Digital TransformationDistribution
Elevate Efficiency with Acumatica Distribution ERP
Drive Growth and Profitability with Acumatica and Our Expertise
Acumatica Distribution ERP: Your Operational Efficiency Platform
Built to solve your distribution challenges, Acumatica ERP enables agility and growth
Global supply chains are unpredictable and prone to disruption. That’s why distributors need agility and insight to stay ahead.
That’s where a holistic and user-friendly distribution ERP comes in. With Acumatica Distribution Edition, you can turn uncertainty into opportunity, optimizing every aspect of your operations. Gain cost control, intelligent inventory, and total visibility into your whole operation. With AI and ML, you can automate processes, simplify workflows, and see a boost in both efficiency and team morale.
Optimizing Every Link: Our Expertise, Your Competitive Edge
As the trusted technology partner to hundreds of Canadian distribution companies, we combine deep industry knowledge with technical expertise and human creativity to deliver solutions that simplify your operations, so you can focus on doing what you do best – keeping the economy moving.
250+
Distribution ERP Projects
“We have complete visibility into where inventory is at all times. Now we know where everything is. We’ve had the best inventory that we’ve ever experienced. Not only was it done in half the time, but we’ve had the lowest variance.”
— Allison Buchanan, CEO of Style In Form
Why choose Acumatica ERP?
How Acumatica Distribution ERP Solves Your Challenges
Over the years and through countless projects, we’ve witnessed the distribution industry’s remarkable resilience – and fierce competitiveness. We’ll give you a trade secret: the key to success lies in identifying the problems, eliminating inefficiencies, and applying simple solutions in innovative ways. With the right technology, you can achieve this:
Inventory Management
The Challenge
Managing inventory across multiple warehouses can feel like high-stakes balancing act with stockouts, overstocks, and unpredictable inventory variances throwing you off course. There may be blind spots in your ops, leaving you unsure where you stand.
The Solution
Acumatica Distribution ERP’s advanced inventory management features give you real-time visibility, ensuring you’re always stocked just right. This means fewer headaches, lower costs, and a more efficient operation.
Streamlining Order Processing Bottlenecks
The Challenge
Processing orders manually, through an outdated system, can be time-consuming and error-prone, putting unnecessary stress on your team and affecting customer satisfaction.
The Solution
Streamline your order-to-cash process with Acumatica, making it a breeze to track and fulfill orders quickly and accurately. Powered by AI and integrated with financials and inventory, the process requires fewer touches. The result? Happier customers and a more motivated team.
Eliminating Supply Chain Blind Spots
The Challenge
Supply chain hiccups, delays, and inefficiencies are chipping away at your profits.
The Solution
Acumatica Distribution Edition provides full visibility into your supply chain, from suppliers to customers. With integrated data and real-time analytics, you can optimize logistics, manage suppliers better, and keep your operations running like clockwork.
Cost Management Mastery
The Challenge
Rising costs and tight margins are squeezing your profits. Inefficient processes make it tough to pinpoint what's actually driving revenue, whether by product line or location.
The Solution
Acumatica ERP’s powerful financial tools are built with operational efficiency in mind. The visibility gained across your organization helps you grab the reins on your costs and bring them to heel. Drill down into reports to understand profitability and make informed decisions. Cut costs (and tedium) by automating manual processes to reduce overheads.
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Acumatica Distribution ERP Features
Everything You Need to
Optimize Distribution Efficiency
Distributors are an essential link in the supply chain, so it is increasingly important that they have end-to-end visibility on the journey products take. Efficiency, insight and innovation are the keys to entering new levels of operational excellence, warehouse control and customer satisfaction. With an award-winning, user-friendly interface, Acumatica’s Distribution ERP features:
Real-time Inventory Management
Gain complete visibility into your inventory with real-time tracking. Automate routine tasks, like SKU generation and replenishment, based on current demand. Advanced lot and serial tracking offer end-to-end movement insights, ensuring quality control, compliance and accuracy.
Automated Order Management
Streamline order processing from start to finish with AI & ML. Automated processing streamlines the fulfilment, based on current inventory levels, requiring little human intervention. Real-time updates keep your customers informed, ensuring accuracy and speed every step of the way.
Future-forward Warehouse Management
Whether you have one warehouse or 20, you know that keen warehouse management is the real lifeblood of a distribution company. Optimize storage and packing/picking processes with tools like barcode scanning and pick/pack/ship.
Simple Purchasing and Procurement
Smart purchasing made simple. Maintain strong vendor relationships, automate procurement, and make informed decisions with real-time inventory data. Keep your stock levels just right without the guesswork.
Intelligent Demand Forecasting
We’re not sure about clairvoyance in humans, but AI-powered demand forecasting is an invaluable tool for distributors. Acumatica's demand forecasting analyzes market trends and operational data to help you anticipate needs, reduce stockouts, and use your resources more efficiently.
Powerful Financial Management
At Acumatica's core is robust financial management. Seamlessly integrate inventory and order data, gaining real-time insights into your financial performance. Dive into cost centers, manage budgets, payroll, and payments – all from a user-friendly dashboard.
Superior Supplier Relationship Management
Finding the right ERP for supplier management is vital to keeping your business moving. Maintain reliable supply chains with robust supplier management. Track performance, manage contracts, and give stakeholders access to dashboards. Build stronger relationships and ensure prompt delivery for your customers.
Flexible ERP Integration for Distributors
Acumatica’s cloud-based platform integrates seamlessly with essential software like e-commerce systems, shipping management, or CRM. Unify your data, connect departments, and leverage centralized insights for smarter decision-making. Our award-winning development team is here to build custom solutions that propel your distribution network forward.
Leading the Way in Distribution
Success stories powered by Acumatica and The Answer Company
2 Custom Built solutions
to bridge tech stack gaps
11 Shopify stores
with centralized order management and inventory
20,000 SKUs
automatically entered per quarter
What Timebomb Trading have to say about Distribution Success with Acumatica:
“The Answer Company pretty much saved Timebomb,” Yuen says. “They were able to develop customizations and came up with solutions that will help us remain competitive well into the future.”
— Lester Yuen, Vice President at Timebomb Trading
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Why Integration of ERP is Essential for Distributors
When it comes to data, silos serve nobody. As a modular ERP built on a flexible architecture, Acumatica is primed for integration across business functions.
From Acumatica-built integrations, like CRM and a self-serve Portal, to certified solutions for inventory, BI, QC or labelling, built on the xRP foundation and available on the Acumatica Marketplace. As an Acumatica Gold-Certified VAR Partner, we work closely with Acumatica and the ISVs of the solutions to ensure seamless implementation that boosts your effectiveness.
Tailored Solutions & Innovative Development
For over 30 years, we’ve been helping distributors digitalize and optimize their resources by solving complex issues with simple, elegant and powerful technology.
Our team, driven by the Distribution Practice Lead, doesn’t just wait for requests but is always on the lookout for new ways to flex their creative muscles, bridge gaps, find innovative solutions and stay one step ahead of what our clients need.
The proof is in the results– see how our development team helped Time Bomb Trading kick manual data entry to the cur, turning their multi-warehouse fulfillment into a well-oiled machine – all thanks to a custom digital storefront.
Curious how we did it? Check out how we helped Time Bomb Trading scale its operation.
Acumatica ERP Resources
Acumatica is regularly rated highly for user-friendliness and intuitiveness, but there is a lot of power under the hood. The Distribution ERP becomes the single source of truth for your organization. We’ve gathered some information that you might find useful on your search for digital transformation. No details needed, download instantly!
Ready to tell your team about Acumatica?
For a quick read, download the Distribution ERP Datasheet
Prefer video? Watch the Distribution Edition Demo Video
See how many boxes it ticks with the Distribution ERP Evaluation Checklist
Take a wide view of the full solution with the Acumatica Distribution Edition Overview Brochure
Got a niche? We’ve got Industry Briefs for you.
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