Defiance’s partnership with Epicor harnesses significant synergies emerging from Epicor’s rich capabilities in developing enterprise solutions software for businesses worldwide and Defiance’s ERP consulting and implementation expertise, using the global delivery model and off shoring.
Epicor
Consult
Defiance provides end-to-end services from consulting, implementation and rollout, maintenance and support to integration and training services. Defiance’s Epicor certified consultants develop customs solutions for region specific requirements in project locations across Europe, Middle East, African regions and Americas. Defiance ensures Quality Management for Epicor CoE across all Delivery Functions, Support Functions, and Outsourcing and tracks it through its Governance model.
Product Development
Defiance collaborated with Epicor on product development and country-specific extension of the Epicor9 application and developed the Country Specific Functionality India end to end to provide:
- Support for Indian Taxation systems
- Excise Duty
- VAT/Central Sales Tax
- Service Tax
- Withholding Tax
- Automatic determination of applicable tax liability and product tax category during AP & AR transactions.
- Statutory Reports
- 57 AE Report
- RG23A
- RG1
- Purchase register
- Sales register
- C-Form Tracking
- ARE1 Form for Export
- ARE3 Form for Deemed Export
Implement
Defiance follows Epicor’s Signature methodology which is a work-plan, task-oriented system designed to break down the implementation process into finite variables and deliverables. This implementation process is broken down into a number of different components. These components are termed Phases, stages, segments, and tasks. The phases include - Prepare, Plan, Analyze, Design, Construct, and Deploy.
Manage
Defiance provides a detailed roadmap, commencing with an interim support setup to a well-defined and phased approach towards a full- fledged Managed services model enabling ‘Value Realization’ through an “SLA driven delivery Framework”. The solution is scalable, adaptive and responsive model to ensure adequate flexibility for minor adjustments or course corrections.
Significant phases of our solution include:
- TRANSFER - Support Take-over, Transition of Support Services from Incumbent
- ESTABLISH - Stable Support Break-Fix
- RUN - Steady State Incident/Problem/Enhancements
- MANAGE- Support and Ad-hoc Managed Services
Each of the above phases would have well defined Entry-Exit criteria with clearly established measures and toll gate reviews.