We performed a comparison between Epicor ERP and Infor LN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two ERP solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."There's good flexibility within the inbuilt tools such as alerts, business process management, dashboards, and screen customization."
"The ability to deploy a generic implementation without advanced customization."
"Dashboards and Business Activity Query are very useful."
"Real-time results make for faster decision making."
"With Epicor, we can call a pitch between Epicor and the PLM database, which is a significant advantage."
"The product enables users to customize their dashboards and reports."
"The most valuable features of Epicor ERP are ease of use, powerful API, and comprehensive integration. It is a one-vendor solution, where other vendors need other software systems from multiple vendors."
"Epicor ERP is very technical friendly, if you want to do any customization, it's very easy."
"Most of them who use Infor LN have add-ons connected to ERP. It's either a supplier exchange, or they've got sales problems that are integrated with it."
"It's not too hard to handle the initial setup."
"The most valuable features are manufacturing, and manufacturing costing modules. These are all powerful features of Infor LN."
"It has strong sales, purchase, warehousing, and logistics order management."
"The initial setup is easy."
"I would say that it is typically used by large-scale manufacturing industries, especially in discrete manufacturing, and it has proven to work brilliantly."
"The project module is the best that I've ever seen, and more than that, it's the company's flexibility to change. It means that in our company, Infor LN has the capability to support many kinds of industries."
"Material planning and predictive planning are both essential aspects."
"There's a new version of the solution that has some bugginess. They're cleaning that up. The user interface is an area that needs improvement and they're improving."
"There are some glitches in Epicor ERP."
"A number of bugs in 9.05 were only fixed in 10."
"The tool should provide a better user interface."
"Epicor didn't care about user level and software applications. So, it's not so user-friendly for nontechnical people."
"Right now, it doesn't really have a good cloud story."
"In the newer version of Epicor ERP, it's very difficult to find out that tracing."
"I would like to see a better reporting tool."
"It's not that intuitive."
"The finance model within this solution does not have very strong reporting functionality, which I would like to see improved."
"The training for Infor LN is not straightforward, so a non-specialist will need training before using it."
"From a customers' perspective, Infor LN covers most of the processes in the company, but sometimes, they have to choose other tools because of the functionality or the cost of the Infor solution. It covers the core functions of the company—such as financial, operations, logistics, and so on—very well, but it doesn't cover some parts such as invoices, digitization, etc."
"When you have a bug in the system, you get some kind of alert. They should explain those alerts more."
"When it comes to planning, it's more challenging to consider the entire structure, such as having a specific SKU and wanting to look at the planning for the whole structure. You must delve into individual item details to plan for it with order planning. Therefore, improvements will allow more comprehensive planning for each SKU."
"Regarding areas for improvement within the solution, I would say that the solution's asset management and quality management need attention."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
Epicor ERP is ranked 17th in ERP with 12 reviews while Infor LN is ranked 8th in ERP with 24 reviews. Epicor ERP is rated 7.8, while Infor LN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Epicor ERP writes "The product is flexible and easy to use, but the user interface must be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Infor LN writes "A flexible ERP with the best project module and excellent support". Epicor ERP is most compared with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, SAP S/4HANA, Odoo, SAP Business One and Epicor iScala, whereas Infor LN is most compared with SAP ERP, Infor M3, Infor LX, Infor CloudSuite Industrial and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. See our Epicor ERP vs. Infor LN report.
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