RPM – What’s New in Acumatica

To improve clarity, transaction grid actions have been renamed to better reflect RPM-generated data. View Diagnostics is now Price Diagnostics, and View Adjustments is now Price Computations, making it easier to understand where pricing details and calculations originate.

The RPM Acumatica Connector now includes Price Preview, giving users a clear, side-by-side comparison of pricing results across applicable RPM Schedules directly within Acumatica. This feature mirrors the powerful analysis tools available in RPM Test Scenarios, making it easier to validate pricing logic, review adjustments, and troubleshoot pricing behavior without switching systems. Price Preview is available in Sales Quotes, Sales Orders, Sales Invoices, Receivables Invoices, Opportunities, Service Orders and Appointments.

Users can now create Test Scenarios or Test Documents directly from a Diagnostic Log, allowing quick reproduction of the exact pricing conditions captured in the log. This provides a faster, more accurate way to diagnose and validate pricing behavior.

A Comment field has been added to the Computations grid to display an overview of how each computation line was calculated, making pricing results easier to understand and troubleshoot.

A new RPM Price Schedule field has been added to transaction lines, displaying the specific Price Schedule used by RPM to calculate pricing for each line. This field appears at the end of transaction lines for Sales Quotes, Sales Orders, Sales Invoices, Invoices, Opportunities, Service Orders, and Appointments, providing greater transparency into which pricing rules were applied during price calculation.

The RPM ACU Connector now extends its pricing capabilities to Opportunities within Acumatica. You can create Opportunity Transactions and leverage RPM Pricing, similar to how it functions with Sales Quotes, Orders, and Invoices. This new feature enables you to view RPM-calculated Price Adjustments, View Diagnostics, and Recalculate Prices based on RPM’s pricing calculations seamlessly.

A new checkbox, Override Acumatica Currency Conversion, has been added to the RPM Settings. When this checkbox is selected, Acumatica’s currency conversion process is bypassed. This is useful for situations where currency conversion is managed and tracked entirely within RPM, preventing Acumatica from performing any additional conversions. This feature is especially helpful if your currency pricing is maintained in RPM and you want to ensure consistency without Acumatica intervening.

The Data Sync process in RPM has undergone significant enhancements and a comprehensive redesign to improve efficiency, flexibility, and reliability. New features like Sync Map Preview, Sync Sets, and Sync Connectors have been introduced to streamline data synchronization between various systems. These updates provide more precise control, faster data processing, and enhanced troubleshooting capabilities, ensuring that your data is always up-to-date and accurately reflected across platforms.

A new page was created, RPM Sync Queues. The RPM Sync Queues will capture any Data Sync records that are processing, and will clear once they have passed to RPM. If a data sync does not complete, that record will remain in RPM Sync Queues and provides additional details on why the sync has failed.

A new setting. Get Price Input Option, has been added to RPM Settings, providing two choices for input values: Use Technical Record ID and Use Friendly Record Number.

•Use Technical Record ID: Utilizes the traditional identifiers, commonly known in RPM as the ERPID (e.g., CustomerID, ItemID).

•Use Friendly Record Number: Opts for more user-friendly identifiers, such as CustomerNumber and ItemName, making it easier to work with familiar names.

This enhancement allows users to choose between the technical ID’s as they’ve been used in the past or more intuitive, readable names when working with pricing inputs.

As part of the latest update, a standalone Customization Project, separate from the RPM Connector, has been created. This new project houses crucial Generic Inquiries (GIs) and Business Events. This project includes:

•13 Generic Inquiries: Used for the OData Service to list fields being synced.

•RPMSync_Currencies

•RPMSync_CustomerAttributeValues

•RPMSync_Customers

•RPMSync_GLAccounts

•RPMSync_ItemAttributes

•RPMSync_ItemAttributeValues

•RPMSync_ItemCube

•RPMSync_ItemCurrencies

•RPMSync_Items

•RPMSync_Locations

•RPMSync_PriceSchedules

•RPMSync_UofMs

•RPMSync_UofMSchedules

 

•1 Generic Inquiry: Provides a listing for viewing created Sync Queries and identifying any failed ones.

•RPM Sync Queue

 

•6 Generic Inquiries (prefaced with “DO NOT MODIFY”): These are linked to Business Events and are critical for automatic syncing from Acumatica.

•DO NOT MODIFY RPM Currency

•DO NOT MODIFY RPM Customers

•DO NOT MODIFY RPM GL

•DO NOT MODIFY RPM Item

•DO NOT MODIFY RPM Location

•DO NOT MODIFY RPM Price Schedule

 

•6 Business Events: Tied to the GIs mentioned above, ensuring seamless synchronization.

 

•1 Business Event for Sync Queue: Utilizes the RPM web service to create a sync queue in RPM whenever a record is added, triggering synchronization.

Important Note: If you need to customize any of the default GIs, it is crucial to create a copy and modify that instead. Overwriting the default GIs could result in your changes being lost during future updates or publishing. Creating a copy ensures that your customizations remain intact and unaffected by subsequent system updates.

Content goesThe RPMSync_Item Cube Generic Inquiry (GI) and the ACU: Item Cube Sync Reader have been updated to include all cost fields. By incorporating these fields into the GI and Reader, we’ve made it easier to map the correct cost field for a customer within RPM. This enhancement reduces the need for customization, making the GI and Sync Reader more universal and adaptable.

These cost fields are now part of the Query, providing flexibility in mapping without appearing as individual columns to map in RPM . This streamlined approach allows for quicker updates to the mapping process, ensuring that you can easily select the appropriate cost field as needed.here

The new Data Sync feature seamlessly integrates data from your ERP system into RPM, ensuring efficient and synchronized data transfer with minimal latency. Several new entities have been added under the ‘Tools’ section to facilitate this process. These include Sync Queues, Sync Maps, Sync Readers, Sync Writers, and System Jobs, all designed to work together to streamline your data synchronization needs.

RPM Settings area has been updated to accurately reflect recent changes in the interface between RPM and Acumatica. These updates include the addition of new fields that enhance functionality, as well as the remove of fields that are no longer utilized. These adjustments ensure that the settings remain streamlined and effective for current operational needs.

Fields Added:

•Basis Date – Appointment

•Basis Date – Service Order

 

Fields Removed:

•Registration Key

•Webservice: Username

•Webservice: Password