Case Study: Portacool achieves real-time manufacturing visibility and an 86% faster month-end close with Acumatica

Portacool Beats the Heat & Elevates Performance with Acumatica Manufacturing Edition

Portacool LLC, a 30-year leader in portable evaporative coolers and specialty evaporative media, faced rapid growth that its legacy ERP and spreadsheet-driven processes could not support. The company lacked real-time visibility into inventory, costs, and sales channels, struggled with lengthy manual inventory counts and month-end closes, and encountered supply-chain and fulfillment delays that were exacerbated during the pandemic.

Portacool implemented Acumatica Manufacturing Edition with partner Algorithm, consolidating finance, manufacturing, inventory, and CRM on a single cloud platform. The rollout (seven months) delivered real-time dashboards, lot/serial traceability, automated inventory and warehouse transactions, integrated quality controls, and paperless workflows—reducing month-end close time by 86% (two weeks to two days), cutting inventory count time by 75% (four days to less than one), and lowering shipping processing time by over 40%, while improving cash flow and enabling expansion into new channels.

Portacool

Bill Ferrin

Director of Information Technology