Wholesale Distribution 18 Mar 2025 20 weeks Perth, WA

Pronto ERP to MYOB Acumatica Migration for a Wholesale Distribution Group

A multi-branch wholesale distributor moved from Pronto ERP to MYOB Acumatica with finance, inventory, and purchasing history preserved. Four integrations were rebuilt on a simpler middleware layer, and management reporting shifted from static extracts to live dashboards.

ERP MigrationSystem IntegrationDashboard & Reporting
3 Branches aligned
4 Integrations rebuilt
Live Reporting dashboards
Distribution business team reviewing dashboards after a Pronto ERP migration
Perth Based. Australia Wide.
18+ Years in Custom Software
Fixed-Price Delivery
Full Code Ownership
Client Context

Wholesale distribution group: 3 branches, shared purchasing, finance and stock control

A Western Australian distribution group supplying industrial consumables through three branches. The business ran a central finance team, local warehouse operations in each branch, and a purchasing model that depended on clean stock visibility across the group.

Pronto ERP had been in place for more than a decade. It handled finance, purchasing, stock, and branch transfers, but the reporting model had become slow and heavily dependent on manual exports. Department managers were waiting on spreadsheet packs instead of seeing performance as it changed.

The business chose MYOB Acumatica because it offered a cleaner cloud operating model, stronger day to day usability for the branch teams, and an easier path for integration work than the older Pronto environment was giving them.

The Challenge

What needed to change

The first issue was reporting. Managers were using static extracts that arrived late and often needed manual correction before they were trusted. The move needed to preserve historical visibility while replacing those brittle management packs with something current and easier to maintain.

The second issue was integration complexity. Four different touchpoints sat around Pronto: e-commerce order flow, freight booking, supplier order import, and an external BI feed. None of them could be left as-is because the Pronto-specific logic would not map directly into Acumatica.

The third issue was operational continuity across branches. Stock, purchasing and finance all touched the same data in different ways. A migration that looked fine in finance but broke warehouse transfers or branch-level replenishment would have failed the business within days of cutover.

The Solution

What we built

We migrated the core finance, purchasing, stock and transaction history from Pronto ERP into MYOB Acumatica, rebuilt the four surrounding integrations on a simpler middleware layer, and replaced manual management packs with live browser-based dashboards.

Pronto Data Extraction & Mapping

Finance, customer, supplier, inventory, purchasing and historical transaction data were extracted from Pronto, cleansed in staging, and mapped to the Acumatica target model. Branch and warehouse structures were preserved so stock and replenishment workflows still made sense on day one.

Integration Layer Rebuild

The order feed, freight booking, supplier import and BI export processes were rebuilt outside the ERP on a simpler integration layer. That removed a lot of hard-coded assumptions from the old environment and made the new architecture easier to monitor.

Dashboard Replacement

The old spreadsheet reporting pack was reviewed report by report. Core operational and management views were rebuilt into live dashboards covering branch sales, stock turns, purchasing exposure and margin by product group.

Branch Cutover Planning

Cutover sequencing was planned around branch operations, stock transfers and month-end reporting. The finance team and branch managers validated the migrated data together before go-live was signed off.

Built with:
MYOB AcumaticaPronto ERPPostgreSQLNode.js integration servicesPower BIREST APIs
In Practice

How it works

1

Environment audit

We documented the Pronto modules in active use, the warehouse and branch model, reporting dependencies, and the four external integrations that needed replacing.

2

Data mapping and first test load

Core finance, supplier, customer and stock structures were mapped into Acumatica. A first test migration exposed duplicate branch contacts and inconsistent supplier references, which were cleaned before later runs.

3

Integration rebuild

Each surrounding workflow was rebuilt as its own service so order flow, freight booking, supplier imports and reporting could be tested separately instead of being treated as one opaque cutover item.

4

Dashboard rollout

Operations and finance leaders reviewed live dashboards against the old monthly pack. Measures were adjusted until the numbers lined up with how the business actually read performance.

5

Parallel validation and cutover

The final migration was validated against stock, purchasing and month-end totals across all three branches. Once the numbers reconciled, the business cut over to Acumatica and left Pronto in read-only mode for historical reference.

Results

Measurable outcomes

3 branches Migrated into a single Acumatica operating model with branch-level visibility retained
4 integrations Rebuilt on a simpler and easier to support middleware layer
Live dashboards Replaced spreadsheet-based management packs for sales, stock and purchasing
Faster reporting Managers no longer waited for end-of-period extracts to see performance
Clean validation Stock, purchasing and finance totals reconciled before go-live sign-off
Lower admin load The finance team spent less time preparing reports and correcting exported data

The old environment worked, but every report took effort and every integration felt fragile. The migration gave us a cleaner ERP, cleaner reporting, and a much better handle on what was actually happening across the branches.

Finance Director Wholesale distribution group, WA
Delivery

How we delivered it

1

Discovery & scope

3 weeks

Pronto modules, reporting pain points, branch workflows and external touchpoints catalogued. Migration scope agreed as one program rather than separate workstreams.

2

Data migration build

6 weeks

Core finance, purchasing and stock migration routines built and tested. Cleansing rules refined after the first staged migration.

3

Integration & dashboard rebuild

7 weeks

Four integrations rebuilt and live management reporting introduced in parallel so the business could test the new operating model before cutover.

4

Validation & go-live

4 weeks

Branch-level validation, month-end checks, cutover rehearsal and final production migration completed with post-go-live support.

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