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Epicor ERP vs IQMS Enterprise IQ comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Epicor ERP
Ranking in ERP
15th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IQMS Enterprise IQ
Ranking in ERP
31st
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the ERP category, the mindshare of Epicor ERP is 3.4%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IQMS Enterprise IQ is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
ERP Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Epicor ERP3.4%
IQMS Enterprise IQ0.6%
Other96.0%
ERP
 

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

"I find the job management features of Epicor ERP most useful, especially for material planning. The ERP gives a perfect overview of many aspects. The scheduling is also helpful. It lets us see what we're planning and try different scenarios. For real-time analytics, I use it mostly for planning and "what if" scenarios."
"The most valuable features of Epicor ERP are ease of use, powerful API, and comprehensive integration. It is a one-vendor solution, where other vendors need other software systems from multiple vendors."
"Epicor ERP is very technical friendly, if you want to do any customization, it's very easy."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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

"Right now, it doesn't really have a good cloud story."
"There are some glitches in Epicor ERP."
"The support rates at 50% because most of the time the support team needs to relearn the processes, especially when a new person is assigned."
"I would like to see a better reporting tool."
"Everything requires changes, making it similar to developing a new platform from scratch."
"AI and additional improvements could be made."
"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."
"Epicor didn't care about user level and software applications. So, it's not so user-friendly for nontechnical people."
"Setup is very complex."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"User support could be improved as well, as the consultant charges are very high."
"Pricing isn't a big problem for the solution - I haven't seen them lose deals because of it."
"The initial cost may be a bit high, but the maintenance cost is lower."
"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."
"When comparing Epicor ERP to the other related products, the pricing, additional enhancements, as well as implementation, are better."
"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
21%
Computer Software Company
10%
Healthcare Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
20%
Healthcare Company
12%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise2
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Epicor ERP?
The licensing cost for Epicor ERP is a concern. The licensing becomes cheap, which leads people to opt for it, but then they encounter troubles similar to ours. The licensing was reasonable when we...
What needs improvement with Epicor ERP?
The cost management and product costing should be enhanced, along with issues in the manufacturing process. The downtime functionality in Epicor ERP is not functioning optimally.
What is your primary use case for Epicor ERP?
We are using Epicor ERP version 10.3.6. We utilize the complete process from P2P through to manufacturing, HR, and almost all other processes.
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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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