The word is out. More small and medium-sized businesses are selecting Acumatica Cloud ERP as the platform of choice to spring their business forward. As an Acumatica consultant firm, we see 6 major benefits that growing businesses experience with Acuamtica. We help implement, train and support Acumatica and our clients streamline operations and consequently earn more profits than ever.
1. Inventory Tracking - Acumatica’s inventory management functionality helps growing businesses strike a balance between having enough product on hand without spending too much. Acumatica Cloud ERP helps automate the purchasing, receiving, issuing, and return of inventory items. This automation doesn’t just apply to finished goods, either. It also includes the tracking of materials and repair parts as well as items that have been committed and are on order.
When inventory tracking is automated, this helps reduce the carrying costs and enable you to better plan your purchase orders. ; additional benefits include Acumatica’s ability to manage inventory Acumatica is flexible with a variety of tracking methods which include LIFO, FIFO, and average costing. Depending on your financial reporting model, you can choose how to value your inventory.
2. Increase Productivity - Acumatica Cloud ERP enables you to perform daily operations faster while gaining deeper insights into your critical processes. Streamline operations with a modern, fully-integrated architecture that combines enterprise-class order processing, CRM, operations management, and accounting – all of which you can customize. Workflow functionality, which is also included, allows you to automatically route documents, obtain approvals, and track activities.
Acumatica's self-service business intelligence tools further enhance your productivity with tools and dashboards that show you your data in new ways so you can work faster and smarter.
3. Connect Anywhere - With Acumatica, you can access your business information from anywhere, at any time, and on any device. While many ERP solutions make their tools available via the web and mobile devices, Acumatica designed their ERP to have the same look, feel, and functionality across mobile devices, the web, and desktops. As a result, your people can be fully productive anywhere.
Employees have come to expect common work tasks to be available when they work remotely; Acumatica has responded by creating an app for both iOS and Android devices – at no extra charge – that field staff can use on their mobile devices, including time and expense reporting.
And there’s no need to worry about security, because universal access doesn't mean universal vulnerability – Acumatica Cloud ERP is extremely reliable and secure due to redundancy in the cloud and the cloud’s ability to separate your core ERP system from user functions.
4. Adapt to Change - Your customers are demanding more sophisticated services at a faster pace. Because you're delivering products to ‘always-on’ consumers, you need more responsiveness via the web or phone on a 24/7/365 basis.
Acumatica integrates all critical technologies, including support systems, so you can provide quick-response, automated-when-necessary customer service. In addition, because Acumatica integrates everywhere you need it to, your front-line support personnel has more data at their fingertips to handle customer requests faster.
Acumatica's broad, integrated operations help your business adapt and grow – not hide – in the face of change.
5. Improve Cash Flow - You need to be responsive to customers while optimally managing fulfillment and cash flow. With Acumatica’s ability to take orders, make shipments based on customer preferences, bill accurately, and track on-time or delinquent payers, you maximize revenue while ensuring you get paid. Moreover, key processes are automated; for example, upon order receipt, discounts are automatically applied, shipping receives the order, and accounting obtains invoice information.
To further enhance your cash flow, Acumatica Cloud ERP includes visual dashboards to alert your customer service team when specific customer's receivables grow too large or become too far past due.
6. Respond Faster - Acumatica Cloud ERP incorporates CRM into the base offering, which means your customer service teams instantly have access to information related to quotes, orders, shipments, invoices, payments, and service calls. This 360-degree customer view enables customer service representatives to offer fast responses based on the full context of your relationship with the customer. In addition, the Acumatica Customer Portal provides both customers and partners with a single location to place orders and then access order and shipment information – they can even submit support cases and obtain support on a 24/7 basis.
Conclusion
More small and medium-sized businesses benefit from Acumatica in ways they never thought possible. The full, modern functionality of the system is helping them streamline operations and earn more profits than ever.
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The rise in popularity of cloud ERP solutions, and nowhere are the changes more valuable than in the cloud ERP market, where Acumatica is bringing new levels of value through fully functional and flexible CRM, ERP, financial management, and vertical industry functionality.
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Another version of this blog was previously published on Southeast Computer Solutions’ BLOG by Ralph Ceccarelli on September 18, 2017 - 6 Benefits of Acumatica Cloud ERP
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