Crowe Materials Accelerator

The Crowe Materials Accelerator (CMA) enables materials manufacturers, converters, and distributors to simplify complexity, improve visibility, and drive profitable growth. All within Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management.

Developed by industry experts, CMA extends Dynamics 365 with specialized automation and analytics to connect finance, operations, and IT, providing a unified foundation for smarter, faster, and more confident decision-making.

Organizations in the materials industry face constant challenges. Volatile input costs, variable yields, complex compliance requirements, and pressure to scale sustainably.
CMA equips leaders to address these challenges directly by delivering actionable insights and operational precision across the value chain.

CMA expands on the robust functionality of Dynamics 365 to support the specific requirements of the materials industry, including:

• Material-specific user workbenches and role centers
• Advanced pricing and costing for complex material compositions
• Product information management with specification and attribute control
• Multi-dimensional inventory and batch management
• Quality and compliance tracking with certification generation
• Lot and batch traceability across blending, curing, or conversion processes
• Production control tailored to materials processing and mixing
• Optimized production scheduling that integrates job planning, maintenance, inventory, and capacity
• Simplified subcontracting and toll processing
• Scrap, yield, and recovery management for process optimization

All these features allow you to drive business outcomes that matter giving you:

• Improve profitability with advanced pricing and cost models linked to market indexes and production data
• Enhance visibility and traceability across every lot, batch, and production process
• Increase agility and efficiency by unifying finance, supply chain, and quality operations on a single Microsoft platform
• Strengthen compliance and quality assurance with built-in certifications and test result automation
• Empower better decisions through embedded analytics and real-time operational insight
• Simplify IT complexity with a fully integrated, cloud-ready solution designed for rapid deployment
• Deliver on customer demand and satisfaction through improved order accuracy, faster lead times, and connected service visibility

Crowe Materials Accelerator combines industry expertise, financial acumen, and Microsoft cloud innovation to help enterprises reduce risk, optimize performance, and accelerate growth across the global materials value chain.