that specialize in this type of equipment manufacturing—and one of only a handful in the world. The company has been with Epicor since the 1980s and has been able to grow thanks to Epicor solutions.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Tracking and sustaining production of a complex product

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Provided visibility and accessibility of data needed to understand business health
  • Allowed for easy management of complex bill of materials
  • Gained efficiencies with capabilities that make it easier to manage workflow orders
  • Empowered employees by providing real-time access to the shop floor

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.

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Epicor ERP Case Study – Card-Monroe Corp.

Headquartered in Hixson, Tennessee, Card-Monroe Corp. (CMC) is the world’s leading manufacturer of custom-built tufting equipment used to

Epicor ERP Case Study – Card-Monroe Corp.

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Headquartered in Hixson, Tennessee, Card-Monroe Corp. (CMC) is the world’s leading manufacturer of custom-built tufting equipment used to manufacture carpets for a variety of flooring markets and applications. This ranges from residential to commercial applications of carpeting, combining a vast array of textures and color options. This includes artificial turf for sports fields and hospitality carpet with sophisticated styles found in hotels, restaurants, corporate offices, and convention centers.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Integrate manufacturing, inventory control, and accounting processes into one comprehensive ERP system

Solution

  • Epicor ERP
  • Epicor Data Management Tool (DMT)

Benefits

  • Improved ability to manage customer orders from quote entry throughout production, shipping, invoicing, and follow-up
  • Enhanced shop flow and collaboration among employees resulting in efficiencies that reduced assembly cycle times by 30% and machine shop work-in-process by 40%
  • Transported more than 670,000 records during implementation from differing sources into the Epicor ERP solution with complete accuracy

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.

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Epicor ERP Case Study – Aerobiotix, Inc.

Aerobiotix, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets professional air treatment systems for the healthcare market. Since 2013, they have

Epicor ERP Case Study – Aerobiotix, Inc.

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Aerobiotix, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets professional air treatment systems for the healthcare market. Since 2013, they have actively worked with administrators and facilities nationwide to evaluate air quality issues, set targets, and prescribe the appropriate solutions through careful cost/benefit analyses.

In May 2017, Aerobiotix launched their new HEPA Ultraviolet Air Recirculation System—the Illuvia 500UV—to capture five percent of the U.S. hospital system marketplace within the next two years. This objective is backed by efficacy studies showing that a single pass through the device eliminates bacteria and spore-related viruses by 99 percent.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Further company growth through the meticulous tracking of inventory, sales, purchases, and deliveries

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP Cloud

Benefits

  • Track the status and use of every machine in the production cycle at 30 separate hospitals nationwide
  • Improve sales tracking and performance
  • Easily transfer products and supplies from one location to another
  • Integrate general ledger functions

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.

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Epicor ERP Case Study – Metal-Tech Partners

Founded in 1992, Metal-Tech Partners (MTP) has rapidly grown from a supplier of telecommunications products to a multi-million-dollar

Epicor ERP Case Study – Metal-Tech Partners

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Founded in 1992, Metal-Tech Partners (MTP) has rapidly grown from a supplier of telecommunications products to a multi-million-dollar business providing custom manufactured and fabricated parts and services to the international telecom industry. This includes meeting exacting specifications for thousands of products ranging from racks, bays, and cabinets to pipe stands and support grids.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Lead the industry with high-quality products provided at the lowest possible costs and with the fastest turnaround times

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP Cloud

Benefits

  • Operate more efficiently by accessing production information on a daily or even hourly basis
  • Can track and review the time spent by every employee on projects
  • Eliminated paper trails so workers can focus on production
  • Better inventory control and prediction of shortages before supplies are depleted

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.

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Epicor ERP Case Study – Decimet Sales, Inc.

Decimet Sales, Inc. (DSI) is a custom metal manufacturing company that specializes in precision computerized numerical control (CNC)

Epicor ERP Case Study – Decimet Sales, Inc.

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Decimet Sales, Inc. (DSI) is a custom metal manufacturing company that specializes in precision computerized numerical control (CNC) machining and sheet metal fabrication. This includes one-stop customer service, design, prototyping, and manufacturing solutions for the retail, security, firearms, and industrial equipment industries.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Grow the company with a reporting system that tracks sales, backlogs, delivery times, and jobs at two separate facilities

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Provided reliable, real-time information and project updates
  • Instantly supplied customers with the details on any past or present order
  • Allowed for navigation between multiple departments companywide
  • Enhanced decision-making and increased production
  • Ensured timely customer deliveries

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.

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Epicor ERP Case Study – Kadant Inc.

Kadant Inc. is a midsize global supplier of high-value critical components and engineered systems for use in process

Epicor ERP Case Study – Kadant Inc.

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Kadant Inc. is a midsize global supplier of high-value critical components and engineered systems for use in process industries. It focuses on papermaking, paper recycling, and other processing industries in over 18 countries worldwide—including the United States, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and some European countries.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Lacked standardized global business management processes
  • China site previously had no ERP system

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Synchronized global business on the same ERP platform
  • Improved operational efficiency
  • Avoided redundant engineering workload by over 40%
  • The simplified data retrieval process

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.

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Epicor ERP Case Study – Kinematic Automation

Kinematic has been a global supplier of automated manufacturing systems for the medical industry since 1980. The company

Epicor ERP Case Study – Kinematic Automation

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Kinematic has been a global supplier of automated manufacturing systems for the medical industry since 1980. The company develops small to large-scale custom, state-of-the-art manufacturing systems built to the exacting standards and strict compliance requirements of the medical and diagnostic industry, and utilizing the tenets of lean manufacturing. Capabilities include all aspects of machine design and development, fabrication, assembly, and testing, as well as machine installation, operator training, and maintenance.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Needed strong manufacturing ERP capabilities to support its low-volume build-to-order production environment
  • Desired real-time data access to improve efficiency, collaboration, and overall responsiveness
  • Needed to be up and running in a compressed five-month timeframe

Solution

  • Epicor enterprise resource planning (ERP)

Benefits

  • Improved functionality and easy-to-use user interface offer immediate access to data
  • Improved accuracy, collaboration, cycle times, and on-time delivery
  • Improved efficiency enabling the ability to support greater production volume with existing resources
  • New robust reporting capabilities enabled the retirement of the custom reporting system

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.

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Epicor ERP Case Study – Madsen’s Custom Cabinets

Since 1962, Madsen’s has been engineering and producing some of the most noteworthy and innovative millwork products in

Epicor ERP Case Study – Madsen’s Custom Cabinets

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Since 1962, Madsen’s has been engineering and producing some of the most noteworthy and innovative millwork products in Canada. The company prides itself in its veneering capabilities—searching the world for the finest veneers and lumbers to ensure its clients receive the best possible quality.

The company’s prior enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions consisted of various, disconnected systems and lacked real inventory metrics. “Before we switched to Epicor, we struggled with functionality between multiple platforms and experienced material losses, labor losses—different things like that impacted the business,” recalled Craig Leach, sales manager, Madsen’s Custom Cabinets.

Success Highlights

Challenges

  • Find an ERP system capable of integrating disparate business departments

Solution

  • Epicor® ERP

Benefits

  • Saved CAD 200,000 per year in throwaway material, over-ordering, underordering, and incorrectly issuing materials
  • Reduced the time it takes for information to pass from shop floor to office
  • Provided real-time business metrics to anyone with access to the Epicor ERP system

 

About Encompass Solutions

Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.

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