Kara Bates
Epicor Certified Service Partner/ Epicor Influencer / Power BI Architect/Owner & Sr Consultant KBix Solutions
- Role
- Sr Consultant Owner at Kbix Solutions Llc
- Location
- Bryan, OH, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kara Bates
ERP Software Specialist with 25+ years of manufacturing operations experience from shop floor to management. 15 years of ERP software experience in both mid-size and large global manufacturing environments. Specializing in integration of lean manufacturing processes, inventory control and optimization of existing business processes using Epicor 9, 10 and Kinetic, along with Power Bi development, modeling and report authoring.
Experience
Sr Consultant Owner
Apr 2021 — Present · Bryan, OH, US
We are a full service Independent Epicor Consultant. As an Epicor Influencer, we assist clients with implementations, upgrades, customizations, BPM’s, BAQ’s, process efficiency enhancements in operations, procurement, sales, quality and finance. We also offer training, change management and data analysis services using Epicor and PowerBI. Epicor 9, 10 and Kinetic. We are also affiliate partners with trusted vendors PartTrap and Century Business Solutions and have integrated Cad-Link, Sourceday, Avalara and CPQ (KBMax). Upgrades include on-prem and Cloud. Servicing Aerospace, Government, Industrial Machinery, Heavy Equipment, Vertical Lifting Solutions, Vertical Surfacing, Commercial Construction Materials, and other manufacturing and distribution industries.
Education
Northwest State Community College
Information Systems
1994 — 1995
Bryan High School
Honors
1989 — 1993
Miami University
Information Systems
1993 — 1994
Skills
- Negotiation
- Inventory Management
- Software Configuration Management
- Crystal Reports
- Territory Analysis
- Epicor
- Visual Basic
- As400
- Pipeline Analysis
- Word
- Sales
- Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp)
- Client Relationship Building
- Mappoint
- Strategic Planning
- Crm
- Microsoft Word
- Erp
- Forecasting
- Troubleshooting
- Data Management
- Project Implementation
- Software Documentation
- Creative Problem Solving
- Process Improvement
- Business Analysis
- Microsoft Excel
- Revenue Improvement
- Access
- Data Cleansing
- Sales Support
- Visio
- Sales Operations
- Competitive Analysis
- Customer Service
- Reporting & Analysis
- Excel
- Project Planning
- Database Management
- Pricing
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