Acumatica has released its semi-annual software update, and it includes improvements to commerce and inventory functions in its various industry-specific editions. Robust commerce software has become all the more important during the past year as companies were forced by the pandemic to move more, if not all, of their functions online.
With the 2021 R1 updates, Acumatica continues to build out its artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled mobile image recognition capabilities. Users can scan business cards with their mobile device camera and automatically create contacts within Acumatica’s customer relationship management software.
Acumatica also enhanced the dashboard side panels with ordering and visibility to help users navigate to external URLs from general inquiry results.
The 2021 R1 update includes the following:
Financials and CRM highlights:
- Simplify operations with centralized vendor management;
- Enhance the quality of customer relationship management data with Acumatica’s intelligent deduplication technology; and
- Maximize potential sales and simplify support by tracking contacts on sales orders.
Distribution and Commerce Edition highlights:
- Streamline cross-company sales with stock items and automatically create corresponding purchase orders and sales orders;
- Maximize product offerings to target markets through enhanced drop-ship workflows;
- Reduce collections by gathering commerce order risk data; and
- Increase control through granular sync options with custom commerce fields.
Manufacturing and Field Service Edition highlights:
- Access product lifecycle management capabilities through
Arena integration; - Make accurate delivery commitments to customers through APS capable-to-promise capabilities;
- Simplify cost tracking by linking AP bills to field service appointments; and
- Boost customer responsiveness by simplifying field service invoice correction.
Construction Edition highlights:
- Increase usability with
Procore integration enhancements; and - Benchmark against peers and see how your company is performing with CFMA benchmark.
General platform highlights:
- AI/ML-powered mobile image recognition for business cards;
- At-a-glance key performance indicator tracking with a new speedometer on dashboards;
- Localization support for Canadian marketing including French-Canadian language; and
- Optimize application workflows throughout the Acumatica suite with its workflow engine.
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