Epicor

What is Epicor?

Epicor is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software vendor serving manufacturing, distribution and retail businesses. Its products include Kinetic for manufacturers, Prophet 21 for wholesale distributors and BisTrack for building materials.

Key features of Epicor

• Kinetic: ERP aimed at discrete and mixed-mode manufacturers.
• Prophet 21: ERP built for wholesale and durable-goods distributors.
• BisTrack: ERP for building materials suppliers.
• Financials and accounting: general ledger, payables, receivables and reporting.
• Inventory and supply chain: inventory, purchasing and order management.
• Production management: planning and scheduling for manufacturers.

How Epicor works

Customers choose the Epicor product that fits their industry, configure modules for finance, inventory, sales and production, and run it in the cloud or, for existing customers, on premises. Epicor has announced a schedule of final on-premises releases for its main products, pushing new customers toward cloud subscriptions.

Who uses Epicor?

Mid-market and larger manufacturers, distributors and retailers use Epicor, often replacing legacy systems or spreadsheets with an industry-specific ERP.

Epicor pricing

Epicor does not publish list prices; every deployment is quoted by Epicor or a partner and varies by product, modules and users.

Epicor integrations

Epicor supports APIs for connecting CRM, banking and other business systems, with connectors varying by product line.

Epicor alternatives

IFS is a global ERP strong in asset-intensive and field service industries. Acumatica is a cloud ERP with consumption-based user pricing. Odoo is a modular, lower-cost ERP with an open-source core.