We’ve been working with a few manufacturing shops on Acumatica and keep seeing the same pattern:
Dashboards take weeks to stand up — mostly because everything runs through Generic Inquiries. Not hard, just time + iteration.
Meanwhile the shop floor is asking pretty simple questions:
- who actually clocked in and is working right now
- are we going to miss shipments this week
- what material is supposed to arrive next week
So there’s this gap between what’s technically possible and what’s actually usable day to day.
Curious how others are handling this:
- Are you building GIs internally or relying on your VAR?
- How long does it usually take to get something usable?
- Any shortcuts you’ve found to speed this up?
We ended up building a few simple dashboards outside that answer these directly, and they get used daily — happy to share if useful.
— Alex