Manufacturing Management connects production, design, purchasing, sales, and financials in one platform, so nothing about your shop floor lives in a disconnected spreadsheet. With Crestwood, you gain more than the software: you gain an in-house team that configures it around how your production floor actually runs.
A manufacturing management system connects production planning, bills of material, purchasing, and shop floor tracking into one platform, so a change in one area, a material shortage, a schedule shift, an engineering revision, is visible everywhere else immediately instead of surfacing days later in a spreadsheet reconciliation. A true manufacturing management system goes beyond basic production scheduling software: it connects the shop floor directly to sales, purchasing, and financials, so leadership sees real production costs and status, not an estimate from last week.
Most businesses don’t need every module, they need the right combination for how they actually operate. Crestwood has configured these modules across 5,000+ implementations over 27+ years, all handled by an in-house team, so you get a system built around your business instead of a generic template.
WHATS INCLUDED
FOR PROCESS MANUFACTURERS
Discrete manufacturing runs on BOM and routings. Formula and batch-based manufacturing, paints, coatings, chemicals, food and beverage, life sciences, needs something built for recipes, yields, and lot-level traceability. Acumatica covers that through the Process Manufacturing Suite, built natively inside Acumatica by eWorkplace Apps (EWPA) and Fulfilled by Acumatica, based on more than 30 years of process manufacturing experience.
What it adds on top of Acumatica’s core Manufacturing Management module:
Built for food and beverage, packaged products, chemicals, paints and coatings, life sciences and pharmaceuticals, supplements and nutraceuticals, personal care and cosmetics, and hemp and CBD manufacturers.
Every business runs differently, and your ERP should reflect that. Talk with a Crestwood expert about which Acumatica modules fit your operations, backed by 27+ years and 5,000+ implementations, all handled in-house.
SEE IT IN ACTION
Crown Metal Manufacturing, a long-established supplier to major retail brands, had already moved to Acumatica Cloud ERP but was still losing time to manual shipping workflows, keying in tracking numbers by hand and toggling between carrier portals for every order. Crestwood implemented StarShip by V-Technologies, integrated directly with Acumatica, to close that gap. The results, direct from their case study:
“StarShip streamlined our shipping and eliminated hours of manual work. The automation and accuracy we’ve gained have transformed how we fulfill orders and how quickly we get paid.” — Steve Varon, President, Crown Metal Manufacturing
This case study speaks to order-to-cash automation and real-time visibility for a manufacturer, not shop floor production detail. For deeper production planning proof, including MRP and BOM specifics, see the comparison and case examples in the blog below.
Read the full Crown Metal Manufacturing case study
Related reading: How to Find the Best Manufacturing ERP Software
With decades of ERP advisory experience, Crestwood helps finance and operations leaders evaluate, implement, and optimize Acumatica with confidence. Our role is not just deployment, but ensuring the platform supports visibility, control, and long-term scalability as complexity grows.
As a certified Acumatica partner, we specialize in complex migrations that require deep knowledge of field service and customer relationship management.
Bills of material and routings, Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Advanced Planning and Scheduling, Engineering Change Control, Manufacturing Estimates, a Product Configurator, shop floor data collection, purchasing, sales order management, and financials, all connected in one platform rather than separate systems.
Not exactly. An MES typically handles real-time shop floor data collection on its own. Acumatica’s Manufacturing Management module includes that shop floor tracking through its Shop Floor Kiosk and Manufacturing Data Collection app, but connects it directly to BOM, MRP, purchasing, sales, and accounting, so it functions as a full manufacturing management system rather than a standalone execution layer.
Yes. Acumatica supports multi-modal discrete manufacturing alongside process manufacturing through the Process Manufacturing Suite, which handles recipes, formulas, and physical property tracking for food, beverage, and chemical manufacturers.
Crestwood’s in-house team configures the module around your actual production process, sets up your BOM and routing structure correctly from day one, migrates your data, trains your team, and stays on as your support contact after go-live, backed by 27+ years and 5,000+ implementations.
