Using Vantage/Epicor for Heat Treating

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I know of a consultant that has worked with a few Epicor customers that have heat treating processes. Email me offline and I can send you the info.

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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 12:02 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: Using Vantage/Epicor for Heat Treating

 

 

Thanks.

To be honest, I'm not looking for "how" to do heat-treat in Vantage.  I'm looking for "anyone" who _has_ done heat-treat in Vantage.  There are specific requirements that every heat treater I've spoken with understands.  They don't use Epicor, however. 

I hear all kinds of "all you have to do" responses (not to belittle you!) when I ask this question, and I've done it for several years. What I have yet to find is someone who says "I've done it, and here's how I did it."  Before we drop $100k getting consultants in to write it, or $150k having it done in-house, I want to be sure it's going to work.

The intersection of Heat Treaters and Epicor Users appears to be a very small set.

I'm going to enjoy Insights 2015. I plan to ask my CAM about it.  (New CAM, I think.)  I don't expect to get anywhere, but it ought to be interesting.

Thanks to all.

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We're currently on Vantage (8.03.409c) and plan to move to E10 (whatever is current) in the near future.

We currently run our heat treating operation on a legacy system written by a gentleman who hopes to retire.  All invoicing is run into Vantage via custom programming so accounting for heat treat is done in Vantage.

We're looking at a Heat-treat specific package and I've been asked to investigate the possibility of using Vantage to run the Heat Treat.  I've been told by many consultants that it can be done, and it would only cost $x0,000.  I don't mind the cost (though others do), as the other package will cost that much as well.

So the real reason for this post is this:  Is anyone _actually_ running their Heat Treat operation on Vantage or Epicor?  Quoting, receiving, job traveler, QC checks, charting, shipping, invoicing.  (all that and MORE) are what the 3rd-party app does.  Is anyone doing that in Epicor?

My thanks.


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If you’re referring to annealing, we do it all within Vantage 8.03.410.   Maybe I’m misunderstanding your question….Â

 

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 4:20 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Using Vantage/Epicor for Heat Treating

 

 

We're currently on Vantage (8.03.409c) and plan to move to E10 (whatever is current) in the near future.

We currently run our heat treating operation on a legacy system written by a gentleman who hopes to retire.  All invoicing is run into Vantage via custom programming so accounting for heat treat is done in Vantage.

We're looking at a Heat-treat specific package and I've been asked to investigate the possibility of using Vantage to run the Heat Treat.  I've been told by many consultants that it can be done, and it would only cost $x0,000.  I don't mind the cost (though others do), as the other package will cost that much as well.

So the real reason for this post is this:  Is anyone _actually_ running their Heat Treat operation on Vantage or Epicor?  Quoting, receiving, job traveler, QC checks, charting, shipping, invoicing.  (all that and MORE) are what the 3rd-party app does.  Is anyone doing that in Epicor?

My thanks.

 

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Do you send it out to a vendor to be heat treated?

 

Or is it done in house?

 

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 1:20 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Using Vantage/Epicor for Heat Treating

 

 

We're currently on Vantage (8.03.409c) and plan to move to E10 (whatever is current) in the near future.

We currently run our heat treating operation on a legacy system written by a gentleman who hopes to retire.  All invoicing is run into Vantage via custom programming so accounting for heat treat is done in Vantage.

We're looking at a Heat-treat specific package and I've been asked to investigate the possibility of using Vantage to run the Heat Treat.  I've been told by many consultants that it can be done, and it would only cost $x0,000.  I don't mind the cost (though others do), as the other package will cost that much as well.

So the real reason for this post is this:  Is anyone _actually_ running their Heat Treat operation on Vantage or Epicor?  Quoting, receiving, job traveler, QC checks, charting, shipping, invoicing.  (all that and MORE) are what the 3rd-party app does.  Is anyone doing that in Epicor?

My thanks.

 

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We receive customer parts (gears, pins, plates, whatever), run them through our furnaces, quench, anneal, and any other processing required, then ship them back.
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We are the vendor. We do the heat treating for other people.
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We do not do heat treating, but I do not see why you couldn't do all of those tasks within Epicor. We have a repair/service aspect to our business (in addition to mold making) and we run both completely using Epicor without any issues.

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If you create a sales order and linked the job to the sales order – you can ship it in customer shipments.

 

When you ship and clicked the shipped button, it because available to accounting for invoicing  when they go to Actions > get shipments.

 

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 7:52 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: Using Vantage/Epicor for Heat Treating

 

 

We are the vendor. We do the heat treating for other people.

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Thanks.

To be honest, I'm not looking for "how" to do heat-treat in Vantage.  I'm looking for "anyone" who _has_ done heat-treat in Vantage.  There are specific requirements that every heat treater I've spoken with understands.  They don't use Epicor, however. 

I hear all kinds of "all you have to do" responses (not to belittle you!) when I ask this question, and I've done it for several years. What I have yet to find is someone who says "I've done it, and here's how I did it."  Before we drop $100k getting consultants in to write it, or $150k having it done in-house, I want to be sure it's going to work.

The intersection of Heat Treaters and Epicor Users appears to be a very small set.

I'm going to enjoy Insights 2015. I plan to ask my CAM about it.  (New CAM, I think.)  I don't expect to get anywhere, but it ought to be interesting.

Thanks to all.