The initial setup is not much different than SAP and Navision. The migration and setups are pretty standard. We upgraded our solution from on-premises to the cloud. Epicor hosts it. The deployment took almost three weeks, including the time taken for rectifying issues that arose due to the migration from custom MRP to Epicor. We needed one consultant and three other people to deploy the product.

This will very depending on the experience of the people involved and how well prepared the company is for the project.    

The solution’s initial setup is easy.

Epicor's setup is complex. If you are new to it, there's an 80% chance of you failing without having somebody who's experienced to guide you, as there are a lot of tools. Even your mindset to approach how to implement the solution is important. If you have the wrong mindset, such as, you think everything can be customized, and you don't manage it carefully, and that leads to a very high chance of failure. 

Scope creep and extension of the project, budget, and time and all those sorts of problems appear. Having someone with experience in implementing Epicor will definitely help a new partner who signs on, however, if you attempt to do it yourself, you will really struggle for the first year and to do a decent implementation.

The deployment process takes six to nine months.

ERP is a complex topic. The implementation is involved as it requires commitment from the organization. I've worked with many ERP systems, there needs to be an understanding of what that commitment level needs to be for the organization. It's a transformative technology. People look at it as only an accounting system, it's much more than that.

It was straightforward.

The initial setup was complex because we needed to learn everything about the application.

The initial setup is straightforward, I did not have any problems.