NetSuite for wholesale distribution

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SuiteSuccess gives you business management tools specifically for wholesale distribution.

This means you can drive a transaction through every stage of the process in one system – which gives you the power to scale and control your business. But what about when some stages of that process aren’t so straightforward?

For wholesale distributors, that means a fast and cost-effective transition to a system with the capacity to automate your warehouse, manage your inventory effectively, and significantly increase your revenue.

In an ideal world, every sales order would be fulfilled – in full – on its required shipping date.

But even the best-managed, highest-volume distributors find themselves with back orders.

Simply managing inbound inventory gets complicated. You can come up against inaccurate shipping dates, unexpected detention fees, and confusion about inventory ownership based on specific Incoterms.

You can’t always prevent delays or even anticipate demand, but you can be prepared with NetSuite technology that's set up to respond.

Automation sets the foundation for growth.

There are a variety of ways you can grow your business as a wholesale distributor – and we've seen that they all require the backbone of a strong ERP system that can automate your response to the unexpected.

Looking to outsource more of your warehouse operations to 3PLs? Need to optimize freight and outbound loads? NetSuite has functionality to help you.

We can walk you through all the ways that NetSuite can help you become more profitable – right down to invoicing efficiently or navigating customs and import concerns.

We’ve already built solutions for many of your distribution problems.

Some distributors have needs beyond what’s available from NetSuite for wholesale distribution. These are some of the features we’ve already created for them – and we can easily implement for you.

Automatic inventory transfers

Use pre-defined logic to automate inventory transfers between locations.

Vendor bill consolidation

Simplify billing when you include multiple purchase orders on one vendor bill.

Consumer notifications

Verify that any warning information associated with a product is included any time it is entered, or when packing slips and invoices for it are printed.

Fulfillment strategy

Get the ability to select the fulfillment strategy, from “fill or kill” to “ship or cancel” to “back order” or “special order.”

Item-based locations

When an item is only fulfilled out of certain warehouses, you can update that location on the header, and it will automatically update the location in all the sales orders for that item.

Order types

Use automation to reduce manual data entry with order classifications and NetSuite workflow technology

Destructive testing at customs

This creates a transaction that automatically goes through your system when some of your product is collected for testing and destroyed by customs.

Future orders

When sales orders are pending approval until a future order commit date, you can set up the system to default to a release date that factors in the lag and then switches status when the future order commit date is received.

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We’ll ask: “What do you want your technology to do?”

Instead of just telling you what tools you’ll get with NetSuite, we’re more interested in hearing about what you need. We have decades of experience helping clients tailor ERP technology to their wholesale distribution businesses.

Whether you need to evaluate if NetSuite is right for you or just find ways to make your business more profitable, we’re here to help.

Alejandro Alvarez

Principal, Consulting

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