BAASS Insights Technology Blog

Manufacturers are entering 2026 under pressure to improve productivity, protect margins, manage supply-chain uncertainty, and make faster decisions with better data.

For many organizations, the challenge is not a lack of information. It is that production, inventory, purchasing, sales, and financial data are spread across disconnected applications, spreadsheets, and manual workflows. This makes it difficult for leaders to understand what is happening across the business before delays, shortages, or rising costs affect profitability.

The latest manufacturing trends show that technology will play a central role in addressing these challenges. However, individual automation tools cannot deliver their full value without an integrated operational foundation.

 This article examines six manufacturing trends shaping 2026 and explains how Sage 300 ERP, supported by BAASS’s manufacturing solutions, can help manufacturers create more connected, responsive, and profitable operations. 

Senior living operators lose revenue when care changes, additional services, occupancy updates, new rates, and payer information do not reach billing accurately or on time. A tailored Sage Intacct solution can connect operational and financial data, automate key workflows, identify exceptions, and provide real-time visibility across communities.

Your communities may be fully occupied. Residents may be receiving more services, and care teams may be busier than ever. Yet revenue can still fall below expectations.

For contractors, project profitability is not always lost at the end of a job. It is often lost much earlier, when rising costs, delayed reporting, missed change orders, and disconnected project data make it difficult to see where margins are slipping.

This blog is for construction CFOs, Controllers, business owners, and project leaders who need a clearer way to understand project performance before it is too late to act.

You will learn how Sage Intacct Construction helps contractors improve visibility into job costs, WIP reporting, change orders, budgets, forecasts, and project margins, so your team can make faster decisions, control costs more effectively, and protect profitability across every project.

Solutions like Sage Intacct Construction help contractors connect financial data, job costing, WIP reporting, project budgets, commitments, and dashboards in one cloud-based financial management environment.

Project profitability is one of the most important numbers in a construction business, but it is also one of the hardest to see clearly while work is still in progress.

Many contractors know whether a job was profitable after the project closes. The bigger challenge is knowing whether a job is still on track while there is time to act. Labour costs shift. Materials fluctuate. Subcontractor commitments change. Change orders may be approved late. Billing may not reflect actual progress. By the time finance produces a reliable report, margin may already have faded.

Sage Intacct Construction helps contractors improve project profitability visibility by connecting financial data, job costing, WIP reporting, project budgets, commitments, and real-time dashboards in one cloud-based financial management environment. BAASS describes Sage Intacct Construction as a modern cloud-based financial management solution built for construction companies, with tools for managing projects, controlling costs, and gaining real-time visibility into financial performance.

For many contractor CFOs, Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate has been a dependable backbone for accounting, job costing, project control, and construction financial management. Sage positions Sage 300 CRE as a solution that helps contractors, developers, and property managers manage projects and properties, improve visibility with custom reporting, manage vendor and subcontractor risk, and collaborate across project phases.

For finance and operations leaders, attending an industry event is rarely about simply keeping up with trends. It is about identifying practical strategies that can improve organizational performance, validating investment decisions, understanding how peers are addressing similar challenges, and gaining insights that can influence future business direction.

As organizations face increasing pressure to improve efficiency, leverage data more effectively, adopt emerging technologies, and maintain profitability in uncertain economic conditions, the value of learning from other leaders has never been greater.

In 2026, AI is becoming a business tool that helps organizations improve accuracy, save time, reduce manual work, and make faster decisions. For finance leaders, the question is no longer, “Should we use AI?” The better question is, “Where can AI create measurable results first?”

Across industries, finance departments are under pressure to do more with less. Teams are expected toclose the books faster, forecast with greater confidence, manage risk, support growth, and provide real-time insights to leadership. At the same time, many organizations are still working with disconnected systems, manual spreadsheets, and time-consuming reporting processes.

Today’s leaders are expected to make faster, smarter, and more strategic decisions than ever before. From managing cash flow and improving operational efficiency to navigating AI adoption and digital transformation, organizations need access to the right tools, insights, and expertise to stay competitive.

That is exactly why businesses across Canada attend BAASS Connect each year.

Hosted by BAASS Business Solutions, Canada’s largest Sage partner and a trusted consulting leader in ERP, CRM, accounting, business intelligence, and automation solutions, BAASS Connect is designed to help organizations unlock smarter ways to work and grow.