Supply chain management · Built for Epicor

Run your Epicor supply chain on live, drillable reporting.

Demand, purchasing, inventory and production — a deep library of ready-built supply chain reports covering supplier performance, stock, material availability, jobs, GRNI and margin. Open one, change a filter, drill to the Epicor transaction behind any number.

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Cloud or on-premise · Excel & web access · Running and trained in 8 hours

FastClose Purchase Order Releases OTIF report showing on-time and in-full status by vendor, with colour-coded late receipts
END-TO-END SUPPLY CHAIN

Live, drillable reporting from supplier to customer — purchasing, inventory, production and delivery — built for the teams managing performance, cost and service as it happens.

USED BY THE PEOPLE RUNNING IT

Buyers, planners, production leads and site managers open their own report in Excel or the browser — no BAQ to write, nothing to ask IT for.

DRILL ANYWHERE

From an actionable summary report back to the source Epicor transaction — every time.

Use case · Job closing

Job closure fails when a transaction across modules is late or missing.

A job touches inventory, production, costing, subcontracting and finance. FastClose gives the job closing process a control layer that makes status and WIP impact clear before the job gets stuck.

Why jobs get stuck
One missing step across modules blocks the whole closure
Closing a job doesn't guarantee WIP has actually cleared
Partial receipts or shipments leave WIP behind and distort COS
Manufacturing variances are hard to trace without a full breakdown
Multi-site and multi-company setups multiply the exception backlog
The FastClose Job Closing report
Highlights missing or incomplete transactions before they block a close
Identifies which jobs are ready for closure and safe WIP clearance
Drills to root cause across material, labour, burden and subcontract
Supports a controlled month end around captured COS and WIP activity

Supply chain reporting is fundamentally different from FP&A.

Supply chain reporting runs the business day to day. FP&A analyses the financials and plans what happens next. FastClose does both — but they aren't the same thing, and treating them as one is how supply chain visibility gets lost.

Supply chain reporting
Runs the business in real time
Drills through modules to the source transaction
Covers purchasing, inventory, production and sales — beyond the general ledger
Supports immediate action and control
FP&A
Centred on general ledger outcomes, on monthly or quarterly cycles
Often limited to a GL, AP and AR context
Primarily historical, with forward-looking planning
Less focus on supply chain drill and transactions
Use case · Real-time COS & WIP

Consolidate unposted COS and WIP with the posted GL, live.

FastClose reads unposted capture transactions directly from Epicor and consolidates them using the same logic as posted financials — so the P&L reflects the real position mid-month, not just at period end.

A complete position, any day

See the full operational and financial position at any point in time, not only at period end.

Group down to the transaction

Start at group-level margin or cost, then drill by business unit, product, customer and project to the source posting.

One reconciled position

Supply chain and financial data unify, supporting stronger governance, reconciliation and auditability.

BUSINESS BENEFITS
Earlier visibility of margin and cost movements
Improved production and supply chain control
Faster management reporting cycles
Reduced reliance on manual spreadsheets
Stronger financial governance and auditability
GRNI, stock and sub-ledger reconciliation, resolved sooner

Supply chain reports people request

These are the ones customers bring up first — not because they're clever, but because they're the ones they need but never had before.

MANUFACTURING

Job closing

Which jobs are ready to close, what is still sitting in WIP, and how actual labour and material compare with estimate — before the job is closed rather than after.

SALES · PURCHASING

Time-phased reporting

Demand, supply and committed spend spread across the periods they actually fall in — so a forward view is a report, not a spreadsheet somebody rebuilds each month.

SALES & PURCHASING

On-time-in-full delivery

How do your suppliers meet their promise to you? Do they deliver components on time and in full? Reported by supplier, product and site, measured against promise dates — with the ability to drill into the lines that missed and see why. Then the same question the other way around - are you meeting your promise to your customers?

INVENTORY

Material availability

What items are short, for which order or job, and when are they due in — the question production planning asks every morning and finance asks at quarter end.

PURCHASING · FINANCE

GRNI

Goods received not invoiced, reconciled line by line with drill to the receipt and the PO — the reconciliation that usually eats a day of every close.

INVENTORY · FINANCE

Stock reconciliation

Inventory movement tied back to the stock accounts in the GL, so a difference is found in the period it arose rather than at year end.

Instead of waiting for a BAQ.

Supply chain questions arrive faster than IT can answer them, so the backlog grows and people work off exported spreadsheets in the meantime. FastClose puts the structure in front of the person with the question.

Existing BAQs don't go to waste either — FastBAQ imports them, and native SQL, as FastClose data sources so validated query logic gets reused. FastMigrate →

No specialist IT skills
Reports are built by choosing dimensions and hierarchies, not by writing queries against the ERP database.
Answers in the meeting
Change a filter, add a dimension, drill into the exception — while the question is still being discussed.
Supply chain dashboards too
OTIF, WIP ageing, stock and order book become KPI boards in FastCharts, from these same reports. FastCharts →
Where it stands today

This depth in Epicor. Growing for other ERPs...

Everything on this page — Job closing, COS/WIP consolidation, the reports named — is Epicor content, built over years with real Epicor customers. Nextworld has some supply chain library whilst for SAP Business One, Acumatica, Business Central and SAP Business ByDesign we deliver the financial core in the first instance and then build supply chain reports out with you, for free if they're generic, as needed.

?Common questions about supply chain reporting

Is this a separate product from the financial reporting?

No. It is the same engine reading more broadly into Epicor. A job closing report and a management P&L are built the same way, secured the same way and drill the same way.

How is this different from FP&A tools?

FP&A analyses the financials on a monthly or quarterly cycle, usually within a GL/AP/AR context. Supply chain reporting runs the business day to day, drilling through modules to the source transaction. FastClose covers both, but they answer different questions.

How long does deployment take?

Installed in under an hour, and teams are typically up, running and trained within 8 hours — on cloud or on-premise Epicor alike.

Who uses supply chain reporting in practice?

Supply chain, operations and production managers, buyers, planners and commercial teams — alongside finance, who need the same data to explain the numbers. Access is set by ERP dimension, so each sees their own site, warehouse or product group.

Can we report on our own custom fields and tables?

Yes. Customisations and user-defined fields can be brought into reporting, and an existing BAQ or native SQL can be converted to reports based on standard FastClose templates with FastBAQ.

Which ERPs have this supply chain content today?

Epicor is the deepest. For other supported ERPs, where the supply chain content would be common to similar businesses, it is built out with you at no cost.

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We'll build it live against your Epicor data on the call.

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