Acumatica 2021 R2: Release Highlights, Launch Recap and More
What's Included In This Big Update?
Acumatica recently released a huge update: Acumatica 2021 R2; the second of the company’s biannual product updates. The new updates bring a suite of new and updated features to the ERP platform, including advanced business process functions, enhanced personalization, integrations with leading software platforms Microsoft Teams and Adobe Document Cloud, and improvements to all of its industry-specific solutions.
Acumatica provides cloud and browser-based business management software designed for small and mid-sized businesses. Acumatica ERP solution offers clients a suite of integrated applications for project accounting, financials, manufacturing, retail, construction, distribution, and CRM that are all powered by a single cloud-based platform.
With the launch of the Acumatica 2021 R2 update, users can take the configuration and customization of their ERP system a step further and adjust its software to meet their unique needs. The update will also help users automate complex business processes without programming, streamline administrative tasks, set up automatic notifications for critical activities, and much more. Alongside the new integrations with Microsoft Teams and Adobe Document Cloud, the 2021 R2 update will introduce a suite of new features for Acumatica’s Financial, CRM, Payroll, Commerce, Distribution, Field Service, Manufacturing, and Construction industry editions.
Acumatica 2021 R2
Expected Features
Feature Benefits for Financials, CRM, and Payroll:
- Improve email tracking, deliverability, and scalability via Acumatica's integration to SendGrid
- Boost efficiency when managing AR refunds with open balances
- Simplify reconciliation by matching bank transactions to multiple receipts and disbursements
- Improve accuracy and financial visibility by enhancing AP/AR balance reporting
- Enhance visibility to make business decisions and inform employees using the new Operational and Employee Payroll dashboards
Feature Benefits for Distribution and Commerce:
- Drive sales and increase revenue with new up-sell and cross-sell capabilities
- Improve fill rates and on-time order fulfillment with item substitutions
- Increase warehouse efficiency with paperless directed picking
- Optimize stocking levels and locations using deadstock reports
- Delight online customers and build brand loyalty with support for personalization and gift wrapping
Feature Benefits for Construction and Field Service:
- Save time and simplify project workflows via project drop shipments
- Review and assess performance against peer group with CFMA Benchmarker integration
- Streamline billing and improve flexibility by configuring service contract billing for the start of each period
- Reduce clicks to upgrade efficiency while adding inventory and tracking time via a mobile device
- Correct data entry errors using the new project reclassification feature
- Show profitability in the Service order
Feature Benefits for Manufacturing:
- Visualize production schedules in a timeline view to easily identify over and under-utilized resources, customer commitments, and material constraints
- Provide promise date by using Capable to Promise feature
- Enable traceability of raw materials and components to finished goods for improved quality control and traceability with Preassigned Lot/Serial
Feature Benefits for “Managed Availability” Capabilities:
- Enable global market expansion by sharing data, providing real-time reporting, and allowing transactions between companies with different base currencies
- Work faster without context-switching with our Acumatica for Microsoft Teams integration
User Interface Enhancements:
- Forms Toolbar Change
- Tab order location changes
- Command name changes
- Tab name changes
Check out this Acumatica 2021 R2 Feature Review to see all of the new updates that came with the release in action. The feature review has both information and demonstrations of everything that’s new. Gain visual insight provided by Acumatica experts and make sure you don’t miss the next one!
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