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ERP Justification: How to Help Stakeholders Understand ERP System Benefits

ERP Justification: How to Help Stakeholders Understand ERP System Benefits . I had the privilege to share my thoughts on the ERP justification why business owners need to have an integrated ERP system for small, medium or large enterprise companies. Along with other authors SelectHub put together this great article on their website.

Future of eCommerce and ERP integration - iPaaS, Acumatica-Celigo integration

The future of integration with e-Commerce and ERP systems is about to change, with low code or low customization and no IT team required to process those web orders into your ERP system. We are experiencing the latest technology growth of RESTful API web services. With multi-cloud environment, Cloud ERP companies like Acumatica can take advantage of integrating e-Commerce vendors like Shopify, BIG commerce, Magneto, 3D Cart and other hundreds of shopping cart solutions with API integration. Solving The Problem In cloud environment how do we scale e-Commerce business? Imagine you have a new e-Commerce vendor offering very specific features to your line of business which is compelling to use their platform to sell your products/services with either B2C or B2B channel, your e-Commerce team gets started by launching the website meanwhile we still need to figure out how to get those web orders into our ERP system/Order management system so we can avoid duplicate order entry system...

Acumatica Acquisition - IFS, EQT Partners - News from the Alps

I was on family vacation in Swiss Alps passing through the mountains when I saw my emails and social media messages hitting the feed. Now I had a choice to enjoy the view of the mountains or read the big news of Acumatica acquisition, I choose the ERP mountain acquisition news, still capturing the beauty through my camera lens. As I learnt more about IFS and EQT that strengthened my trust and quickly informed my team and started to congratulate   Acumatica folks on Skype whom I know personally for last 20+ yrs for their commitment and putting a superior product out there. Finally, the word of comfort from top executive at Acumatica was "Best is no management changes, All the same people will stay", such acquisitions bring lots of changes and retaining human talent and SME's is most important in this industry. Acumatica, the fastest growing ERP Company and I knew they had 2 choices, to either get listed on NASDAQ or get acquired, and the later happened much...

Wally's Wine & Spirits - eSignature Plugin case study

Wally's Wine & Spirits, in need of electronic signature solution for their retail and delivery service of their wine products. Wally's found our eSignature solution more suitable compared to DocuSign or off-the-shelf products. eSignature is built natively and integrated with Acumatica's file system, it allows Wally's drivers to drop off the customer's wine and accessories, collect signatures and stay in compliance for wine & liquor business. We also have optional front office/ retail front signature pad integration for POS solution with Topaz hardware signature pads. eSignature is not user based or document based pricing, it's flat pricing yearly subscription and capture as many signatures as you need which makes it cost effective to our customers. If you need a demo of this click here to visit our website Acumatica Esignature  

Acumatica JewelShop - JCK Las Vegas Convention for Jewelry Business

Acumatica JewelShop , new plugin for Jewelry wholesale business and custom jewelry manufacturers. Visit us at JCK LAS VEGAS - Booth B50042 | May 31 to Jun 2nd. SANDS EXPO & THE VENETIAN LAS VEGAS, NV https://lasvegas.jckonline.com/ Visit our website for product information  Visit our website for more information about Acumatica JewelShop

Acumatica Printshop Ver 2019 Features - Calendar View & More.

Acumatica Printshop , ISV solution for Print industry built on Acumatica xRP platform for business in custom print solutions and services offering screen printing, embroidery and promotional custom products, Printshop automates your production job workflow and process. Our new 2019 version improves its usability allowing customers to view all production jobs on calendar view within Acumatica. Printshop users can quickly see their entire week or month production jobs scattered across multiple screen print machines or resources. We have also improved the usability to define your own captions making it easier to configure your business process, also improved purchasing process to increase production efficiency and customer satisfaction. Acumatica Printshop Version 2019 features. Calendar view of production jobs Ability to configure production jobs status, notification label captions  Ability to mark all line items for PO on sales order Ability to view "Purchase detail...

Topaz Signature Pad integration with eSignature for Acumatica Cloud ERP

With new release of Acumatica 2019 version, we are upgrading our plugin " eSignature " to newest version and adding most requested features in our next build/updates. eSignature now can be accepted on Sales order and shipment screens with multiple document status. We are enhancing the plugin to interface with hardware integration. Our team has done extensive research and development working with hardware vendors and zeroed on Topaz, leader in hardware signature pad devices. Topaz has numerous signature pad solution for desktop, web and client applications, eSignature Ver 2019 will have Topaz interface to integrate signature pad capture and process those files within Acumatica. With Topaz SDK eSignature plugin was able to capture signed image and process as a image file into Acumatica file system and documents. Topaz Signature pad is available for 2018 R2 and 2019 R1 version only. Visit our website for more information and pricing  Topaz Signature Pads T-...

Digital transformation for screen printing, embroidery, promotional and print companies - Acumatica Printshop

Print and promotional products is 20+ billion dollar industry, most companies are stuck in legacy accounting ERP software or islands of database and really missing out on digital transformation with cloud offerings. A new wave of thinking is required to strategize and move towards cloud adoption to compete and stay ahead in Print/PPI industry. Industry analysts predict over the next five years, continued growth in corporate profit and total advertising expenditure will boost industry demand, compelling companies to spend more on promotional products. - IBIS World  We (InfoSourcing) are very excited to have Ink Custom Tees join our Acumatica Printshop family, Acumatica is a leader in Cloud ERP software with integrated sales, purchasing, inventory and accounting solution for small, medium and enterprise companies. Acumatica Printshop is our solution custom fitted for screen printers, embroidery and print companies. Ink Custom Tees started in 1993 in Arkansas with a vision ...

Acumatica Visual Cues - How to colorize the grid in 2019 R1?

Acumatica introduced the concept of visual cues , this is a platform feature which means its available across all screens, modules and plugins for customers, partners and ISVs. Visual cues are sensory cues received by the eye in the form of light and processed by the visual system during visual perception  ERP users love the fact they would like to see few color indicators providing visual cues to data so they can work and organize better, they would like to setup few threshold or trigger points to take action eg: Show  green   =  for everything that's good, Or show    red  = for something wrong, these visual cues really help users to to view their next set of tasks/activities and get it done. Here is a quick snapshot of Sales order screen where we were able to colorize the grid for certain threshold or parameters. a) Show all rows as green color for those records where the order type is invoice, who doesn't like green (money) when ...

Acumatica Summit 2019, Houston Jan 26th to Feb 1st 2019

Acumatica Summit 2019 was filled with fun, excitement and dreams.  At InfoSourcing, we are scaling to new heights and expanding consulting business unlike any other year in the past while building on our new verticals and industry knowledge by ways of creating new plugins and extensions for Acumatica platform using xRP. Acumatica has helped us in scaling our consulting business in the cloud to reach out to variety of partners and ISVs. Our customers are happy with Acumatica as we can see year-on-year their profitability increasing, ability to serve more customers by doing more with automated features. We are excited to see the improvements in 2019 R1 and what the future holds for our customers, partners and users. Our customers overall satisfaction is evident in their noticeably year on year increase in profitability. They are able to serve their customers better by utilizing an array of automated features available within Acumatica and its extensions. We are excited to se...

Acumatica User Defined Fields/Values - UDF using attributes in 2018 R2

In 2018 R2 version Acumatica introduced new feature called "User Defined fields" in short UDF's. These fields allow users to configure existing document screens to capture custom data per document basis. New features like this really helps partner/customer to configure business workflow process, this capability built on a framework can now enhance existing documents like Sales order, purchase order or other document to collect custom data at transaction level using attributes. For more information on which documents/screens you can collect UDF's refer to Acumatica help  In this example I have created few custom data that we would like to accept in our Print industry, this works pretty well with our Acumatica plugin PrintShop for Screen printing and embroidery companies, as business do accept different type of data and allows us to do minimal customizations. If your accepting custom data related to art work, then you can create those attributes ahead of...

Happy New Year 2019 !!! Acumatica Support for for 2019.

We had a great year 2018 with development of our new plugin Acumatica JewelShop (coming soon in Jan 2019) and a good run with Acumatica PrintShop and eSignature plugins. We will continue to invest our time in these vertical plugins for Promotional Product Industry and Jewelry Industries. We are thankful to our customers, vendors and staff in making this journey and looking forward to many more years... Happy New Year 2019 !!! Our Holiday list for 2019, our office will be closed during these days and only online support portal is available. Visit https://www.Info-Sourcing.com   Date Federal holiday Day of the week January 1, 2019 New Year's Day Tuesday January 21, 2019 Martin Luther King Day Monday February 18, 2019 Presidents' Day* Monday May 27, 2019 Memorial Day Monday July 4, 2019 Independence Day Thursday September 2, 2019 Labor Day Monday October 14, 2019 Columbus Day Monday November 11, 2019 Veterans Day Monday November 28, 2019 Thanksgiving Day Thurs...

Happy Holidays & Happy New Year - Acumatica Cloud ERP Partner

Happy Holidays. We are delighted to close another year of success, and look forward to working with you all in 2019. We wanted to take a minute and wish everyone a warm and happy holidays, merry X'mas and a joyful new year. From all of us at InfoSourcing, your cloud ERP partner. - Harsha Sarjapur & team. Visit http://www.Info-Sourcing.com  

Acumatica Business Events - Create, Subscribe and Get Notified

Acumatica Business Events was introduced in 2018 R1, much anticipated feature for business to notify Acumatica users with custom business event notification. Think about using these events for a business scenario For example: Send an email notification based on Generic Inquiry (which pulls data from multiple sources/tables) and based on the results/records you can then trigger to send email or mobile notifications or have a scheduler based event to send emails. Configuration : Acumatica business events allows you to configure on existing screen or new screens created via Generic inquires or custom screens, giving users flexibility to query the system and use the record-set to trigger based on field change value or record inserted or updated event Or you can schedule to run based on scheduler subscriber and notify the users. I'm using record inserted event here as an example. Notify Subscriber: It allows to subscribe to either email notification or mobile notifications whic...

Happy Thanksgiving !!!

With sincere appreciation for your business.  From all of us at InfoSourcing Inc.  Happy Thanksgiving !!! Your Acumatica Cloud ERP partner

Acumatica 2018 R2 - Improved Display of Personal Names and Contact Information

In Acumatica ERP 2018 R2, the following improvements have been introduced to allow organizations to control the way personal names and contact information are displayed throughout the system. Display Name Order By using a new setting, Display Name Order, on the Site Preferences (SM200505) form (shown in the following screenshot), an administrator can now specify which name order is to be used for displaying the personal names of all contacts, employees, and users. Name order is the order in which the parts of a person's name (first name, middle name, and last name) are displayed. Figure : Site Preferences  - The Display Name Order setting The following options are available for selection in the drop-down list: Eastern Modified: The name order used in all previous versions of Acumatica ERP. After an upgrade to 2018 R2, this option will be selected by default, which will preserve the original order.  Western: The name order in which the first name is followed by t...

Acumatica PrintShop Welcomes Ink Custom Tees

We are delighted to welcome Ink Custom Tees to our Acumatica PrintShop family. Ink a well known Print Shop company in Arkansas recently were evaluating to replace their legacy print solution and non-integrated accounting, CRM and other solutions. Their research led to Acumatica PrintShop, an exclusive solution for Screen Printing and Embroidery Companies. Our PrintShop Acumatica extension allows business to automate their production jobs, manage and track art work, approvals and provide transparency across the organization and customer satisfaction. With fully integrated accounting, sales, purchasing, CRM and customer portal it's a complete "Print" solution for PPI industry (Promotional Product Industry). Ink's mission statement "We work with brands to design, print and sell custom apparel" If you looking for a complete print solution, take a look at Acumatica PrintShop

Acumatica PrintShop Automates Universal Athletic Screen Printing Operation

We are delighted to announce Acumatica PrintShop is up and running for Universal Athletic on latest version 2018 R1. Universal Athletic is a regional sporting goods company that calls on and provides services to every school and college in nine states in the Western U.S. We operate 13 retail locations and 50 wholesale salespeople. Universal's screen print operation is fully powered by PrintShop from Job management to production all the way to shipping and billing. For more information about Acumatica PrintShop visit our website.

Automate Your Shipment Process With Custom Scanning for Acumatica Shipment Screen

We often run into bottlenecks and inefficiencies using an ERP software and would love to automate such business process, scanning serial numbers across various screens allows to sell products & ship faster. Problem Definition : Customer would like to ship more orders, often they are faced with shipping department not being efficient and unable to ship products faster. The Shipment screen allows to allocate products picker is picking and has to manually allocate these serialized inventory to shipment before confirming and making sure they are shipping the right product and keeping track of serialized inventory. Solution: It would be great to allow scanning of serialized inventory quickly with bar-code scanner or keying the serial number on shipment screen, allowing to allocate the serial numbers across multiple location. Custom Solution: We utilized Acumatica framework SDK and customized Shipment Screen ID SO302000 and added a new button called "UPLOAD LOT/SERIAL...

Acumatica PrintShop 2018 R1 is now Published

Acumatica PrintShop is now compatible with 2018 R1 version, we have published our package with new Modern UI and customers can now upgrade to this latest version. Modern User Interface (UI) - The new modern menu now shows the PrintShop module and menu navigation classified as Configuration - Access to PrintShop Settings and Configurations screens  Inquiries  - Default Generic Inquiries that we ship withe the product  Reports - Default reports that ship with the product Others - Other supporting screens access We continue to enhance Acumatica PrintShop for Print and Promotional Product Industry (PPI), some of the features we have scheduled for development. Few top suggestions being considered for 2018 R2/2019 R1 1. Multiple Job Setup for each order 2. Calendar View of Print Jobs 3. Automation using Business events If you need a demo of Acumatica PrintShop Please reach out to info@info-sourcing.com