Epicor estates run on files: EDI documents read off disk by translators, order channels feeding the ERP, retailer AS2 mandates. Files.com is the governed exchange around all of it: partners connect to a modern SFTP endpoint, and the ERP, old or new, stays exactly as it is.
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Between trading partners on one side and an Epicor ERP on the other, the whole order flow is file transfer: EDI documents landing on the disk a translator reads, order files feeding pick tickets, acknowledgements and invoices moving back out. The systems of record are usually the last thing anyone wants to touch, whether that’s Kinetic, Prophet 21, or a Prelude system on UniData that has run the business for decades. The exchange around them is usually the first thing that breaks.
Files.com modernizes the exchange without touching the ERP. Trading partners deliver into scoped folders over SFTP, FTP, or mandated AS2; documents land on the disk the translator reads within moments; every order file is preserved through outages; and the audit trail knows where every document went.
EDI to the translator’s disk, AS2 brought in-house, order channels that never lose a file, and customer forms converted on the way in. Every one runs in production.
Epicor-connected EDI translators read documents off a local directory. With a mount or the Agent, a vendor’s document lands on that disk the moment it’s written to its Files.com folder: immediate delivery to the translation layer, no polling script in between.
Retail partners like Walmart and Target mandate AS2 with signed receipts. AS2 is built into Files.com: certificates, MDNs, and partner onboarding are configuration. Meeting the mandate stops being a week-plus, vendor-dependent build.
When every order arrives as a file, a dropped transmission is revenue lost silently. Files.com is the store-and-forward layer that preserves every order file, queues transmissions through outages, and leaves the ERP unchanged.
Plenty of Epicor estates run systems of record that aren’t going anywhere. Files.com delivers into the folder the existing 15-minute sync or import already reads. The modernization happens around the ERP, not to it.
Standardized customer forms arrive, convert to the shape the Epicor workflow ingests, and route in. TransformScript handles the conversion as configuration instead of a purpose-built Azure server handling it as infrastructure.
A missing order file is a pick ticket that never prints. Delivery monitoring knows each trading partner’s cadence and alerts when a delivery window closes without a file, before the warehouse wonders why it’s slow.
Retailer mandates and partner separation land on IT, and the ERP can’t be the thing that changes.
EDI translation happens where the translator reads. The outbound-only Agent runs beside it, holds no inbound firewall rule, and lands each arriving document on the local directory within moments of upload.
Files.com generates the certificates, exchanges signed MDN receipts, and onboards trading partners. Retail AS2 mandates get met from your own endpoint, and a test transfer proves it before a partner ever asks.
Each retailer, marketplace, and vendor gets its own credential and folder. Order files, acknowledgements, and invoices stay separated per relationship, with the audit trail reading the same way.
Manufacturing
A working prototype revealed the lasting security and maintenance burden of self-hosting, while Files.com provided a direct path into Epicor without another server to run.
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Manufacturing
Files.com became the store-and-forward layer that preserves every order file, queues transmissions through outages, and leaves Enginetech’s Prelude UniData ERP unchanged.
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“Files.com's strengths are simplicity, ease of use, and the cloud connectors. We don't have to invent custom infrastructure for every partner.”
“Files.com is versatile — it can manage many different situations from a single platform. We've consolidated multiple tools onto it.”
“Files.com is robust and scales to a large enterprise. We get multiple files per minute, per second — and we're a 24/7 organization, so everything has to always be up.”
What manufacturing and distribution IT teams ask most when wiring trading-partner exchange around Epicor.
Trading partners get a modern endpoint, and EDI lands on the translator’s disk in moments. Every order file is preserved, and Epicor stays exactly as it is.
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