Data is nothing without powerful analytics to aggregate your internal and external information into dashboards that display business intelligence you can act on. Sadly, in a lot of companies, the accounting and finance teams are still relying on static spreadsheets that are inevitably out of date the minute they are finally published. Today, we take a closer look at how manufacturing companies who use Acumatica have added real-time data to their decision-making and improved their business efficiency.
Your company creates and collects a lot of financial and operational data. In addition to Acumatica for your ERP, lots of companies have "external" data in their workforce/payroll, AP, AR, and other industry-specific apps and tools. To make sense of it all, innovative manufacturers rely on dashboards to give them the big picture summary of up-to-date information. In a single workspace, your business leaders can monitor department, individual, and customer performance.
Your ideal dashboard solution should let you know how things are going. It should be easy to see how the business revenue is performing against targets. For example, with Phocas Software, your data is automatically extracted from Acumatica and your other business systems, consolidated, and presented in a way that makes sense for your company's unique manufacturing, purchasing, or sales processes.
Once you spot a pattern you want to investigate further, your ideal system should empower you to filter and query your data in a way that's right for you. For example, you might have concerns such as negative sales variance of a particular customer. Using Phocas you can get a filtered view of their performance and find out what product groups are causing the biggest issue.
Phocas lets you deep dive into your data and isolate what you're looking for. Built from the ground up to be easy to use, Phocas users can access data from day one from the top level down to the manufacturing floor.
What happens a lot to companies is they end up “drowning in data, but starving for insights.” Phocas Software effectively connects the dots between data and outcomes. It takes all your flat, but complex, operational and financial data and makes it visual. You get a variety of charts and graphs, so your data makes sense and actionable insights become obvious. Choose from familiar favorites like pie charts, bar charts, and line graphs, or select from gauges, bubble charts, pareto charts, tables and waterfalls to visualize data.
From day one, Phocas users can access tracking and reporting on KPIs or metrics that are essential to their role and your industry. And because your business processes aren’t cookie cutter, we made sure your data visualization isn’t either. With a flexible platform, you can easily customize your dashboards and reports and answer critical questions such as “what are my up-sell opportunities?” or “where can I successfully cross-sell?”
If you’d like to get business-changing insights from the Acumatica data at your fingertips, contact the Acumatica experts at Phocas Software today to request your 30-minute demo.