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bkyleInspiring
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

how do I entre outside Payroll service info for both GL and Bank rec

I am switching from doing payroll in Epicor to an outside service. I ran a few payrolls and am now entering the data from Payroll reports into Epicor.  I made a spread sheet.  Cut and pasted into a GL entry and posted. GL wise everything is kosher. Today I am doing a bank rec. I have no payroll cash transactions to clear since they were GL entries. If I make bank adjustment entries I am double counting. Not sure how to fix what I did in December and how do I enter the data in the future  so I have balanced GL entries and can do bank recs.  Any advice would be appreciated.

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1 year ago
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bkyleInspiring
posted in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

Switch to outside payroll service

After 25 years of processing payroll in Epicor I am switching to an outside service. I am a bit confused on how to handle the GL entries from payroll. In particular which entries come for payroll and which entries come from posting  cos/wip activity.  I have always had problems with hourly employees in  office or other indirect positions posting to direct labor accounts.  I am single location, single segment or division, nothing complicated.  How do I make sure I put my office and indirect in the right account and don’t double up with entries from payroll service and cos. Any advice would be appreciated. 

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1 year ago
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bkyleInspiring
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

Setting burden rates

I discovered I have a big discrepancy between my burden costs on my sales gross margin report and burden costs on my income statement.  I have not looked at them in a while and they are off and of course not in a way that I am making more money. So I need to up my rates for both costing and quoting. Looking for advice on how to determine correct rates. How much variation should there be in resources for capital equipment and other costs?  What should I do once I change the rates for jobs that will have a combination of old and new rates so I can tell if changes are successful?

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1 year ago
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bkyleInspiring
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

job operation posting estimated instead of actual time

I am on Epicor version 10.2.300.8 and have not done an upgrade in a long time.  I recently noticed that in all of my production inquiry reports all of my  setup operation were exactly meeting their estimated standards. I knew that couldn't be right. Production time is posting actual correctly.  I don’t see a setting to control this. I see where a resource group can be set to post both production and set up to estimated time but not just setup. Any ideas?

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1 year ago
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bkyleInspiring
posted in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

Quirk in loading reports Kinetic cloud

I recently did a data refresh in my kinetic cloud environment. Prior to that I created a solution for all of customized reports.  I loaded the solution and could look up the reports in Report style and could edit my breaking rules. When I wen to print an Order acknowledgment all that listed in the drop down was the standard SSRS option.  No matter what I did they did not show up.  I contacted support and they told me to try and copy the reports and see if they show up. I tried that and the copies show up but the originals still do not.  So one  more step to add  after a conversion.

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2 years ago
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bkyleInspiring
posted in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

Kinetic ssrs break and routing email not working

I am  in the testing phase of  cloud Kinetic and have hit a roadblock. In my current Epicor 10 on premises version I use Altec APM to automatically email order acknowledgments, packing lists and invoices. When they go out the senders email is in the from section and the customer can hit reply to communicate. Now in Kinetic I was convinced to drop Altec and switch to docstar  and SSRS breaking and routing and everything will be easier and better. Well it isn’t either, first I had to create a lot of custom fields and load them with BPM’s to hold my emails addresses.   If I have my emails go out from a fixed email address I think it works. But if I use anonymous authentication so I can use the senders email it doesn’t. I can send to users in my domain but if I send to external users  they just disappear. I don’t know what office 365 does with them. The last response from Epicor was I need to contract professional services to fix this.  This is not a custom application.  You have a senders

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2 years ago
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bkyleInspiring
posted in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

ADP for payroll ??

We have been processing our own payroll since vista 3. I am now considering switching to APD. Has anyone switched from in house to ADP? How do you get payroll information to  ADP? Do you still run payroll and send from payroll program or just upload hours from MES?  Where do you get GL entries from?  Is it any easier to use ADP than do it yourself?

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nmueller
2 years ago
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bkyleInspiring
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

manufacturing in batches

I have a new machine that processes parts in various size batches depending on how many parts fit in a carrier. It could be anywhere from 5 to 100 pieces and five carriers run per load. SO I could have anywhere from 25 to 500 pieces processed simultaneously.  I am wondering  what is the best way to estimate time and expense.  we generally use pieces per hour or minutes per piece depending on how long a process takes. My concern is mostly on small quantities.  For example if a batch of 100 pieces takes fifteen minutes that is 400 pieces an hour.  But if I only have 20 pieces it still takes 15 minutes not 3 minutes.   Problem 2 . I can mix batches so I can run mutliple jobs at once. What is the best settings in Resource group for running multiple jobs simultaneously for splitting time.

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2 years ago
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bkyleInspiring
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

kinetic forms

We are testing for a cloud deployment and are getting very frustrated using the new Kinetic forms. The navigation is all different and not at all intuitive. I keep asking Epicor for some form of instruction or taped webinar on how to use the forms and all I get back is the sound of crickets. At this point I don’t know if they just don’t work or we can’t figure them out.  If Kinetic is not useable I don’t see much point in continuing with my cloud deployment. Does anyone have any resources on how to navigate Kinetic forms? 

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2 years ago
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bkyleInspiring
posted in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

Exchange virus

We are victims of the out break of the exchange virus. We host our email on our own exchange server and most of our server programs are in the 2014 versions. Our IT service notified us of the breach on on Tuesday March 16 and we planned to upgrade exchange in order to be able to apply the remedy from Microsoft. On Friday March 19th no one could log into our servers.  We had to create a new domain but were not confident in restoring any back ups for fear of reintroducing the virus. We replaced all of our workstations instead of reformatting hard drives and reinstalling windows. In several days were able to move email to office 365 cloud and get that back. It took a full week to rebuild and restore Epicor. We still don’t have APM and any emails prior  to the crash. We are a small company 40 employees with 15 Epicor users.  The cost of restoration right now is about $37,000. I hope my  data policy in my liability insurance policy covers  most of it but I think there will be some battles.

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3 years ago
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