We are a division of a user of Acumatica . It’s hoped that our division will start using Acumatica sometime next year.
Our parent company is primarily a plumbing/HVAC/electrical installation and repair company. Manufacturing was a sideline with non-repeating work, small quantities, and flexible due dates. We are a tier one manufacturer and we were bought (in part) to expand the parent company into large quantity, repeating work .
We have been using another ERP program for decades (with occasional upgrades, of course). We’ve created inhouse solutions that fit our process better or add features that aren’t available yet; all built on the ERP data to expand capabilities.
I had little to do with the roll out to our parent company – except for providing some tricks for data extraction and compilation. I am new to Acumatica .
Questions and plans (sorry for the length and I don’t know what I don’t know) :
- Would two instances be needed? Our present ERP system allows multiple sites, but in all the descriptions of that feature, similar items are created in all separate locations. We will have a mostly service side with separate services and a manufacturing side.
- I’m learning C# and trying to go to “Acumatica University,” are there any other languages/software/concepts I should learn?
- Since Acumatica is in the cloud, what system administrative tasks are there to do?
- Are there any EDI users out there? We rolled our own EDI solution. I could go into details, but that’s beyond this initial round of questions.
- We also automated parts of our shipping process. Do any of you ship to automotive/heavy machinery manufacturers?
- One of our customers allows us to change our prices quarterly. Skipping a few steps, we receive a spreadsheet with the new prices. We did it manually once; it took eight people three hours on a Saturday. Instead, now an inhouse tool is used to automatically read the spreadsheet and adjust prices in the database in under eight minutes. Anybody do something similar?
- Our present ERP system has APIs. I was going to integrate them into our software, but our company was purchased. I had to help integrate the two companies.
Thanks for getting this far.
