Use Acumatica Manufacturing KPIs to Prevent Supply Chain Disruption

Was your manufacturing company among the countless that were unable to meet demand from stock on hand due to the unprecedented impacts of COVID-19? Many manufacturers are stockpiling inventory on hand in response, which may be hurting cash flow. Find out how your company can prevent supply chain disruption with Acumatica Manufacturing KPIs that monitor inventory.

More Frequent Forecasting Needed

These uncertain times require accurate forecasting more frequently, which means your short-handed finance team may be required to deliver even more with fewer hands to help. With automated monitoring and reporting of key performance indicators (KPIs), such as fill rate, it will be easier and quicker for your team to deliver real-time information that enable the proper balance of holding enough inventory in the face of an uncertain supply chain, without tying up cash stockpiles. 

While it would be nice to actually see into the future, it is possible to gain crucial visibility into current demand, and what that may look going forward. Put that data to work modeling potential impacts on your organization’s crucial functions. It’s important to plan conservative as well as worst-case scenarios so you’ll know how to react depending on what the market is doing.

Forecasting and Scenario Planning Made Easy

Acumatica Manufacturing Edition’s Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) enables manufacturers to meet customer demands effectively and economically by setting accurate and reliable delivery dates based on real-time availability of resources. It allows you to more accurately determine requirements for materials and capacity while providing efficient use of production assets.

By integrating key data--such as materials, production capacity, process sequence, and facility schedules--into a powerful, real-time planning and execution application, it’s simple to conduct what-if planning, see real-time available-to-promise, as well as the ability to accurately schedule employee and/or machine resources. Other features include:

• Finite Capacity Scheduling: Know how much work can be produced in a given time period, taking into account limitations on various resources.
• Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP): Verify that you have sufficient capacity available to meet the requirements for your master schedule.
• Work Center Utilization: Compare the available hours for a work center to the actual hours that are scheduled for a work center.
• Manage Material Constraints: Schedule production considering on-hand, available inventory, current production orders, and open purchase orders to ensure that production orders aren’t scheduled if materials aren’t available now or soon enough.

The possibilities for key performance indicators are endless. Acumatica dashboards are designed to be the home base for users within the system. They provide real-time visibility and insight into key organizational data and provide drill down functionality to take action and make decisions. These dashboards are modern and flexible and do not require development experience to modify.  Join the growing group of profitable successful manufacturers and use Acumatica KPIs for Manufacturers.