Processing Technology Manager at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 20
2023-09-22T06:44:40Z
Sep 22, 2023
The tool should provide a better user interface. It takes time to use the user interface unless we are very familiar with it. There is a learning curve. The QC modules and HR modules are a bit weak. They do not have many features. The costs are not clear. It might affect us at the end of the month and the end of the year. I do not like it. The HR and QC modules must be made more elaborate. It should be like S/4HANA.
Epicor didn't care about user level and software applications. So, it's not so user-friendly for nontechnical people. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement.
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.
I would like to see a better reporting tool. It is hard to use right now because it has a lot of customizations, and I believe the partner has assigned them. It looks like it has not been customized properly because we are having issues pulling the reports.
I would like to see improvements in financial tools for international companies. DSPanel, an Epicor partner, created such a toolset (for Epicor), but Epicor never fully embraced it and did not produce a better solution. Many firms often end up getting a separate consolidation tool. Epicor has never really figured out what they want to do with CRM. It is possible to build out a full-blown CRM solution with the CRM module, but I always found it better to use SFDC and connect it to Epicor. To be fair, what they have in CRM tends to work for most customers.
CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
2021-10-26T12:00:30Z
Oct 26, 2021
If you're going to a cloud solution, you need to actually have a workable, practical web UI. Epicor doesn't really have a proper solution there, although they claim they do. However, it's not really popular. In practical terms, very few customers use it. Epicor is very flexible, so customization can get quite extensive. Yet, when you do something like that, on the cloud, it doesn't work well. Perhaps that is the reason many clients who had done those heavy customization can ever move to proper SAAS model. Right now, it doesn't really have a good cloud story. That said, Epicor 11 is coming out and they claim it's fully web UI. If I were to base it on Epicor 10, it doesn't really have a proper cloud solution. Also once you go fully cloud, the customization capability drops significantly. Secondly, base on my involvement for 15 years with Epicor, experiencing all major releases. The number of releases has dwindled. Almost nothing really sticks out if I look at the last two releases of Epicor - and my personal opinion is that they're not putting enough investment into R&D. It's got an inbuilt APS, however, to be honest, I've not seen anyone implement it. It does work. That said, in practical terms, when you have multiple constraints (labor, machines, tools, et cetera.), if you've got these kinds of constraints and you need all three to work harmoniously, then Epicor's scheduler cannot do the job. It looks very nice when you're doing a demonstration, however, it's not practical if you actually try to implement it.
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There are some glitches in Epicor ERP. Epicor ERP should add some automations.
The tool should provide a better user interface. It takes time to use the user interface unless we are very familiar with it. There is a learning curve. The QC modules and HR modules are a bit weak. They do not have many features. The costs are not clear. It might affect us at the end of the month and the end of the year. I do not like it. The HR and QC modules must be made more elaborate. It should be like S/4HANA.
Epicor didn't care about user level and software applications. So, it's not so user-friendly for nontechnical people. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement.
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.
I would like to see a better reporting tool. It is hard to use right now because it has a lot of customizations, and I believe the partner has assigned them. It looks like it has not been customized properly because we are having issues pulling the reports.
I would like to see improvements in financial tools for international companies. DSPanel, an Epicor partner, created such a toolset (for Epicor), but Epicor never fully embraced it and did not produce a better solution. Many firms often end up getting a separate consolidation tool. Epicor has never really figured out what they want to do with CRM. It is possible to build out a full-blown CRM solution with the CRM module, but I always found it better to use SFDC and connect it to Epicor. To be fair, what they have in CRM tends to work for most customers.
In the newer version of Epicor ERP, it's very difficult to find out that tracing.
If you're going to a cloud solution, you need to actually have a workable, practical web UI. Epicor doesn't really have a proper solution there, although they claim they do. However, it's not really popular. In practical terms, very few customers use it. Epicor is very flexible, so customization can get quite extensive. Yet, when you do something like that, on the cloud, it doesn't work well. Perhaps that is the reason many clients who had done those heavy customization can ever move to proper SAAS model. Right now, it doesn't really have a good cloud story. That said, Epicor 11 is coming out and they claim it's fully web UI. If I were to base it on Epicor 10, it doesn't really have a proper cloud solution. Also once you go fully cloud, the customization capability drops significantly. Secondly, base on my involvement for 15 years with Epicor, experiencing all major releases. The number of releases has dwindled. Almost nothing really sticks out if I look at the last two releases of Epicor - and my personal opinion is that they're not putting enough investment into R&D. It's got an inbuilt APS, however, to be honest, I've not seen anyone implement it. It does work. That said, in practical terms, when you have multiple constraints (labor, machines, tools, et cetera.), if you've got these kinds of constraints and you need all three to work harmoniously, then Epicor's scheduler cannot do the job. It looks very nice when you're doing a demonstration, however, it's not practical if you actually try to implement it.