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Acumatica Distribution Software

Acumatica Cloud ERP Distribution software can help you automate business processes and reduce costly errors in purchasing, order fulfillment, inventory tracking, and customer support.

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Why Choose Acumatica

Distribution management means managing warehouses, inventory, and purchasing, and seamlessly integrating these activities with your sales and financials. A strong wholesale distribution software platform can reduce time to delivery, control costs, and improve customer satisfaction.

Acumatica Wholesale Distribution ERP Software will manage sales orders, track inventory, fill orders, improve purchasing, and provide customer support from anywhere with with distribution management software that is fully integrated with Acumatica’s CRM, Financials, Manufacturing, and Project Management for visibility across the entire organization.

Acumatica On-the-Go

Acumatica is available in-browser, accessible on any internet-enabled device. This means automatic updates, no IT maintenance budget, and easy insights no matter where you are. Easily create and send invoices, approve time sheets, and view reports, from the convenience of your mobile device.

Employees and contractors can enter time and expenses on any Apple or Android device using the Acumatica Mobile App and attach photos of receipts. Workflows route completed reports for approvals on managers’ mobile device.

Features of Acumatica Distribution Software

  • Inventory Management

    View the complete picture. Instant access to available inventory, inventory in transit, reordering needs, and costs of goods. Manage your distribution process efficiently and maximize profits. Acumatica Distribution Management Software allows for management of multiple warehouses, lots, inventory sub-items, setting of expiration dates, and advanced bin location tracking.

Inventory Allocation

Custom inventory rules for every step of your sales cycle. Warn users if inventory is unavailable or if there are discrepancies between the invoice and inventory transaction.

Inventory Sub-items

Categorize sub-items by size, color, or source location. Associate cost and quality information with each sub-item.

Two-step Transfers

Inventory transfers are done in two steps so you can track goods in transit between locations.

Expiration dates

Set expired items to be automatically removed from inventory.

Lot and Serial Numbering

Track inventory by lot or serial number. Assign or enter lot/serial numbers on receive, issue, or assembly. Associate item specific valuation methods to serial numbers to track specific costs.

  • Purchase Order Management

    Lower your bottom line and keep your vendors happy by automating your global purchasing processes. Acumatica Distribution Management Software has a complex online sourcing tool which can be used to fully automate procurement, from vendor quotes and price lists, to fulfilling invoices.

Vendor Bidding

Upload vendor price lists with product descriptions, prices, and delivery times. Inventory information such as costs, quantities, and lead times is updated each time inventory is received.

Purchase Order Automation

Automatically create purchase orders based on stock levels. Orders go to the vendor with the best price and delivery time.

  • Sales Order Management

    Streamline sales order creation and fulfillment. Easily split orders between multiple warehouse locations, allocate inventory, verify credit limits, replenish your inventory, and accept returns. Greatly improve your business processes to reduce lag time and increase efficiency.

Shipment Schedule

Every line item on a sales order may have a specific delivery date. Create shipment orders by delivery schedule and availability.

Multiple and Partial Dispatching

Fulfill sales orders from multiple warehouses, or split orders into multiple shipments.Track partial ship order balance and manage back order delivery.

Transaction Reason Codes

Identify problems early by assigning reason codes to inventory transactions. These can be linked to the inventory or GL.

  • Requisition Management

    Organize, automate, and optimize even the most complex distribution processes with many moving parts and vendors. Simplify bid requests, create quotes, approve quotes, manage purchasing, and fulfill orders for both internal and external needs.

Complete Integration

The Requisition Management module is integrated with all other modules to eliminate duplicate data entry.

Reporting and Drill Down

Analyze and manage your purchasing experience through a complete set of inquiry screens and auditing reports with drill down to the original transactions.

  • Order Management

    Centrally manage sales activities, streamline procurement processes, and automate order fulfillment for internal or external clients.

Drop Shipments

Create drop shipment orders for items that need to be delivered directly to a customer. Auto-release sales order and invoice when purchase receipt is vouchered.

Invoice Consolidation

Consolidate Multiple Shipment orders onto a single invoice. Update price and discount information on review before printing the invoice and updating accounts receivable.

Landed Cost Functionality

Include additional shipping and handling costs with purchased items.

WHY WORK WITH FOURLANE

Fourlane is a Certified Gold Acumatica implementation partner, with over 5,000 growing businesses who have trusted us to help them choose the right software system for their company. We have an experienced team of ERP experts ready to help make your transition as smooth as possible, whether you’ve outgrown QuickBooks or are looking for a system that can keep up with your growth. In addition to implementation and support assistance, we offer robust consulting services including system design, implementation, reporting, & more.

We are proud to offer Acumatica to our clients for its consumption-based flexible pricing model, and cloud-based ERP system, and so you can securely keep control of your data. We will help you every step of the way; sign up for a consultation to learn more.

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Key Benefits of Acumatica Distribution Management

Learn about features in Acumatica ERP that are common across all types of businesses in the distribution industry.

Reduce Order Times

Automate sales orders and shipping and eliminate delays. Set rules to manage multiple warehouses, returns, credit limits, drop shipments, and more.

Know Your True Costs

Determine your true profitability, and drill down to view by warehouse, product line, or individual business unit. Control costs across the entire supply chain.

Improve Customer Satisfaction

Be more efficient and offer greater transparency to your customers.

Multiple warehouses

Acumatica is perfect for complex businesses with multiple geographic locations with varying inventory quantities, allocations, and costs. Easily manage redistribution of inventory between locations.

Multiple Valuation Methods

Select a different valuation method for each inventory item. Make direct adjustments to cost and physical inventory count using report and inquiry screens.Use standard cost, moving average, FIFO, and item-specific methods.

Integrated Workflow

Eliminate wasted time and effort with Acumatica integrated workflow to automate order processing. Configure order status, status changes, actions, notifications and alerts to automatically trigger during order processing.

Configurable Order Types

Tie predefined order types to specific processing requirements. Set your own inventory allocation rules and workflow scenarios, as well as the documents that will be created simultaneously.

Automatic Creation of Purchase Orders

Stock levels and replenishment needs can automatically generate purchase orders. Purchase orders are placed with best-match vendor based on requirements you specify.

Sales Quotes

Create sales quotes based on your catalog prices or advanced algorithms. Print or email quotes with one-click. Automatically create sales and purchase orders to close a sales activity.