I work for a manufacturing company who’s evaluating Epicor Kinetic as a potential ERP replacement.
The production team feels that Epicor’s shop floor interface used to record activity and look up drawings isn’t very intuitive. Many of our shop floor team isn’t comfortable with computers and the standard screen may confuse and overwhelm them. They would benefit from a more guided experience using buttons, icons, and colors.
I would like to create a series of customized screens that can walk them through starting the activity, claiming quantity, looking up drawings, and ending the activity. That sort of thing. I was hoping to use a native low code solution within Epicor to create those screens, but my understanding is the software can’t do that level of customization.
Does anyone have a recommendation on a 3rd party tool we could integrate with Epicor where we could create that level of customized screens?
You should be able to achieve this with App Studio by modifying the MES/Data Collection interface, Out Of Box. You can certainly hide, move, or adjust things that don’t fit your business process.
You may need to integrate Widget/C# functions or JavaScript for more advanced things.
Potentially, you don’t have to use the out of box interface at all, since the logic behind it is all REST API calls. (although, as it is web-based and conscious of Computer/Tablet/Phone it is a fairly flexible interface, and I don’t think you’d need to roll your own app)
With colors specifically, you may run into limitations as Kinetic limits the colors you can use for highlights, etc. greatly. I’ve not found this to be a huge usability limitation in my experience, while simultaneously wanting full control over my colors.