Epicor Operations Consultant

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Epicor Operations Consultant who enjoys working directly with manufacturing organizations and wants to play a meaningful role in ensuring an Epicor Kinetic implementation is configured correctly, supported by clean data, adopted by users, and positioned for a successful go-live. The ideal consultant will have participated in multiple Epicor ERP implementations and understands the complete implementation lifecycle—from discovery and requirements gathering through configuration, data migration, testing, training, cutover, and post-go-live stabilization.

Our client is seeking an experienced Epicor Kinetic Operations Consultant to support an active Epicor Kinetic implementation. This is a hands-on consulting role for someone who understands both Epicor functionality and manufacturing operations and can work directly with business users, leadership, and implementation partners to help drive the project toward a successful go-live.

The ideal consultant will have participated in multiple Epicor ERP implementations and understands the complete implementation lifecycle—from discovery and requirements gathering through configuration, data migration, testing, training, cutover, and post-go-live stabilization.

This is a contract engagement requiring a minimum of approximately 25 hours per week, with the ability to travel up to 50% based on project needs.
Key ResponsibilitiesEpicor Kinetic Implementation

• Support an active Epicor Kinetic implementation across manufacturing and operational business functions.
• Apply a strong understanding of Epicor implementation methodology and best practices throughout the project lifecycle.
• Participate in requirements gathering, discovery, fit-gap analysis, solution design, configuration, testing, training, cutover, and go-live activities.
• Translate manufacturing and operational requirements into practical Epicor solutions.
• Work closely with the implementation partner while representing the client's operational and business requirements.
• Help evaluate implementation recommendations and determine whether proposed solutions align with both Epicor best practices and business needs.
• Identify process, configuration, data, or project risks before they impact implementation timelines.

Manufacturing & Operations
Provide functional expertise across key Epicor manufacturing and operational areas, including:

• Manufacturing and production management
• MRP
• Production planning and scheduling
• Job Management
• Bills of Material (BOMs)
• Routings and Operations
• Work Centers and Resources
• Inventory Management
• Purchasing and Procurement
• Material Management
• Warehouse and Shipping
• Order Management
• Shop Floor / MES
• Labor Reporting
• Job Costing
• Engineering and ECO processes
• Quality processes
• Make-to-Order and Make-to-Stock manufacturing environments

The consultant should be able to understand how decisions made in one area of Epicor impact downstream processes, including inventory, costing, purchasing, production, scheduling, shipping, and financial reporting.
Required Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with Epicor Kinetic and/or Epicor ERP 10.
• Multiple years of Epicor functional consulting, business analysis, or implementation experience.
• Previous participation in at least one full-cycle Epicor implementation;multiple implementations strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of Epicor implementation methodology and ERP implementation best practices.
• Deep knowledge of manufacturing and operational business processes.
• Strong Epicor experience across MRP, Job Management, Inventory, Production, Scheduling, Purchasing, BOMs, Routings, and Shop Floor processes.
• Strong experience with ERP data migration, cleansing, mapping, validation, and conversion.
• Working knowledge of Epicor DMT.
• Ability to perform fit-gap analysis and translate business requirements into Epicor functionality.
• Experience with UAT, process testing, training, cutover, and go-live support.
• Ability to troubleshoot both system and business-process issues.

Additional Skills That Will Make Someone Successful
The strongest candidate will be more than an Epicor "button pusher." We are looking for someone who understands why manufacturing processes work the way they do and how Epicor should be configured to support them.

Successful consultants should have:

• Strong manufacturing business-process knowledge.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with shop-floor users, department managers, executives, IT teams, and outside consultants.
• Ability to challenge requirements or implementation decisions when a better Epicor solution is available.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to identify gaps between current-state processes and future-state Epicor functionality.
• Strong documentation and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities within an active implementation.
• A collaborative consulting style with the ability to build credibility with both business and technical teams.
• Ability to work independently while remaining accountable to project milestones and deliverables.

Preferred Experience
Additional experience with the following is beneficial:

• Epicor Application Studio
• BAQs and Dashboards
• BPMs
• Epicor REST integrations
• SSRS reporting
• Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS)
• Advanced Material Management (AMM)
• MES
• Epicor Data Management Tool (DMT)
• Multi-site or multi-company Epicor environments
• Third-party integrations
• ERP upgrades from Epicor E10 to Kinetic
• Manufacturing process improvement and change management

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Epicor Operations Consultant who enjoys working directly with manufacturing organizations and wants to play a meaningful role in ensuring an Epicor Kinetic implementation is configured correctly, supported by clean data, adopted by users, and positioned for a successful go-live.