Made for manufacturers, NetSuite provides a complete solution
Agility
Use streamlined, best practice processes to reduce production times and minimise errors
Productivity
Allow your entire business to act as one and drive more efficiency and productivity
Transparency
Gain better insights into your production, in real-time, and from anywhere
Why use a unified ERP manufacturing solution?
Manufacturers wanting a complete business solution across ERP, CRM, HCM, eCommerce, and much more, can leverage our cloud-based platform with lower up-front costs than traditional on-premise software options.
Our cloud solution can be adapted to specific roles and requirements and provide real-time business performance insights with dashboard-driven key performance indicators. Get a true, 360° view of business operations at a glance and drill down to the detailed information you need to make informed business decisions.
NetSuite brings benefits across your manufacturing business
Production
Gain better control of production with streamlined team management and real-time visibility at each step of the process
Sales & Marketing
Campaigns, opportunities and quotes are managed within a single system, enabling your sales and marketing to work seamlessly together
Order Management
Deliver greater order accuracy, progress visibility and a better customer experience with centralised order management
Traceability
Simplify and control your production with serial tracking and complete product history information
Service & Support
Delight your customers with streamlined case management and robust customer support functionality
Financial Management
See an accurate, up-to-the-minute financial position and reduce time-consuming administrative tasks
Supply Chain Management
Collaborate with your supply chain partners with an improved view of inventory and processes
Commerce
Provide customers with the convenience of purchasing from multiple channels, with everything being managed from one back-end system
Get your datasheet on NetSuite manufacturing capabilities and what’s included.
An ERP solution made for your industry
Make to stock
Products are manufactured to meet forecasted demand and put into stock
Assemble to order
Products are completed or configured as per each order received, with parts or variable products pre-manufactured but not assembled
Make to order
Suitable for customised and low volume, products are manufactured per order received
Process driven
Formulas or recipes are used for manufacturing, mostly used by food, beverage, biotech and pharmaceutical
Repair and service
For creation and maintenance and enhancement of inventory products
Production to order
Custom products made to production specifications, often for large or complex productions
Project driven
Favoured for task scheduling and resource management productions and completed using project management processes
Design, supply, install
Used commonly in the technology industry, products are designed and pre-built or supplied and installed
Production
- End-to-end management of engineering changes, ensuring information is seamlessly updated in downstream activities
- CAD applications can be integrated to streamline and simplify your processes
- For project-focused environments, gain better control of inventory with item tracking, planning and costing
- Work with a variety of costing methods including FIFO, average, standard and actual costing
- See human allocation to data, processes and business systems at a glance with streamlined team management
- Capture the costs associated with production to see insights into cost and profitability by product
Sales & Marketing
- Improve productivity with a unified view of calendars, contacts and opportunities, all accessible from mobile devices
- Automated quote rules can include specific pricing, tax and discount rules to raise the efficiency of the quoting process
- Nurture leads, convert them to customers and continue to delight them with measurable email campaign functionality
- Speed up your order-to-cash cycle by routing invoicing and revenue recognition through to finance
- Work from one source of data to ensure your reps and partners have a consistent view of contacts, notes and logged activities, status and expected revenue
Order Management
- Gain real-time visibility of your order management processes with detailed order, trend and conversion rate information
- Increase efficiency with automated order transitioning through to shipping and logistics, and accounts receivable
- Quickly drill down to detailed order information, directly from your summary level data
Traceability
- Lot and serial tracking provides greater control over product traceability with registration from purchasing receipts, inventory, shop floor and sales order fulfillments
- Leverage production routing capabilities including operational steps, work centres, labour, overhead and materials
- See a complete history for each product assembly and kit throughout the entire lifecycle
- Align materials purchasing and manufacturing to specific customer contracts
- Control and more efficiently communicate production variances to departments as needed
Service & Support
- Support tickets can be assigned to specific customer email addresses for full tracking, with escalation according to customisable criteria
- Speed up the Return Material Authorisations (RMA) process by enabling return of products to multiple locations
- Build a customer or internal knowledge base of training material including videos, webinars and articles
Financial Management
- Customised, real-time dashboards and KPIs provide transparency and empower more informed financial decision-making
- Gain access to over 100 in-built reports including balance sheets, variance reports, income statements and a number of comparison and consolidation reports
- Support an unlimited number of general ledger accounts, sub-accounts and segments
- Leverage better control of asset lifecycles across depreciating or non-depreciating assets, from creation to depreciation, revaluation and disposal
- Simplify end of financial period closing with streamlined allocations, currency management and period locking
Supply Chain Management
- Gain real-time visibility into inventory, spend and supply chain metrics, with the ability to drill down in detail
- Increase efficiency by integrating demand forecasting with minimum and maximum inventory levels based on historical data, sales forecasts, average trends and seasonal fluctuations
- Automate reordering processes and alerts to keep required inventory levels are maintained
- Increase efficiency and provide suppliers with visibility through self-service access to purchase orders, accounts payable data and more
Commerce
- Provide buyers and customers with convenient online purchasing capabilities, including order history, invoices and account management
- Provide a better customer experience with consistent online branding and functionality from any device
- Manage international transactions with multiple language, currency and tax information – all from the one, single system
- Connect global supply and distribution chains to ensure real-time information sharing, better coordination, increased responsiveness and shortened time to market
- Bring eCommerce together with order management, ERP and CRM functionality to take advantage of single source, real-time data
