Accolent ERP supports MRO products which consist of items such as spare parts, replacement parts, consumables, and tools. MRO products are stocked just as are sale items, but are used for internal MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Operations) purposes rather than held for sale. These MRO products can be given a separate product Class “m – […]
Category: Manage Products
Using Year/Make/Model Search
Accolent ERP provides an additional Year/Make/Model product search that is commonly used by auto dealers and auto parts distributors. The Year/Make/Model data is stored as a child table of the product. This data can easily be entered by dealers for new or used automobiles, RVs or other vehicles. However, for auto parts distributors, this data […]
Using Accolent ERP Agentic AI
Accolent ERP has embedded AWS Quick (“Quick”), which is AWS’ Agentic AI offering. Quick is an AI solution that offers chat agents, workflows and dashboards and visualizations using LLMs (Large Language Models) running in AWS Bedrock and called from a customer workspace. The customer workspace can access various data sources, such as your Accolent ERP […]
Using Lot Costing
Accolent ERP uses Average Cost (or FIFO cost if selected) throughout the system for non-Lot-controlled Products. However, whether the system is set to use Average Cost or FIFO cost, Lot-controlled products will always use Lot Costing. In Lot Costing, the system records the specific Lot Cost for every Lot when it is received in, then […]
AI-Bots for Financial Statement Tie-Outs
Accolent ERP users should have a financial close process every month-end to tie-out the financial statements to the supporting files for Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Inventory Valuation. There are many possible reasons for these balances to go out of sync including things like manual adjustments, GL Adjustments, using the bulk imports while in live […]
Product Location Quantities
Accolent ERP allows a product to track Inventory by Location or not and also to associate one or more Locations with a product. If Inventory by Location is not tracked, then the product’s Location Quantity will always be equal to the “Q-On Hand” and this will be shown against the Primary Location for the product. […]
Online Store Set Up & Implementation
Accolent ERP supports multiple eCommerce platforms either through direct API integration or through a connector that facilitates the linkage of multiple eCommerce stores. Currently, Accolent ERP is linked to multiple Online Stores (including Drupal, Magento Community version, Shopify, Woo Commerce, Big Commerce) and to multiple eCommerce marketplaces (including Amazon, eBay, Walmart). This wiki is designed […]
Using the Quick Products Import
Accolent ERP allows for the import of simple products from a single CSV file using the Quick Products Import. For complex products with multiple UOMs and multiple costs, the master Product Imports and several supporting import files can be used. The Quick Products Import is typically used to import a Vendor’s catalog CSV file. It […]
Taking Trade-Ins
Accolent ERP allows users to take trade-ins of used equipment against sales of new equipment. The used equipment taken as a trade-in will be maintained in inventory and should be identified using some easily recognizable Product Code. For example, the Product Code could consist of a prefix for “Used” then the “Model No” of the […]
Using Container Tracking
Accolent ERP supports Container Tracking which allows individual PO lines to be imported from Submitted POs that are ready to ship. In this way, Containers can be created to include lines from multiple POs and the total load weight and cubes of the combined PO lines can be kept within the maximums allowed. The Container […]