Acumatica vs. Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Management (SCM)

It is an all-rounded system. What I do like about it the most is the fact that you can pick what you need for your business needs and enhancements. Then if your business needs change either removes or add modules to ensure constant improvement. The fact that Acumatica listens to its customers and implements new features based on what their users and customers came up with. The fact that the system is entirely cloud based makes it so much easier for your business to ensure constant trade and business as usual. You can customise Acumatica to your business needs and you have a partner that can bring their own and their client's ideas to the table to assist you to make sure you can implement and improve. Areas I think where it will be less appropriate is where your client or supplier are just not moving at the same speed as your business. This can bring delays or bottle-neck issues for both parties.

Oracle SCM Cloud is extensively used in my organization for a complete
Supply chain. We use all the Procure to Pay modules starting with
Procurement, Order management, and Financial modules. We also use Product
Information Management and Product Development Management modules to create and maintain items and products that we sell. These modules are interfaced with Inventory Management for shipping and supply chain demand and supply planning as well. Analytics is integrated with all these modules so it is very useful to keep track of metrics. However, if you are not using Sales Cloud and use another CRM system, there could be some hiccups in syncing the system if you don't have a middleware.

Incentivized

• We just went live about two weeks ago, so we are here at Acumatica Summit to see everything it's capable of. One of the things it is capable of is the dashboards and the integration with some of these third-party people to ensure we can get the data we need when we need it, so we're looking forward to getting all that live for us.

Incentivized

• Allows you to visualize your data in more graphical manners.
• Provides a solid configurable forecasting engine.
• It's user configurable which helps to deliver the results you are looking for.
• Product is keeping up with the speed of innovation - constantly being improved and pushed out to the customers.

Incentivized

• There are a few spots where there is a list of data that we need a total for and we have to extract to Excel to get a total. It would be helpful to see a sum right in Acumatica.
• For the first time today I had an interesting glitch - my entire bank reconciliation unchecked the "reconciled" column and needed to be redone for the month. Funky little glitches happen from time to time
• Pivot tables don't seem to update as expected by using filters

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• UI - Needs a definite update. Tool can do wonders if UI is intuitive.
• Excel based data doesn't upload easily.
• No open APIs, integration is not possible with other tools.
• Extra charges for a module for integration.
• Implementation is not easy.

Incentivized

It is a flexible system that is very flexible and is easy to use. It will also be able to scale as the company grows. Frankly, we have invested too much time to walk away from it now and the initial phase is going well

Incentivized

Only reason is because when teaching our departments how to use, it takes them a long time and multiple requests about where things are located... as IT team, I can navigate easily, end users like accountants and shipping, it's a tiny bit cumbersome, but I believe ModernUI will resolve

Incentivized

It's always available.

there have been some performance issues

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We recently switched VARs and it has made a world of difference! Our new VAR actually is proactive to various situations versus being reactive to events that have happened. They are accessing how we are using the modules and suggesting better more efficient ways!

Incentivized

Very helpful for end users

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Online training has gone away. Need to bring back the webinars. Live webinars are so benficial to training new employees.

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I'd say the partner selection is critically important. I think the software is very easy to implement. It's very customizable to your business. Finding a partner that will work with you to understand your business and your needs is the critical piece to make sure that the system goes along with it.

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The basic difference between Acumatica and similar solutions is their complexity and usability. It is less complex and easier to learn, and it is also based on a low-code platform, which makes it more convenient for the end user.

Oracle SCM is best suited for Small & Mid Sized Business, whereas SAP SCM is best suited for large scale businesses. Oracle SCM has Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supplier Relationship Management (SCM) integrations which is missing in SAP SCM. Oracle supports modular integration and electronic data integration (EDI) which was one of the pre-requisites of the client.

Incentivized

No, annual invoices are fine. I do like that unlimited users are included.

From my understanding, the P.O. module is not very robust, at least the last time I inquired about it. At the time, it had a one-to-one match, with one invoice for one P.O. and that isn't practical for many businesses. I don't believe it would be an easy system to use for sending out invoices, if we had thousands of retail utility customers. We do a small number of invoices because we sell wholesale power, not retail, so we only Invoice the municipality. Not each utility customer.

They are very responsive and knowledgeable about the product. If the rep doesn't have the ability to solve the issue, they quickly get someone else involved to assist us.

• We were able to work in one system with customizations we needed in inventory and add all our grants in the same system
• Direct mail invoices was moved to an automated PO system saving time and allowing better financial tracking
• The grant module can be cumbersome requiring flip flopping to program partners etc during set up

Incentivized

• There is a large reduction in man hours spent attempting to manually create the traceability matrix
• There is a strong involvement of different BUs and collaboration on the requirements creation process
• The time to develop and approve requirements has been shortened

Incentivized