ServicesAI agents

AI agents for Epicor Kinetic and Sugar. Built, connected, and set up by TCP.

  • Epicor Platinum Partner
  • SugarAI Premier Partner
  • 100s of Epicor and Sugar implementations across the Americas

An AI agent is only useful if it knows your business. TCP builds agents under the Fluent brand that read your ERP and CRM, act on what they find, and know when to hand off to a person.

Who this is for

  • Manufacturers and distributors running Sugar, Epicor Kinetic, or both.
  • Teams buried in repeat questions: order status, invoice copies, stock, pricing.
  • Finance teams keying supplier invoices by hand.
  • Companies that tried a chatbot and found it could not answer anything real.

What agents do in each system

Practice area

For Epicor Kinetic

  • Agents read customers, orders, shipments, invoices, inventory, and maintenance records.
  • Agents can create requisitions, route approvals, and attach documents.

Example: an AP agent that reads invoices, matches them to purchase orders, and sends approvals to the right manager.

Practice area

For Sugar

  • Agents read accounts, contacts, opportunities, cases, and quotes.
  • Agents can create cases, log activities, and update fields.

Example: a service agent that answers customer questions and opens a case in Sugar Serve when it cannot.

The agents

Document agents that read what lands in your inbox and post clean transactions. Your team reviews the exceptions. Start with one screen, finish the cycle. The full catalog is at fluenterp.com.

Procure to pay

AP Invoice Entry

Supplier invoices arrive as PDFs, scans, or EDI and post as AP invoices, matched two- or three-way against the purchase order and the receipt, with discrepancies flagged.

Order to cash

Order Entry

Customer purchase orders arrive in the order desk inbox and post as sales orders. Customers, parts, pricing, and units resolve against live master data. Anything unresolved is held for a person, not invented.

Procure to pay

Receipt Entry

Packing slips are received against the purchase order line by line, in the unit the supplier shipped in. A line that does not match is left for a person rather than forced through.

Order to cash

Quote Entry

Requests for quote, configurable parts included.

Order to cash

Customer Shipment

Dispatch paperwork matched back to the order it belongs to.

Order to cash

AR Invoice Entry

Customer invoices and credit memos posted with their lines and charges.

Order to cash

Cash Receipts

Payments arrive as cash receipt drafts, applied to the invoices they settle.

Procure to pay

PO Entry

Requisitions and supplier confirmations drafted against the right buyer and terms.

Shop floor

Time Entry

Timesheets, handwritten sheets included, booked against the right job and operation.

Shop floor

Issue Material

Job material resolved from a description or a part hint.

Autonomy you can hand to an auditor

Every agent operates inside boundaries you define. Every action it takes is recorded, explainable, and reversible before it posts.

Approval thresholds

A transaction over an amount or outside a price tolerance goes to the approvers who own it.

Audit logs

Every field the agent read, every decision it made, on the record.

Data retention

Your documents and data stay under retention policies you control.

ERP validation

Transactions are validated by Epicor's and Sugar's own business logic before they post.

Human review

Exceptions escalate to your team with the agent's reasoning attached.

Permissions

Agents only touch the business objects and companies you allow.

Proof

Frequently asked questions

A chatbot follows a script. An AI agent reads your real data, decides what to do, and does it. It can look up an order in Kinetic, open a case in Sugar, or route an approval. A chatbot cannot.

Yes. TCP's agents connect to both through the Fluent connector layer. One question can pull the account from Sugar and the open orders from Kinetic.

Most companies set one up. Fluent has agents for customer service, communications, AP, and data questions. Building from scratch is for processes that do not fit any of those. TCP tells you which you need in the first conversation.

Configuration is measured in weeks. Metalworks connected in a day. Custom development takes longer and starts with a fixed-price discovery.

Fluent publishes its pricing at fluenterp.com/pricing. TCP's setup is a fixed-price project. Ongoing tuning comes from a block of support hours.

It hands off to a person, with the full conversation and the data it found. It does not guess. You set the rules for when that happens.

The agent reads from your Sugar and Kinetic instances. Your data stays in your systems. TCP will walk you through the data flow before anything goes live.

No. Agents connect through the connector layer, not through customizations inside the product. Upgrades do not break them.

Book a 30-minute agent scoping call

Bring one process that wastes your team's time. TCP will tell you whether it is a configuration, an integration, or a build, and what it would take.

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