For many clients, managing customer returns is an important business activity. In addition to the logistical challenges of approving customer returns and providing customers with a way to send back defective merchandise, an important consideration is ensuring these customer returns are accounted for properly. When a customer returns inventory, it is important that the cost of that inventory is accurately assessed and captured in the books. NetSuite offers several process options to help manage this which we will review on this blog.

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For companies who maintain perpetual inventory, inventory allocation is an important business process area to track. Understanding the relationship between supply and demand, and having the systemic tools to manage this, is critical to ensuring the company is able to meet customer needs. This involves making sure you not only have the required supply, but that you are able to have the required supply when the customer needs it. Fortunately, NetSuite provides the Supply Allocation feature which, when configured, can help you match both existing and future supply to customer demand. Let us take a look at how this works.

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As you journey through your NetSuite implementation, one important consideration may be deciding which costing method to use for your items. NetSuite offers a multitude of costing methods which, when properly configured, help you maintain accurate costs and costs of goods sold. One such costing method we will review today is Group Average Costing. Traditionally, Average Costing in NetSuite has been one average cost per location. However, NetSuite also offers Group Average Costing as a way to maintain a single average cost across multiple locations. How do we set this up? Read on to find out.

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For any company producing and selling edible products, being able to trace a lot number’s usage and history is a critical need given regulatory requirements by the government. Tracing where a lot number has been used must be done quickly and efficiently in the event of a recall. Failing to produce this information in a timely fashion can be devastating to a business.

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Throughout a product’s lifecycle, performance or process issues may necessitate changes to a product’s specifications. Often, these changes to specifications can take the form of a process or component change to the product’s bill of materials. In the manufacturing space, tracking these changes is important and over time a product may undergo a series of revisions which need to be tracked for regulatory or internal quality control purposes. 

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The Supply Chain Management SuiteApp offers a toolbox of useful features which can help you streamline and centralize operational activities within NetSuite. One of the many tools within the Supply Chain Management bundle is the Customer Part Number feature. 

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NetSuite recently released ShipCentral, an application formerly known as PackStation which is built on the SCM Mobile framework. ShipCentral facilitates order fulfillment operations and comes included with the NetSuite WMS license. While the ShipCentral release back in Release 2023.1 presented exciting news for businesses in need of a robust shipping platform, it nevertheless missed some important functions used by many B2B or B2C companies. The upcoming 2023.2 ShipCentral release looks to address many of the requests and concerns and looks to be a very exciting release. We’ll take a look at some of the cliff notes which are available and provided by NetSuite here: NetSuite 2023.2 Release Notes.

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In warehouse operations, a common challenge is how to efficiently manage product code updates to inventory you receive from your vendors. Depending on your business, you may be looking at a considerable number of items to update. These product code updates in turn can require significant effort from your warehouse staff to roll out and can hamper warehouse activities which tend to rely on accurate product barcodes for scanning items quickly and efficiently. To solve this problem, Netsuite WMS offers the concept of a WMS item alias which allows you toassociate your internal part number to multiple product codes without having to necessarily relabel your existing product. Adding WMS support for new vendor product codes can be done quickly and easily without impacting overall warehouse efficiency.

 

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In the supply chain sphere, shipping fees are simply a cost of doing business. However, while shipping costs are usually an unavoidable business expense, they can quickly eat away at your profit margins if they are not effectively managed. These days, you tend to see all sorts of shipping fees that tend to drive up the overall cost of doing business. Handling fees, fuel fees, extended delivery fees, oversized fees, there is a fee for almost anything you can think of. Oversized fees in particular can affect you if you carry larger items and freight companies such as UPS already assess oversized fees for these items that tend to be bulkier and occupy more dimensional space. Being able to assess a proper handling charge for these larger items can have a significant impact on shipping costs and can help you make sure the cost of shipping is accurately assessed and handled (no pun intended). So how can we manage these handling costs in NetSuite? We will be answering this question on this blog. Read on to find out.  

 

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In previous blogs, we’ve seen how native Netsuite functionality can be leveraged to support your pricing process. Pricing scenarios such as customer specific pricing and group pricing allow us to implement robust and logical pricing structures to ensure we charge customers the right price. We extend those concepts in this blog by reviewing quantity based pricing. In Netsuite, quantity based pricing can be set up using standard functionality to help us offer discounts based on quantity sold.

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