As a distributor, your goal is to get products to your customers as quickly and efficiently as possible. The logistics of making this happen—including managing inventory, having a proficient sales team, engaging with customers, and securing a strong position in the marketplace—can be daunting, especially in an economy that continues to face uncertainty.

Still, your success as a distributor in these unpredictable times is well within reach with a modern, cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, like Acumatica.  The robust, distribution-specific features in Acumatica’s solution can assist in automating your supply chain, optimizing your inventory management, and streamlining your procurement processes. Even better, Acumatica’s twice yearly updates guarantee that you’re working with continually updated software that’s specifically geared to your distribution needs—no matter how simple or complex.

A perfect example is Acumatica 2025 R2, Acumatica’s second release this year that was launched on September 23, 2025.  With the new release, you can expect scores of  exciting distribution capabilities  powered by automation and AI that will help you sell more, fulfill faster, and reconcile cleaner.

Acumatica 2025 R2 Distribution Updates and Benefits

The industry-specific updates delivered in Acumatica’s latest release stem from our deep industry knowledge as well as from the value we place on feedback from our customers—like Jim Beale, IT Manager for S&S Activewear, a leading apparel and accessory distributor in the U.S. and Canada. When he gave us his feedback on our vendor payment process , he experienced Acumatica’s customer-first commitment firsthand.

“Acumatica immediately saw that this was a situation other customers could also find themselves in, so they went and built that into the core system based on our feedback. That was very important to us,” he says.

It’s important to us, too, which is why we’ve made sure the improvements in Acumatica 2025 R2 help you overcome any real-world challenges and push your growth agenda into high gear. To illustrate, here are just a few of our latest distribution updates and how you’ll benefit:

• • Cross Sell Assistant: Powered by AI, our new Cross Sell Assistant uses historical sales data and real customer buying patterns to help your sales team know which products to sell and when. Items often bought together are brought to your attention with automated cross-selling suggestions (stock or non-stock) within your order entry screen. Because Cross Sell Assistant is an AI-generated solution, it learns from your feedback over time (e.g., if you approve or delete the suggestions), enabling you to make intelligent and strategic selling decisions.

• • Order Orchestration Assistant: Many distributors manage multiple warehouses, and if you do too, then you know all too well that deciding from which warehouse to fill and ship orders is like solving a particularly challenging puzzle. With our Order Orchestration Assistant, the puzzle pieces are put together for you based on our two fulfillment strategies: Destination Priority, which tells the assistant to pick the closest warehouse to your customers, and Warehouse Priority, which informs the assistant to choose the warehouse that has the best available stock. The Order Orchestration Assistant also lets you process your orders in bulk, so there’s no need to change your processes to fit the new update, making for a smarter, well-defined fulfillment experience.

• • Automated Amazon Settlement Report: For distributors that sell on Amazon, settlement reports can be a four-letter word. Managing payments, refunds, and fees is a complex task, made more so if you’re doing it manually. Now, with our new Automated Settlement Report, you can let Acumatica import and reconcile your Amazon settlement data automatically by pulling in reports from Amazon, validating it, and importing transactions into Acumatica. Additionally, a new dashboard highlights matched and unmatched transactions, sync status, and financial summaries on a single screen. The result? Time savings, error reductions, and accurate financial records without the swearing.

Getting Ahead with Acumatica 2025 R2

Core to Acumatica’s customer-centric culture is working hand-in-hand with our customers to help them achieve their growth ambitions.. It’s the foundation of our rallying cry — “Building the Future of Business, Together” because we know that it takes all of us, working as a team, to create a strong future for the Community.

As Acumatica CEO John Case says, “We see ourselves as long-term partners in the success of each and every Acumatica customer. We are only successful when our customers are successful. This commitment to customers has been our trademark for well over a decade now, and it’s made us the world’s fastest-growing cloud ERP company with the industry’s highest rates of customer satisfaction.”

To learn more about Acumatica 2025 R2 and our new, customer-centric distribution features, register for our online 2025 R2 launch event today and contact our experts with any questions.