Robust ERP Platforms Address Metalworking’s Specific Needs

The latest inventive Enterprise Resource Management (ERP) systems are found in the cloud, and digitally transform your shop floor to achieve cost and production efficiencies, as well as meet sustainability goals.  

Updated Cost and Sustainability Insights for Fabrication, Casting and Forging 

Manufacturing simulation software provider aPriori (Concord, MA) announced new cost and sustainability guidance for bar and tube and sand casting manufacturing processes. aPriori has supported precise should costing for bar and tube sand casting for years. By adding analysis for carbon equivalent emissions, users can now run trade-offs for different designs by examining cost and carbon simultaneously.  

This expands aPriori’s comprehensive support for metal fabrication, casting and forging, machining, and other production methods. aPriori simulates manufacturing processes and deterministic routings to optimize production based on cost, sustainability and manufacturability requirements. And to increase efficiency, aPriori enables users to explore production alternatives down to the machine level.  

Manufacturers use aPriori’s automated manufacturing insights to eliminate product costs, improve productivity, and reduce their products’ carbon footprint. This includes examining “what-if” scenarios to identify how changes in design, materials, and production can impact cost and sustainability in real time. With aPriori, customers achieve a ~600% ROI within three years and payback within six months of adopting our software platform.  

www.apriori.com/product-sustainability/ 

ERP Software Empowers Your Business to be a Future-Focused Force  

Epicor (Austin, TX), a global leader of industry-specific enterprise software to promote business growth, is proud to offer Epicor Kinetic, a cloud ERP solution that helps manufacturers maximize momentum and innovation to be a future-focused force. Epicor is known for its industry expertise — uniquely positioning Kinetic to manage the requirements of organizations that manufacture and distribute fabricated metal products. Case in point, it currently has 70,000 cloud manufacturing users and supports simple-to-complex build plans, make-to-order, engineer-to-order, and more with a single, comprehensive solution. 

Its intuitive, configurable, and guided browser-based applications make it easy to personalize the user experience and access integrated capabilities like Advanced Planning and Scheduling, Customer Relationship Management, and Configure, Price, Quote. Epicor Automation Studio, an integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solution embedded within Kinetic, offers a low-code integration and synchronization tool that makes it easy for Epicor users to connect their data across more than 1,000 applications and databases and create automated workflows.  

Kinetic cloud customers also now have access to Grow, a low-code/no-code BI solution that connects to Kinetic Business Activity Queries, as well as more than 75 other popular apps and platforms — providing the data and dashboards that Citizen Analysts can use to surface actionable insights. Epicor strategically acquired Grow Inc. in 2022. The acquisition gives Kinetic users a simple, easy-to-use platform to build the right models to make great decisions in real-time to accelerate growth. 

In addition, the latest release 2023.1 of Kinetic boasts advanced MES improvements, optimized browser experience, expanded cloud offerings and capabilities, new Automated Fulfilment, Visual Procure to Pay, Inactive GL accounts warnings, and GL Journal Header Descriptions, and that’s just to name a few.  

www.epicor.com   

Smart TECH in ERP Platform Includes AI and Machine Learning  

SYSPRO’s (Tustin, CA) SYSPRO 8 2022 is an ERP solution specifically built for manufacturers and distributors to address their unique business challenges, so they spend far less time and money on customization and see value sooner than with generic ERP systems. SYSPRO also integrates an array of innovative smart factory technologies into its platform — including AI, machine learning, predictive analysis and IoT services — and it’s easy to integrate third-party solutions, should they be required. SYSPRO also has a robust ISV partner program with pre-integrated solutions for functionality such as e-commerce and more. 

SYRPRO 8 2022 has two major new capabilities:  

• The Application Designer: A low-code development tool to create and distribute new applications using scripting in SYSPRO to create new, future-proof digital solutions in SYSPRO. 
• SYSPRO Embedded Analytics: Provides centralized BI capabilities from within SYSPRO ERP, enabling manufacturers and distributors to gain actionable insights to make data-driven decisions.

For fabricators and metalworkers, specifically, SYSPRO provides a number of critical capabilities, including: 

• An integrated manufacturing execution: This capability enables planning, scheduling, reporting and machine integration for automated and manual shop floor data capture. With real-time production information, fabricators and metalworkers gain flexibility and the ability to react quickly and effectively to changes in supply.  
• Multiple levels of part structures and alternative methods for manufacturing, design and costing. SYSPRO simplifies the complex task of designing and managing various ways of manufacturing products and prevents unauthorized changes outside of review to save incorrect items being used in production.  

https://us.syspro.com/ 

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