Electronics and high-tech businesses operate at a different velocity: product lifecycles are short, obsolescence risk is high, and customers demand faster time-to-market without compromising quality. At the same time, manufacturers must manage complex global supply chains, frequent engineering changes, strict quality and traceability requirements, and long-tail after-sales support.
In this environment, Epicor Kinetic (Epicor ERP) is positioned as an ERP platform built for manufacturing, delivering end-to-end capabilities across planning, production, quality, traceability, and service, backed by a modern user experience and real-time insight.
Why Electronics & High Tech Need Industry-Ready ERP
Epicor highlights the realities of electronics/high-tech: rapid change, fast product obsolescence, extended after-sales obligations, and increasingly complex supply chains. These conditions require ERP that supports lean execution, agile response, and measurable control, not just transaction capture.
With Epicor Kinetic, the objective is straightforward: shorten lead times, reduce waste, improve quality, and protect on-time delivery, while keeping end-to-end visibility from planning through the shop floor.
1) Customer-centric execution: Faster, more accurate Quote-to-Cash
In this industry, suppliers are measured relentlessly on delivery performance, cost, and quality. Epicor responds with capabilities designed to execute customer demand with greater responsiveness, including:
- Embedded CRM supporting quote workflows, from early design through estimating and sign-off.
- Demand Management and EDI collaboration to process customer demand more in real time.
The result: faster quoting, cleaner order conversion, and fewer operational surprises when demand changes.
2) Lean production you can actually run: Flexible, efficient, and standardized
Epicor emphasizes lean practices that span the enterprise. To support smaller, more frequent shipments, and higher flexibility, ERP must enable pragmatic pull-based execution. Epicor calls out support for Kanban (work order-less manufacturing) to improve pull strategies.
For engineering control, Epicor supports Engineering Change Order (ECO) processes, including managing multiple 3D models and technical drawings sourced from one or more CAD systems per part.
3) Demand planning, forecasting, and scheduling to reduce obsolete inventory risk
Because electronics inventory can become obsolete quickly, planning needs to be both responsive and precise. Epicor provides forecasting and Master Production Scheduling (MPS) for daily control and longer-range planning, using inputs from historical sources such as sales, invoices, and inventory usage.
For more complex environments, Epicor adds Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) capabilities such as:
- Multiple-constraint scheduling,
- drag-and-drop visual scheduling,
- capable-to-promise real-time,
- advanced material planning.
This combination helps reduce stockouts while preventing excess inventory that is likely to go obsolete.
4) Real-time shop floor execution with Advanced MES: Control OEE, yield, scrap, and downtime
Epicor highlights Epicor Advanced MES to deliver real-time performance data and reduce slow, error-prone manual data collection. With automated production monitoring, operators can focus on quality, detect issues earlier, reduce downtime, and maximize throughput.
Epicor also notes support for capturing digital/analog machine signals directly from machines/sensors or via PLC/OPC-compliant PLC, making it easier to scale IIoT initiatives on the shop floor.
5) Workforce readiness: Skills and certifications that stand up to audits
With ongoing upskilling demands and increasing requirements to prove workforce competency, organizations need to move beyond spreadsheets. Epicor positions Epicor Human Capital Management (HCM) as a comprehensive HRIS supporting HR automation and certification/qualification requirements.
6) Global, multi-site operations: Standards, compliance, and cross-site efficiency
Epicor emphasizes multi-site and global capabilities for organizations operating across countries. This includes support for global part-trade standards such as GTIN-14 and compliance requirements such as RoHS, while reducing inefficiencies across intra- and inter-company supply chains.
7) Deployment flexibility: Cloud, on-premises, or hybrid
Epicor offers deployment flexibility across public cloud, on-premises, and hybrid. Hybrid provides a practical “step into the cloud” path through extensions, without forcing a full ERP move at once, helpful for multi-site organizations with regional or geographic constraints.
8) Embedded collaboration: Epicor Collaborate
Epicor Collaborate is positioned as real-time collaboration embedded in Epicor ERP, enabling teams to discuss and act within data context for critical activities such as quote preparation, product innovation, engineering change control, and quality improvement, without losing context or decision history.
9) Mobile ERP that matches modern work
Epicor notes that work now extends beyond the PC, across customer sites, plant floors, warehouses, the field, and supplier visits. ERP must support consistent access across devices, with role-based dashboards and modern touch/gesture interactions.
ERP that locks in execution in a high-velocity industry
For electronics and high tech, ERP is not just a system of record, it’s an execution engine: fast when demand shifts, precise when engineering changes occur, disciplined when quality and traceability are required, and real-time when shop-floor visibility matters. Epicor positions Epicor Kinetic (Epicor ERP) as an end-to-end platform designed to meet those needs.
If your business operates in electronics or high tech and you’re evaluating Epicor Kinetic (Epicor ERP), KANO, as an Epicor consulting partner in Indonesia,can support a focused needs assessment, process-to-fit mapping, and a pragmatic Implementasi Epicor Kinetic roadmap to ensure ERP accelerates execution instead of adding complexity.
