In the fast-paced world of manufacturing, businesses face unique challenges every day—ranging from managing raw materials and inventories to capturing labour costs and comparing actuals against the budget. To stay competitive, modern manufacturers need integrated, real-time systems that connect production, inventory, and financial data within a single, seamless platform.
That’s where MYOB Acumatica, expertly implemented by Acacia Consulting Services, comes into play. A cloud-based ERP platform tailored for manufacturers, MYOB Acumatica empowers businesses with transparency, automation, and scalability. Acacia, as a trusted MYOB partner, brings over 35 years of experience to deliver customised solutions for manufacturers across Australia.
1. Raw Materials: Visibility, Planning, and Control
Managing raw materials efficiently is the cornerstone of effective manufacturing operations. MYOB Acumatica offers robust Material Requirements Planning (MRP) tools that ensure materials are available when needed and minimise downtime. The system supports multiple levels of Bill of Materials (BOM), allowing you to configure raw materials, tooling, overheads, and variable/fixed costs for accurate costings.
Acacia ensures these features are tailored to your business during needs/system reviews, building a strong foundation through a consultative approach. With real-time data, production planners can anticipate material shortages and optimise ordering, thereby reducing waste and maintaining smooth workflows.
2. Stock on Hand: Real-Time Inventory Control
Having accurate, real-time insights into stock on hand is crucial for avoiding production disruptions or costly overstocking. MYOB Acumatica offers comprehensive inventory management, encompassing stock tracking, warehouse automation, and streamlined receipt and issue controls. Its cloud architecture ensures that all teams—from shop floor to executives—have access to real-time inventory data at any time, anywhere.
Acacia’s implementation ensures this visibility is both functional and scalable. By centralising data and workflows, the platform erases manual errors and duplicate tasks, boosting productivity and accuracy.
3. Bill of Materials: Precision Costing and Planning
The Bill of Materials (BOM) lies at the heart of manufacturing cost control and efficiency. MYOB Acumatica supports multi-level BOMs, facilitating both engineering and costed views that capture every layer of a product’s structure. It also enables precise allocation of standard costing, including tooling and overheads—both fixed and variable—to produce accurate product costings.
Through Acacia’s guidance, manufacturers can implement BOMs in a way that reflects their unique production methods—whether discrete, batch, or engineer-to-order—enhancing transparency and planning accuracy.
4. Capturing Labour Against Jobs: Tracking Time for Improved Costing
Tracking labour—whether by employee, machine, or production run—is vital for accurate job costing and resource utilisation. MYOB Acumatica supports labour tracking against jobs and overhead allocation, providing the insight needed to understand where time and effort are being spent. For process manufacturers, Acu Process Manufacturing (APM) further enhances this capability, allowing labour or equipment usage to be logged, with control over scrap, yield, and batch tracking.
Acacia consults closely with your team to ensure labour capture workflows are practical and aligned with your operations, whether on the shop floor or through mobile-enabled devices for real-time data capture.
5. Budget vs Actuals: Financial Control and Performance Tracking
A modern ERP must offer comprehensive financial visibility to allow comparison between planned budgets and actual results. MYOB Acumatica excels with real-time operational data, forecasting, and strong reporting tools—helping you monitor variances, approve reconciliations, and uphold financial accountability.
Acacia ensures your financial workflows are established carefully—from setting up budgets and designing approval workflows to aligning reporting dashboards by constructing a whole-of-business view.
This alignment of financial and operational data supports fact-based decision-making, enables swift corrective action, and ensures your manufacturing operations remain profitable and agile.
6. Why the Acacia + MYOB Acumatica Combination Works
· Cloud-Native and Real-Time: Access instant data across production, inventory, and finance, promoting agility and responsiveness.
· Manufacturing-Specific Tools: From BOMs and MRP to formula management and labour tracking, the platform addresses manufacturers’ core challenges.
· Scalable and Customizable: Whether discrete, batch, or engineer-to-order, the solution scales with your business.
· Deep Local Expertise: With over 35 years of MYOB experience and decades of working with manufacturers, Acacia brings trusted, tailored implementation methodologies.
Acacia’s holistic methodology—starting with a thorough Needs/System Review, followed by Implementation, Training, and Ongoing Improvement Reviews—ensures that you get not just software, but sustained operational excellence.
Bringing It All Together
When raw materials, inventory, BOM, labour tracking, and budget-versus-actuals are managed within a single, unified platform—like MYOB Acumatica—manufacturing becomes not just more efficient, but more intelligent, data-driven, and future-ready.
With Acacia guiding your deployment, implementation feels like a partnership. You gain a solution that’s configured for how you work—not how generic software says you must work. As your systems grow deeper roots and your team grows in capability, you’ll experience:
· Less manual duplication and stock inaccuracies
· Faster, data-led decision-making with reduced delays
· Stronger cost control, improved margins, and tighter financial oversight
Call to Action
Ready to see how MYOB Acumatica, implemented by Acacia Consulting Services, can revolutionise your manufacturing processes—making raw materials, inventory, BOM, labour, and finance work together as one, unified system?
Contact the Acacia team today for a complimentary consultation and live demonstration. Discover how a smarter, cloud-based ERP solution can propel your productivity, control your costs, and set your business on the path to sustainable growth. Let’s build smarter manufacturing systems together—reach out now!
