Transform Your Manufacturing Operations with MYOB Acumatica
Manufacturing ERP that delivers production visibility, eliminates manual chaos, and allows manufacturers to scale confidently with a platform built for growth.
Here’s what keeps manufacturing leaders awake at night. You’re juggling production schedules in Excel. Your inventory counts are never quite accurate when you need them. Finance is chasing the operations team for job costs that should have been captured weeks ago. Your production manager can’t get a straight answer on material availability, and meanwhile, your best customer wants to know when their order will ship.
Sound familiar? You’re not alone, and more importantly, you’re not stuck with this chaos.
Australian manufacturers operating in that high growth band, between $10M and $100M revenue, face a unique set of challenges. You’ve outgrown your accounting software, but you’re not ready for the complexity and cost of enterprise systems designed for multinational corporations. You need something that bridges that gap—powerful enough to handle genuine manufacturing complexity, but practical enough that your team will actually use it.
The Hidden Cost of Manufacturing Inefficiency
Most manufacturers don’t have a software problem. They have a visibility problem that software has failed to solve. When production, inventory, finance, and customer management operate in separate systems, decisions get made with incomplete information. Materials get ordered too late or in the wrong quantities. Production costs blow out because no one caught the issue until month-end. Customer delivery promises get missed because sales didn’t know production was behind schedule.
These aren’t minor inconveniences—they’re profit killers that compound daily.
Why MYOB Acumatica Manufacturing Fits Australian Manufacturers
MYOB Acumatica Manufacturing Edition isn’t trying to be everything to everyone. It’s designed specifically for discrete and batch process manufacturers who need to manage complexity without adding complexity. And critically for Australian businesses, it’s localised by MYOB to work the way you work—not the way Silicon Valley thinks you should work.
Built for How You Actually Manufacture
Whether you’re running make-to-stock, make-to-order, engineer-to-order, or configure-to-order operations, MYOB Acumatica adapts to your workflow. Not the other way around. You get purpose-built tools for:
- Production Planning & Scheduling that actually reflects your shop floor reality. Visual scheduling boards let you see capacity constraints, drag-and-drop orders to adjust priorities, and identify bottlenecks before they cause delays. Forward and backward scheduling options give you the flexibility to plan from due dates or material availability.
- Bill of Materials Management that handles your product complexity. Multi-level BOMs with engineering and production views. Revision control that tracks every change. Component substitution rules when your preferred supplier is out of stock. Costing that breaks down every element—materials, labour, machines, tooling, overhead—so you understand true product margins.
- Material Requirements Planning (MRP) that keeps production flowing. Real-time visibility into supply and demand across all sites. Automatic generation of purchase and production orders. Multi-level planning that ensures components are available when you need them. Demand forecasting integrated with actual customer orders and sales projections.
- Shop Floor Control & Data Collection that connects office to factory floor. Native barcode scanning for material movement and labour tracking. Real-time production reporting that shows work-in-progress status. Mobile-friendly interfaces that work on tablets and phones. Quality control checkpoints built into production workflows.
- Product Configuration for businesses handling custom or semi-custom orders. Rules-based configurators that ensure valid combinations. Automatic BOM and routing creation from selected options. Pricing that adjusts based on configuration choices. Quote generation directly from configured products.
The Ndevr Manufacturing Difference
We’ve spent over 25 years getting manufacturing implementations right for Australian household name manufacturers — and we’ve learnt what works.
Ndevr’s implementation methodology isn’t borrowed from a textbook. It’s refined from decades of real manufacturing projects. We know that your biggest implementation risk isn’t the software—it’s understanding your business well enough to configure it correctly the first time.
More than 25 Years of delivering successful ERP Implementations
Industry expertise across wholesale distribution, manufacturing, and complex operations
100% focus on business transformation, not just software installation
How We Approach Manufacturing ERP Implementations
Risk Assessment First: Before we talk about software configuration, we identify and mitigate three critical risk areas:
- Software Risk – Is MYOB Acumatica genuinely the right fit for your manufacturing operation?
- Implementer Risk – Do we have the expertise to handle your specific requirements?
- Self-Inflicted Risk – Are you set up internally to implement successfully?
We’ll be honest if MYOB Acumatica isn’t the right answer. That’s rare, but it happens, and telling you early saves everyone time and money.
Deep Solution Design: We don’t start building until you’ve signed off on a complete system design. This includes documented workflows, process maps, integration points, custom configurations, and data migration approach. You know exactly what you’re getting before implementation begins.
Manufacturing-Focused Testing: Your operations team tests in a full production replica environment. We script realistic manufacturing scenarios. You validate that job costing works correctly, BOMs calculate accurately, and production orders flow properly. No surprises at go-live.
Practical Training Delivered by Experts: Your team learns from consultants who understand manufacturing operations, not just button clicks. Training covers why the system works the way it does, not just how to use it.
Post-Go-Live Partnership: The first month after go-live, we’re embedded with your team. We’re available when questions arise. We help troubleshoot issues while they’re small. We ensure you’re capturing production costs correctly and your workflows are optimised.
Real Manufacturing Scenarios We’ve Solved
Challenge: Production Costs Hidden Until Month-End
A Melbourne-based manufacturer was running production jobs but couldn’t accurately cost them until their accountant closed the month. By then, three more weeks of production had run—potentially at a loss.
Our Solution: Configured real-time job costing within MYOB Acumatica. Material issues update costs immediately. Labour is captured via shop floor tablets. Machine time flows from work center tracking. Management sees current job costs daily, can identify problems while production is still running, and make pricing decisions based on actual data instead of estimates.
Challenge: Multi-Site Inventory Chaos
A distributor expanding into light manufacturing couldn’t track stock across their warehouse and two production facilities. Material was getting ordered for one site when it sat unused at another. Transfer processes were manual and error-prone.
Our Solution: Implemented MYOB Acumatica’s multi-location inventory with automated transfer workflows. Each site has real-time visibility into company-wide stock. MRP considers inventory across all locations when generating requirements. Transfer orders created automatically when one site needs material available elsewhere.
Challenge: Custom Orders Requiring Engineering Input
A fabrication business quoting custom metal products needed engineering to review every order. This created bottlenecks and slow quote turnaround. Sales couldn’t quote accurately, engineering was overwhelmed, and margins suffered.
Our Solution: Built a rules-based product configurator within MYOB Acumatica. Sales selects dimensions, materials, finishes, and quantities. The configurator validates combinations, generates an accurate BOM, calculates costs including setup and tooling, and produces a quote in minutes instead of days. Engineering reviews only truly unique requirements.
Watch Monza’s CIO Review MYOB Acumatica
Monza Imports manage upwards of 34,000 SKU’s, and prior to making the switch to MYOB Acumatica they had been using one of the large Manufacturing ERP’s.
What Manufacturing Capabilities Matter Most
The comprehensive list of MYOB Acumatica Manufacturing features is long. Here’s what actually matters for Australian mid-market manufacturers:
Production Management That Reflects Reality
You need to see work-in-progress across your entire operation. Which jobs are running? Which are delayed and why? What’s scheduled next? MYOB Acumatica’s production dashboards give management and supervisors real-time visibility without walking the shop floor (though you should still do that).
Production orders track every cost element—materials, labour, machine time, tooling, outsourced operations, overhead. Compare actuals to estimates. Identify cost overruns while you can still do something about them.
Inventory Control Built for Manufacturing
Standard inventory management treats stock as simple quantities moving in and out. Manufacturing inventory is different. Raw materials, work-in-progress, finished goods, components, assemblies, by-products, and scrap all need different tracking approaches.
MYOB Acumatica handles lot and serial number tracking, shelf life management for time-sensitive materials, quarantine holds for quality control, batch genealogy for traceability, and component substitutions when shortages occur.
Financial Integration Without Data Entry
When production completes a job, MYOB Acumatica automatically updates general ledger, work-in-progress, inventory values, and job costing—without anyone entering transaction details. Your accountant isn’t chasing production for cost information. Your financial reports reflect current production status. Month-end closing doesn’t require reconciling production to finance.
Quality Control & Compliance Embedded in Workflow
Quality isn’t a separate system you struggle to integrate. Quality control points are built into production workflows. Inspections get assigned automatically. Test results are captured against specific lots or serial numbers. Non-conformance triggers corrective action workflows. Audit trails track who did what and when across the entire production process.
This matters enormously if you’re manufacturing to standards or dealing with regulated products. And even if you’re not, embedded quality control prevents problems from becoming customer complaints.
Flexibility to Handle Your Product Mix
Most manufacturers don’t make one thing repeatedly. You might have standard products you make-to-stock, custom variations you configure-to-order, and one-off projects you engineer-to-order. MYOB Acumatica handles all these scenarios within one system.
The production module adapts to different manufacturing approaches. You’re not forcing every product through the same workflow just because your software can’t handle variety.
The Integration Advantage
MYOB Acumatica Manufacturing isn’t a standalone production system bolted onto accounting software. It’s a completely integrated ERP where production, finance, inventory, sales, CRM, and payroll share one database updated in real-time.
What Integration Actually Delivers
- Sales to Production to Delivery: A sales order converts to a production order. Production confirms material availability via MRP. Shop floor issues materials and records labour. Quality control approves the finished product. Warehouse ships the order and generates the invoice. The entire process flows through one system with zero duplicate data entry.
- Real-Time Financial Visibility: Your financial controller sees the impact of production decisions immediately. When production issues materials, work-in-progress increases. When jobs complete, inventory updates and margins calculate. There’s no waiting for batch processes or month-end postings.
- Purchasing Driven by Production: MRP sees production requirements and existing purchase orders. It generates purchase requisitions for what’s genuinely needed, when it’s needed. Your purchasing team isn’t working from Excel spreadsheets that were accurate last week.
- Customer Management Aware of Production: Your sales team viewing customer accounts in CRM sees current production status for their orders. Customer service can provide accurate delivery dates because they’re looking at the same production schedule as your operations manager.
The Alternative: Integration Nightmares
Before MYOB Acumatica, many manufacturers patch together separate systems for production, accounting, CRM, and inventory. Then they build integrations to pass data between systems. These integrations become maintenance nightmares. They break with software updates. Data gets out of sync. No one trusts the information because they don’t know which system is the source of truth.
Ndevr has helped customers escape this integration hell. Moving to MYOB Acumatica’s unified platform eliminates integration costs, reduces IT overhead, and gives everyone confidence in the data
Expected Returns & Investment
Let’s talk honestly about costs and returns.
Where Manufacturers See Returns
- Reduced Production Delays: When material shortages are visible before they cause delays, when you can reschedule around capacity constraints, when issues are caught during production instead of at delivery, you get orders out faster. Faster fulfillment means better customer satisfaction and faster cash conversion.
- Improved Margin Protection: Real-time job costing shows you when costs exceed estimates while you can still respond. You catch material waste, excessive labour hours, or inefficient processes before completing entire production runs. Even small margin improvements across all jobs add up quickly.
- Lower Inventory Carrying Costs: Better demand visibility and MRP accuracy means you can reduce safety stock without risking stockouts. You buy materials when needed instead of hoarding inventory “just in case.” For many manufacturers, this alone funds the ERP investment.
- Eliminated Overtime & Expediting: When production planning works properly, you reduce firefighting. Less rush shipping of materials. Less overtime to meet deadlines that shouldn’t have been missed. Less expedited freight to customers because production ran late.
- Administrative Efficiency: Your team stops wasting hours on duplicate data entry, report generation from multiple systems, tracking down information, and reconciling discrepancies. They can focus on actually improving operations instead of managing around bad systems.
Monza’s Experience (Real Customer ROI)
Monza Australia implemented MYOB Acumatica five years ago. They eliminated 14 on-premise servers, reduced IT admin time by about 60%, improved financial reporting from days to minutes, and crucially, freed up their operations team to focus on actually improving processes rather than managing system workarounds.
Five years later, they’re still realising benefits. Continuous platform improvements from MYOB mean capabilities keep expanding without major upgrade projects. Their IT costs decreased while business complexity increased. That’s the definition of good ERP ROI.
MYOB Acumatica Manufacturing Edition: Why Wait?
If you’re reading this, you already know your current approach isn’t working. The question isn’t whether to implement proper manufacturing ERP. It’s when, and with whom.
The Cost of Waiting
Every month you delay, you’re accumulating inefficiency costs. Production delays. Inventory carrying costs. Margin erosion from inaccurate costing. Administrative overhead from manual processes. Missed growth opportunities because you can’t scale operations.
These costs are real even if they’re not obvious in your P&L. The manufacturers who implement MYOB Acumatica consistently tell us they wish they’d done it sooner.
The Ndevr MYOB Acumatica Implementation Timeline
A typical mid-market manufacturing implementation with Ndevr takes 3-6 months from kickoff to go-live. That includes thorough requirements gathering, complete solution design, configuration, data migration, user acceptance testing, training, and go-live support.
Could you implement faster? Sure, but speed at the expense of getting it right is a terrible tradeoff. We’ve seen rushed implementations at other partners create problems that take years to fix. Ndevr’s structured approach takes the time required to deliver a system that works correctly from day one.
Ready to Transform How You Manage Your Workforce?
Most businesses know their current approach to workforce management and payroll isn’t sustainable. The question isn’t whether to change—it’s when, and how to minimise disruption while maximizing value.
MYOB Acumatica Workforce Management and Payroll, implemented properly by experienced partners, delivers that change successfully.
Take the Next Step
Implementing workforce management and payroll software is a significant decision. You need to get it right.
Here’s what we suggest:
Step 1: Book a Conversation
Email info@ndevr.com.au or book a discussion with Rob Sheldrick. Let’s talk about your current situation, your challenges, and what you’re trying to achieve. No sales pitch—just honest dialogue about whether MYOB Acumatica makes sense for you.
Step 2: See It In Action
If there’s potential fit, we’ll show you how the system would work in your business using scenarios and workflows specific to your industry and operation. You’ll see your challenges being solved, not generic software features.
Step 3: Get a Clear Plan
We’ll provide a detailed proposal that covers scope, timeline, investment, and expected outcomes. You’ll know exactly what you’re getting, how long it will take, and what it will cost.
Step 4: Make an Informed Decision
Armed with real information, you can decide whether to proceed. If you do, we’ll execute the implementation with the same professionalism and transparency you’ve experienced so far.
