Acumatica Success Stories That Drive Real Business Growth
Real Challenges. Real Companies. Real Growth with Acumatica.
Businesses across construction, distribution, and manufacturing are transforming how they work with Acumatica Cloud ERP. From disconnected systems and manual processes to limited visibility and stalled growth, these organizations faced real operational challenges — and found smarter ways forward.
With the right technology and the right strategy, they turned insight into action, streamlined operations, and powered measurable business growth. Explore how companies like yours are improving performance, gaining clarity, and accelerating results with Acumatica and Britec.
Construction Success with Acumatica
Carlson-LaVine Enlists Acumatica Construction Edition to Attract Talent & Build for the Future
Overview:
Competing against the biggest names in construction nationally, Carlson-LaVine Inc. carved out successful strategy leveraging technology and a nimble, lean staff to deliver work of the highest quality in several key segments. But Matt Shamp, executive director, knew that to remain competitive and grow, the construction firm needed to replace its legacy Sage system. Carlson-LaVine deployed Acumatica Construction Edition gaining a powerful, easy-to-use cloud platform that streamlined operations, helped the business grow, and helped employees thrive.
- Running the growing construction firm on a legacy Sage 300 CRE system was holding the business back
- Manual and laborious processes in place caused headaches and frustration
- Needed a tool that had open API or a native integration to Procore
- Needed a cloud-based solution that users could access remotely
- Need for better financial reporting and to eliminate duplicate processes in areas such as billing
- Viewpoint and Sage Intacct compete – In-depth evaluation & discovery cycle until Acumatica was introduced
- Acquired an integrated, cloud-based solution, automating processes
- Equipped employees with a modern tool, increasing productivity and gaining an edge in recruiting new staff
- Gained an easy-to-use solution, reducing time to train new employees and speeding adoption by veteran employees
- Cut payroll processing time by nearly 100 percent, from 1.5 days to just 10 minutes
- Eliminated extra processing steps, streamlining operations, and saving time
- Improved customer communications, providing more timely information to customers, unions, and subcontractors
- Provided a connected platform for continued growth, allowing it to better compete with larger construction firms
With Acumatica, I’m giving employees an ultra-efficient tool they need to do their jobs correctly and allowing them to do things easier. I’m handing them a smartphone versus a rotary phone. They are more well-equipped to do their jobs, which produces good outcomes for customers and helps us build the business.
Matthew Shamp: Excecutive Director
Storm Impetus for Mid-States’ Multi-Million Dollar Growth and Digital Transformation with Acumatica ERP
Iowa-based Mid-States Millwright & Builders grew organically for its first 20 years, adding related construction services when the agriculture building company’s team grew frustrated with a lack of service by some of its suppliers. The construction company used QuickBooks, JobBOSS, and many spreadsheets to run the company.
When a powerful land hurricane struck in 2020, Mid-States suddenly faced more projects than ever before, projects that executives knew its aging technology systems and processes—now four companies—couldn’t handle.
Mid-States deployed Acumatica Construction Edition, which unified its financial and operational data providing a singular platform for greater data visibility and rapid growth.
- Quickly enabling growth: needed new strategies and systems to support workload increase of more than 50%
- Siloed applications: difficult to bid on projects and run manufacturing operations with disparate data from QuickBooks, multiple spreadsheets, and scheduling program
- Basic accounting system: limited by QuickBooks that did not track compliance and did not provide data needed for consolidation and analysis
- Implemented a unified, construction ERP platform that streamlined operations at 12 companies
- Gained real-time data visibility into KPIs in a single click, information it didn’t have previously
- Saved more than a day when quoting and writing bid proposals
- Gained an easy-to-use platform with low code functionality to create custom forms for use at job sites, saving time while gaining professional-looking documents to share with customers
- Acquired the ability to produce a daily field report providing real-time insights into safety statistics, equipment utilization, and employee utilization
- Connected financials for more than 12 companies, streamlining consolidation and saved time while improving visibility
- Improved ability to track opportunities from bid to win and then through to project completion
- Automated approval processes, saving time while eliminating bottlenecks
- Boosted brand image, allowing the company to better compete against much larger firms
- Gained a flexible ERP platform Mid-States branded in the company’s image, increasing employee pride
- Acquired a competitive advantage with potential hires with the modern platform and its automated processes
- Gained an easy-to-implement platform allowing it to incorporate new acquisitions quickly
As we have grown as an organization, the ability to distribute data out to the right person at the right time has been really beneficial.
Andrew Pistorius: Chief Financial Officer
Manufacturing Success With Acumatica
Fabuwood, Industry Pioneer Delivering Kitchen Cabinets in 5 Days, Moves Fast with Acumatica Manufacturing
Overview:
Fabuwood Cabinetry Corp. is the nation’s largest and fastest-growing semi-custom kitchen cabinet manufacturer, a status Fabuwood achieved through its ability to deliver cabinets in only five days thanks to its innovative use of technology.
Fabuwood originally used QuickBooks to manage its business but outgrew the software and needed a unified ERP solution that could connect its digital ordering and warehouse management systems. When Fabuwood deployed Acumatica Manufacturing Edition, the company gained a flexible platform for rapid growth, a single source of truth for all data, and improved purchasing and material resources planning.
- Siloed legacy systems: manufacturing, inventory, and finance systems were stove-piped, causing challenges.
- Syncing and matching data from disparate systems proved difficult and resource intensive.
- Outgrew QuickBooks: needed an ERP system that could handle Fabuwood’s immediate needs and, most importantly, scale efficiently to support future needs and ongoing rapid growth.
- Implemented a single, connected, robust finance and manufacturing platform able to support its rapid growth
- Gained real-time data visibility into operations, promoting unparalleled speed to market
- Acquired a flexible platform that seamlessly integrated 15 third-party applications
- Gained a manufacturing management solution including MRP that improved material purchasing and planning costs
- Obtained next-level reporting with clean and robust, in-depth data from end-to-end operations
- Eliminated downtime and improved data integrity, eliminating corrupted data occurrences experienced in QuickBooks
- Acquired an easy-to-use, consistent interface that accelerated user adoption
- Increased customizations and dashboard use by business staff with no-code Generic Inquiry tool
- Gained an xRP platform with open APIs that enabled the development team to create custom processes, procedures, and new applications to meet unique business requirements
Antenova Amplifies Connections and Improves Operations with Acumatica
Overview:
The explosion of wireless wearables coupled with the rise of the Internet of Things provides large opportunities for Antenova, makers of high performing standard antennas and RF antenna modules for wireless machine to machine, IoT and consumer electronic devices. To improve the efficiency of operation, the executive team decided to invest in an integrated ERP system which would meet the needs of a multi-national operational company like Antenova while providing detailed business intelligence to the executive managers. With its ease of use and friendly interface, Acumatica was the perfect investment.
- Needed to replace Sage50 and Orderwise for purchase orders, sales, and warehouse management.
- Needed a Cloud ERP solution that would keep pace with company growth.
- Reduced duplicate data entry
- Provides instant access to data from worldwide offices
- A combined system of both MRP and accounts in one package
- Offers a deeper knowledge of critical operational systems to make better, actionable data-based decisions
Acumatica has made our financial systems much more efficient. It provides us one integrated system with accurate sales and revenue information providing detailed financial reports that will allow us to accelerate our growth.
Christy Lin Operations: Director
Distribution Success With Acumatica
UK Beer Distributor/Importer Pivots to Modern Cloud ERP with Online Sales, Automated VAT and Brexit Calculations
Overview:
Cave Direct Inc. imports craft beers from all over the world and distributes them to 2,000 UK pubs using its own fleet of trucks. Tired of its legacy Sage system crashing and lacking inventory visibility, the UK-based company implemented Acumatica Cloud ERP. Acumatica’s flexibility allowed Cave Direct to consolidate inventory across multiple companies and branches, and further develop its eCommerce strategy through seamless integration. Acumatica also made it easy for Cave Direct to automate and simplify complex calculations for imports under new Brexit import laws, giving it a major competitive advantage.
- Needed to move away from Legacy Sage which crashed its servers and didn’t offer an eCommerce solution
- Tracking inventory of more than 600 craft beers from global suppliers on spreadsheets proved difficult and data was a month old
- Needed a cloud-based solution that users could
access remotely - Financial reporting was not connected to inventory
- Needed a digital, multi-currency system to handle
complex and ever-changing Brexit and VAT
requirements for importers
- Gained a modern cloud platform with real-time, live inventory, increasing stock visibility
- Created a dynamic business process to handle keg deposits and returns, and operate in a multi-currency environment for ease of operations
- Acquired futureproof application allowing it to grow revenue by 20 percent annually, resuming revenues at pre-Covid levels
- Pivoted effortlessly during the Pandemic consolidating 4 warehouses selling to the trade, to one (and back, as desired) while beefing up online consumer sales
- Obtained a flexible business solution to effortlessly navigate new Brexit taxes and implement automatic tax and fee calculations plus import documents, providing a competitive advantage
Brexit hit importers and exporters very hard. Because of Acumatica, we can do things others can’t, and that gives us a competitive edge.
Colin Gilhespy: Co-founder and Managing Director
Fashion Forward Timebomb Trading Delivers Popular Clothing and Lifestyle Brands to Canada from Across the World, Streamlines Operations with Acumatica
Overview:
Exclusive fashion and apparel distributor Timebomb Trading helps trendy and adventurous apparel products reach Canadians, acting as the brands’ back-office operations. But as Timebomb grew, its legacy financial system couldn’t keep up with the increased transactions. Timebomb Trading deployed Acumatica Cloud ERP, gaining a seamless connection to its multiple Shopify sites and its B2B platform serving more than 500 retailers, which streamlined the company’s operations and allowed it to avoid adding headcount and provide a future-proof platform for growth.
- Needed to move off legacy Sage Mas 500 which was at an end of life and support had run out
- Disconnected B2B platform and shipping application led to manual entries
- Manually created all product SKUs, which could number upwards of 20,000 new SKUs a season across its various brands
- No way for sales reps to access on the road, no provision for accessing outside of the office when work from home option became a requirement during the pandemic
- Disconnected collaboration tool wasn’t always used or updated in a timely manner
- Failed to connect Shopify to legacy Sage ERP after trying for two years
- Limited software license model frequently disrupted employees’ work in progress, leading to inefficiencies
- Gained a single, connected business application that streamlined data sharing with Shopify, EasyPost, and Elastic
- Established ability to work from anywhere, increasing sales productivity, freeing staff to grow sales
- Optimized and improved communication, consolidating information in one place, eliminating the need for Google Docs
- Avoided frequent work disruption and per-user licensing limitations and costs, gaining an unlimited user platform
- Eliminated manual data entry work for shipping, tracking numbers, and inventory SKU product creation
- Automated Product Matrix Generator, increasing sales cycle
Fashion tastes and trends evolve very quickly, so being fast to respond and agile as a business is key. We need to get data in and out rapidly to meet and get ahead of the market to remain an industry leader in our category.
Lester Yuen: Vice President of Operations and Finance
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Every business highlighted on this page started with a challenge — disconnected systems, limited visibility, manual processes, or barriers to growth. With the right strategy and the right technology, they transformed how they operate and gained the clarity needed to move forward with confidence.
At Britec, we help construction, distribution, and manufacturing companies turn insight into action with Acumatica Cloud ERP. Whether you’re exploring modernization, preparing for growth, or looking to replace legacy systems, our team brings the experience and practical guidance needed to help you move forward with confidence.
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