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The ABCs of ERP & Beyond Podcast

Real conversations on ERP, operations, and growth. Hosted by Nirav Shah, bringing 20+ years of ERP implementation experience into practical discussions for manufacturers, distributors, and scaling businesses.

Start with the Most Relevant Episodes

Who This Podcast Is For

This podcast is built for business leaders and operations teams who are trying to scale without losing control.

  • Manufacturers managing production and inventory
  • Distributors handling multi-location operations
  • Ecommerce and retail brands connecting Shopify and back office
  • Companies outgrowing QuickBooks or legacy systems
  • When and why companies outgrow QuickBooks
  • How ERP systems actually work in real environments
  • Why inventory never matches across systems
  • How to connect ecommerce, operations, and financials
  • Common mistakes during ERP selection and implementation

What You Will Learn

No theory. Just real-world lessons from ERP implementations across manufacturing, distribution, and ecommerce businesses.

Start with the Most Relevant Conversations

These episodes cover the most common operational challenges we see in growing businesses.

ERP won’t fix everything, but it will fix more than you think.​

What ERP Actually Fixes and What It Doesn’t

A realistic look at what ERP solves and how it improves visibility across manufacturing and ecommerce operations.

Most companies don’t realize they’ve outgrown QuickBooks until operations start breaking.​

Outgrowing QuickBooks? What Happens Next

See the signs your system is holding you back and how businesses transition to scalable ERP solutions like Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Acumatica.

If your inventory never matches, the issue isn’t your team, it’s your systems.​

Why Inventory Never Matches Across Systems

Understand what causes inventory discrepancies and how companies fix them using platforms like Acumatica.

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Latest ERP Podcast Episodes

Explore our latest conversations on ERP systems, operations, and business growth.

Happy with your ERP partner? Good. Nobody's asking you to change them. Business Central veteran Ken Sebahar joins Pete, Nirav and Emily to talk through his white paper, The Multi-Partner Advantage. Ken has been implementing Navision since 2001 and used to co-host A Shot of Business Central and a Beer. His argument is that it's getting harder for one partner to be expert in everything your business now runs. That means you need a partner strategy, whether it ends with one partner or several. Covered: writing down what you expect from a partner, the EDI test for spotting gaps in a partner's answers, how to tell your current partner you're talking to specialists, who you call when a Friday update breaks the warehouse, Nirav's GP-and-cardiologist model, AppSource and curated app lists, what happens when a manufacturing-focused partner's customer buys a projects business, why Emily wants a partner who'll tell her no, and when one partner is plenty. ⏱️ Chapters 00:00 — The ERP job you keep putting off 01:46 — A beer for A Shot of Business Central and a Beer 02:50 — Ken Sebahar: from accountant to partner CEO 04:00 — From Navision's locked box to a connected cloud 05:31 — "Who asked you to change partners?" 08:22 — What a partner strategy actually is 12:00 — Emily: partners don't have to tick every box 13:56 — The EDI test: best solution, or the one they know? 15:56 — Shouldn't my partner source the specialist anyway? 17:58 — "What did I do wrong?" How to tell your partner 19:50 — Emily: don't lose your place in the queue 20:55 — You don't need a giant evaluation to add a partner 22:12 — The one person at Microsoft who knows the answer 23:04 — Pete: who do I call when the pick lists vanish? 24:23 — A primary support partner and a partner team 26:46 — Nirav: the GP and the cardiologist 29:51 — AppSource: does BC already do that? 30:48 — "This is our system" 32:08 — No Emily in the building? Curated app lists 33:08 — App-agnostic, or "here's what you should use"? 35:08 — Boutique or big general partner? 36:08 — Verticalise, then the customer buys a projects business 38:51 — Nirav: interview two or three specialists 39:34 — Emily: I want a partner who'll tell me no 41:21 — Ken: a second opinion, not a second implementation 42:24 — Nirav: page 17 and the Microsoft ecosystem 44:10 — Pete: the partner who's an expert in everything 45:13 — When one partner is plenty 46:50 — Where to find Ken 47:20 — The book his daughter valued at zero 50:08 — Release wave 2 and the "always-on" roadmap 52:15 — Wrap-up 🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts 🔗 abcsoferp.com/episodes Guest: Ken Sebahar, speakingbusinesscentral.com · speakingbusinesscentral@outlook.com Hosted by Peter Nicholson, Nirav Shah (AdCirrus ERP) and Emily Browning. Pete — info@petenicholson.co.uk Nirav — nirav.shah@adcirruserp.com #ERP #BusinessCentral #ERPPartner #PartnerStrategy #MicrosoftDynamics #ERPImplementation #Manufacturing #Distribution
S4E21 | Should You Have More Than One ERP Partner? — with Ken Sebahar
"We'll pick that up in phase two." Everyone nods. Nobody ever does. Pete, Nirav and Emily take on the most convenient sentence in ERP: what phase two actually contains, why it so rarely happens, and what a phase two that genuinely moves the business looks like. Along the way: the things you get free just by moving to a modern ERP, the honest partner-side number on how often phase two comes to fruition, and why nearly all of your reporting should wait. Covered: minimum viable product and how much change a business can absorb, the six reasons phase two dies (no date, no team, no appetite, the sponsor left, the consultant left, the backlog stopped mattering), booking a phase two audit, re-mapping the process before adding software, what can't wait for phase two (cloud tax, native financials, barcoding, AP automation, anything that touches posted transactions), the WMS and EDI exceptions, Pete's four-month report litmus test, why you don't switch on automations for a team that can't fly manually, and why you should probably stop calling it phase two. ⏱️ Chapters 00:00 — "We'll pick that up in phase two" 01:27 — Phase one is what the business needs to run 02:59 — Nirav: what usually lands in phase two 04:01 — Emily: MVP plus one or two high-impact extras 05:55 — Pete: the things you get for free (backflushing) 07:23 — Overextend phase one and it never finishes 08:46 — Record the scope so you can point back to it 10:48 — Emily: maybe don't call it phase two at all 11:17 — Nirav: the sponsor left, the champion left, the consultant left 14:00 — Pete: no date, no team, no appetite 16:35 — Why don't we plan phase two into the timeline? 18:00 — Three or four times in ten — and re-map the process first 19:57 — Book a phase two audit 21:29 — Phase two is a business decision — and you'll go backwards in places 24:15 — Nirav: phase two is where the value is 25:12 — Pete's warning: chart of accounts and posted transactions 26:43 — What can't wait: cloud tax, native financials, barcoding, AP automation 29:45 — Reporting goes in phase two 30:27 — The "critical daily report" nobody ran for four months 31:45 — Already on WMS? That's phase one 32:27 — EDI: keep it if you have it, wait if you don't 33:56 — The partner that says "yep, yep, yep" 35:07 — No automation until the team can fly manually 37:47 — Squidward at the window 39:34 — A phase two budget is easier to manage 40:27 — Just pick one 41:32 — Stop calling it phase two 42:23 — Not set-and-forget — rinse it 43:16 — Maybe it's the CRM next 43:43 — Growing without hiring a bigger team 45:53 — Is there still a gap? 46:50 — Tell us about your phase two 🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts 🔗 petenicholson.co.uk/podcast Hosted by Peter Nicholson, Nirav Shah (AdCirrus ERP) and Emily Browning. Pete — info@petenicholson.co.uk Nirav — nirav.shah@adcirruserp.com
S4E20 | Why ERP Phase 2 Never Happens (And How to Make It Count)
The calendar invite just says "discovery". The demos are over, the contract is signed, and now your business has to explain how it actually operates — so someone can turn that into a working ERP. Pete, Nirav and Emily walk through the run-up, the week itself, and what has to exist by Friday for anyone to honestly call it a success. Covered: why sales discovery is not discovery, who belongs in the room (more people than you think — but never give the know-it-all the pen), the four buckets every gap falls into, why the vendor should never discuss customisations directly with your users, what to send your partner before Monday, why warehouse discovery happens on the warehouse floor, and the pilot scripts that should exist by Friday — hundreds of scenarios that become your training plan, your testing plan, and your defence against scope creep. If your partner walks in on Monday morning, looks at a blank whiteboard and asks "so, where shall we start?" — this episode is about everything that should have prevented that. ⏱️ Chapters 00:00 — The invite just says "discovery" 01:40 — Emily: what discovery week actually is 03:22 — More people in the room than you think 03:59 — Refereeing management vs the shop floor 04:49 — Run it by department, not by committee 06:12 — Nirav: sales discovery is not discovery 09:00 — "The ERP can do anything" is a trap 11:41 — Four buckets: configure, customise, train, or change the process 12:24 — What genuinely forces a customisation 13:59 — The partner as occasional bad guy — and the 16-hour quote 16:04 — Emily: why vanilla — and it isn't the build cost 17:14 — "Don't talk customisations with my users. Talk to me." 19:31 — Take the extra week 20:10 — Show the software (and hover over that button) 21:18 — Monday to Friday: how the week should run 22:26 — Before day one, remind everyone why you're doing this 23:03 — A blank whiteboard on Monday means you've already failed 23:29 — What to send your partner in advance 23:57 — The sales-to-services handoff, and the last 10% 26:07 — "Where shall we start?" means you chose the wrong vendor 27:52 — Do warehouse discovery on the warehouse floor 28:41 — "What's that pile of paperwork?" 31:03 — Find your whiz kid — the system probably does do that 32:51 — The grounded voice: when did that last actually happen? 33:25 — Don't give the know-it-all the pen 34:36 — Stop reverse-engineering the 15-year-old customisation 35:43 — If you need the ERP open to explain the process, you don't know the process 36:43 — Nirav: pilot scripts — what Friday must produce 37:42 — Where scope creep actually comes from 39:18 — Documentation as the partner's liability shield 40:36 — What the vendor does next: the training plan 42:27 — Expect a re-edited project plan 44:04 — Don't go silent on your users 45:00 — Go to dinner with your vendor 46:43 — Don't hand out blank wish-list paper 48:16 — Remembering Morgan 🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts 🔗 petenicholson.co.uk/podcast Hosted by Peter Nicholson, Nirav Shah (AdCirrus ERP) and Emily Browning. Pete — info@petenicholson.co.uk Nirav — nirav.shah@adcirruserp.com
S4E19 | How to Run an ERP Discovery Week That Actually Works
Should you downgrade your ERP? Eighty-odd episodes of this show have pointed one way — up. This one goes the other way. Pete, Nirav and Emily make the case that a lot of mid-market businesses are sitting on a tier 1 system they use a fraction of, paying six figures a year for the privilege, and have never been given permission to say so out loud. Covered: what the tiers actually mean, how businesses get oversold, why third-party ISVs have closed most of the gap between tier 1 and tier 2, whether your team can realistically feed the system you own, and the utilisation audit you can do in an afternoon. Not an anti-tier-1 episode. Nirav is clear that some businesses belong there. But if you haven't checked how much of yours you're using, you don't have an opinion — you have a habit. ⏱️ Chapters 00:00 — Three seats, and the question nobody asks 02:28 — Emily: I'd never seen this. Then I saw it everywhere 02:51 — Nirav: a growing epidemic 05:17 — Why we're calling it "downgrade" and not right-sizing 06:18 — Sold Dynamics F&O SCM. For five users. 07:30 — You outsourced manufacturing. Why are you still paying for it? 08:36 — Emily: the person signing this off isn't an ERP person 09:20 — The maintenance you'll pay whether you use it or not 09:55 — A deeper ecosystem, and the word "de-scoping" 10:42 — Tier 1, upper tier 2, lower tier 2 — the actual definitions 12:49 — Nirav's mic drop: ISVs close 90–95% of the gap 15:06 — Emily: it isn't five add-ons just to make it work 15:51 — Coming off tier 1? Don't only look at tier 1 17:41 — Cost, and the cloud subscription nuance 18:29 — Pete's seven-seat SUV, and the CD player that's now standard 20:58 — Can you actually feed it? Master data and small teams 21:09 — Nirav: the data never stops, but the job changes 23:00 — Crossover paths: QAD, IFS, Kinetic, ECC, JD Edwards 24:34 — Emily: should you just go down your publisher's range? 25:11 — Why GP to Business Central isn't one-to-one 26:29 — On-prem to cloud, and every report you just broke 27:08 — The golf analogy (and the clowns and dinosaurs) 28:16 — Information paralysis, and please don't build your own 28:52 — Pete's NAV story: "it doesn't do that." It does. 31:29 — Emily: the QAD nobody trusted 32:11 — 80% of spreadsheets have errors, and Excel as a crutch 32:57 — One year into Acumatica, and the folklore has already started 35:51 — What's actually different about a downgrade project? 36:35 — Re-evaluate the processes, not the constraints 38:52 — You still have to do the master data properly 39:46 — The utilisation audit: print the list, mark every line 41:16 — The five-year module plan you didn't need 41:51 — Caveats: it's still a full migration, with the same people 42:57 — Nirav: this needs to be on every table 44:24 — Pete: you're buying a shorter feedback loop 45:07 — Emily: small fish, big ocean, and getting Oracle on the phone 🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts 🔗 petenicholson.co.uk/podcast Hosted by Peter Nicholson, Nirav Shah, and Emily Browning.
S4E18 | Should You Downgrade From Tier 1 to Tier 2 ERP?
Three ERP seats, one live AI guest, and a conversation about what actually breaks when you put AI in your ERP. Pete opens the episode by handing the mic to an AI — live, interruptible, answering in real time. It does fine. It also sings a song about master data and gets thrown off the show twice. Once it's gone, Pete, Nirav and Emily get into the part the demos skip: dirty master data, undefined business semantics, vibecoded solutions nobody can support, token bills nobody's modelling, and what happens to your team's judgment when everyone has an assistant. Not an anti-AI episode. A grounded one. ⏱️ Chapters 00:00 — Three seats, and a fourth guest 01:00 — "Augment, don't blindly automate" — the AI's own take 02:30 — Asking the AI about cost 04:30 — What that demo actually was (OpenAI live voice) 05:30 — Acumatica 2026 R1, AI Studio, and BC's agents 06:30 — Emily: start with anomaly detection 07:45 — Why anomaly detection is barely AI 09:00 — The AI comes back, sings, gets fired 10:20 — Nirav: agents as patching leaks in a bucket 14:00 — Master data: fuzzy matching vs. actual reasoning 16:10 — Nobody cleans their data. Nobody. 17:15 — The click-to-dial moment that exposed bad data 18:15 — The semantic layer: what is a customer? what is revenue? 20:25 — SMB reality: coming off QuickBooks with 20 years of habits 22:00 — Planning agents and the min/max nobody updated 24:00 — Emily: so where do I actually start? 26:00 — Ben Hussey's tip: use AI to find out where to use AI 27:40 — What Business Central's agents actually do 31:00 — Emily: the unsupported custom stuff problem 33:20 — Pete's wish: a shared library of vetted AI Studio prompts 34:20 — Vibecoding, and why 100% perfect has no exit ramp 39:40 — AI slop and the new shovelware 41:20 — "Keep to standard" vs. "customise everything" 42:30 — The British Airways green-screen story 44:25 — Agentic AI for onboarding new starters 49:20 — Fixing a broken Acumatica GI in two minutes with Claude 51:00 — Token costs and the Goldilocks window 53:35 — Emily's WALL-E warning 55:10 — Drinking from the fire hose 🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts Hosted by Peter Nicholson, Nirav Shah (AdCirrus ERP) and Emily Browning. Our AI guest still needs a name — leave it in the comments.
5 Things That Break When You Put AI in Your ERP
That colleague with the arms folded and the thousand-yard stare — the one who's decided the business is never doing an ERP migration again — is wrong, and this episode is the argument for why. Your second ERP migration isn't your first one repeated. It's a different project that happens to share a name. Pete and Nirav make the case across three acts: why round two is structurally easier (data, people, integrations, cloud, and actually knowing what to buy), the new ways you can still squander that advantage, and exactly what to do in the next 90 days if your current system has run its course. If you're on Dynamics GP, classic NAV, or anything creaking toward end of life, this is the one to send round the office. Emily's off this week, so it's two seats today: the partner and the data side. **Chapters** 00:00 — Think back to your first go-live 01:35 — The argument: same name, different project 02:10 — Nobody wants a second heart transplant 03:15 — Why you're smarter the second time 05:20 — Easier or harder? (spoiler: easier) 06:11 — Paper-to-data vs data-to-data: the schema shift 07:03 — The end-of-life wave: GP and classic NAV 08:23 — GP checks into the retirement home 12:28 — ACT 1: Why round two is structurally easier 13:00 — Data migration is a different sport now 16:20 — The people already know what they want 17:19 — 21 clicks to reprint a work order 19:28 — Integrations: from custom code to a config screen 22:33 — Cloud: the infrastructure project that vanished 24:10 — "But what if the internet goes down?" 28:46 — Where your support costs actually go 30:07 — You already know what to buy this time 32:58 — ACT 2: How to squander the advantage 33:15 — Every customisation must re-justify itself 35:36 — Complacency: easier isn't easy 37:05 — Overconfidence and second-system syndrome 38:02 — Data hoarding: don't drag 15 years across 39:21 — The read-only data warehouse 41:18 — ACT 3: What to do in the next 90 days 41:41 — Start with a town hall, not a shopping list 43:00 — Time studies, audits and interviews 44:17 — Put it in the long-range plan (GP, 2029) 45:40 — Round two is a different project 46:07 — Wrap-up and where to find us **Links** AdCirrus ERP (Acumatica partner): https://www.adcirruserp.com Pete's site: https://petenicholson.co.uk Listen on Spotify / Apple / wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every couple of weeks. Subscribe so the next one finds you. #ERP #ERPMigration #CloudERP #ERPImplementation #Manufacturing #Distribution #Acumatica #BusinessCentral #DynamicsGP #DataMigration
5 Reasons Your Second ERP Migration Is Easier Than Your First
There's a button in your ERP you press every morning — same screen, same filter, same click. Acumatica will press it for you, on a schedule, in the background, with no code and no consultant. In this episode Nirav shares his screen and builds an automation schedule live (auto-invoicing confirmed shipments), and Pete brings the view from inside a business that's been live on Acumatica for nearly a year. If a screen has a "process" button, you can almost certainly put it on a timer — here's how, plus the caveats that bite people who don't. Emily's off this week, so it's two seats today: the partner and the data side. Chapters 00:00 — The button you press every morning 01:51 — The feature nobody talks about 03:56 — Caveat: build it in a sandbox first 06:20 — Customisation vs configuration 07:30 — Automation schedules vs business events 10:04 — Learn to fly the plane first 11:47 — What to automate on day one 15:25 — The three kinds of process step 17:16 — Consistency, the Monday backlog and your DSO 19:52 — Demo: where the schedules live 25:00 — Conditions and filters (automate the 80%) 30:00 — Building one live: auto-invoicing shipments 34:38 — The screen nobody knew existed 36:45 — The green-button rule 41:28 — The checkbox that steals payment terms 43:58 — Silent failures and who owns your schedules 47:19 — Where the ROI hides 48:50 — Wrap-up Links AdCirrus ERP (Acumatica partner): https://www.adcirruserp.com Pete's site: https://petenicholson.co.uk
Stop Being a Button-Pusher: Acumatica Automation Schedules
A growing business owner asked Reddit a simple question: how do you know when you actually need an ERP? They were running on spreadsheets and a stack of disconnected apps, they'd heard ERP becomes essential "once you hit a certain size," and they wanted to know where that line was. Nobody answered. So we did. In this episode, Pete, Nirav and Emily skip the listicles and talk through the real signals — frustration and owner burnout, disconnected silos, the hours your best people lose re-keying the same data — plus the cases where the honest answer is "not yet," and the one question worth putting to any ERP partner. ⏱️ Chapters 00:00 The unanswered Reddit post 03:26 Signal #1: frustration and owner burnout 06:52 "Do I need a system, or just another hire?" 08:55 When annoying becomes business risk 10:42 Blind spots, silos and one version of the truth 14:03 The point-solution trap (Shopify, ShipStation, QuickBooks, Fishbowl…) 17:36 Putting a number on the pain: the value-justification time study 21:22 The ERP as a 24/7 worker — what's its hourly rate? 25:21 Which processes to measure first 30:15 When you're NOT ready for an ERP 33:29 "It's not an IT project" — the change-management reality 37:27 Was the transition as intimidating as it sounds? 38:44 Maturity, $3M vs $5M, and the question to ask your VAR 41:53 Why 80% of spreadsheets have errors 43:15 There is no line in the sand 44:41 Wrap-up & where to find us 🎧 Subscribe for a new episode every two weeks: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube and everywhere else — just search "The ABCs of ERP & Beyond." 💬 Got the same question? Leave a comment — we reply, and the good ones become episodes. Hosted by Peter Nicholson, Nirav Shah, and Emily Browning.
S04E14 | When Do You Actually Need an ERP? (It's Not Revenue)
Choosing the wrong ERP is one of the most expensive mistakes a business can make — and it almost never happens because the software was bad. It happens because nobody worked out what the business actually needed before falling for a demo. And every demo works. That's what demos are for. In this episode, Peter Nicholson, Emily Browning, and Nirav Shah cover how to choose an ERP from both sides: the inward look at your own business, and the outward look at the market. It's the first time we've done a full episode on the selection question itself. 00:00 The most expensive mistake — choosing the wrong ERP 03:18 Why do you even need an ERP? Start inward 04:30 The "our system is old" reason — and why it's not enough 05:30 What actually triggers the search: M&A, C-suite change, the "aha" moment 08:00 Why ERP cost estimators deserve a pinch of salt 09:50 Have your answer for why NOT the other ERPs — and the "do nothing" option 11:43 Symptoms vs reasons: what can't you do today that's costing you money? 14:07 Know who you are: size, revenue, users, sites, countries 15:21 Regulations, people, and why you choose on fit before cost 17:41 Don't buy a general-purpose ERP — buy one built for your industry 20:27 Know your processes (the most important step in the whole episode) 24:43 Ask WHY you do something, not WHAT — make your PM the internal consultant 27:36 The CFO eye-opener: nobody knows the real process 29:21 Non-negotiables vs preferences in disguise 30:14 Now look outwards — where do you even start? 31:43 Research tools: G2, Compare Software, associations, Info-Tech, Reddit 34:41 Treat it like buying a car — find out what owners are moaning about 35:49 Demos: every demo works, so your job is to break it 39:39 Flowcharts, your own data, and why YouTube demos mislead 40:54 The implementation partner matters as much as the ERP 44:06 The salesman-to-implementer handoff, and the 80% talking rule 45:49 Red flags, and why choosing an ERP takes 4–8 months 46:48 Wrap-up: look in, research second, never trust a demo you haven't broken The thread running through the whole thing: the work that decides whether your ERP project succeeds happens before you contact a single vendor. Know your business, know your processes, know your non-negotiables — then go to market with a shortlist instead of a blank Google search. Aimed at CFOs, IT directors, and ops leaders at mid-market manufacturers and distributors who are about to choose an ERP — or want to avoid becoming someone else's cautionary tale.
Why Most Companies Choose the Wrong ERP (And How to Avoid It)
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We help businesses:

1. Improve inventory visibility and accuracy

2. Connect ecommerce platforms like Shopify with back-office systems

3. Replace disconnected tools with unified ERP platforms like Acumatica and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

About Nirav Shah

Nirav Shah, CEO, AdCirrusERP

Nirav brings over 20+ years of experience helping manufacturers, distributors, and ecommerce businesses fix operational breakdowns as they scale.

From inventory visibility issues to disconnected systems and reporting gaps, he has worked directly with leadership teams to implement ERP solutions that bring clarity and control back into the business.

The ABCs of ERP and Beyond podcast reflects those real-world experiences.

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Industry Specific Edition

Acumatica cloud ERP’s Industry-Specific Editions are a unique combination of Acumatica cloud ERP functionality and functionality specific to a particular industry or industry segment.

For example, the Manufacturing Edition includes both manufacturing and distribution modules, as well as modules for field service and general business use. The Distribution Edition includes only distribution modules.

The Industry-Specific Editions include all of the core Acumatica cloud ERP functionality including:

  • Core Accounting
  • Core Billing & Invoicing
  • Core Business Management  (including project management and portfolio management)
  • Core Data Modeling & Validation  (using the same data model used in the Core Accounting module)
  • Core Enterprise Resource Planning  (including CRM integration)
  • Core Human Resources & Payroll  (HRIS integration with HR applications such as Zenefits)
  • Core Inventory Management  (including barcode scanning technology that can be used to identify inventory items based on their UPC codes or SKU numbers.)

Service Management

Maximize dispatching and boost revenue by scheduling the right people at the right time, and see real-time data for work taking place in the field.

  • Single version of the truth
  • Multi-dimensional reporting
  • Security by role
  • Custom reports and personalized dashboards
  • Multiple display options

Customer Relationship Management

Set up customer relationship management: CRM is an important tool for any business that wants to build strong customer relationships and retain customers. With Acumatica, you can set up a customer relationship management system that works for your business.

The CRM feature includes:

  • Customizable reporting dashboards
  • Powerful business intelligence capability
  • Service and support automated workflows
  • A customer self-service portal

Project Management

Streamline project management: The project accounting suite enables you to track project costs, carry out planning and billing, and manage time and expenses while completely integrating with the fundamental accounting operations like general ledger and accounts payable.

Retail Commerce Management

Deliver a consistent customer experience across all your sales channels with full integration between your online, mobile, kiosk, and in-store service.

  • Reduce stock-outs and back orders 
  • Speed up order processing and fulfillment 
  • Streamline returns and exchange 
  • Provide an omni-channel experience 
  • Offer a world-class eCommerce presence 
  • Integration with web stores and POS systems

Order Processing

Use order processing: Order processing is another key feature of Acumatica ERP software. With this feature, you can streamline your order process and keep track of orders as they move through the pipeline.

Manufacturing Management

Built for make-to-stock, make-to-order, engineer-to-order, project centric, job shop, batch, repetitive manufacturing, and more.

  • Complete, multi-site cloud manufacturing control and planning system
  • Improve efficiency with intuitive, award-winning UI
  • Empower collaboration with cross-module workflows 
  • Create business resilience with our future proof design 

Inventory Optimization

Optimize inventory: Acumatica’s inventory management tools can help businesses reduce inventory costs and improve stock levels.

Warehouse Management

Streamline warehouse operations and transaction to reduce errors, automate processes and increase productivity.

  • Reduce errors 
  • Increase customer satisfaction
  • Automate data capture 
  • Simplify tracking
  • Prioritized, direct picking 

Utilize Business Intelligence

You may gather crucial data from various sources and show it in reports made for quick decision-making with Acumatica cloud ERP. This software includes analytical tools for monitoring the state of your business. It identifies problems before they substantially harm your company.

Sales Improvement

Acumatica’s sales management features can help businesses increase their sales and revenue.

Construction Management

Provides a complete, mobile-enabled cloud-based construction and accounting software solution.

  • Instant data access in role-based dashboards 
  • Native AI and ML for automation and data processing 
  • Superior compliance management 
  • Flexible drop-shipping to project sites 
  • Real-time connection among workers-field, office, and remote.

Improve financial management

There are a number of ways businesses can make the most out of Acumatica’s features. For example, businesses can use Acumatica to:

– Improve financial management: Acumatica’s financial management tools can help businesses save time and money by streamlining accounting and financial processes. This functionality includes:

●     General ledger incorporating real-time analysis fully integrated with all other features

●     Accounts receivable and payable

●     Cash, currency & tax management solutions

●     Fixed assets

●     Recurring revenue management