Innovating Process Manufacturing with Tropos

Epicor Tropos is an integrated ERP solution tailored specifically for process manufacturers across industries such as food, beverage, pharmaceuticals, metals, and chemicals. It provides a customizable industry-specific package that enhances operational efficiency, compliance, and customer satisfaction. With over three decades of industry expertise, Epicor Tropos can streamline business processes from order to delivery, enabling manufacturers to adapt quickly to market changes and drive sales growth efficiently.

• Improve process-minded business efficiency
• Sharpen operational efficiency of your supply chain
• End-to-end traceability simplifies your daily operation
• Manage production and quality control

Features

• **Operational Efficiency for the Supply Chain: **Streamline operations and gain a competitive edge by integrating of all your supply chain processes. Epicor Tropos Software helps you streamline your operations with suppliers and customers to help ensure that quality and customer service are maintained at the highest level. - Manage complete value chain: material grades, yield, scrap, waste, bi-products - Control and plan stock, production, packaging, distribution - Improve collaboration across stock, production, packaging - Prevent manufacturing breakdowns and interruptions
• **Complete Operational Control: **From Quote to Dispatch: Epicor Tropos Software solutions manage your complete production process, helping enhance production process management with integrated touch screen data collection and robust supply chain functionalities. This helps manufacturers to match materials based on specific production needs as well as allowing for flexible production adjustments with simple controls. - Manages the entire production process seamlessly - Integrates touch screen data for shop-floor efficiency - Controls production adjustments with ease - Ensures total supply chain integration
• **Efficient End-to-End Traceability: **Epicor Tropos solutions provide comprehensive end-to-end traceability for process manufacturing, ensuring critical oversight from ingredient origin to final product delivery. This level of forward/backward traceability is crucial for meeting regulatory standards, managing audits, and handling potential product recalls. It enhances safety, minimises risk, and supports new business opportunities by assuring customers of product integrity. - Ensures comprehensive step-by-step traceability - Instant access to detailed production data - Supports regulatory compliance and audit readiness - Maintains customer trust and ensures business growth
• **Smarter Inventory Management: **With the power to forecast and schedule replenishment and line side operations dynamically in response to customer demand, Tropos offers a suite of powerful and flexible tools for managing inventory. Its advanced capabilities enable more agile, lean operations with minimal inventory levels by moving beyond traditional batch-driven MRP systems. - Dynamically adjusts to real-time customer demand - Enhances flexibility of production scheduling - Minimises inventory requirements for leaner operations - Streamlines WIP tracking and shop floor control
• **A Holistic Approach to Quality: **Better quality management begins by integrating it across all stages of process manufacturing, from initial sales orders through dispatch. This comprehensive approach helps ensure high standards are maintained, enhancing product reliability and ultimately, customer satisfaction. - Integrates quality management across all production stages - Defines and manages quality specifications, sampling regimes and test results from order to dispatch - Dynamically links quality control tightly with material and product releases - Proactively monitors supplier performance

Benefits

• **Deliver Business Efficiencies for Process Focused Manufacturers: **Epicor Tropos has been designed to optimise process manufacturing across a range of industries, fostering efficiencies in demand-pull or lean manufacturing settings. By integrating smarter inventory control, precise delivery scheduling, and adaptable technology, Tropos can enhance operational efficiency, increase sales, and minimise costs. Its process model foundation is specifically designed to improve margins and reduce waste, positively impacting the bottom line.
• **Real-time and Accurate Decision Making: **With real-time access to critical business metrics, Tropos can enhance decision-making capabilities across manufacturing processes. It enables users to effectively pinpoint areas of financial efficiency and deficits. By integrating advanced analytics, what-if type scenario analysis, and KPI monitoring, it helps optimise performance and unify data, delivering vital insights to management and operational staff to facilitate informed and prompt decisions.
• **Improve Customer Service: **Epicor Tropos Software helps enhance customer service for process manufacturers by integrating sales forecasting with date code planning, ensuring timely production and fulfillment. This includes the ability to manage shelf-life sensitive products—particularly vital in the food and beverage sector—by aligning sales, production, and delivery schedules. This ensures products meet specific shelf-life requirements, improving overall customer satisfaction and service efficiency.