TIE EDI- Automating B2B Communication Presented by Emile van de Klok – Managing Director TIE Kinetix - EMEA Guy Fisk – Sales Engineer TIE Kinetix

Agenda for today’s session TIE Kinetix and the Epicor Partnership The supply chain and EDI Epicor’s integrated EDI and its benefits Live product demo WD-40 UK case study How to get started

TIE Kinetix and the Epicor partnership

Who is TIE Kinetix? Offices: Netherlands, DACH, France, US, Asia In business for 25 years Public company: NYSE Euronext TIE Kinetix transforms the digital supply chain by providing total integrated e-commerce solutions. These solutions maximize revenue opportunities by minimizing the energy needed to market, sell and deliver online. Customers and partners utilizing TIE Kinetix consistently benefit from innovative, field tested technology and are able to remain focused on their core business. Publically Traded on the

TIE Kinetix Supply Chain Solutions

TIE Kinetix and the Epicor Partnership TIE Kinetix - Epicor’s Global EDI partner 15 year - partner with Epicor since 1998 Epicor and TIE Kinetix product teams work together Customers in Manufacturing, Automotive, Retail, Medical Devices, Distribution, Aerospace EDI integrations with: Epicor ERP (9), Vantage, Enterprise, Vista Manage 2000, Epicor Retail, iScala

The supply chain and EDI

The supply chain and EDI Supply chains consist of a variety of companies with different processes to conduct business (planning, ordering, shipping, billing, financial, etc.) Information and data needs to be exchanged between companies but it is often difficult because businesses use different technologies, systems and methods to do this. EDI or Electronic Data Interchange is the preferred globally accepted method for exchanging data between businesses. Many EDI standards are governed by non-profit organizations to provide a common “language” & method for communicating these processes between machines Examples of standards: EDIFACT, Tradacoms, ANSI-X12, XML

Manual processes vs. EDI Supplier/Manufacturer Customer/Retailer Manual Processes Planning Schedules Shipping Schedules Purchase Orders Purchase Order Change Purchase Order Acknowledgments Advance Ship Notice Invoices Logistics $10-$15 per document, labor, chargebacks, delays in cash flow, inventory Secure Communications EDI Process XML, EDI, ASCII Purchase Orders Invoices, ASN Directly integrated with EPICOR, automated machine to machine, fast, error free, inexpensive, green

Business Needs Need to comply with a partner’s requirements to do business electronically Already do some kind of EDI, but it is difficult to manage new relationships Need to streamline and automate manual processes Rekey of business documents Billing Shipping Planning Looking to increase rating and visibility with key customers

What makes EDI difficult? (Q & A) Lack of direct integration into my Epicor application TIE Kinetix has been specifically designed to work with Demand Management, Epicor legacy and Epicor Retail applications I need highly technical staff to manage TIE Kinetix and Epicor can manage the entire EDI system remotely at your facility or via our 24/7 global data center Integrations are difficult to maintain TIE Kinetix and Epicor provide updates to our customers as integrations change over time It is too expensive TIE Kinetix can normally run your complete EDI system for less than 50% of current “in-house” operational costs giving full ROI usually within 3-6 months

Benefits of EDI Reduces or Eliminates Manual Handling of Data, Web Portals, avoiding Errors and Reworks Reduces Cost Labor Paperless Time Better Cash Flow Improve Business Processes Shortens Response Times Lower Inventory Levels Reduction in the Ordering/Shipping time cycle Closer business partnerships

Epicor’s integrated EDI and its benefits

How this solution is different? TIE and Epicor teams working together for 15 years Integrated product management and roadmap Example recent change Service Connect vs Direct Import Designed to meet short term and long term integration requirements, i.e. migrations Simple process and time saving to add partners (templates available for EDI maps and workflows) – Full graphical interface One stop shop and knowledge center for ERP, Demand Management and EDI Managed locally or in our world class data center facilities

Example architecture E9 – EDI

Document Support in EDI/Demand Management EDI Transactions provided “Out of the Box” Inbound 830 – Planning Schedule 862 – Shipping Schedule 850 – Purchase Orders 860 – Purchase Order Change Outbound 855 – Purchase Order Acknowledgment 856 – Advance Ship Notice 810 – Invoices TIE-to-Epicor Maps and Service Connect / Direct Import Workflows provided to support above Robust Vantage/E9 import/export functionality easily supports additional EDI documents. Base EDI maps are easily configured to meet Trading Partner requirements

TIE Kinetix EDI – eVision solutions Workstation Single Server (Client, Database, Application) Windows Only Up-to 25 partners NetServer All platforms Distributable Event notifications, can be triggered by other applications Unlimited Trading Partner tier available Enterprise Real time processing, event driven, just in time delivery Multi-processing Webserver, Browser Interface, WebServices interface

eVision from TIE Kinetix Additional benefits of TIE solution Support all EDI Standards/Documents/Languages Client Server Architecture Available Web Client (Demo to follow) Exception based processing Completely automated through scheduling or event driven real time Email notification of errors or automatic reporting Trading Partner specific processing Functional Acknowledgements Multiple Data Format Translation Workflows options to customize processes Multiple Integrated Communications options

EDI Live Demo – by Guy Fisk

WD-40 Showcase

WD-40 Showcase WD-40 has 6 offices in Europe (UK HQ) EDI integrated with iScala and parallel migration to E9 EDI as a managed service (SaaS) Benefits: 11000 out of 28000 orders processed via EDI saving 1800 hours per annum No additional internal EDI resources needed when doubling EDI business Managing expectations helps to improve customer experience More efficiencies because of centralized EDI in Europe “TIE Kinetix has the EDI expertise and Epicor ERP knowledge to guarantee great results now and a smooth transition once we are ready to go live with E9 . In addition, the fact that TIE can directly communicate with our customers in their local language is worth its weight in gold.” – David Webb, WD-40 Business Analyst

How to get started Contact : Emile van de Klok – TIE Kinetix Your Epicor Account Manager Fill out EDI Planning Document Request a live EDI demo and get all your questions answered by our EDI experts in a one:one session TIE / Epicor provides back an overview of required EDI components with options for license, software as a service or a hybrid model

Q&A

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