Epicor Acquires Smart Software for AI-Powered Inventory Planning & Optimization Technologies

Smart Software is excited to announce that we are joining Epicor, a global leader of industry-specific enterprise software. The acquisition brings together two companies tightly aligned in helping organizations get to the right insights at the right time and take action to maximize business performance.

In joining Epicor, Smart Software customers will benefit from significant scale, development, and investment in our inventory planning and optimization solutions, over time giving you even more capabilities and product options. In acquiring Smart Software, Epicor is complementing and strengthening its portfolio of best-in-class ERP solutions, helping makers, movers, and sellers worldwide streamline and simplify their supply chains to gain a competitive advantage. As your strategic business partner, our top priority as we integrate the organizations in the coming months is to continue to provide you with the highest level of service and support you expect.

For more information on the news, please visit the Epicor Newsroom

 

About Smart Software, Inc.
Founded in 1981, Smart Software, Inc. is a leader in providing businesses with enterprise-wide demand forecasting, planning, and inventory optimization solutions.  Smart Software’s demand forecasting and inventory optimization solutions have helped thousands of users worldwide, including customers such as Disney, Arizona Public Service, and Ameren. Smart’s Inventory Planning & Optimization Platform, Smart IP&O, provides demand planners the tools to handle sales seasonality, promotions, new and aging products, multi-dimensional hierarchies, and intermittently demanded service parts and capital goods items. It also provides inventory managers with accurate estimates of the optimal inventory and safety stock required to meet

About Epicor
Epicor equips hard-working businesses with enterprise solutions that keep the world turning. For 50 years, Epicor customers in the automotive, building supply, distribution, manufacturing, and retail industries have trusted Epicor to help them do business better. Innovative Epicor solution sets are carefully curated to fit customer needs and built to flexibly respond to their fast-changing reality. With deep industry knowledge and experience, Epicor accelerates its customers’ ambitions, whether to grow and transform, or simply become more productive and effective. Visit www.epicor.com for more information.


For more information, please contact Smart Software, Inc., Four Hill Road, Belmont, MA 02478.
Phone: 1-800-SMART-99 (800-762-7899); FAX: 1-617-489-2748; E-mail: info@smartcorp.com

 

 

Smart Software to Present at Epicor Insights 2024

Smart Software will present Epicor Insights 2024 sessions on combining AI with planner knowledge to make inventory data-driven decisions.

Belmont, MA, May 2024 – Smart Software, Inc., provider of industry-leading demand forecasting, planning, and inventory optimization solutions, today announced that it will present at Epicor Insights 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Smart Software will be leading two sessions focused on combining demand forecasting and inventory planning AI with planner knowledge. These sessions are designed to empower Epicor Kinetic and Epicor Prophet 21 users to generate accurate forecasts and shape stocking policies that align with their business objectives.

Smart will also conduct two in-depth training lab sessions showcasing Smart Demand Planner and Smart Inventory Optimization, both integral parts of the Epicor Smart IP&O platform. Participants will gain expertise in precision forecasting and inventory management, learning to identify hidden risks in stocking policies, simulate various service strategy outcomes, and enhance forecast accuracy through comprehensive, multi-tiered analysis and scenario testing

Epicor Insight’s attendees may participate in any of the following sessions or Labs and are welcome to visit us at the Smart Software booth for a one-on-one consultation.

 

The Prophet 21 presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, May 21st, at 3:00 pm (CDT)

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The Demand Planning Lab is scheduled for Wednesday, May 22nd, at 3:20 pm (CDT).

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The Kinetic presentation is scheduled for Wednesday, May 22nd, at 4:20 pm (CDT)

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The Inventory Optimization Lab is scheduled for Thursday, May 23rd, at 3:15 pm (CDT)

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To learn more about Epicor Insights, visit here: https://www.epicor.com/en-us/customers/insights

 

About Smart Software, Inc.
Founded in 1981, Smart Software, Inc. is a leader in providing businesses with enterprise-wide demand forecasting, planning, and inventory optimization solutions.  Smart Software’s demand forecasting and inventory optimization solutions have helped thousands of users worldwide, including customers such as Disney, Arizona Public Service, and Ameren. Smart’s Inventory Planning & Optimization Platform, Smart IP&O, provides demand planners the tools to handle sales seasonality, promotions, new and aging products, multi-dimensional hierarchies, and intermittently demanded service parts and capital goods items. It also provides inventory managers with accurate estimates of the optimal inventory and safety stock required to meet


For more information, please contact Smart Software, Inc., Four Hill Road, Belmont, MA 02478.
Phone: 1-800-SMART-99 (800-762-7899); FAX: 1-617-489-2748; E-mail: info@smartcorp.com

 

 

Smart Software has been honored with the Epicor ISV Marketing Excellence Award

Belmont, MA, October 2023 – Smart Software is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of the Epicor ISV Marketing Excellence Award, recognizing Smart’s outstanding performance and contributions in driving successful marketing initiatives, campaigns, and innovation.

Pete Reynolds, Smart Software’s Vice President of Channel Sales, will receive the Marketing Excellence Award during the ISV Partner Briefing at Ignite. The event will take place in Dallas on Monday, October 23, 2023, from 10:45 am – 12:30 pm at the Gaylord Texan Convention Center.

Greg Hartunian, Smart Software’s CEO stated, “This recognition is a testament to the collaboration between the Smart and Epicor teams. Together, we’ve raised a great deal of awareness about the benefits of better inventory planning and forecasting.  We look forward to helping more customers in the year to come and launching our partnership to new heights.”

Smart Software is an Epicor Platinum Partner, the highest designation in the ISV Partner Program.

 

About Smart Software, Inc.

Founded in 1981, Smart Software, Inc. is a leader in providing businesses with enterprise-wide demand forecasting, planning, and inventory optimization solutions.  Smart Software’s demand forecasting and inventory optimization solutions have helped thousands of users worldwide, including customers such as Disney, Arizona Public Service, Ameren, and The American Red Cross.  Smart’s Inventory Planning & Optimization Platform, Smart IP&O, provides demand planners the tools to handle sales seasonality, promotions, new and aging products, multi-dimensional hierarchies, and intermittently demanded service parts and capital goods items.  It also provides inventory managers with accurate estimates of the optimal inventory and safety stock required to meet future orders and achieve desired service levels.  Smart Software is headquartered in Belmont, Massachusetts, and our website is www.smartcorp.com.


For more information, please contact Smart Software, Inc., Four Hill Road, Belmont, MA 02478.
Phone: 1-800-SMART-99 (800-762-7899); FAX: 1-617-489-2748; E-mail: info@smartcorp.com

 

 

Smart Software to Present at Epicor Insights 2023

Smart Software to present Epicor Insights 2023 sessions on how to extend Epicor forecasting and inventory planning with Smart IP&O

Belmont, MA, May 2023 – Smart Software, Inc., provider of industry-leading demand forecasting, planning, and inventory optimization solutions, today announced that it will present at Epicor Insights 2023 in Las Vegas, NV.

Smart Software will lead two sessions focusing on specific approaches to demand forecasting and inventory planning that enable Epicor Kinetic and Epicor Prophet 21 users to increase profitability, improve service levels, and reduce inventory holding costs.  A third customer led session will profile how the use of The Smart IP&O Inventory Planning and Optimization platform drove substantial reductions in stockouts for a leading automotive mobility manufacturer.

Epicor Insight’s attendees may participate in any of the following sessions and are welcome to visit us at the Smart Software booth for a one-on-one consultation.

 

  • The Prophet 21 presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, May 16th, 1:20 pm (CST) 

Extend Prophet 21’s Forecasting & Inventory Planning with Smart IP&O

 

  • The Kinetic presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, May 16th, 2:25 pm (CST) 

Extend Your Kinetic Forecasting and Inventory Planning with Smart IP&O

 

  • The Customer Led presentation is scheduled for Wednesday May 17th, 2:20 pm (CST) 

Customer-Led Optimizing Critical Parts Inventory Using Smart Inventory Solutions

 

To learn more about Epicor Insights, visit here: https://www.epicor.com/en-us/customers/insights

 

About Smart Software, Inc.
Founded in 1981, Smart Software, Inc. is a leader in providing businesses with enterprise-wide demand forecasting, planning, and inventory optimization solutions.  Smart Software’s demand forecasting and inventory optimization solutions have helped thousands of users worldwide, including customers such as Disney, Arizona Public Service, and Ameren.  Smart’s Inventory Planning & Optimization Platform, Smart IP&O gives demand planners the tools to handle sales seasonality, promotions, new and aging products, multi-dimensional hierarchies, and intermittently demanded service parts and capital goods items.  It also provides inventory managers with accurate estimates of the optimal inventory and safety stock required to meet future orders and achieve desired service levels.  Smart Software is headquartered in Belmont, Massachusetts, and our website is www.smartcorp.com.

 


For more information, please contact Smart Software, Inc., Four Hill Road, Belmont, MA 02478.
Phone: 1-800-SMART-99 (800-762-7899); FAX: 1-617-489-2748; E-mail: info@smartcorp.com

 

 

How to Select the Right Forecasting Method with Epicor Smart IPO

Smart Software is pleased to introduce our new series of educational webinars, offered exclusively for Epicor Users. In this webinar, Erik Subatis, Enterprise Solution Engineer at Smart Software, will reveal the statistical models Epicor Smart IP&O uses to forecast and how the automatic “best pick” system works. While automatic modeling is invaluable for large-scale forecasting, occasionally, these forecasts don’t reflect our expectations and/or business knowledge. Understanding how and when to override the model selection can be a valuable tool in a forecaster’s toolbox. Finally, the presentation will conclude by showing how to increase profitability with software-enhanced inventory planning processes in a Live Demo.

Attending this webinar, you will learn about the statistical models Smart IP&O uses to forecast and how to catch the exceptions so you can make the most of your forecasting tool.

WEBINAR REGISTRATION FORM

 

Please register to attend the webinar. If you are interested but not cannot attend, please register anyway – we will record our session and will send you a link to the replay.

We hope you will be able to join us!

 

SmartForecasts and Smart IP&O are registered trademarks of Smart Software, Inc.  All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.


For more information, please contact Smart Software,Inc., Four Hill Road, Belmont, MA 02478.
Phone: 1-800-SMART-99 (800-762-7899); E-mail: info@smartcorp.com