What is Epicor CMS?

The automotive industry requires precision and efficiency from their manufacturing and delivery systems. Epicor CMS is a purpose-built ERP solution for automotive manufacturers, with tools and controls that meet the strict delivery requirements and rigorous production deadlines that your customers demand.

• Reduce shipping errors and tighten inventory accuracy with serialised inventory tracking
• Gain clear shop floor visibility using loT sensors to monitor your machines
• Meet ever-changing customer labeling and compliance requirements with world-class automotive EDI
• Deliver new levels of operational efficiency and eliminate data silos

Features

• **Financial Management: **The automated, integrated accounting controls in CMS help you streamline financial operations. CMS Financial Management gives you access to real–time fiscal information, with a broad focus on managing processes and resources.
• **Planning and Scheduling: **Strong planning and scheduling is critical in the automotive industry. We know you face premium shipment costs and your supplier rating can be at risk if you don’t have your parts ready to go. CMS gives you unparalleled visibility into your operations, helping ensure your shipments are on time, every time.
• **Serialised Traceability: **Epicor developed embedded labeling capabilities to help businesses seeking tighter inventory accuracy and better adherence to customers’ label compliance guidelines. You can easily track serials, lots, coils, heat numbers and more.
• **Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): **At Epicor, we understand that Automotive EDI is a critical but often time-sensitive part of the automotive supply chain world. CMS has built-in support for all major automotive OEMs as well as supplier EDI. We offer support for both EDI and other communication standards like JSON, XML, and CXML.
• **Compliance and Quality: **Automotive quality standards and compliance requirements are complex and challenging. Take advantage of our production quality alerts, built-in control plans, online inspections, serialized inventory, RF scanning, supplier portals, and built-in APQP, PPAP, and FMEA tools
• **Supply Chain Management: **You’ll find the tools you need for all procurement activities embedded in the CMS solution. The integration of purchasing and other CMS components allows for full supplier collaboration via email, EDI or internet, providing real-time access to inventory and procurement information.
• **Production Control: **Deliver new levels of productivity with efficient production control capabilities and Smart Factory innovation—designed to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and increase quality. Take advantage of built in capabilities like MES, repetitive manufacturing, and visual Kanban tools.
• **Business Intelligence and Analytics: **Build a data driven business with business intelligence and analytics. Epicor helps you turn your data into actionable insights. Non-technical users have can have instant access to data, taking them from easy-to-read dashboard to detailed data in just a few clicks.
• **CAD/PLM Integration: **Integrate your CAD/PLM system with Epicor CMS eliminating inefficiencies and errors. Synchronize engineering drawings with production data.

Benefits

• **Automotive Compliance: **The automotive industry has been at the forefront of adopting quality standards and compliance requirements. You may have to follow Minimum Process Requirements and MMOG/LE compliance standards. From trying to maintain a high MMOG/LE rating to complying with a demanding Honda MPR, or Customer EDI requirements, CMS has tools to help you.
• **Connect Your Factory: **Connect your machines and eliminate the potential for human error by automatically reporting quantities and printing serialised labels lineside. By automating data capture and separating signals from the noise, your operators can focus on what you hired them to do—make quality parts.
• **Reduce Expedited Freight Costs: **Accurate and on-time shipping is not only critical to an organisation's cash flow in the automotive world, it also impacts their supplier rating, and their ability to grow new business. Epicor CMS has built-in controls that can help you meet shipping requirements on time, every time.