The manufacturing industry is critical to the health of a country’s economy. According to Forbes’ contributors Laurie Harbour and Scott Walton in a co-authored article, manufacturing in the U.S. drives economic growth and innovation. “[M]anufacturing provides millions of jobs, fosters technological advancements, and ensures the stability of countless supply chains.”

They further note that manufacturing significantly impacts national security, community development, and the country’s global competitiveness, and though the authors specifically address U.S. manufacturers, manufacturers around the world share this critical responsibility. To support your efforts, Acumatica is committed to providing you and every manufacturing customer with manufacturing management software that addresses your specific needs, from production, estimating, and engineering to material planning, scheduling, and product configuration.

This commitment is manifested by our latest release, Acumatica 2025 R2. We’ve designed practical and innovative manufacturing enhancements to help you make smarter, faster decisions as you fulfill your role in an essential industry.

Acumatica 2025 R2 Manufacturing Improvements

With Acumatica 2025 R2, we focused on improving scheduling visibility, traceability, cost management, and overall usability. You can learn about all the manufacturing improvements by checking out our 2025 R2 launch event, but today, we’re going to put the spotlight on two of our many new features: Lot Attributes and Anomaly Detection.

Lot Attributes

Capturing, tracking, and tracing specific product features throughout the supply chain is important if you want to maintain quality, meet regulatory standards, and ensure quick product recalls. Because of the importance of this capability, we introduced attributes for Lot and Serial numbers earlier this year, making it easier for you to capture and manage product details at the lot or serial level in your sales, inventory receipts, and inventory management processes.

Now, with Acumatica 2025 R2, you can assign attribute values when receiving manufactured goods into inventory. You can also select specific items with specific attributes when issuing materials to production orders.

This new production feature will help you confidently manufacture your products, knowing that:

• Every piece meets the required specifications.
• Any future issues can be traced back to the exact batch, supplier, and production process.
• You’re delivering not just materials but quality and accountability as well.

Anomaly Detection

Manufacturers are also eager to see how the latest AI innovations can help their operations – and Acumatica 2025R2 delivers.

During Acumatica Summit 2025, Miten Mehta, Acumatica’s Chief Engineering Officer, explained that artificial intelligence (AI) should deliver powerful results. Our “AI-first” mindset means that we provide AI features that are practical, strategic, and beneficial to you and your business.

In the latest release, we’ve harnessed the power of AI to detect anomalies in material cost deviations, labor time and cost discrepancies, production cost variances, and employee performance. No more digging through reports, just clear actionable insights.

In manufacturing, unnoticed cost differences and inefficiencies can quickly erode margins and disrupt operations. For manufacturers, Acumatica 2025 R2 introduces AI-powered anomaly detection to address this challenge, enabling manufacturers to proactively identify and resolve issues before they escalate.

The release includes four new anomaly detection screens – Production Total Variance, Labor Variance, Material Variance, and Employee Efficiency, each designed to surface outliers in cost and performance across production orders.

Instead of manually combing through reports, anomaly detection highlights unusual cost or efficiency deviations in real time. Whether it’s labor time, material usage, or employee output, the system flags exceptions automatically helping manufacturers take targeted action sooner.

With this functionality, businesses can make smarter decisions, improve BOM accuracy, and address performance gaps with confidence. The result is fewer surprises, stronger margins, and smoother operations powered by AI.

How Acumatica Manufacturing Customers Will Benefit from Acumatica 2025 R2

For Acumatica’s manufacturing customers, Acumatica’s manufacturing software has already transformed how they operate.

Peter Amos, Owner, CoachComm, implemented Acumatica and says business visibility is clearer than ever. “We can plan our manufacturing, carry better inventory levels, and see everything we need to do to run the business better.”

Elizabeth Horowitz, Operations Assistant, Wm. S. Haynes Co (a brand of the Eastman Music Company) says that, with Acumatica, they have details and data that were never available to them before.

“The critical materials report allows me to see what is missing, and what we don’t have in the right warehouse,” she says. “MRP shows us what parts need to be ordered and what parts need to be made.  Acumatica’s reorder points tell us exactly when we need to place an order for a particular item. Now I can see a forecast of when that’s going to happen and when expected inventory receipt dates may jeopardize production dates. It’s helped us catch a couple of things that before we would completely miss.”

The increased visibility and efficiencies along with the error-catching functionality provided by Acumatica are enhanced with the cutting-edge, manufacturing-based improvements brought by Acumatica 2025 R2. Advanced traceability and quality control as well as improved cost management (and so much more) will be yours when our latest release launches soon.

Until then, reach out to our team with any questions, feedback, or concerns, and they’ll be happy to respond. And don’t forget to read how our distribution and construction features in Acumatica 2025 R2 will also powerfully impact the Acumatica Community and the industries we serve.