How ERP Helps You Improve Cash Flow and Cash Management
The current “supply chain crisis” has spurred a second, less visible crisis in cash flow. If you’ve paid for goods that are sitting in a ship off San Pedro, California for a month, you’ll understand the kind of pain we’re talking about. You can’t convert those goods...
Is Your Business Ready for the Economic Rebound?
As of Q3 2021, the good news is that the world has not stopped turning and business is more consistent. Many sectors are achieving record profits. For instance, consumer sentiment led the auto industry and much of tech to exponential growth. However, for certain...
Discreet vs. Process Manufacturing: Choosing the Right ERP Solution
Choosing the best ERP solution for manufacturing is simple once you sort through the features and benefits of the offering and have assessed what your company requires. Your choice will be based on your manufacturing specialty, and which ERP software solution is agile...
New Features Coming to Acumatica 2021 R2
Acumatica has just released Acumatica 2021 R2, the second semi-annual update to its cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software this year. 2021 R2 does not disappoint. The new version of Acumatica has added a number of important advances, coupled with a focus on...
How Manufacturing Methodology Impacts ERP Software Selection
To the untrained eye, manufacturing appears largely uniform. A factory contains machines, operated by people, who make things. Done. Well, not really. Manufacturing operations actually embody a great deal of diversity. At a high level, there’s a split between...
Manufacturing ERP Software: 6 Standard Features to Look For
As the “central nervous system” for a manufacturing business, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is responsible for the distinctive choreography of people, labor and materials that makes each manufacturer successful. The challenge in selecting the right ERP...
Why Your ERP and CRM Should Integrate with Outlook
The term “Customer Relationship Management” (CRM) is a bit of a misnomer. While CRM solutions have the most features for managing the customer relationship, they are not the exclusive tools for communicating with customers. Other systems, such as Enterprise Resource...
Accounts Payable: Top Challenges and How to Solve Them
Cash flow, always critical but never easy to manage, has grown even more challenging in the last year. As COVID has upended supply chains, many of the people responsible for Accounts Payable (AP) are no longer working in the same office. Confusion may prevail as old...
Getting Sales and Finance to Work Together to Increase Profitability
An efficient, growing company usually features a healthy relationship between Sales and Finance. It will thrive on inter-departmental communication and cooperation, in contrast to many organizations where such a relationship is not the norm. After all, the Sales...
Make Better Business Decisions with a Complete Distribution ERP Platform
The past 18 months has proven that even with something as disruptive and frightening as the COVID-19 pandemic, agile businesses are able to meet the challenge of change. Not that it’s easy. Wholesale distributors and their channel partners need to keep things moving,...
How Cloud ERP Can Help You Prepare for the Economic Rebound
As the Covid-19 pandemic progressed over the better part of 18 months, some companies have been able to keep things moving, while others have not. Unfortunately, many businesses struggled with managing remote workers, distributed data and device security. They have...
Accounts Receivable: Top Challenges and How to Solve Them
Accounts Receivable (AR) tends to be a perpetual challenge. Some customers will invariably pay late, or never. AR managers can now benefit from advances in AR software, however. These applications may be part of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suites like...
Acumatica Summit 2021
Recently, after much anticipation, the Acumatica Summit 2021 was finally able to celebrate people coming together – live. The event took place at the spectacular Wynn Las Vegas Hotel. Acumatica, the world’s fastest-growing cloud ERP leader, showcased the progress of...
5 Ways Distributors Can Grow with Cloud ERP Software
Acumatica Distribution Edition can be a key growth factor for distribution businesses. The cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software offers superior functional benefits as well as flexibility—enabling every aspect of the distribution process to become more...
Why Businesses Are Replacing Macola™ with Acumatica
Businesses that have been using Macola™ for their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) needs are saying goodbye to the old and hello to modern ERP solutions like Acumatica. The legacy software no longer adequately serves the needs of today’s businesses. In the 1970s,...