Inventory Management: Keeping inventory management costs down is crucial to competitive advantage. NetSuite helps companies slash inventory costs by providing tighter control of stock levels. NetSuite allows you to set complex pricing rules based on individual customers, item variations, volume and more. And since inventory management features are integrated with customer relationship management (CRM) features, your customers, sales representatives and partners can view updated inventory levels on your Web store.

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT FEATURES: 


Bin Management:
NetSuite lets you ship orders to your customers more efficiently by organizing your warehouse using bins, to track the exact location of items in stock. Employees will be able to pick and fulfill orders faster when they know exactly where to go for the items they need. Each item may be stored in multiple bins, and different items can be stored in the same bin. Using bins will also help streamline the re-stocking process, by generating a put-away list for goods received but still in the loading area. You can use bins to organize a single warehouse or multiple warehouses, when using the Multi-Location Inventory feature.




Landed Cost:
Maximizing profit margin is key to the success of wholesalers and distributors. To more accurately calculate profit, particular for importers, expenses like shipping or duty must be added to material costs to calculate landed cost. NetSuite makes it easy to track landed cost, by allowing you to allocate expenses to inventory receipts according to weight, value, or quantity. These allocated costs become part of the item's asset value. Then, when you sell, landed cost is used as the basis for cost of goods sold, and your inventory profitability report will compare revenue to landed cost rather than material cost.




Demand Based Inventory Replenishment:
NetSuite provides intelligent control over inventory replenishment, helping ensure that you have enough on hand to fill anticipated orders, but keep excess stock to a minimum. Average lead time, historical or seasonal-based sales demand, and number of days' supply to stock are used to dynamically set reorder point and preferred stock level for each item, on an ongoing basis. You can always override or disable these calculations for individual items, to handle atypical circumstances. You set up the rules, NetSuite runs the numbers; the end result is a dynamic ordering queue, where you can order all your inventory items with one click and get what you need, when you need it.




Customer and Volume Pricing:
With NetSuite's inventory management software solution, you can assign different prices for different types of customers. You can also assign different prices for wholesale, retail or online sales.




Multi-currency Pricing:
NetSuite's multi-currency capabilities let you set prices in each of the foreign currencies in which you trade. When you create orders or invoices for your foreign customers, NetSuite's inventory management software application will automatically select the correct currency and price, saving you valuable time.



Integrated Inventory Management:
When creating new inventory items, NetSuite's inventory management software application allows you to define their Web characteristics, such as pricing, captions, images and more. Sales representatives and partners have full views into inventory levels. Plus, orders from the Web, retail or sales organization, will automatically be reflected in inventory levels.



Multi-location Inventory Management:
NetSuite enables you to manage inventory in multiple locations. As you enter purchase and sales transactions, NetSuite's inventory management software application provides the capabilities to choose the warehouse location that will receive or fulfill the order. Inventory reports allow you to view information about your total inventory on hand, or just the inventory level at a specific location.



Matrix Items:
With NetSuite's Inventory Management, you can handle various combinations of the same item, enabling different values for characteristics such as pricing, inventory status, and description. NetSuite gives your customers and sales representatives the ability to identify item combinations more quickly. As a result, you can meet the varying demands of your customer base more easily.



Multiple Units of Measure:
With NetSuite's inventory management software application, you can manage multiple units of measure for selling, buying, and costing each item across various sales channels, including your Web site, retail stores, partner or wholesale channels. Additionally, you can more closely track inventory costs and increase profitability.



Lot Numbers:
A complete history for each lot number is maintained in the inventory management program through the product's life cycle. You can also assign an expiration date to each lot number and enter notes about it. Lot items track the specific cost for each lot as products are bought and sold and lot numbers must be entered when building or receiving a lot into inventory, and when fulfilling orders for a lot item. You can even set up a warning to let you know when an item you're fulfilling is about to expire. And NetSuite's sophisticated transaction search functionality makes it simple to view the entire history of a lot as it moves through your system and to customers, making recall warnings extremely easy to handle.


ADDITONAL FEATURES:
  • Inventory Commitment
  • Inventory Bulk Ordering
  • Special Orders
  • Serialized Inventory
  • Assemblies and Kits
  • Inventory Profitability Analysis
  • Support for Non-Serialized Items
  • Graphical Views of Inventory Levels
  • Barcode Printing
  • Price Protection
  • Lot Tracking
  • Support for Matrix Items and Item Images
  • Item Upgrades/Downgrades
  • Multi-level Categories
  • Item Code Aliases, Profiling and Grouping
  • Warehouse Management
  • Audit Trail for Inventory Adjustments
  • Stock Transfer
 
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