Acumatica Manufacturing Edition
Acumatica Manufacturing Edition Overview
Acumatica Manufacturing Edition helps manufacturers maximize resources, reduce costs, and improve profits. An extensive suite of connected business applications provides unparalleled manufacturing depth for production, estimating, engineering, material planning, scheduling, product configuration, and manufacturing data collection.
Last-mile features such as disassembly, engineering change control, demand forecasting, and outside processing streamline critical manufacturing processes. Production Orders support make to stock, make to order, and batch process manufacturing. Project Accounting provides project-centric manufacturers with production and resource planning for specific manufacturing projects.
Commerce and Field Service extend Acumatica for manufacturers who sell online (B2B or B2C) or provide installation and on-site services. Balance supply and demand with inventory, sales, and purchasing on top of a comprehensive suite of accounting applications. Leverage automation, workflows, and document management to connect data and processes throughout all parts of the manufacturing business for improved customer service, customer retention, and growth.
Acumatica Manufacturing Edition provides ease of use and rapid integrations to connect modern technologies, including cloud computing, big data and analytics, additive manufacturing, robotics, and the Industrial Internet of Things for streamlined processes and meaningful insights into manufacturing operations. Acumatica delivers an unparalleled experience for users and customers alike. It is built on a scalable and future-proof cloud ERP platform with open architecture and backed by the best value-added reseller (VAR) network in the industry.
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Acumatica Manufacturing Edition Advantages
Acumatica provides the best business and industry management solution. Built on a future-proof platform with an open architecture for modern technologies, rapid integrations, scalability, and ease of use, Acumatica delivers an unparalleled experience for users and customers alike.
Improve Data Visibility
A comprehensive manufacturing ERP system connects information and workflows across departments. Efficient workflows improve data accuracy. Accurate and timely data allows management to manage by exception, focusing on critical outliers through visual dashboards and data alerts.
Boost Manufacturing Efficiency
Acumatica Manufacturing Edition provides everything manufacturers need to optimize inventory, minimize carrying costs, and maximize resource utilization. Understand costs, reduce scrap, and improve product quality.
Reduce Costs
Leveraging a comprehensive ERP platform eliminates costly third-party application licenses, custom integrations, and on-going maintenance and support costs.
Flexibility
Tailor your back-office system to match the way you do business with the flexibility to adapt to any customer or vendor requirement, compliance regulations, or other business changes.
Timely and Accurate Data
The Acumatica platform is built to connect to leading-edge business and industry technologies for bi-directional improvements in data and processes for improved efficiency and accurate and timely data capture.
Reduce IT Costs
Acumatica Manufacturing Edition saves manufacturers on costly third-party applications, one-off integrations, and intrusive customizations. Avoid lost productivity due to inefficient, manual processes prone to human data entry errors.
Increase Sales
Convert more manufacturing estimates to sales. Improved manufacturing processes result in lower costs and more competitive pricing. Make it easy for customers to self-serve through integrated customer portals with access to order entry, estimating, and product configurator. Sell online with integrated B2B and B2C commerce storefronts. Extend sales with field service for on-site installation and repair. Sell more to existing customers with meaningful sales analysis.
Customer Retention
Improved customer service, on-time deliveries, competitive pricing, and access to information improves customer satisfaction and retention.
Acumatica Manufacturing Edition Technology
Acumatica Manufacturing Edition provides unparalleled manufacturing depth with an extensive suite of connected manufacturing business applications for production, estimating, engineering, material planning, scheduling, and product configuration.
Acumatica Manufacturing Edition supports multiple manufacturing methodologies including make to stock (MTS), make to order (MTO), engineer to order (ETO), configure to order (CTO), batch process and more. Customers span every manufacturing industry including automotive, electrical and electronics, industrial machinery & equipment, instruments, fabricated and primary metals, food and beverage, and many others.
Unique mid-market manufacturing features include disassembly, outside processing, native manufacturing data collection, and support for both discrete and batch process production. Other unique features include matrix items, native warehouse management, inventory allocations, purchase requisitions with approvals workflow, and advanced wave and batch picking.
Acumatica Manufacturing Edition provides unique breadth with out-of-the-box document management, customer relationship management (CRM), project accounting, commerce, expense management, payroll, and field service. Unique consumption-based licensing provides flexibility and facilitates collaboration, enabling all employees and external parties to access information and systems to execute daily activities and long-term strategic goals.
Enterprise-grade security and SOAP or REST APIs to connect to extended business applications such as electronic data interchange (EDI), carousels, shipping carrier systems, third-party logistics providers, retail point of sale applications, and more.
The future-proof, mobile business platform is built for artificial intelligence and machine learning with open connectivity and rapid development tools to support evolving business needs for decades to come. The scalable, secure, and future-proof cloud platform is available on any device, anytime and anywhere.
With Acumatica Manufacturing Edition, customers can
- Modernize manufacturing processes with detailed product definitions, accurate material plans, integrated engineering change control, and finite scheduling.
- Improve manufacturing processes to reduce scrap, limit costly-changeovers, and improve labor efficiency providing a distinct competitive advantage with lower pricing, higher profits, on-time shipments, and higher product quality.
- Create personalized quotes for new products with Estimating and the rules-based Product Configurator.
- Enable customers with a self-service portal to view order status, check inventory levels, place new orders, and configure products online. Improve communications using powerful Business Events to automate customer communications, notifications, and document transmittal.
Acumatica Manufacturing Edition Modules
Materials Management for Acumatica Manufacturing Edition
The Bill of Material (BOM)/Routing module, part of the Acumatica Manufacturing Edition, creates production specifications and is the framework for the planning functionality in all Acumatica Manufacturing Edition modules. Maintenance of the BOM/Routing information is performed through a single screen.
Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) Generates time-phased manufacturing and purchasing plans for optimal inventory availability tied to forecast and customer demands.
A robust Materials Management Module with Lot/Serial Tracking, Varied Cost Valuation Methods, Expiration Management, and Replenishment features helps maintain optimal inventory levels. The purchase plans, transfer plans, manufacturing plans are defined for maintaining optimum inventory stock levels while containing Costs. Matrix Inventory can be defined and managed. Improve customer service and avoid shortages and stock-out situations. Physical Inventory Counting with barcoding, Kitting, maintaining multiple units of measure, multiple warehouses/locations are some of the added advantages.
Sales & Order Management for Acumatica Manufacturing Edition
Acumatica Order Management software is an excellent option for service companies that need to create sales quotes, sales orders, and purchase orders, but without the need to handle inventory and warehouse management functions.
This integrated order management system gives you the tools to deliver better customer service, improve vendor relationships, and eliminate paperwork while providing all stakeholders with greater visibility into order management processes.
Acumatica Order Management includes Purchase Order Management, Sales Order Management, and Requisition Management. Sales Quotes, Sales Orders, Shipments, Transfer Orders, Sales Returns, Credit/Debit Notes, Purchase Order, and Purchase Receipts documents can be used to reduce Order Time and fulfillment. Audit Trails can be created for all Transactions. Define and Auto Apply best combination of Pricing and Discounts rules and sequences and Manage Customer Credit Limits on Order Transactions. eCommerce Connectors are available for major eComm Platforms.
Financial Management for Acumatica Manufacturing Edition
Acumatica is ranked the Leader in Financial & Accounting Applications for Mid-Market ERP segments. Acumatica is configured to meet the complicated requirements of grow mid-sized companies and is still user-friendly for small businesses.
Acumatica’s feature-rich accounting suite integrates with Distribution Management, Customer Management, Manufacturing Management, Field Services Management, and Project Accounting product suites and real-time posts Journal entries. It helps to track the daily financial operations, retrieve quarterly and annual financial statements with ease.
Also, the package offers configurable Financial reporting, planning, and budgeting tools.
Production Management for Acumatica Manufacturing Edition
Acumatica Manufacturing Edition helps manufacturers to respond to production demand with flexibility to adapt to ever-changing schedules, unplanned breakdowns, late supplier deliveries, and other exceptions that impact what is happening on the shop floor.
Manage production orders, release and schedule orders for the shop floor, and track material and labor costs. Compare standard and planned production costs to the actual costs of the production order.
- Create production orders to fulfill customer demand from sales orders or through the material requirements planning (MRP) module.
- Release and schedule production order operations for shop floor employees.
- Captures manufacturing material, labor, machine, tool, overhead, and outside process costs for real-time work in process (WIP) reporting and analysis.
- Monitor production orders from the configurable production dashboard.
- Project-centric manufacturers create production orders directly from tasks in the optional project accounting application.
Acumatica offers Production Manufacturing Solutions for Discrete as well as Process Manufacturers. Create Profiles for Bill of Material or Formula/Recipe, Manage Production Execution with integrated Quality Control, Handle Scraps, Analyze Planned vs. Actuals for Quantity, Cost and Time, Track Labor Time & Cost, Equipment Usage Cost, Overhead Costs, Trace Lots Forward and Backward. It supports the Backflush feature.
Customer Relationship Management for Acumatica Manufacturing Edition
Customer Management (also called Customer Relationship Management) was built into Acumatica from the very beginning. It is not a loosely integrated module like so many other mid-market ERP products. From marketing, quoting, and sales to delivery and post-sales support, customer information is always up to date and accurate.
Acumatica provides a consolidated view of all customer records in a single database. This access to all written quotes, invoices, and support cases provides to every member of your team a 360-degree view of all customer activities and records. Address information seamlessly flows between the business account and contact forms, including different address information for contacts. Dashboards and reports provide real-time sales data to help your team manage forecasts, quotas, and results.
Efficiently communicate and collaborate with customers through the Acumatica Customer Portal. Helpful tools give customers access to information about their interaction with your company and enable activities online.
Services & Support for Acumatica Manufacturing Edition
Acumatica Service Management provides contract management, appointment schedules, and a full-featured mobile application for service-driven businesses, wholesale distributors, construction companies, and manufacturers for deliveries, installation, or remote service operations. Maximize dispatching by scheduling the right people at the right time and obtain real-time data for work taking place in the field.
Quickly capture service needs to shorten the time between call receipt and job assignment. Track resource commitments, match tasks to the best available resources, and generate work orders. Streamline processes to reduce response times and costs, resulting in increased revenues and customer satisfaction that ultimately give you a competitive advantage.
Seamless integration to inventory, purchasing, and projects provide service organizations with everything they need to grow their business.
Additional Capabilities for Acumatica Manufacturing Edition
- External File Storage
- Web Services/API’s
- Integrated Document Management
- Acumatica POS: handle over-the-counter retail sales for all retail locations and manage a comprehensive omni-channel experience within Acumatica.
- Electronic bank and credit card transaction feeds: Connect financial institutions effortlessly to Acumatica, download transactions and reconcile bank accounts using automated processes.
Expense Management: Automate expense receipt creation from bank feeds and rule-based assignment of financial accounts to update employee repayments and corporate credit card reconciliation. Apply existing AI/ML tools to capture receipt information at purchasing or send reminders to employees to record receipts on their mobile phones