Lisa Dodson
214 Articles Published
IOC Construction
IOC Construction improved its financial management by deploying Acumatica Advanced Construction, consolidating its four divisions into a single entity, automating workflows, reducing errors, and enhancing visibility into project data, ultimately enabling scalability and better customer service.
Polywood Success Story
New private investors helped recycled plastic furniture maker POLYWOOD pump more than $100 million into new facilities in the past seven years, which doubled its furniture and recycle plastic plant capacities. When the pandemic hit, a 10-fold increase in transactions illuminated the many flaws of its back-office legacy systems. POLYWOOD deployed Acumatica Enterprise Manufacturing Edition, gaining real-time data visibility and operational efficiencies that allowed the company to scale effortlessly.
Multicompany Financials
Streamline financial management across multiple entities in different countries while improving decision-making. Acumatica Global Financials optimizes global operations by maintaining multi-national entities on a modern cloud platform. Take Acumatica’s sophisticated multi-currency translation, revaluation, and advanced financial management capabilities to the next level with automated multi-national transactions and robust reporting.
AI That Works for You
Acumatica's AI-powered cloud ERP integrates intelligent capabilities into its platform to enhance efficiency, automation, and decision-making. It offers industry-specific AI solutions that provide practical value, including real-time data extraction, anomaly detection, and predictive forecasting. The AI features are designed to be intuitive and seamlessly integrate into existing workflows, empowering businesses to leverage AI without added complexity.
Acumatica General Business Overview
Acumatica's Cloud ERP solution helps small and mid-market businesses streamline operations, improve productivity, and enhance decision-making. Key features include comprehensive financial management, integrated CRM, project accounting, and real-time reporting and business intelligence. The cloud-based platform offers scalability, cost savings, and automation of routine tasks, enabling businesses to grow without additional infrastructure. Customer testimonials highlight significant improvements in cash flow, operational efficiency, and data-driven decision-making.
Hedstrom Fitness
"When it was spun out of Hedstrom Plastics, Hedstrom Fitness, the sole distributor of BOSU kettlebell weights, balance pods, and other gear, continued to operate on Macola through its transition. But the antiquated, legacy software didn’t provide what the new company needed. Hedstrom Fitness deployed Acumatica Distribution, streamlining processes, improving inventory accuracy, and gaining insights that are helping the company thrive. KEY RESULTS • Gained a single, easy-to-use business platform with data in one system • Improved inventory management • Reduced number of accounting support people from 6 to 2 • Streamlined and reduced time to complete inventory • Improved visibility with automated accurate reporting from customizable dashboards • Brought shipping in-house, speeding order fulfillment while decreasing times out of stock • Reduced time to look up and verify orders by more than 66 percent (5 minutes to 2 or less) • Decreased fulfillment time from 4 days to same day shipping, improving customer experience • Reduced printing and paper costs"
Calculating ERP Software ROI
Explore how businesses can achieve significant ROI by implementing a modern cloud ERP platform. Discover the importance of transitioning from entry-level accounting systems or legacy ERP platforms to modern solutions. Understand critical components to calculating the total cost of ownership (TCO) as well as the importance of setting goals, capturing benchmarks, and evaluating results. Learn from real-world examples and testimonials from over 60 small and midsized companies across various industries, showcasing the tangible and intangible benefits of ERP systems.
Assessing ERP Software TCO
A comprehensive guide for small and midsized businesses on calculating the total cost of ownership (TCO) for ERP systems. It highlights the challenges of determining TCO due to varied pricing models, infrastructure requirements, and implementation costs. Traditional ERP systems are licensed perpetually, while modern cloud ERP applications are hosted online and licensed annually, offering lower TCO by eliminating costly infrastructure and system administration. The document emphasizes the importance of understanding software pricing, implementation costs, infrastructure costs, and internal expenses. It also discusses industry-specific considerations and provides cost comparisons between perpetual on-premises and cloud SaaS deployments.
Digital Transformation and the CFO Journey
Digital transformation is crucial for organizations in today's cloud computing environment. CFOs and strategic executives leverage digital technologies to drive financial performance, enhance operational efficiency, and gain a competitive edge. This whitepaper outlines the importance of digital transformation, key areas where digital technologies deliver benefits, and guidance on a successful implementation.
Successfully Transitioning from Basic Accounting to ERP
Relying on basic accounting software can limit your business's ability to scale and operate efficiently. This guide explores how transitioning to an ERP system can transform your business and ensure a smooth and successful shift through strategic change management.
Practical AI, Powerful Results
Discover how Acumatica is revolutionizing ERP systems with practical, industry-specific AI solutions. This blog post explores how AI can transform your business operations by prioritizing security, usability, and customer success. Learn about Acumatica's strategic approach to AI, designed to solve real-world business challenges and deliver immediate value. Dive into the principles of innovation that guide Acumatica's development of transformative technologies, ensuring that AI serves a purpose beyond just technological advancement. Ready to see how AI can work for you? Read on to find out more!
What Is ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) And How Does It Work?
This article discusses the significance of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for businesses, emphasizing its role in integrating and streamlining various departments to enhance efficiency, data visibility, and decision-making amid common organizational challenges.
Power Your Business with Aptean
The video highlights industry-specific software solutions that enhance business operations and growth across various sectors, featuring AI capabilities for precision and adaptability.
The Impact of AI in the Food and Beverage Industry: An Expert Q&A With Benny Dor and Chad Merck
The article discusses the transformative impact of AI on the food and beverage industry, highlighting its potential to automate processes, improve decision-making, and drive sustainability, while Aptean collaborates with Microsoft to integrate AI capabilities into its ERP systems and support companies in overcoming adoption challenges.
Unlock the Next Level of Inventory Management with GS1 Standards
Consumer and regulatory pressures are driving the need for enhanced food traceability from farm to table, necessitating global standards like the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) to fully realize the benefits of the Food Traceability Final Rule under the Food Safety Modernization Act.
From GLWand to GLSense: Transforming Financial Reporting for Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP with AI-Powered Excel Integration
As organizations shift from Oracle E-Business Suite to Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, the migration leaves a gap in Excel-based financial reporting previously filled by GLWand, which is now addressed by Orbit GLSense, a modern reporting solution that combines intuitive Excel integration, AI-powered insights, and cloud architecture to enhance financial analysis and decision-making.
Orbit Analytics: User Demo Recap
In a video demonstration, pre-sales engineer Rick showcases Orbit’s reporting and analytics software features, highlighting report creation, sharing, visualization, and dashboard functionality using an Excel dataset.
Optimize Accounts Payables with Orbit Analytics for Oracle Fusion Cloud
Orbit Analytics enhances the management of accounts payables for businesses using Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications by providing seamless data integration, prebuilt KPIs, and real-time reporting, ultimately improving financial decision-making and supplier relationships.
Drive Success with Optimized Data Management
Effective data aggregation and management, exemplified by Orbit's user-friendly tools and comprehensive data security measures, are crucial for businesses to gain actionable insights and maintain competitive advantage in today's data-driven landscape.
Building custom applications for a FTSE 100 financial services organisation
A financial services organization transformed its finance department by standardizing workflows and eliminating outdated processes, resulting in improved service quality, enhanced user experience, operational efficiency, and better visibility of status information for management.
Virtual Agent launch reduces agent interactions by 85% for top financial services firm
A financial services organization reduced person-to-person support chats by 85% and maintained pre-COVID incident levels by implementing a Virtual Agent to facilitate self-service solutions for common queries, ultimately freeing up agents to handle more complex issues and improving overall support efficiency.
Continuous ERP Optimization Techniques
ERP optimization is a transformative, ongoing process that refines and enhances ERP systems to align with evolving business needs, unlock hidden efficiencies, and empower decision-makers, ensuring operational agility and sustained growth.
The Insider’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know About Oracle Redwood
Organizations transitioning to Oracle's Redwood UX must navigate user adoption and implementation challenges, making understanding its evolution, adoption strategies, and migration solutions critical for success.
Unifying Your ERP Ecosystem Agentic AI Powered Lifecycle Optimization
The on-demand webinar explores how Opkey's Agentic AI-powered ERP Lifecycle Optimization Platform enhances enterprise resource planning through simplified deployment, cost reduction, and intelligent automation for improved efficiency and innovation.
How Agentic AI Reduces Costs in ERP Applications Deployment and Maintenance
ERP projects often exceed budgets and face post-implementation challenges due to unclear business processes, resistance to change, inadequate training, and the need for ongoing updates, but these issues can be mitigated by leveraging agentic AI solutions that automate process discovery, enhance training, streamline user acceptance testing, and improve update testing.
Case in Point: Platforms over Points for ERP Lifecycle Optimization
Companies increasingly rely on both point-based and platform solutions for their ERP systems, with platform solutions being more effective in addressing multiple issues across the SaaS ecosystem while avoiding the complications and costs associated with a 'SaaS mess.'
Achieve Seamless ERP Operations
The Opkey platform streamlines the management of complex ERP systems by automating routine updates and patch releases, thereby minimizing downtime and ensuring ongoing stability in critical business functions.
CRM and ERP: Understanding the Differences and Choosing the Right Solution
By 2029, the CRM software market is projected to reach $145.60 billion and the ERP software market $65.29 billion, as CRM focuses on enhancing customer relationships while ERP integrates business operations for improved efficiency and growth.
Acumatica Cloud ERP – Overview
Acumatica Cloud ERP is a versatile cloud-based software that enhances business operations by providing real-time insight into financials, customer management, and overall efficiency.
Acumatica Business Intelligence, Reporting and Analytics
Acumatica’s Business Intelligence, Reporting, and Analytics tools provide growing businesses with real-time transparency, seamless integration with Microsoft Power BI, customizable insights, automated notifications, and powerful report customization to enhance decision-making and profitability across various industries.