Selecting an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution in 2025 and beyond is nothing that can vastly improve the way you approach your business. And while ERP behemoths like Microsoft, Oracle (NetSuite), and Epicor are popular choices, there’s another option that we want to explore: Acumatica.
Acumatica might have less market cap than its competitors, but it has still raised more than $48 million, and has won a number of accolades (such as the ERP customers are most likely to recommend). Most recently, Acumatica deployed their 2024 R2 release, which has more than 350 updates to their ERP.
In their 2025 Acumatica Summit keynotes, the company emphasized that it’s taking a balanced approach to technology advancement, particularly in AI, while maintaining a focus on practical business solutions tailored to specific industries. The company appears to be positioning itself as a trusted partner for SMBs through unlimited user licensing, specialized solutions, and a commitment to understanding customer business needs.
If you’re considering adopting an ERP for the first time or switching solutions, here’s everything you need to know about Acumatica and its most recent changes.
Understanding Acumatica
Acumatica is an ERP that can be run on your private server or as a SaaS product (via Amazon Web Services). When deployed as a SaaS, Acumatica can be accessed from any internet-connected device. The service is paid for on a subscription basis, and you can scale your services up or down based on your business needs.
Acumatica is designed for small and mid-sized businesses (unlike some of the “big box” ERPs) and includes capabilities for financials, distribution, customer relationship management (CRM), and project accounting. It currently has more than 10,000 customers.
While they market themselves as a generalized ERP, the bulk of Acumatica’s features seem to focus on supply chain and inventory management. Like most other solutions we’ve discussed (such as Microsoft, Oracle (NetSuite), and Epicor), Acumatica packs a ton of features spread out across multiple dashboards and modules.
Highlights of Acumatica
What are some of Acumatica’s strengths?
- Designed with SMBs in mind: Acumatica was built for mid-market companies and designed to easily integrate with tools you already use. It also claims to have “the industry’s highest customer satisfaction ratings.”
- Intuitive interface: Its user-friendly UI is fairly intuitive, and you can personalize your instance in a low-code / no-code environment.
- All-in-one Cloud-based ERP: Synchronize your insights, gain a coordinated view of accounts, and leverage industry-specific features.
- Industry-specific updates: There are new industry-specific updates for you to explore. For example, in distribution, a new pricing integration with Shopify supports different pricing models (such as wholesale and retail). In manufacturing, an ATP (Available to Promise) screen and visual scheduler functionality have been introduced.
- AI capabilities: Acumatica is carefully introducing AI-powered features. This includes AI Studio / AI Insights features and tools that help with anomaly detection (described as alerts).
Acumatica’s Inventory-Centric Features
Acumatica is a streamlined and visual ERP solution, so we want to get granular about its features and how they work with StockIQ.
Here are the inventory-centric features you can expect to use if you onboard Acumatica:
1. Replenishment
Acumatica comes packed with the replenishment features you can usually expect from these broad ERPs. You can use multiple replenishment algorithms against various replenishment methods (e.g., min/max, fixed order, algorithmic expectations, etc.).
You can trigger replenishment manually or automatically. Either way, POs are created on a separate screen and pushed to a different department so that you can skip the back-and-forth between departments.
How StockIQ Adds Necessary Functionality to Replenishment
- Special event smoothing logic: While solutions like Dynamics, Epicor, and Acumatica leverage historical order data to generate targeted POs based on complex algorithms, they don’t account for disruptive events. StockIQ does. Our special smoothing logic can predict demand against special events like New Year’s without breaking your replenishment cycle.
- Supplier minimums: Your business likely has contractual obligations and MOQs to fulfill on the supplier’s end. StockIQ automatically adjusts replenishment orders against item-level, product-level, and category-level MOQs.
- Order targeting wizard: StockIQ can automatically target units, weight, price breaks, containers, and more with a simple-to-use, single-click ordering wizard.
- Automated order generation: Our dynamic, fully-fledged machine learning algorithms automatically generate orders across every item in your business daily. Once you’re ready to purchase, you’ll already have an established order generated. Just submit the PO and sit back.
2. Location Management
Acumatica can easily handle multi-facility operations. You can define inventory across each location down to the bin level and use hierarchies to represent receiving and shipping transactions across locations. Of course, location management capabilities are built into the picking software, but Acumatica also has some neat features that help handle multi-location shipping. For example, you can track lots and serials by using GiT and adjusting it when goods are transferred to a new warehouse.
How StockIQ Adds Necessary Functionality to Location Management
- Transfer allocation wizard: StockIQ’s transfer wizard can automatically adjust inventory loads between locations to minimize single-location overstocks.
- Inventory balancing: StockIQ monitors inventory across your warehouses and suggests transfer balances when stocking issues pop up.
3. Inventory Costing
Like most other solutions we’ve reviewed, Acumatica has multiple costing algorithms (e.g., FIFO, standard, actual, etc.) to help you project costs. You can also mix costing across inventory types, so there’s plenty of room to create hyper-accurate and dynamic costing models that fall in line with your existing standards.
How StockIQ Adds Necessary Functionality to Inventory Costing
- Forecasting hierarchies: StockIQ produces bottom-up, top-down, and middle-out forecasts across items, groups, channels, or customer levels to help you understand the full scope of your inventory needs and cost factors.
- Current period predictions: Unlike other solutions, StockIQ doesn’t just generate world-class forecasts; we measure those forecasts against actuals to make tangible, meaningful adjustments that keep your inventory and costs in tip-top shape.
4. Kitting
Many manufacturers leverage kitting (i.e., assemblies) for certain items. Acumatica has robust kitting support with built-in component loss detection that can account for any losses during the kitting process and feed those losses back into your algorithms.
How StockIQ Adds Necessary Functionality to Kitting
- MRP Engine: StockIQ’s best-of-breed MRP engine accurately represents dependencies between assemblies and components during the kitting phase. We feed those dependencies into the bill and accurately adjust forecasts for kitting needs.
5. Inventory Tracking and Visibility
Reducing stock-outs and overstocks while managing dead inventory is the crux of value-driven supply chain management for businesses primarily relying on inventory. Luckily, Acumatica packs a punch in this category. You can set up complex class hierarchies, leverage demand forecasting, create movement classes and ABC rank codes, create matrices, and use FEFO picking to deal with expiring items. This subsection occurs across multiple dashboards (which are richly visual and certainly much more aesthetically and functionally pleasing than other comparable solutions).
How StockIQ Adds Necessary Functionality to Inventory Tracking and Visibility
- Stock-outs: Our in-depth stock analysis doesn’t just identify and rectify stock-outs; it also gives you the contextual analysis you need to understand why items are going out of stock.
- Excess stock: StockIQ identifies excess stock (at each location), balances your inventory, and distributes stock to maintain appropriate levels across facilities.
- Deadstock: Even the best inventory analysis cannot always account for the unexpected. When you need to eliminate sluggish inventory, StockIQ helps you make space for bigger, fresher, and brighter inventory.
- Advanced expiration management: Not only does StockIQ track inventory, but we also generate expiration forecasts that help you track and move inventory before it joins the wall of shame.
- New items: One of the most stressful and exciting components of inventory management is dealing with brand-new items. Will they take off like a rocket or sink like a brick? We keep track.
6. In-depth Reporting
Acumatica has very robust reporting features. This solution generates visual and insightful reports as broadly or granularly as you need. For example, inventory reports are simple, effective, and easy to read. Acumatica makes reports simple enough for virtually any employee to digest, providing your business with another layer of collaboration and inventory understanding.
7. Pricing & Discounts
Your inventory has complex discount policies, volume fluctuations, and promos. You need to effectively factor these pricing models into your forecasts, budgets, and replenishment. Acumatica provides the tools to incorporate these fluctuating and ever-evolving pricing models into your inventory management.
How StockIQ Adds Necessary Functionality to Pricing & Discounts
- Promotion Planning: StockIQ tracks historical promo performance and auto-incorporates it into forecasts and budgets. We even leverage past promos to generate insights on current and future promos.
Acumatica + StockIQ: A Match Made in Supply Chain Heaven
Acumatica is a well-oiled, user-friendly ERP solution for manufacturers and distributors looking to incorporate an intelligent management platform. While Acumatica has many features, StockIQ adds a new layer of intelligence, functionality, and use to Acumatica’s robust ecosystem. Whether you’re a distributor or manufacturer in healthcare or aeronautics, Acumatica + StockIQ should be one of your contenders.
Contact us today to learn more about how StockIQ can overhaul your inventory management practices or request a StockIQ demo.
