NetSuite’s Supply Chain Management bundle includes a collection of features that can help drive efficiencies across the entire supply chain. We have covered several of these features on this blog including estimated landed costs, customer part numbers, and engineering change orders. This time, we will be covering the item substitution feature. Through the use of this feature, we are able to enter substitutions, which are alternative items offered to customers when their originally requested item is not available. Capturing this data in NetSuite can be helpful in driving supply chain efficiencies as it helps us analyze where supply failed to meet demand, and also helps us establish relationships between items that are suitable substitutions. Let us take a quick look at the feature and how it works.

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With the continued increase in artificial intelligence algorithms, more technology companies are looking for opportunities to implement this new tool into their software catalogs. Oracle is no stranger here and has recently been deploying various AI tools across their software offerings, including NetSuite. One recently released AI driven tool is the intelligent recommendations feature. If you use NetSuite sales orders, there is a good chance you have seen a new spiffy Intelligent Recommendations button on your sales order forms. What does it do and what is all about? Read on to find out.

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In the manufacturing industry, knowing the cost of a finished good is critically important in driving decision-making. For instance, knowing costs helps identify opportunities to reduce component costs, and help set sales prices to ensure profitability. For companies using NetSuite’s Advanced Bill of Materials feature, it can be challenging to query the required data through saved searches or Suite Analytics datasets. This can be especially so if you use multi-level assemblies. Fortunately, NetSuite released the Costed Bill of Materials SuiteApp which aims to facilitate this querying process by providing a streamlined and centralized process for pulling this important cost data. Let us dive in and see what it is all about.

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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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