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numbers of orders to automate order- entry processing while providing real- time inventory visibility and expedited fulfillment.
Kinetic’s Epicor Cloud Enterprise Services package offers features for large manufacturers that contend with uniquely complex bills of materials and material resource planning (MRP) requirements, reportedly enabling greater control and flexibility to man- age multiple plants and facilities world- wide on a scalable, secure cloud plat- form. It also offers boosted computing power, customizable cloud infrastruc- ture and access to premium support expertise.
Kinetic also includes a variety of user-experience upgrades, including personalization across the platform, designed to improve engagement and productivity. From customizations to enhanced low/no-code configurations within the Epicor Application Studio tool, each upgrade can be adopted at a manufacturer’s own pace to minimize
business disruption. This upgrade is complemented with 50-plus new hands-on training videos and tutorials integrated into the platform. Dalsin Industries is benefitting greatly from the user-experience and training fea- tures in the Kinetic release, according to Dalsin, who expects the ERP software to smooth operations between the company’s two locations.
“Operations between Lakeville and Bloomington will be facilitated by the ERP software in starting jobs at one plant and finishing at the other,” he says. “We will be able to track job costs and work in process as materials and parts shift between plants.”
Automatic Document Classification a Time Saver
With Kinetic, Dalsin Industries also has purchased Epicor ECM (enterprise content management), which uses arti- ficial intelligence and machine learning to automatically classify documents and submit them to the correct process,
which creates automated worklows for accounts payable/receivable, human resources, sales and more. In eliminating manual data entry, the platform can reduce the risk of errors while electron- ically routing documents for approval.
“ECM pulls out data from purchase orders that we receive by email, regular mail and fax, and creates the internal sales order,” Dalsin explains. “We don’t have to enter the data manually, mean- ing greater accuracy because we aren’t retyping information, which also saves time. The parts, pricing and other infor- mation are entered automatically and an order number created. With the order ready for processing, we roll it into a job through the MRP function.”
Another advantage for Dalsin Indus- tries provided by the ERP upgrade: data discovery.
“It allows creation of dashboards with real-time data,” Dalsin explains. “We can track the amount of sales dol- lars entered each week, the number of orders shipped each week or month,
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