An international industrial equipment maker in Knoxville must promise product delivery for requested dates near and far, with minimal warehousing, and needed a solution to automate reliable just-in-time supply, manufacturing and order fulfillment, with automated updates to expected ship dates and customer alerts. NetSuite doesn’t do this, so before acquiring they insisted on a custom solution proof-of-concept. We did that, then implemented it and much more.

A global manufacturer of industrial products mostly builds finished goods for just-in-time fulfillment. The high costs to warehouse large amounts of inventory and build out high volume manufacturing capacity is not an option, and seasonal spikes are common, so tight control of production scheduling is critical to maintaining the precise turnaround customers are promised. The good old white-board system had to be built in NetSuite, but automated. No problem.

A global industrial equipment manufacturer/distributor with several US operations uses heavy steel raw materials, purchased in lots of long lengths, which are cut to various sizes to manufacture finished goods just-in-time for delivery. Given the weight and other challenges to managing physical inventory, it's imperative that warehouse pickers pull the right length the first time for each Work Order, and accurately account for remnant lengths and waste. Our proof-of-concept was accepted before acquiring NetSuite.