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Epicor ERP vs IQMS Enterprise IQ comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Epicor ERP
Ranking in ERP
13th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IQMS Enterprise IQ
Ranking in ERP
29th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the ERP category, the mindshare of Epicor ERP is 3.7%, up from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IQMS Enterprise IQ is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Khalid Jalal - PeerSpot reviewer
Requires extensive customization and fails to meet manufacturing needs
My overall experience with Epicor ERP is extremely bad. I just finished a call with the team, and the experience is really unsatisfactory. I will not recommend it to anyone. There's extensive customization required for Epicor ERP, and the standard process is not suitable. Though it is meant for manufacturing, it is not performing the manufacturing job effectively. Regarding the installation process, the implementation is not the problem as the installation is fine. The issue lies with configuration. Although it's supposed to be configurable, it requires customization for everything we need to do. When comparing to JD Edwards and in-house applications, a process that takes one minute in those systems takes ten minutes in Epicor ERP because users have to navigate through different screens constantly. If a user forgets to switch to one screen, the process remains incomplete, making end-user training extremely difficult. There's no automation and workflow feature that can be used without customization. Everything requires changes, making it similar to developing a new platform from scratch. Initially, we anticipated some benefits from using Epicor ERP, but based on the current outcome, it has been completely unsuccessful. The main issue is that everything requires customization rather than configuration. Unless they change their whole approach from customization to configuration, this product should not be used anywhere.
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Allows customization for production and has good sales, distribution, and quality management features
Previously, we were using a very small ERP called Visual Udyog. Visual Udyog is a very cheap solution. For a startup company, it's useful. It's not an elaborate ERP, but it gives at least 25% of what IQMS gives. It can give 25% or even close to 50% of what IQMS can give and at 10% of the cost. Initially, for the first five years of the company, where it has only one million turnover or two million turnover, it is enough. Once you want to scale up, you have to go to SAP or IQMS. I also worked with SAP. I would say that IQMS and SAP go hand-in-hand.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"With Epicor, we can call a pitch between Epicor and the PLM database, which is a significant advantage."
"Epicor ERP paid for itself in the first year and a half, and continued to make the company lean and more profitable by providing tools to manage business operations better, such as production scheduling, finance, and estimating products."
"The solution is great for production planning because everything is out of the box. It smoothly handles the process from engineering to ERP, including version management and subcontracting. These features aren't in NetSuite."
"Real-time results make for faster decision making."
"There's good flexibility within the inbuilt tools such as alerts, business process management, dashboards, and screen customization."
"For the past two years, my focus has been fully on Epicor ERP, and there are many new features which we did not deploy in our platform."
"Epicor ERP is very technical friendly, if you want to do any customization, it's very easy."
"Dashboards and Business Activity Query are very useful."
"This solution has all of the features you need: sales, distribution, supply chain. It has logistics and production management capabilities. It has so many modules, which were integrated using our expertise."
 

Cons

"AI and additional improvements could be made."
"There are some glitches in Epicor ERP."
"The main challenge with implementing Epicor ERP is finding the right partners, especially in Europe."
"In the newer version of Epicor ERP, it's very difficult to find out that tracing."
"Everything requires changes, making it similar to developing a new platform from scratch."
"There's a new version of the solution that has some bugginess. They're cleaning that up. The user interface is an area that needs improvement and they're improving."
"The UI is quite logical, but it needs time to train users because some functions are complex to understand. As for cons, some calculation logic is difficult to grasp and requires time to test and try out. Creating dashboards or reports needs some technical IT knowledge."
"A number of bugs in 9.05 were only fixed in 10."
"Setup is very complex."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"When comparing Epicor ERP to the other related products, the pricing, additional enhancements, as well as implementation, are better."
"The initial cost may be a bit high, but the maintenance cost is lower."
"Pricing isn't a big problem for the solution - I haven't seen them lose deals because of it."
"We bought an on-premise version of the solution. The cloud version is different. I've looked into it, but it's very competitive on the low end of the market."
"Epicor ERP is an expensive solution."
"User support could be improved as well, as the consultant charges are very high."
"We paid about 20% with the purchase order. Six months later, we paid another 20%, and then another 20% after another six months. We paid the remaining 40% after 18 months."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
19%
Computer Software Company
10%
Healthcare Company
8%
Construction Company
6%
Manufacturing Company
24%
Computer Software Company
13%
Healthcare Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Epicor ERP?
Epicor ERP is value-conscious in pricing, offering more compared to competitors. Although there are cheaper systems available, Epicor competes well on price.
What needs improvement with Epicor ERP?
There are areas for improvement in human resources within Epicor ERP's cloud environment; although strong, these areas could be enhanced.
What is your primary use case for Epicor ERP?
We use Epicor ERP ( /products/epicor-erp-reviews ) for the full suite of ERP functions, including finance to supply chain, manufacturing, purchasing, and quality.
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Also Known As

Epicor SaaS ERP
Enterprise IQ
 

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Sample Customers

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Poly-Cast, Custom Profile, Nicolet Plastics, Double H Plastics Inc., Network Plymers, Load Trail, Mar-Bal Inc., Donnelly, Steinwall Scientific, Nissen Chemitec America, Miniature Precision Components
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