The global marketplace is filled with millions of businesses, each one with goals, demands and processes unique to them and to the industry in which they operate. That’s why Acumatica designs our comprehensive and intuitive ERP solution to be easily tailored so that it meets—and exceeds—the specialized, evolving, industry-specific needs of small and midsized businesses (SMBs) around the world.

Now, with the much-anticipated release of Acumatica 2025 R1 on March 20, SMBs benefit from a modern user interface, an AI platform, and hundreds of specific updates that address their unique industry needs, whether Manufacturing, Distribution, Retail, Construction, or Professional Services. In our latest press release, Acumatica’s Chief Product Officer Ali Jani, addressed these enhancements:

“We’ve focused on making Acumatica Cloud ERP even more intuitive with features and interfaces that customers love to use, automating workflows to save time and delivering industry-specific innovations that help businesses stay agile and resilient in an increasingly complex landscape,” Jani said.

One example of the many product enhancements is our modern UI, which we discuss in-depth in Acumatica 2025 R1: New UI. Today, we’re exploring the releases’ exciting new industry-specific capabilities.

Acumatica 2025 R1 Brings Ease of Mind to SMBs

To say SMBs have been operating in a volatile economic environment for the last several years is an understatement. Recovery from the pandemic was complicated by inflationary pressures, supply chain challenges, and labor shortages. As the business world continues to face uncertainties in the marketplace, Acumatica users can move ahead confidently knowing that their business management solution is being continually enhanced to meet their changing needs.

Take a look at some of the key industry enhancements brought by Acumatica 2025 R1.

Manufacturing Edition

Production Orders by Build Capability: Improves visibility into material shortages, streamlines inventory validation and reduces production delays.

New Scheduling Views: Enhances visualization of production schedules, reducing inefficiencies and manual bottlenecks that impact manufacturing timelines.

Distribution Edition

Product Catalog and Pricing Control for Shopify: Simplifies complex catalog management, supports variable pricing models and enables greater buyer customization.

Selling Unique Products: Improves the ability to capture product characteristics (e.g., condition, scratches, warranty coverage, etc.), making it easier to identify and sell one-of-a-kind inventory.

Retail Edition

Seamless Shopify Integrations: Enables order imports without importing customers, document imports in default store currency, improved tax mapping and better price list synchronization.

Amazon Fulfillment Center Synchronization: Provides automated shipment syncing between Acumatica and Amazon fulfillment centers.

Construction Edition

Progress Pro Forma with Time & Materials Detail: Helps businesses decrease days in accounts receivable, increase billing volume and accelerate income recognition.

Project Information in AP Incoming Documents: Automates project recognition and subcontractor association, eliminating manual data entry and reducing errors.

Professional Services Edition

Comprehensive Support for Professional Services Firms: Designed for AEC (architecture, engineering and construction) services, consultants and IT professionals, Acumatica’s newest edition enables firms to manage accounting, resource allocation, time and expense tracking, financials, service and support and project management.

Integrated Resource Planning and Project Scheduling: Seamlessly connects project tasks to cost and revenue workflows, optimizing labor, productivity, and transparency with team collaboration.

Modernize Operations, Drive Growth with Acumatica 2025 R1

The industry-specific enhancements brought by 2025 R1 better equip SMBs to handle the ongoing economic turbulence. As Jani said in the press release, “With these enhancements, businesses can leverage a powerful and strategic platform to modernize their operations and drive growth.”

Acumatica customer Sean Corrigan, VP of Operations at Happy Valley, knows a little something about operating successfully in a volatile market.

“I’ve tried a lot of different systems. Acumatica is the first one we feel actually encompasses our whole business. It gives us the tools that we really need to drive our business forward, and in a market and industry that is compressing. There’s a lot of operators going out of business. They don’t truly understand what their costs are,” he says.

“The biggest thing that I could recommend is that you truly understand all of your data. Understand how your business is being run. It might be a little bit scary to change things, but (deploying Acumatica) is one of the better decisions that we’ve made as a company.”

Acumatica 2025 R1 is here, and it is packed with user-driven improvements designed to make life easier for SMBs: think a sleek modern UI, industry-specific tools that give you an edge, and AI-powered features that automate tasks, streamline data, and support smarter decisions. Stay tuned for the last article in this three-part product update series to learn more about our AI innovations.

For any questions about Acumatica 2025 R1, contact our team today.