Epicor Procurement Provides Powerful New User Features and Workflows, Mobile Access and Extended Support for Direct Materials Process
IRVINE, Calif., June 25 - Epicor Software Corporation (NASDAQ:EPIC), a leading provider of enterprise business software solutions for the midmarket and divisions of the Global 1000, today announced significant enhancements to its Epicor Supplier Relationship Management Suite, part of Epicor's end-to-end solution that enables companies to drive efficiency, improve performance and build competitive advantage by streamlining and optimizing purchasing processes for direct and indirect goods. The latest release includes new features and tools for Epicor Procurement including order-to-stock for direct materials, mobile access for approvers and an enhanced user experience for requisitioners.
According to a recent report from Forrester, "Competitive sourcing and automated contract creation and negotiation tools can lead to deals on purchased goods and services that can save an enterprise millions of dollar a year -- on paper. eProcurement applications help create employee compliance with these deals by putting all preferred supplier catalogs at a single corporate site that is accessible by browser and readily searchable, providing easy-to-use tools such as wizards to guide buyers through the requisitioning process and automating the approval process for purchases by employees."(1)
Extended Support for Direct Materials Process
Epicor Procurement, a Web-based purchasing solution that empowers employees to manage their own buying within the framework of defined business rules, works with the core Epicor system as the Web-based face to inventory control. Working together with the Epicor Supply Chain Management suite, Epicor Procurement provides visibility to stock and the ability to generate orders to stock and stock transfer requests. With Procurement, companies benefit from extensive approval workflow capability and audit trails and comprehensive spend analytics.
The enhanced tools for direct materials processes in Epicor Procurement provide functionality that is in high demand among industries that manage direct materials in many locations, such as hospitality. Hotels, restaurants and other multi-site hospitality organizations can leverage Epicor Procurement to restock multiple locations from a central warehouse or commissary, as well as track inventory at each remote location.
Connecting Purchasing Process through Mobile Access
Epicor Procurement empowers the mobile worker by enabling order approvals via PDA. The newly available mobile access tools not only helps mobile users to complete their jobs with greater efficiency, but also makes approving from desktop e-mail easier by providing order details in each approval notification e-mail.
Epicor customer PB (http://www.pbworld.com/), an international planning, engineering, program and construction management organization, acknowledges the value of the mobile access feature in Epicor Procurement. With an expansive global presence needed to complete its large-scale projects, PB has invested in mobile technology to keep on-site managers connected to the enterprise in real-time. The addition of mobile access for Epicor Procurement will put more tools and resources in the hands of the remote project teams.
"Epicor Procurement is critical to our ability to capitalize on our buying power with contracted vendors and helps us keep our project expenses in check," said Rikki Geisler, purchasing director for PB. "The new mobile access capability in Epicor Procurement will help ensure that the workflow processes for approvals maintains the speed necessary to meet the requisitioning needs of our geographically-dispersed workforce."
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