NetSuite Advanced Manufacturing
An Enterprise-Level Inventory & Manufacturing Management Solution
NetSuite Advanced Manufacturing is a single integrated cloud solution that delivers one complete version of the truth, helping you reduce operating costs, increase revenue, and better manage business and supply chain processes.
About NetSuite Advanced Manufacturing
The NetSuite Advanced Manufacturing module offers numerous functionalities to support your manufacturing business's success. Batch or process manufactures as well as discrete and assembly manufacturers can find help for their pain points in this module.
Want more information on how NetSuite Advanced Manufacturing can help you? Continue reading, or download the PDF data sheet on NetSuite Advanced Manufacturing to learn more.
Key Benefits
- Unified solution—reduce reliance on third parties
- Improve quality, service, and throughput
- Improve operational effectiveness
- Reduce ‘Cost to Produce’
- Faster Time to Value
- One version of the truth
Key Features & Capabilities
- Variance management: compare actual versus standard
- Manufacturing information and intelligence
- Integrate plant to enterprise (P2E)
- Extended setup criteria
- Quality management
- Mobile capability
The Manufacturing Basics
NetSuite Advanced Manufacturing is a unified solution that helps your company reduce reliance on third parties in manufacturing processes and management. With this module as your single source of information, your team has a consistent version of the truth to work with when making decisions and drafting reports. NetSuite Advanced Manufacturing offers a range of additional tools to enhance your warehouse management, including expanded setup criteria and mobile capabilities.
Measure and Improve Performance
Access to manufacturing information and intelligence enables you to enhance operational effectiveness, reduce production costs, and increase the time-to-value of operations. Variance management enables your team to compare actual performance against pre-set standards, while quality management tools help your organization enhance quality, service, and throughput. The NetSuite Advanced Manufacturing module enables you to integrate your plant-to-enterprise (P2E) operations fully.
Comparing NetSuite Manufacturing Modules
Work Orders & Assemblies | WIP & Routings | Advanced Manufacturing
Trying to figure out which NetSuite manufacturing module is right for your company? This chart illustrates the general features/capabilities of the three primary manufacturing solutions by NetSuite.
NetSuite Advanced Manufacturing is the best fit for enterprise-level manufacturers. WIP & Routings will likely be a good fit for large manufacturing businesses, while Work Orders and Assemblies cater to mid-level manufacturing businesses. However, this is not a hard-and-fast rule. Need help determining which NetSuite manufacturing solution is the best fit for your business?
NetSuite Manufacturing FAQs
Yes. NetSuite's manufacturing modules provide robust tools for managing a business's daily operations. For more information on how NetSuite can benefit companies in the manufacturing industry, check this NetSuite for Manufacturers page, which includes information on manufacturing modules, NetSuite apps, customer case studies, and more.
NetSuite Advanced Manufacturing is the most robust of NetSuite's manufacturing modules, but this doesn't mean it's the best option for every company. It's essential to strike a balance between module licensing costs, native functionality, and add-ons/customizations. As a NetSuite Alliance Partner, we have the experience to navigate these conversations and help your business find the right solutions. (We also don't make money on NetSuite module licensing, so we can really have your back in this process.)
Yes! Anchor Group provides implementation services for NetSuite modules, including NetSuite Advanced Manufacturing. Contact us to learn more about our NetSuite module implementation services!
Learn More About Manufacturing with NetSuite
Would you like real-time awareness of your inventory? How about instant viewing of the number of parts you have on hand, available for commitment, or committed? NetSuite’s all-in-one manufacturing management tools are worth a look. Let's walk through the whole process, from sales orders and component purchasing to assembly and inventory adjustment. Read the article to learn new ways that NetSuite Manufacturing can help your business achieve operational efficiency.
Related NetSuite Modules
If the NetSuite Advanced Manufacturing module doesn't meet your company's needs, other solutions may be a better fit. Here are a few ideas to get you started.
- NetSuite Work Orders & Assemblies - This module supports manufacturing operations, enabling users to define assembly items, create multi-level BOMs, generate work orders, track assembly builds, and backflush components all within a single platform.
- NetSuite WIP and Routings - Gain greater control over resources and costs by allowing your business to define routing for the manufacturing process, as well as the resources, estimated time, and cost required to complete the project, before it is implemented.
- NetSuite Manufacturing Execution - Enable a paperless environment in your manufacturing business, allowing your team to easily access and utilize the benefits and features of the NetSuite Advanced Manufacturing module at any time.
- NetSuite Quality Management - Enables your business to deliver high-quality products with minimal overhead costs through inspecting & testing products, reporting problems, reworking solutions, and rules for easy pass/fail quality inspection.