Epicor Kinetic
Epicor’s manufacturing ERP, rebranded from Epicor ERP, with a browser-based interface and a low-code studio layered on the older E10 architecture. Strongest in discrete and make-to-order plants.
Employee records, time and absence, and the pay run itself. The line to watch is where the vendor's own payroll stops and a local partner takes over, because that boundary tends to fall exactly at the countries you operate in.
Stackmark rates IFS’s hr and payroll as moderate: offered by the vendor, with a narrower scope than its core modules.
The tier is read from the vendor’s own documentation, cited below, and says how the module is delivered — not how well it works for a given company. That is what the demonstration questions are for.
In which countries do you run payroll yourselves rather than through a partner, and who owns statutory filing in each case?
How does the payroll posting reach the general ledger — one summary journal, or costed down to department, project and cost centre?
How are statutory changes such as new rate tables or filing formats delivered, and are they included or chargeable?
Can an employee sit in one legal entity and be costed to another, and does that raise an intercompany charge automatically?
Other profiled systems whose records rate hr and payroll as core. Alphabetical; a listing is a documented fact, not a recommendation.
Epicor’s manufacturing ERP, rebranded from Epicor ERP, with a browser-based interface and a low-code studio layered on the older E10 architecture. Strongest in discrete and make-to-order plants.
Family-owned, privately held ERP vendor founded in 1976 that writes its software and staffs its support in-house, selling almost entirely to small and mid-size manufacturers.
Infor’s family of industry-specific cloud suites, sold pre-configured for a vertical rather than as a blank platform to be shaped in implementation.
The Infor suite aimed at complex process and distribution manufacturers, with a long European installed base in food, fashion and equipment.
Oracle’s long-lived enterprise ERP with a deep asset- and project-intensive installed base, still maintained rather than retired, and commonly run on Oracle’s own infrastructure.
The former Great Plains accounting system, still running in many small and mid-size North American businesses. Microsoft points its users at Business Central as the successor.
Privately held ERP vendor founded in Israel, selling a broad mid-market suite with offices in the United States, United Kingdom and Belgium.
Cloud ERP from Ramco Systems, an Indian enterprise software company, with finance, supply chain, asset management, projects, production, quality and HR and payroll built on one platform. Ramco sells it alongside its global payroll, aviation MRO and logistics products, mainly to medium and large organisations in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.
Long-established small-business accounting and light ERP product for North America, still widely run on-premise and typically supported by a local reseller.
The previous generation of SAP’s core ERP, still in production at many large enterprises. Its approaching end of mainstream maintenance is what drives most S/4HANA projects.
A people-first enterprise suite whose financials sit alongside its much larger HCM footprint. Usually chosen by service organisations where headcount, not inventory, is the business.
The pages the depth rating and module list were taken from. The module description and questions are Stackmark’s own, shared with the module page.