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Manufacturers who want a complete business solution need look no further than NetSuite’s software suite. Its comprehensive functionality, which includes ERP, CRM, HCM and ecommerce capabilities, provides manufacturers with the software needed to run a modern business.

Subscribers can adapt NetSuite to specific roles and requirements easily and quickly, with no software programming expertise. An intuitive dashboard provides a 360° degree view of business operations which can be customised to provide real time information.

Since it's a cloud-based application, manufacturers can benefit from NetSuite's rich functionality immediately and at lower upfront costs than legacy approaches.

React swiftly to opportunities and challenges—NetSuite replaces unwieldy and complex processes with one software suite that pre-empts delays and errors that impact costs.

Achieve more with your existing resources—NetSuite converts silos of suppliers and consumers into synergistic partnerships that maximize profitability and loyalty.

Stay informed about every aspect of your business—NetSuite features a unified architecture that provides actionable insights about every aspect of your operation, anytime, anywhere.

• Integrates with many CAD applications, simplifying costing by supporting easy importation of BOMs
• Ensures production engineering changes propagate end-to-end and are reflected in downstream BOMs, plans and inventories
• Provides extended capabilities for inventory control tracking, planning and costing of items in project-controlled environments
• Delivers more flexibility in costing by supporting comprehensive inventory costing methods including LIFO, FIFO, average, standard and actual costing
• Streamlines team management using at-a-glance allocations of people with data, processes and business systems

• Accelerates real-time quote management by incorporating pricing, sales tax and discounting rules automatically into sales quotes
• Allows for the creation, execution and measurement of email campaigns that convert leads to customers
• Enables sales and partners to manage opportunities across status, potential revenue, key contacts notes and related documents
• Converts quotes into approved sales orders and routes them to the finance team for invoicing and revenue recognition
• Provides mobile access to calendars, contacts and opportunities

• Improves order management by automatically transitioning orders to shipping / logistics and account receivables
• Supports multi-step picking, packing and shipping
• Provides real-time visibility into entire order management process with relevant information such as orders, trends and order-conversation rates
• Allows drill-down from a summary level for greater details, all the way to the underlying transaction, in only a few clicks
• Integrates with carriers such as UPS, FedEx and USPS out-of-the-box

• Supports extended, yet fully integrated, supply chain environments by ensuring data flows seamlessly across networks
• Advances distribution resource planning by automatically suggesting, and where appropriate, generating purchase orders, work orders, and transfer orders across multiple locations
• Integrates demand planning forecasts and required inventory levels based on historical data, sales forecasts, average trends and seasonal fluctuations
• Monitors stock levels and automatically creates restocking alerts and reordering forms to ensure planned inventory levels are maintained
• Empowers suppliers with self-service access to purchase orders, accounts payable data and other business critical information
• Provides real-time, detailed visibility into key spend, inventory and supply chain management metrics

• Streamlines production environments by automatically creating work order from sales orders in make-to-order environments
• Features lot and serial traceability and enables both to be registered through purchasing receipts, inventory, shop floor control and sales order fulfilment functions
• Simplifies multi-level work order processing by enabling a single work order to control a multi-level assembly
• Supports full production routing capabilities including operational steps, work centres, labour, overhead and materials
• Provides critical inventory information by maintaining a complete history for each product assembly and kit throughout the entire lifecycle
• Aligns purchasing of materials and manufacturing to a customer-specific contract
• Ensures production variances are controlled and communicated to appropriate departments

• Automates case management by assigning support tickets to unique customer email addresses, including provisions for escalating issues based on customizable parameters
• Accelerates return material authorizations by enabling products to be returned to one of many locations, where available
• Improves warranty management with look-up code that automatically trigger return and repair processes
• Provides a rich library of online training aids that includes training videos, webinars and weekly bulletins

• Features customizable dashboards displaying real-time information such as accounts receivable orders and accounts payable
• Includes over 100 reports including income statements, balance sheets, consolidated reports, variance reports and side-by-side comparisons
• Supports unlimited numbers of general ledger accounts, sub-accounts and segments
• Automates invoice creation by calculating sales task, finances charges and discount term based on payment terms
• Enables maintenance and control of the complete asset lifecycle across depreciating or non-depreciating assets, from creation to depreciation, revaluation and disposal
• Simplifies period-end closes with automated allocations, currency management tools and period locking

• Provide rich and rewarding direct-to-consumer online brand experiences on any device.
• Offer business buyers the efficiency and convenience of online purchasing and account management.
• Rapidly expand to new countries, managing sites with multiple languages, currencies, brands, taxes and other regional requirements from a single platform.
• Connect global supply and distribution chains to ensure real-time information sharing, better coordination, increased responsiveness and shortened time to market.
• Eliminate integrations between separate systems with natively unified ecommerce with your operational systems, including order management, ERP and CRM.

Every business faces unique opportunities and challenges. NetSuite’s expertise, acquired from working with thousands of manufacturers, coupled with Clustin’s local know-how enables us to fulfil your specific requirements. The software suite addresses a wide variety of production methods.

Products are purchased or manufactured to meet forecasts and put into stock. This is the dominant approach used today across many industries and refers to products that are built before a final purchaser has been identified, with production volume driven by historical demand information.

Products are assembled after an order is received. This approach requires that the basic parts for the product are already manufactured but not yet assembled. Once an order is received, the parts are assembled quickly and shipped to the consumer.

Products are manufactured after an order is received. This is the oldest style of order fulfilment and is the most appropriate one for highly customized or low volume products. The main advantages of this approach in environments of high product variety is the ability to supply the consumer with the exact product specification required, the reduction in sales discounts and finished good inventory, as well as a reduction in stock obsolescence risk.

Products are manufactured using formulas or recipes. This approach is dominant in the food, beverage, chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Output is measures in bulk or volume and not in individual units. It is a fundamentally different way of manufacturing to approaches that uses BOMs and routings.

Products have some variability and features / options are selected when an order is received. It is the best approach in scenarios where mass customization and a quick response time to order fulfilment are required. It is a hybrid of make to stock and assemble to order operations — it leverages sub-assemblies that were made to stock and assembles them after receipt of an order.

Products made by a manufacturer, or a third-party, are repaired and / or enhanced. This approach requires the creation and maintenance of inventory and, the costing of that inventory is independent from production. 

Large and / or complex products that require unique engineering design, significant customization or new materials. Since the products tends to be complex, customers engage with the company throughout the entire design and manufacturing phases to ensure their specifications are met. Each order results in a unique set of part numbers, bills of material and routings.

Large and / or complex products are designed and completed using project management applications This approach, which uses make to order as its foundation, relies on project management, especially in such areas as task scheduling or resource management.

Products are designed, supplied and / or installed often without the consumer needing to provide precise specifications. This approach is dominant in the technology industry, most commonly to describe pre-built computer "packages" in which everything needed to perform a certain task is put together by the supplier and sold as a bundle.