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 […]

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Average Cost Rules

Accolent ERP uses Average Cost as the method of accounting for all capitalized transaction costs for each inventory product. The Average Cost of a product reflects the cumulative cost of that product divided by the ending quantity of the product. Transactions that involve a product will update the product’s ending quantity and Average Cost, which […]

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AutoQuotes Import Example-Accessories and Comments

For Restaurant Supply distributors, Accolent ERP provides an easy linkage with AutoQuotes (“AQ”). Using AQ, distributors can create AQ Projects and then download these as pre-configured CSV files. These CSV files (“AQ Export CSVs”) can be zipped and then imported into Accolent ERP as orders. To create an order in Accolent ERP, first create the […]

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Maintaining Vendor Product Codes

Accolent ERP maintains cross references of item numbers used by Vendors (referred to as Vendor Product Codes) against the internal Product Codes used for these same items in Accolent ERP. Once recorded, Purchase Orders to that Vendor can be specified either using the Vendor Product Code or the corresponding internal Product Code, and both will […]

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Allocating Vouchers to Multiple Departments

Accolent ERP allows the allocation of Vendor Invoices, referred to as Vouchers, to multiple expense GL Accounts. A voucher can have multiple expense lines each of which may be allocated to its own department. Once all expense lines on the voucher are assigned to departments, the voucher can be posted. The GL posting of the […]

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Email Integration with Outlook or Gmail

Accolent ERP’s email integration allows users to send emails from Accolent ERP using their Outlook or Gmail email addresses. Emails sent from Accolent ERP automatically update the users’ Outlook or Gmail sent folders. Emails sent from Accolent ERP to customers, prospects and vendors are also automatically logged to the recent interactions tab on the customer, […]

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Creating a Special Order Starting from the PO

Accolent ERP has extensive special order functionality. A special order links a sales order line item directly to a PO.  The special order line item can be filled only from the linked PO which can be created automatically. When the linked sales order is moved to shipping, it is moved to a back order and […]

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Adding a Product on-the-Fly

Accolent ERP allows for products to be added on-the-fly to an order. This might be necessary if, for example, while taking an order, the customer requests a product that is not stocked but is available as a special order from a vendor. The product can be looked up on the vendor’s website, made with very […]

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Multi-Currency Overview and Setup

Accolent ERP supports multi-currency through an API that delivers global FX Rates. There are four important multi-currency setup steps: (1) Multi-currency is an optional module, and so must first be enabled, (2) Foreign Currencies and the functional currency then need to be set up, (3) Foreign Currency Vendors and Customers need be set up and […]

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Purchasing from Foreign Currency Vendors

Accolent ERP supports multi-currency through an API that delivers global FX Rates. Using the multi-currency module, a PO can be created in foreign currency for a Vendor. When the PO is Received, Inventory will be debited for the functional currency equivalent at that time. Subsequently when the Vendor’s Invoice is received, Accounts Payable will be […]

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