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Acumatica Key Benefits For Operations Leaders

Supply Chain VP, VP of Operations, VP of Manufacturing, Chief Operations Officer (COO), Field Service Director, VP of Professional Services, VP of Warehouse Operations

Operations leaders are responsible for all operational business processes from start to finish. From equipment staff to suppliers, projects, jobs, and appointments, you strive to increase productivity, lower costs, and improve quality. Empower your team of material planners, schedulers, estimators, warehouse workers, field service technicians, consultants, quality managers, maintenance staff, and labourers with information. Arm them with flexible reporting that they can customize without IT assistance and interactive role-based dashboards with drill-downs to underlying transactions to understand what is happening in the business in real-time.

Operational excellence
Leverage advanced analytics for insight
Improve demand planning and delivery
Drive innovation to stay ahead of the competition

Engage everyone in your organization with no per-user cost. Give them visibility and empower them to improve (and you can monitor)
Automate manual processes to reduce errors and improve accuracy
Redesign and automate processes and notices through highly configurable workflows
Product performance reports give you visibility into KPIs and allow for easy drill-down
Integration to MS Power BI gives you data visualizations that help you quickly spot trends
Forecast future demand and optimize production schedules to improve customer satisfaction and reduce costs
Manage standard and custom product bills of material, routings, engineering changes, and configurations
Identify business processes that are key to driving innovation, then use dashboards to monitor their health and process automation to ensure consistency
Prepare for the “Factory of the Future” (w/ IoT) by using your ERP to make the most of data collected through IoT (e.g., Acumatica’s open architecture allows for easy integration to custom apps on your shop floor)

Product Production Costs
Product Quality
Supplier Costs
Sub-Contractor Performance
Plan Vs Actual Hours And Cost
Planned, In-process And Optionally
Completed Work
Work Center Loads And Schedules
Profitability By Customer By Category By Item
Sales and Profitability by Item Class and Item
New Product Time to Market

Manufacturing Operations
- Redesign and automate manufacturing processes through highly configurable workflows.
- Give everyone in your organization visibility to real-time, accurate manufacturing data and empower them to improve, with no cost for additional users.
- Streamline data collection for labor and material transactions with barcoding for accurate, real-time data to drive manufacturing decisions.
- Forecast demand to drive material planning, purchasing, and production schedules.
- Automate quote to cash and procure to pay processes for improved cash flow and access to working capital.
- Use the embedded Engineering Change Control application or connect to external CAD or PLM applications to manage complex engineering changes with ease.
- Prepare for the “Factory of the Future” (w/ IoT) by using Acumatica to make the most of data collected through IoT. Acumatica’s open architecture allows for easy integration of custom apps on your shop floor.
- Use the embedded Engineering Change Control application or connect to external CAD or PLM applications to manage complex engineering changes with ease.
Warehouse Operations
- Streamline inventory and warehouse processes through highly configurable workflows with or without carts and extensive lot and serial traceability.
- Empower employees with real-time, accurate inventory data with no costs for additional user licenses.
- Automate data collection pick, pack, ship, put-away, and inventory transfer transactions with barcoding for accurate, real-time data to drive supply chain decisions.
- Automate procurement processes with online vendor bidding for requisitions and robust inventory replenishment.
- Automate quote-to-cash and procure-to-pay processes for improved cash flow and access to working capital.
Retail-Commerce Operations
- Connect point-of-sale transactions and online commerce sales with your back-office order management system for omnichannel sales, returns, and exchanges.
- Connect easily with retail hardware, including cash registers, receipt printers, barcode scanners, and credit card terminals
- Gain valuable sales insights to drive profits by understanding customer behaviour and market trends for better product mix, stocking, and purchasing decisions.
- Exceed customer expectations with high-quality services, fast and accurate order fulfillment, and online self-service.
Construction Operations
- Access a 360-degree view of your construction business on a single, cohesive platform.
- For both accounts receivable and payable, manage initial retainage and any changes to streamline invoicing and payments. In addition, retainage tracking is supported for progress billing and time and material billing of projects. Plus, project cost commitments are calculated for retainage in purchase orders.
- Manage lien waivers and releases, insurance, certificates, and status updates, providing expiration and other alerts to staff and suppliers.
- Manage projects with integrated field service appointments and flexible contract billing.
- Manage multiple unions, locals, classes, benefits packages, and complex wages, as well as certified wages and executive compensation.
- Confirm details and automatically generate pro forma, progress, and time and material invoices from one screen, including quick billing.
- Consolidate every document and data point in a holistic application with embedded email, document management, and task management.
- Capture labour, material, and equipment costs from any device providing immediate updates to keep project management and accounting in sync.
- Streamline field management and ensure everyone has the same information with time collection, subcontractor updates, job site visitors, issue and change request tracking, and job site weather updates.
Field Service Operations
- Allow service staff remote entry for time and service call management.
- Know your actual costs with integrated project accounting.
- Give your staff what they need when they need it with collaboration tools they can access from remote sites. For example, staff can access current job orders, previous customer history, and product manuals and share best practices.
- Shorten the time between call receipt and job assignment with Acumatica’s scheduling, dispatching, and call center.
- Create and manage multiple service schedules per customer.
- Track warranted customer and vendor parts with Acumatica’s added inventory management functionality. Establish warranty offers for your customers, specifying which parts are under warranty to avoid confusion, mischarges, and objections.
- Maintain a real-time view of your department’s activities across all your company’s operations when field service management is fully integrated with CRM, sales, inventory, purchasing, accounting, and financial reporting.
- Use Acumatica’s real-time reporting and dashboard analytics to drive insight into all aspects of your department.
- Give clients access to their information, such as contracts, financial statements, support cases, and more.
Professional Service Operations
- Access real-time reporting and dashboards to pull together required information to monitor KPIs. Acumatica’s Project Accounting is integrated with other suites to let you drill down and examine details.
- Know how your department is performing with a real-time, integrated view of:
  Sales and purchase order management
  Service and support automation
  Project cost tracking
  Time and expense
  Material requirements
  Construction and manufacturing jobs
  And more
- Gain clarity on your professional services pipeline with Acumatica’s complete solution, including customer and opportunity management.
- Know resource allocation, project budgets, and deliver dates using Acumatica’s Project Accounting.
- Track project actuals to help avoid overruns.
- Gain valuable insights through detailed project-based reporting to help you understand past project profitability, allowing you to adjust accordingly for future work.

RealTime-Insights

Real-time Insights

The information you need, anytime, anywhere, on any device

Acumatica’s Cloud ERP helps improve day-to-day operations with 24/7 access to business tools and functions. Manage your business, review all customer interactions, and obtain proactive business reports and insights from any web-enabled device.

Future-Proof

Future-proof Platform

Single data model, flexible deployments, streamlined integrations

Shared data and cross-team workflows make collaboration seamless, and AI-powered automation drives efficiency. Acumatica is ranked highest in customer experience and product usability, and our platform integrates easily with the tools you already use.

Licensing

Customer-friendly Licensing

Only pay for the functionality you need and the data you use

Acumatica offers flexible licensing plans and transparent pricing, and we do not charge extra to add additional users. In addition, as your business needs scale up or down based on market changes or seasonal requirements, Acumatica scales with you, ensuring you only pay for what you need when you need it.

Rapid Integrations for Today and Tomorrow
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Superior Usability with Acumatica Cloud ERP
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Mobile Acumatica Cloud ERP
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Acumatica Reporting
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Financial Management Overview
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Construction Edition Overview
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Distribution Management Overview
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Manufacturing Edition Overview
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Retail-Commerce Overview
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Multisite Inventory and Warehouse Management
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CRM: Customer Relationship Management
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BigCommerce and Shopify Integration
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