Hi Brad! If you haven’t heard of the MI-IN Epicor Users Group, you may want to check us out! We are having a meeting on Oct 3rd in Kalamazoo, MI. Message me if you want more info!
Beth Rye
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Hi Beth,
Where can I find the group?
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Name
Jason McDermott
Geographic location
Ridgeland, SC (go to Podunk, then drive 5 miles into the woods; bring a paper map)
(I live in Savannah, GA)
Company you work for and what they do
TICO (Terminal Investment Corp.). We build industrial trucks that move containers at ports and distribution warehouses. We sell to customers and operate our own (large) fleet.
What you do at your company
Everything Epicor. Also I serve as the thorn in the side of Engineering.
What version of Epicor you are on
10.2.300.15
About three years on Epicor now; one year on MT SaaS and the last two on prem.
Currently working on bringing our (first) sister entity into Epicor as well.
What technical level you are with regards to Epicor.
I’d say upper-intermediate. As someone else said, I feel like an expert, until I come here. Excellent with MRP and BAQs, but I sure don’t do C# code except when I absolutely have to (like Configurator).
Anything else you might think is interesting.
Got my bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering, then joined the US Army as a helicopter mechanic, where I learned common sense and a general loathing of mechanical engineers.
Married seven years; two kids - a toddler daughter and an infant son.
I hate technology. Especially the Facebooks.
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Welcome Jason, 
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Welcome in Jason! It was good to see you at the regional EUG meeting this week.
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Sorry to everyone that gets pinged because I am posting here, but I was hoping to resurrect this thread for any newcomers. I really enjoyed reading all of these when I joined in September and I’d like to hear about others that have not posted their bio yet.
Or is it one of those things where I became a member and now it’s not cool anymore. 
I see I was the last one to introduce myself…
Also if you are new, these were some awesome recent posts that prove there are human beings on this site:
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Hey everyone,
I cheated and copied from @Banderson as base, but hopefully everyone had a great weekend!
I joined here a while ago and was one of the original influencers/evaluators of ERP products here where I am currently working again (EZ Loader.) Since I have been posting and present here more I felt I would introduce myself and not be such a lurker 
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- Name
Clint Smith - Geographic location
Bull Shoals, Arkansas, USA - Company you work for and what they do
EZ Loader, Boat Trailer Manufacturer - What you do at your company
Epicor Specialist is my Title, but I also assist in other IT/Engineering areas as well from Custom Dealer/OEM Logo Step Cutout Design, Web Development, User Support, System Setup and Configuration at our custom plant here Midway, Arkansas. My main Epicor duty is Setup and Configuration and Customization. DMT loads especially our custom trailer builds and all ERP system configurations between Test and Pilot. I have a specialized Excel spreadsheet that builds flattened BOM’s for Customs from an Indented version to easily import using the DMT tool. Mostly, I spend lots of time just doing setup items and data import. - What version of Epicor you are on (put that in your profile too, it helps!)
10.2.400.9 - What technical level you are with regards to Epicor.
In regards to Epicor, beginner/intermediate I would wager, but capable of doing advanced tasks if needed. - Anything else you might think is interesting.
Still learning C# & Epicor, but I’ve been writing code since 1982 on my Commodore VIC20.
Still love learning new things and really enjoying the challenges of finding solutions for requests here at EZ Loader.
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All I can say is Opps 
!0.2.400.9 is correct according to our epicor client not sure where I got .10 that was on my profile 
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Hello! I’m fairly new. I’ve been reading through the articles in here for about a year now as I struggle to get up to speed. My name is Dan Ramirez and I work for a company called Vanair in Michigan City, IN. We just converted to Epicor and our go-live was 2/1/2020. I was primarily responsible for the Engineering side of things and played a major role with ensuring we had a functioning product configurator at the time of Go-Live. It wasn’t perfect, but it was functional.
I loved the idea of Epicor when we first took the tour a few years back. BPMs, BAQs, dashboards, etc. I love data and numbers and I had spent a pretty good amount of time building a better internal ticketing system for our Engineering Department that gave us visibility of KPIs such as response time and closure rate. I always hated how our systems were siloed. So when I saw all the features Epicor had, it seemed like it had the potential to be fantastic, if used properly. Anyway, were 6 months in, and I have a dedicated role to support our Data and process workflows through Epicor now. I love it. But I don’t have a team here to bounce ideas off of - so I am very thankful and appreciative of this community. I look forward to working / bouncing ideas off you all.
I guess that is one thing I could ask for advice. How do you go about finding articles to help out with? Do you follow tags? Just browse the newest ones? Is there a good strategy?
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Hi!
I’ve started working with Epicor 9.5 since 2014 when I started at my Company, Measurand. I live in Sioux Lookout Ontario but Measurand is in Fredericton NB Canada. I pretty much do everything for Epicor (BPMs, BAQs, Configurators, Dashboards, Customizations, Reports, Parts, BOMs) except any network or server stuff (other than back end SQL). I help all Departments in what started out as a small company of 30-ish people that grew to over 100 people with a partnering company.
This Forum has been exceptionally useful, thank you all. We are now upgrading to Epicor 10 which means I have to learn how to do most things again as well as SSRS (was Crystal Reports) and I just keep coming here lol. Anything I don’t know I like to figure out and if I have down time I learn something new about Epicor and how we could be using it better.
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Hello,
I have been working with Epicor since 1997 on Vantage Version 2.4 and currently we are running HCM in the cloud and ERP version 9.05 with a progress db on site. I’m looking at moving our ERP to cloud in the next 6 months.
I work for a company that employees 100+ people and makes fasteners for the automotive market. All the little screws and connectors you find in a car that you don’t have a wrench for. We have 600 BAQs feeding Crystal Reports, Dashboards and Quick Searches. We also have a high number of context menu additions to display custom dashboards. We have about 100 methods and data directives mostly for just pre-populating and controlling data in fields. I was one of the original yahoo group members and years ago was a company that frequently demoed Epicor for others, but mostly now I just a lurker. I will become more active with my up coming conversion and maybe can chime in more as we now will be saying on more current versions.
Patrick Winter
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There was a name for you guys: “Gang of 100” or something like that, correct?
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“Gang of 100” was probably the PG version, we use to give the Epicor Sales and Tech people attending the Chicago Meeting’s a pretty hard time for buggy software roll outs.
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Hi Dan and welcome!
I’m Beth Rye and I head up the MI-IN Epicor Users Group. I started using Epicor about 10 years ago and felt the same as you. Back then, there wasn’t a MI-IN EUG and I had no idea the EpiUsers group existed either (it was a Yahoo user group then). I was elated when someone finally told me about the Yahoo group’s existence!
People here are very helpful. You may want to search and read through some of the past issues that people have had when you have a task you’re unsure of how to do.
As for the MI-IN EUG, we normally have in person meeting that are help quarterly. Due to COVID-19, our meeting have gone virtual. The regional EUGs are teaming up to provide virtual meetings so anyone can attend - FREE!! Go to Epicorusers.org to find out more. If you don’t want to sign up as a Premier member (because there is a cost to it), then you can sign up as a regional user at no cost. If you need assistance with joining the MI-IN EUG as a member, please feel free to reach out to me and I’ll help you get started!
Also check out YouTube. There are several people who have posted YouTube videos on how to do things in Epicor.
Happy Learning!!
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Note: @aidacra (Nathan Anderson) was last seen in Kalamazoo, MI at a MI-IN EUG Meeting and then he disappeared from the internet.
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@hkeric.wci No idea where he went. As far as I know, he got on a plane and headed back home. Maybe he found Jimmy Hoffa while he was there?!? 
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Pipped me. I started with Plantinum SQL 4.2 in 1998
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