Product

Manufacturing Estimates

Create manufacturing estimates for new items. Control costs and markup for fixed and variable cost elements. Integrate estimating with quotes with embedded CRM.

Boost Sales with Fast and Accurate Manufacturing Estimates

Gain the flexibility to create detailed manufacturing estimates quickly. With the Estimating module, you can improve the accuracy and turnaround times of all your manufacturing estimates. This solution takes into account every aspect of estimating, including material, overhead, labor, and other miscellaneous costs.

Once you confirm an estimate, you can easily convert it to a bill of material or sales order. Your team can calculate costs and prices for new or existing parts using data such as material costs, work center rates, and overheads. Save even more time with the option of linking your estimate to a quote or opportunity in CRM.

Key Benefits of the Acumatica Manufacturing Edition Estimating Solution for Your Company

  • Increase your flexibility

    Prepare estimates for existing or custom items. Create a simple, quick summary estimate or a detailed estimate using a bill of material structure.

  • Create new estimates in seconds

    Create a new estimate by simply copying or modifying an existing estimate, bill of material, or production order bill of material.

  • Gain control over revisions

    Make multiple revisions of the same estimate while maintaining a history of the revisions and who created them. Generate more accurate estimates of expected labor, material, and overhead costs.

Important Features of Acumatica Manufacturing Edition Estimating Software

Multi-Quantity Estimate Worksheets

Manufacturing and sales engineers in job shops and engineer-to-order manufacturing environments use estimate worksheets to create estimates for multiple quantities with varied markups to amortize setup and one-time costs across multiple quantities. Estimates may include labor, material, overhead, subcontracted operations, prototyping, special tooling, and other costs..

Estimate Non-Inventory Items

Estimate items not currently in your inventory. Attach notes, files, and item attributes to the estimate.

Create New Inventory Items

Easily convert non-inventory items to inventory stock or nonstock items. Create inventory items and generate a bill of material from an estimate.

Create Production Order

Create a production order directly from an estimate.

Flexible Mark-Up

Mark-up material, labor, overhead, and tooling by a percentage or a fixed amount and make final mark-up adjustment to the finished good to improve profits.

Sales Integration

Attach an estimate directly to a sales order or an opportunity in Acumatica Customer Management. Create a sales order directly from the estimate.

Multiple Sites

Easily create estimates from all your company locations.

Optional CAD Connectors

Leverage marketplace CAD connectors to create a bill of material and routing from internally created or customer-provided engineering drawings for new part estimates.

Side Panels

Save time with manufacturing side panels providing direct access to estimate operations, estimates, business accounts, opportunities, sales orders, projects, and project tasks without leaving data entry screens.

Estimate Insights

Leverage role-based dashboards, flexible Generic Inquiries, and reports to monitor estimate status with insights into estimate conversion rates and analysis of estimated versus actual production costs.

See what Acumatica customers are saying

"The real-time access to data is huge. We’re using Acumatica to manage all of our entities separately but also see how the overall parent company is performing, and that speaks to how flexible Acumatica is."
Renee Schafer, Director of Operations, Data Security, Inc.
Telesis, Inc.
"We now have access to real-time financial information and access to that data is transforming the way we do business."
Corey Wynn, Information Technology Manager (prior)
Kelly Products, Inc.

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