Running a manufacturing operation means managing dozens of moving parts simultaneously — materials, machines, labor, schedules, quality, and cost — while customers demand shorter lead times and tighter pricing. The manufacturers who win are the ones with the systems to see all of it clearly and act quickly.
WAC Solution Partners helps manufacturers take control with Acumatica manufacturing management software designed specifically for the realities of the shop floor. As an Acumatica Gold Partner with deep manufacturing industry experience, we implement systems that connect your production operations with your financial and business management — in one unified, real-time platform.
Why Manufacturers Choose Acumatica
Most manufacturers we talk to are dealing with one of three situations:
- They’ve outgrown QuickBooks and are running production on spreadsheets or a separate system that doesn’t talk to accounting.
- They’re on an aging ERP (Sage 100, Dynamics GP, or a legacy system from the 90s) that can’t support modern requirements like mobile access, real-time data, or cloud deployment.
- They implemented a generic ERP that wasn’t built for manufacturing and now they’re managing workarounds constantly.
Acumatica Manufacturing Edition is built from the ground up for manufacturers — with purpose-built modules for production management, material planning, shop floor control, and cost accounting that work as a single integrated system alongside financials, distribution, and CRM.
Acumatica Manufacturing Management: Core Capabilities
Bills of Materials & Routing
The foundation of any manufacturing ERP is accurate Bills of Materials (BOM) and routing. Acumatica’s BOM management gives you:
- Multi-level BOMs with unlimited component levels
- Revision control to manage engineering changes over time
- Multiple BOM types — production, planning, engineering, and archive
- Where-used analysis to understand the impact of a component change across all products
- Routing steps with work center assignments, setup time, run time, and machine time
- Outside processing steps for subcontracted operations
- Cost rollup to calculate standard costs across your entire product catalog
When engineering makes a change, the right BOM revision flows to production. When costs change, your standard costs reflect reality.
Production Orders
Acumatica’s production order management brings visibility and control to your manufacturing floor:
- Create production orders from sales orders, MRP recommendations, or manually
- Material issue and backflushing — issue components against the BOM automatically or by exception
- Labor tracking by employee, operation, and work center
- Real-time production order status — in progress, completed, on hold
- Lot and serial number assignment at production and component levels
- Variance analysis comparing actual material, labor, and overhead to standard
- Scrap and rework tracking to capture true production costs
Production supervisors know exactly where every order stands. Finance knows exactly what it cost.
Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
For manufacturers, the most expensive problem is also one of the most common: having the wrong materials at the wrong time. Acumatica’s MRP module solves this by:
- Calculating net requirements based on demand (sales orders, forecasts, and production orders) against on-hand inventory and scheduled receipts
- Generating planned production and purchase orders with the right quantities and due dates
- Respecting planning parameters — lead times, lot sizes, safety stock, and planning horizons
- Exception-based management — the system highlights only the items that need your attention
- Multi-site planning for manufacturers with multiple locations
MRP turns reactive purchasing and scheduling into proactive planning. Your buyers stop firefighting and start managing the supply chain strategically.
Shop Floor Control
The gap between the office and the factory floor is where efficiency dies in many manufacturing companies. Acumatica’s shop floor capabilities close that gap:
- Mobile and touchscreen data collection — operators record labor, materials, and completions from the floor without paper travelers
- Work center scheduling with capacity constraints
- Visual production scheduling to see load versus capacity in real time
- Clock-in/clock-out labor reporting by employee and operation
- Real-time production status visible to customer service and management
- Barcode label printing for WIP and finished goods
When shop floor data flows into the system in real time, everyone is working from the same information — from the production supervisor to the customer service rep to the CFO.
Quality Management
Quality escapes are expensive — rework, customer returns, warranty costs, and reputation damage all add up. Acumatica’s quality management capabilities help you:
- Define inspection criteria at the item, operation, or customer level
- Trigger quality inspections automatically based on production events or receipt milestones
- Record inspection results and pass/fail outcomes with digital records
- Track non-conformances through disposition and corrective action
- Hold inventory pending quality release
- Capture quality data for regulatory compliance and customer audit requirements
Quality management integrated with production means problems are caught earlier, documented automatically, and traced to root cause.
Cost Accounting
Manufacturing profitability is notoriously difficult to measure accurately without the right system. Acumatica gives manufacturers:
- Standard costing with variance reporting at the order and work center level
- Actual costing for job shops and engineer-to-order environments
- Overhead allocation — machine hours, labor hours, or dollar-based methods
- Work in process (WIP) accounting that reflects your actual production state
- Cost layer tracking for FIFO and weighted average costing
- Profitability analysis by product, product line, customer, and production run
Gary Jensen, WAC’s co-founder, has spent his career in manufacturing. That hands-on industry background means our consulting team understands the operational realities of the shop floor: the scheduling pressures, the material shortages, the cost variance surprises. When we implement Acumatica for manufacturers, cost accounting isn’t an afterthought — it’s central to how we configure the system.
Cloud ERP for Manufacturers: The Platform Advantages
Beyond the manufacturing-specific modules, Acumatica’s platform architecture gives manufacturers advantages that older systems simply can’t match:
True Cloud Deployment
Access the system from anywhere — the plant floor, a customer site, the road, or home. Your data is always current, always secure, and always available on any device.
No Per-User Licensing
Acumatica’s consumption-based model means you can give every employee — including part-time shop floor workers, seasonal staff, and remote employees — system access without paying per seat. For manufacturers with variable headcount, this is a significant cost advantage.
Unified Platform
Acumatica connects manufacturing with financials, distribution, project management, and CRM in a single database. No integrations to maintain between disconnected systems. No data reconciliation between your ERP and your accounting software.
Scalability
A $10M job shop and a $150M process manufacturer can both run on the same Acumatica platform. As your business grows — adding product lines, acquiring companies, or expanding to new locations — the platform grows with you.
Manufacturing Types We Support
Acumatica Manufacturing Edition is built to handle the full range of manufacturing environments:
- Discrete manufacturing — standard products, repetitive production, make-to-stock
- Job shop / make-to-order — custom products built to customer specifications
- Engineer-to-order (ETO) — complex projects with engineering, quoting, and project tracking
- Process manufacturing — batch production with formulas and recipes (food, chemicals, cosmetics)
- Mixed-mode manufacturing — combinations of the above within a single operation
Whether you’re building products to a forecast or responding to custom orders, Acumatica adapts to how you actually manufacture — not the other way around.
The WAC Approach to Manufacturing ERP
We’ve worked with manufacturers across the country — metal fabricators, food processors, electronics assemblers, industrial equipment builders, consumer goods producers, and more. That experience shapes how we approach every implementation:
- We start with your production floor, not a demo script. Before we configure anything, we walk your floor, talk to your supervisors, and understand how you actually build your product.
- We configure Acumatica to match your manufacturing model. Discrete, job shop, ETO, or process — your system reflects your reality.
- We connect finance to operations from day one. Your controller shouldn’t have to wait until month-end to understand production costs. We build the reporting and dashboards that give your financial team real-time visibility.
- We train your whole team, not just the power users. Shop floor operators, production planners, quality inspectors, and executives all get role-appropriate training in the system they’ll actually use.
Ready to Modernize Your Manufacturing Operations?
If your production management is running on spreadsheets, a legacy system, or a disconnected combination of tools, there’s a better way. Acumatica cloud ERP for manufacturers brings your entire operation — production, planning, quality, cost, and finance — into a single real-time system that gives you the visibility to manage what matters.
We’ll start with a conversation about your operation and a demonstration of how Acumatica handles your specific manufacturing model. No generic demos. No high-pressure sales process. Just experienced consultants who understand manufacturing and want to help you succeed.
Schedule a Manufacturing ERP Demo | Call us at 877-909-2224
See what your operation looks like when everyone is working from the same real-time data.
