Warehouse and
Order Fulfillment
Streamline your warehousing operations and deliver products on-time at optimal cost
Smart businesses understand that controlling inventory, fulfillment and shipping costs is essential for success. Companies are constantly striving to improve their warehouse operations by increasing agility, visibility and labor efficiency. This requires use of best practices combined with a sophisticated Warehouse Management System (WMS) that optimally manages all resources within the distribution operations while minimizing the total cost of operation or ownership (TCO).
The NetSuite WMS solution enables organizations to optimally manage their distribution operations with RF device directed putaway and picking tasks driven by customized user defined strategies and advanced capabilities like wave management, cartonization, cycle count planning, real time inventory updates and integration with shipping systems.
Features
Inbound
Logistics
Manage all of your open purchase orders, transfer orders and inbound containers to meet expected receipt dates.
Outbound
Logistics
Manage your products from the end of production through fulfilment and on time delivery to optimize cash flow.
Inventory
Management
Take advantage of our many options when it comes to how you manage your inventory to makes sure you have the right materials in the right location.
Warehouse Management System
Manage warehouses of all sizes and complexities with our advanced WMS and mobile solutions.
Benefits
Native, embedded solution options
We have the functionality for your business regardless of size and complexity.
Real-time Updates
No syncing of information between systems, everything is updated in real-time.
Support for global business
NetSuite is operated globally by over 26,000 customers.
Manage and Move Your inventory in the Cloud
Features
Inbound Logistics
Easily manage the transportation, receiving and storage of inbound inventory
Managing and coordinating the efficient transportation, receipt and storage of inbound inventory is critical to the success of your business. NetSuite offers native dashboards targeted at managing everything from expediting outstanding orders to container management and scheduling specific receipt dates. Once received, ensure the products meet your requirements by performing inspections and tracking vendor quality. NetSuite WMS helps automate the process with a user-friendly but comprehensive mobile application for receiving, picking and cycle counting.
Purchase Order Receiving
Quickly and efficiently manage the receipt of your outstanding purchase orders using quick reminders and workflows. The expedite list identifies through color highlighting exactly which orders are overdue or expected and provides the ability to follow directly with your primary contact by email and/or phone number.
Key Benefits:
- Streamlined receiving process
- Quickly expedite outstanding orders
- Mobile options available
Quality Assurance
Quickly establish the types of inspections and tests that you want to perform along with control limits and acceptance criteria, and link them in any combination to your items. NetSuite will then assist with dispositioning any product that fails inspection including returning to the vendor where necessary.
Key Benefits
- Define inspection plans
- Maintain product quality
- Reduce customer returns
Container Tracking
NetSuite’s Inbound Shipment Management feature provides the ability to define and track containers of goods as they make their way to you from your suppliers. Once the container record has been created, you can use the intuitive Add PO Items screen to choose which of the items from your open purchase orders are to be tracked. The status of the container can be easily updated and monitored, and once received you can receive all of the PO Items at once.
Key Benefits
- Centralized Container Tracking Record
- Update/Receive All POs
- Landed Cost Calculations
Outbound Logistics
Delight your customers with excellent on-time delivery performance
Whether you’re a manufacturer, distributor or retailer—your customer doesn’t care what it takes to get their product on time and many retailers are quick to apply penalties, delay payment and even de-list suppliers for sub-optimal performance. NetSuite combats this with completely integrated manufacturing, inventory and warehouse management solutions that are uniquely designed to work together and ensure a smooth flow from your production line and warehouse to your customer’s dock with automated material flows, quality checks and warehouse operations.
Pick, Pack & Ship
Defined Pick Strategies
NetSuite’s WMS solution allows you to streamline your companies shipping process and increase operational efficiency by pre-defining your preferred picking strategies. Your warehouse operators use a modern, icon-driven, mobile device to perform.
Cross-subsidiary Fulfillment
Product companies are often faced with the challenge of having their operational efficiency challenged by the many local financial rules and regulations. With the introduction of Cross-Subsidiary Fulfillment, NetSuite uses can easily define which of their subsidiaries and locations can trade with each other and under which conditions. This empowers your operations team to make the most optimal use of your inventory assets—even supplying a single sales order line from multiple subsidiaries and locations—always knowing that they are in compliance with your company’s policies.
Carrier Integration
NetSuite provides out of the box integration with many of the worlds leading carriers including: UPS, Fedex and USPS with many more are being added every release.
Warehouse Management System
Warehouse Management System to grow your operations
Native NetSuite offers simple inventory management capabilities through multi-location inventory, bin tracking and cycle counting. Our WMS module offers additional functionality to streamline your warehouse operations using industry leading practices, such as mobile RF barcode scanning, strategy definition for put-away and picking, task management, returns authorization receipt and cycle count plans. NetSuite WMS optimizes day-to-day warehouse operations, allowing you to more efficiently run your warehouse and minimize handling costs.
Warehouse Management
NetSuite’s WMS solution has the advantage of being built on the NetSuite platform and has the ability to interact seamlessly with all of your existing functionality. Building on top of the multi-location inventory module, NetSuite WMS adds warehouse specific parameters to be able to define and configure and help optimize where you store your inventory.
Key Benefits:
- Warehouse Activity Dashboards
- Expiration and Shelf Life Tracking
- Barcode Labeling
Warehouse Operations
Managing your warehouse teams is a critical element of increasing your labor productivity and reducing overall costs. Together with common warehouse functions such as task management, user defined putaway / pick strategies, cycle counting, work orders and kitting, NetSuite’s WMS module provides everything you need to operate an efficient warehouse. When coupled with other native NetSuite features you get a solution that helps optimize your inventory management operations.
Key Benefits:
- Integrated Barcoding
- Suggested Putaway
- Multi-Order Picking
Mobile
Managing a warehouse of any size requires the ability to put wireless devices in the hands of your warehouse users. NetSuite’s WMS includes the ability to direct users to perform putaways and picks based on configured strategies defined during the setup of the WMS system. Your users are able to perform their tasks with confidence but with the ability to check alternate locations and inventory levels on the fly if necessary.
Key Benefits:
- Mobile Receiving
- Mobile Picking
- Mobile Cycle Counting
