About Kinetic

Epicor Kinetic is a global, cloud-focused cognitive ERP solution built for manufacturers, driving profitability through real-time insights, people-centric AI, and seamless collaboration. Positioned at the core of your business applications, Kinetic leverages artificial intelligence to extract maximum value from your enterprise data, processes, and decision-making information. Purposely designed with deep industry expertise, it offers end-to-end capabilities for discrete, make-to-order, and mixed-mode manufacturers. Kinetic supports the needs of leading manufacturers across multiple industries, including Industrial Machinery, Fabricated Metals, Electronics and High Tech, Plastics and Rubber, Automotive, Aerospace and Defense, Medical Device, Consumer Products, Furniture and Fixtures, Measuring and Controlling Devices, and more. Embrace future-ready business, digital transformation, and flexible deployment with this singular, AI-enhanced ERP solution. Kinetic is a carefully curated suite of software applications that effectively manage business information, offering a real-time 'single point of truth' across your organization. By integrating people-centric AI based on decades of industry expertise, Kinetic can not only streamline operations and bolster efficiency but also empower your workforce with intelligent automation and predictive insights. Our AI-driven capabilities facilitate smarter decision-making, improved profitability, and enhanced customer satisfaction. With continuous technical innovation, Kinetic adapts to anticipate and respond to changing business needs, ensuring your ERP evolves with your enterprise. For more than half a century, Epicor has specialized in manufacturing, offering industry-leading productivity solutions designed just for manufacturers. Our comprehensive solution sets reflect decades of deep understanding and continuous adaptation to our customers' unique business processes and operational challenges. Now, we elevate these solutions with advanced AI technologies, ensuring even greater performance and value. • Streamline and Optimize: Efficiency is the heartbeat of any successful operation. Streamline and automate your business with advanced AI technologies, helping ensure that every cog in your business machine moves in harmony. From the top floor to the shop floor, experience operations that are seamless, efficient, and purposeful. • Drive Revenue and Boost Profitability: Through decades of industry expertise, Kinetic addresses the core needs of manufacturers and specialist industries. Our deep manufacturing knowledge, now augmented by intelligent AI solutions, ensures that you're not just running a business but optimizing it for maximum profitability with smart automation and data-driven decision-making. • Engage and Connect: Kinetic brings advanced AI technology to your workflows to bridge the gap between you, your customers, suppliers, and employees. Foster deeper relationships and gain comprehensive insights to actively guide your business. Create a highly collaborative ecosystem that thrives on mutual success, powered by intelligent automation and predictive technologies. • Flexibility for Growth: Businesses evolve, and so should your ERP. Kinetic is designed for growth, integrating leading technologies like AI and machine learning to help ensure that as you expand, adapt, and transform, your ERP remains flexible and ready with the agility needed to give your business a competitive advantage. • Stay Ahead with Cutting-Edge Technology: With a relentless focus on innovation, Epicor helps your business leverage the latest technologies to outperform competitors. Partnering with Microsoft, OpenAI, and Workato, Kinetic combines cloud simplicity and security with AI-driven automation and actionable insights.
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Kinetic pricing

Kinetic does not have a free version.

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Kinetic Reviews

Feature rating

Value for Money
3.5
Functionality
3.8
Ease of Use
3.5
Customer Support
3.3
5 reviews of 177 View all reviews
Jeff
Jeff
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 29/09/2020

Exceptional ERP Software for Manufacturers

Over the course of nearly twenty years as an Epicor admin in manufacturing, my experience has been fantastic. The software is simply to use, extremely flexible, and the ways that the data can be extracted (reports, BAQ's, and Dashboards) make it a VERY powerful analysis tool when the time to enter data is done properly. The support team is also fantastic...and while maintenance and support is expensive, it's worth it and you get what you pay for.

Pros

Epicor is extremely flexible right out of the box, and is exceptionally strong in the areas of managing and tracking Production Jobs, Bill of Materials, Scheduling, Labor, Inventory, Purchasing, and Order Entry. It also has the ability to have customized development, and things like the Epicor BAQ's, Dashboards, and Business Activity Manager features allow customizes information, exportable grids, and notifications to be setup by administrators and even end users as these modules are user-friendly and fairly intuitive! The Shop Floor Data Entry Module (MES) is also very intuitive and simple to use for the users on the production / manufacturing floor.

Cons

Epicor ERP is expensive software, and since it's such a wide product that handles so many aspects of your business, setup really must be done according to Epicor's recommendations and completed thoroughly. Also, since it's so flexible, there is a lot of it that you won't use, so it's best to create clear work instructions for your team and/or hide fields and/or functions that you will not need to use.

Alternatives Considered

JobBOSS²

Reasons for Switching to Kinetic

The user-interface, functionality, exceptional flexibility and customizable design made this the right choice for both manufacturers that I have worked for using Epicor.

Response from Epicor Software

Hello Jeff, thank you for your feedback about Epicor ERP. We're glad to hear you find it flexible and intuitive. Your feedback is invaluable. Please email us at [email protected] to share additional comments and learn about our customer reference program.

Replied 30/09/2020
Alicia
Alicia
  • Industry: Furniture
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 21/11/2019

Robust ERP System Ideal for Manufacturing

We’ve been pleasantly surprised at how it is turning out to meet our business needs, while knowing the amount of work necessary to get it set how we need.

Pros

Easily mass upload and update data. Configurable modules to meet your business needs. Responsive, knowledgeable and helpful consultants.

Cons

Some restrictions which are costly to customize and work around. Forms are not easily edited. Many modules are an extra added cost to subscribe every year.

Response from Epicor Software

Hi Alicia, thank you for your feedback about Epicor ERP. We're glad to hear that the data mangagement aspects of our ERP is working well for you. Your feedback is invaluable. Please email us at [email protected] to share additional comments and learn about our customer reference program.

Replied 22/11/2019
Dan
  • Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Features
3
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

3
Reviewed on 03/05/2018

Epicor Manufacturing, some parts are better than others

Epicor is a mid-market software for companies that are under 100 employees (roughly) and more than 50 who need an ERP. Version 10 is by far the cleanest version. Given the choices at this size of a company's growth, it is a viable choice. Just be careful that the VAR doesn't walk you down a road to heavy customizations that get in the way of future upgrades and cost you yearly in re-working them when you upgrade or patch the ERP. Stick to custom reports, custom user screens, and use the Business Objects provided to interface with and all should be well.

Pros

Ease of use, E10 is cloud based, support (when in US) is good, Short learning curve, fairly flexible, highly customizable

Cons

Highly customizable tends to get pushed to overly customized which = a mini-new ERP project with every upgrade to fix broken customizations, VAR network: some are great, some not, support for down-rev version falls off quickly, plan on extended cost of ownership, import/export functionality is limited unless add-on products are purchased, Field Service module is the weakest link in the product.

Brian
  • Industry: Machinery
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Features
4
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
3

4
Reviewed on 07/10/2020

Workflow made easy

We used this to manage the company. We track time on projects. Keep inventory, and is used heavily in supply chain.

Pros

This software handles all of your company needs. It does time management, inventory, project management, and more. This was very easy to roll out to end users.

Cons

So far we have only used this for less then 6 mo. I don't have any down side at this point. There is still a learning curve that we need to over come.

Response from Epicor Software

Hi Brian, thank you for your feedback about Epicor ERP. Your feedback is invaluable. Please email us at [email protected] to share additional comments and learn about our customer reference program.

Replied 09/10/2020
Alyssa Rose
Alyssa Rose
  • Industry: Consumer Electronics
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 20/11/2018

Epicor ERP allows the analysis of data in real time.

Epicor is a solid and highly scalable option that generates a positive return on investment. It also has a real-time data analysis. I recommend Epicor ERP thanks to all the functions that allow employees to work more efficiently and quickly. Although Epicor needs to improve the support team a lot, I'm sure to recommend it.

Pros

Epicor ERP creates purchase orders, senders and invoices that generate a high return on investment. In addition, we have been able to accurately track work activity. Epicor meets our accounting needs. Epicor ERP is ideal for companies that buy components from many different places, so there can be traceability. A large number of departments use the system (order entry, sales, IT, finance). In addition, Epicor has a user interface with the ability to export to Excel. Epicor allows real-time data analysis and financial reporting to help make decisions faster.

Cons

Epicor does not take advantage of innovations in the development of queries, which would allow inexperienced users to generate their own results without the help of the IT department. In addition, the software support team still needs to improve greatly in order to achieve better efficiency.

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