Yesterday word came down at my company that we were abandoning our Epicor Implementation after 18 months and an estimated $400k. It just became pretty clear that Epicor just wasn’t the way through. A few months back, we hired outside people to come in and move the project along & we got as far as …

You are sooo right about this. On our end… from the start IT was almost not involved… it was a management project. They had ownership. We were only there to support and give our opinions… (I must admit, Epicor was not my first choice… ;)) But because of that it was management who had control…

[image] Aaron_Moreng: We are implementing another ERP now away from Epicor Oh no, you’re leaving us?!

Personally I think Epicor/Kinetic is in a weird place right now. For new implementations, it doesn’t make sense to go with the classic, stable interface, and the recommended interface (KineticUI) is still not stable enough for general consumption (IMO). Expertise has not yet had time to develop arou…

The fact you picked 3rd party hosted tells me all I needed to know. You have fd yourself :slight_smile: Jokes aside. It really comes down to the Executives and The Governance Team. I can go on talking about a successful launch vs a fail. But it really comes down to did you invest enough upfront int…

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[image] hkeric.wci: We always blamed the Tool, never the people who use the tool. Once we realized that it’s always the tool that uses the tool, not the tool that the tool uses, we’ve been able to tool along with just about any tool using any tool.

[image] SteveFossey: Once we realized that it’s always the tool that uses the tool [mean girls thats right GIF]

I can tell you 20 CRMs we tried and failed… Please do. May save us some time in the future if the expanded Jobscope implementation doesn’t end up being the right solution.

The pressure!! He’s getting valuable skills that might translate into being a member of a bomb squad, though.

Epicor Project Abandonment

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Relatable #2: 1 man Kinetic implementation in an SMB Beauty Product Manufacturing Biz

I am still in shock that Management is employed at this company.

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Epicor Project Abandonment

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