A global home improvement leader needed its ERP software to match its ambitions. Acumatica and SWK Technologies made that possible.
When you’re planning a home improvement project, the goal isn’t just to fix what’s broken: it’s to build something significantly better than what you had before. That’s exactly the mindset one leading home improvement solutions company brought to its own operations when it set out to transform its business with a modern, scalable ERP built for the future.
Since its beginning in 1979, the Florida-based manufacturer and distributor had grown into a global force, with operations spanning multiple countries and continents. For decades, their reliable, award-winning flooring and installation solutions have made them a go-to source for home improvement enthusiasts and professional contractors alike. Unfortunately, the technology they had used to run their business had not kept pace with their growth.
When the Systems Can’t Keep Up With the Brand
When they chose Infor PRMS many years ago, it was the right call for where the business was at the time. But the company had evolved considerably since then, and that system was no longer built for what the business had become. Without workable multi-entity consolidations, adequate scalability, or vendor support, the platform could no longer serve the company’s needs. Worse, growth over time had led to data siloes and duplicated effort across the enterprise, limiting the real-time agility their global operation required.
The situation was further complicated by the fact that Infor PRMS never fully met their needs on its own. From the start, the company had relied on custom-built EDI and WMS solutions, and now, with outdated code that was increasingly difficult to maintain and institutional knowledge concentrated in too few hands, those custom solutions had become a significant risk.
The manufacturer knew the time had come to find something built for where the business was going, instead of where it had been.
Acumatica: Built for What’s Next
When the manufacturer began evaluating their options, the expert team at SWK Technologies recommended Acumatica Manufacturing Edition. It would prove to be exactly what was needed.
Acumatica’s open architecture and unlimited user model deliver the scalability and flexibility a legacy system never could. Its .NET framework and low-code/no-code customization capabilities make the system easy to securely tailor and maintain. And, with a range of integrated EDI and WMS options, the manufacturer’s days of aging custom code and key-person risk are over.
With Acumatica, intercompany accounting makes multi-entity consolidations straightforward for the manufacturer. They can configure complex inventory workflows, including full landed cost calculations and toll blending, as needed. Plus, since Acumatica’s unlimited user model extends to outside vendors, their toll blending coordination becomes a direct, streamlined process that reduces back-and-forth and the margin for error that comes with it.
On the customer-facing side, Acumatica’s native Shopify connector brings their eCommerce operations into the same real-time environment as their back-office, keeping inventory, orders, and fulfillment in sync automatically.
It all adds up to a unified platform and a single source of truth that brings together production, inventory, sales, and fulfillment across teams, geographies, and digital channels. And as the company continues to grow, the manufacturer knows that Acumatica will keep pace with whatever their future demands.
That kind of outcome doesn’t happen by accident: as a four-time Acumatica Partner of the Year, SWK Technologies brought the expertise to make it possible.
A New Era, Backed by the Right Technology and a Trusted Partner
Replacing an ERP is never just a technology decision. For this manufacturer, it was a declaration that outdated technology would no longer stand between them and their ambitions. By choosing Acumatica and partnering with SWK Technologies, they’ve left their legacy system behind for good and put themselves in a position to grow without the constraints that held them back for years.
And with everything now in place, their future is already underway.
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