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Best-of-Breed ERP in One Easy to Use Cloud Solution

Written by Nancy Phillippi | May 9, 2022 11:43:22 PM

You can get best-in-class ERP from One ERP

Employees in rapidly growing companies are struggling with limited, disconnected accounting and ERP solutions. Without a solution that’s specialized in the needs of their particular industry, it will be difficult to embrace modern applications. Learn more about the benefits of implementing one of the four industry-specific ERP solutions offered by Acumatica and Clients First.

Acumatica Core: General Business Edition

At the center of each solution, regardless of industry, Acumatica provides support across your core functional areas such as accounting, sales, or projects. Advanced financial features for project accounting, billing, asset depreciation, and payroll provide a robust system for growing businesses. Acumatica includes embedded CRM with case management tools for sales and customer support. Connect to third-party applications for sales tax calculation if you have complicated requirements, and more, including:

  • Avalara Ava Tax
  • Human Resources
  • Exchange Rate Retrieval

Construction Industry Edition

Get a 360-degree view of your construction business from anywhere, anytime from any internet-connected device. The Construction Edition provides built-in construction management and estimating programs to automate quote-to-job cost accounting. Acumatica automates your finances and provides actionable intelligence. It also integrates with other construction industry specific applications, including:

  • ProCore-built connector gives you a real-time view of project data and finances. Users can share vendor, project, budget, commitment, change order, and project profitability data with one click, whether they’re in the field, working from home, or at the office.
  • ProEst integration makes it easy for users to create specialized construction estimates. The Acumatica platform streamlines the pre-construction process.

Distribution Industry Edition

Inventory-based businesses have utilized Acumatica Distribution Edition to successfully boost sales, automate warehouse operations, optimize inventory management, and streamline purchasing. For distributors aspiring to omnichannel sales, you can use Acumatica as the hub to integrate your eCommerce, point-of-sale, and field service application data. Acumatica also makes it possible to exchange data bi-directionally with industry-specific applications for fashion, home goods, electronics, and health and beauty, including:

  • Direct store delivery (DSD) applications connect to Acumatica enabling your teams to track and manage business operations, sales, and taxes from the ERP
  • Electronic data interchange (EDI) automates transaction management, such as purchasing and invoicing
  • Utilize your favorite shipping solution such as Pacejet or Starship to seamlessly ship small parcel, less-than-truckload (LTL), or truckload (TL) shipments.

Manufacturing Industry Edition

Acumatica includes an extensive suite of connected business applications for manufacturers that support make-to-stock, make-to-order, batch process, and project-centric orders. Acumatica’s features automate production, estimating, engineering, material planning, scheduling, product configuration, and manufacturing data aggregation.  

  • Connect your PLM to Acumatica Manufacturing BOM for product lifecycle management
  • Stay in compliance with ISO, government, and customer quality requirements with flexible testing and quality data analysis on a centralized platform.

Download "What do Manufacturers Look for in an ERP Solution?"

This guide takes a much deeper look into the needs and preferences of the firms studied and should be an important starting point in your journey to new ERP software. It was written by the Aberdeen Group and provided to you free of charge, courtesy of Acumatica.  You can download the entire guide here:

 

Retail Commerce Industry Edition

Acumatica enables bi-directional connections to customer-facing eCommerce sites, marketplaces, and POS devices to your back-office system. Ultimately, your customers enjoy a consistent experience across all sales channels with full integration between online, mobile, kiosk, and in-store shopping data.

Acumatica Retail Commerce Edition enables retailers to analyze their data from hardware and software systems, from credit card terminals and barcode scanners, to storefront applications such as Shopify for business-to-consumer (B2C), and Big Commerce for business-to-business (B2B) web storefronts.

Trust an Experienced Industry and ERP Partner

Adopting modern business technology will require automated connections between multiple cloud services with seamless cloud ERP integrations. We have experts ready to guide you on your digital transformation journey and ensure your integrations support your company’s growth and automation of manual processes for your teams.

Industry expertise and experience – Clients First consultants have direct experience in the industries we support. The Clients First Texas office is known for its vertical expertise in manufacturing, job shops, and maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) for aviation or heavy equipment organizations. We have customers in other industries, too, including make-to-order/engineering job shops, project manufacturing, field services, and wholesale distribution.

We’re a Microsoft Gold ERP Partner, a Certified Cloud Service Provider (CSP), and an Acumatica Gold Partner.

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