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Two weeks ago, in the Acumatica 2026 R2 review, Pete and Nirav said every manufacturer with shop floor activity should probably have something like Acumatica's shop floor kiosk. Pete admits that's quite a big claim, so this week they put version two of the kiosk on screen to see if it holds up. Nirav Shah of AdCirrus ERP drives the demo, and Pete asks the questions an operator, a supervisor and a data person would ask. It's a screen demo, so it's best watched on YouTube.

In this episode:

• Pen, paper and Larry: how shop floor time actually gets captured
• Why consumption pricing puts operatives on the ERP, and why they don't want a desk
• What a work centre means in ERP terms, from cost centres to stage gates
• On hand vs available for issue, lot and serial capture, and clocking into more than one job
• Real-time labour costing, and a morning report of what the night shift did
• The kiosk's current gaps, honestly
• Rollout: kill the old process, support nights, own the data, pilot one work centre

Hosts: Peter Nicholson · Nirav Shah (AdCirrus ERP)

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Acumatica 2026 R2 is the release that switches the classic UI off for good, and the one where AI stops being a preview and becomes something you connect your own model to. There are hundreds of changes in it. Pete, who works inside a business that runs Acumatica every day, and Nirav Shah of AdCirrus ERP, who implements it for a living, picked the eight that manufacturers and distributors should care about. Then they settled whether to take it now.

In this episode:

• Classic UI is gone: why the browsers forced it, and what it means for your customisations
• Bring your own AI through the MCP connector, and the pricing question nobody's answered yet
• Why AI is only as good as your Generic Inquiries and master data
• The AI assistant, dashboards built from a chat, and wiki answers that cost no AI units
• Available to promise across every warehouse, and why it lives or dies on your dates
• Shop floor kiosk 2.0, Shopify restocking fees, 1099 e-filing and the native data warehouse
• The verdict: take R2, but not the first build

Hosts: Peter Nicholson · Nirav Shah

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There's one piece of ERP work you keep putting off. You trust your partner, you like them, they answer the phone. But this particular job needs experience they don't have. This week Pete, Nirav and Emily are joined by Ken Sebahar, who has been implementing Navision since 2001, used to co-host A Shot of Business Central and a Beer, and has just written a white paper, The Multi-Partner Advantage. The question is whether you can bring in a specialist without blowing up the relationship that already works.

In this episode:

• "Who asked you to change partners?" Adding a specialist doesn't mean leaving your partner
• What a partner strategy is, and why you need one even with a single partner
• The EDI test: is it the best solution, or the one your partner knows?
• How to tell your current partner without making them feel fired
• Who you call when it breaks: primary support partner, partner team, clear lines
• AppSource, curated app lists and owning your own system
• When one partner is plenty

Hosts: Peter Nicholson · Nirav Shah (AdCirrus ERP) · Emily Browning
Guest: Ken Sebahar, independent Business Central consultant and advisor, Speaking Business Central (speakingbusinesscentral.com)

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