Epicor Prophet 21 – Intro 1
No business software offers a more perfect fit for wholesale distributors than Epicor Prophet 21. Discover why thousands of distributors […]
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Adding Value to Your Distribution Business
A fundamental principal of business operations is distinguishing your company from the competition. Since larger companies often have the advantage of scale, smaller companies must find ways to differentiate themselves to appeal to new customers, retain existing customers, and add new revenue streams. One way distributors can do this is by offering value-added services to their customers.
Is Your ERP Ready for AI?
AI is transforming how business leaders look at enterprise resource planning (ERP) functionality, driven by digital disruptors that are leveraging AI across several dimensions to innovate on behalf of customers. But what is it? And how exactly can it help a business grow? This white paper outlines how artificial intelligence will increasingly support and enhance core ERP capabilities for distributors.
Enterprise Software for Distributors – Is There a Perfect Fit?
Implementing or replacing your ERP system is no light matter. It may appear to be a difficult and painful process, but, if executed correctly, it can open business opportunities and make your life easier.
Epicor Prophet 21 Value Summary
No other ERP provider knows distribution like we do. Epicor is focused on the things that matter to you—work queues, PO variance queues, kitting, assembly and production orders, advanced inventory forecasting, VMI, and special project pricing. We build our software using industry best practices and over 45 years of distribution experience.
Epicor Success Story: Emergent Safety Supply
Established in 1985, Emergent Safety Supply is a distributor of janitorial and safety products—ranging from earplugs and gloves to high-end equipment for confined space and fall protection. Emergent Safety Supply has developed a reputation as an innovator of safety solutions, bringing new products and services to its marketplace.
Epicor Success Story: Duncan-Parnell Inc
Named to North Carolina’s “Mid-Market Fast 40” list in 2014, Duncan-Parnell Inc. is a distributor and service provider for professional equipment, serving the AEC (architectural/engineering/construction) market including contractors, surveyors and designers. According to CFO Vicki Hafele, “In the service arena, we are a digital and large color printer, we provide service and training on all the equipment we sell, and we have major repair centers for surveying/mapping equipment.
Epicor Success Story: Birmingham Fastener Inc
Birmingham Fastener, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and distributor of fasteners for structural steel fabrication, metal building manufacturers, transportation, water works and utilities, original equipment manufacturers, agricultural equipment manufacturers, construction, and maintenance repair operators (MRO).
Taking Your Distributorship to the Cloud
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has come a long way in less than 20 years. Originally focusing on automating back-office functionality that didn’t involve customers, ERP soon evolved to include several phases of a business’ transactional operations.
Digitization Doesn’t Have To Be All-Or-Nothing
One would be hardpressed to find a distribution executive who doesn’t agree that the future of their industry is digital. Business-to-business distributors have long been behind the times when it comes to technology innovation—and slow to adopt it. Nonetheless, distributors have gradually been implementing or upgrading software and business tools and hiring more tech-savvy employees to increase the digital element of their culture.