Whether you are a global, multi-site enterprise or a single-site manufacturer, the fundamental need for precise and flexible planning and scheduling exists. Specific functionality (e.g., consolidated purchasing, transfer functionality, and consolidated financials) helps global enterprises manage the complexity of their size and take advantage of the efficiencies that smaller organizations enjoy.

Forecasting and Master Production Scheduling
Forecasting and Master Production Scheduling (MPS) in Vista are designed to assist manufacturers with both day-to­day production control and long range planning and decision making. Forecasting and MPS support all manufacturing strategies, as well as those manufacturers who operate multiple, mixed-mode strategies simultaneously. Forecasts can be generated from multiple historical sources (e.g., sales, invoice, and inventory usage history).

Material Requirements Planning
Built for the needs of the single site as well as extended enterprise, MRP offers cross shop and cross company planning. Enhanced to offer shop source as well as product group sourcing of materials and assemblies, Vista MRP automatically and visually extends the enterprise to efficiently manage supply and demand.

Scheduling
Multiple resource views and online scheduling tools such as the change impact informer offer the master scheduler and management the ability to visually locate overload problems and slack conditions, then perform cost and throughput analysis on schedule changes before they are firmly committed.

Advanced Planning and Scheduling
An extension of scheduling, APS incorporates the strength of the Scheduling engine and enhances it with advanced functionality such as multiple constraint scheduling, a wide range of scheduling methods, visual drag-and-drop scheduling, capability and dependent capability-based scheduling, real-time capable-to-promise functionality, and advanced material planning functionality.

Project Management
Project Management is a comprehensive solution for project managers who plan and execute simple or complex projects that can require intricate multi-level phases as well as strict costing. Embedded within the robust capabilities of Epicor Vista, Project Management utilizes the detailed estimation, planning, scheduling, costing, and supply chain logistics of Epicor Vista for complete control and analysis (including cross analysis) of any project.

Supporting the needs of Aerospace and Defense as well as Capital Equipment and other industries with large capital projects, the Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) capabilities offer multi-level phases within a project. Fully embedded within Epicor Vista, Project Management offers the robust Epicor Vista scheduling engine for complete visibility and management of the project schedule. Additionally, the ability to accumulate and roll up costs for a WBS Phase to the main project as well as support budgets, estimated completion values, calculated estimated and actual costs accumulated at the WBS Phase level or at the project level. For complete visibility of costs and cross analysis, all of the costs are rolled up through the project structure. Added analysis offers cross project analysis of key elements such as a material class or labor type.

Bi-Directional Integration with Microsoft Project gives project managers an additional tool to use to easily manipulate the schedule and simplify the planning of any project.