NETSUITE PRODUCTDATA MANAGEMENT
Accelerate Product Development

The research, development and design ofnew products or the re-design of existingones, is the lifeblood of any manufacturing
company, but in many cases the design andengineering departments are completely
disconnected from the ERP system. Whatthat means is engineers spend a lot of
their time answering queries from otherareas of the company regarding productstatus, revision levels, design progress,
etc. NetSuite offers a host of native
collaboration features that makes thisinformation available on a self-service basis
across the organization.

Key Benefits• Ensure production engineeringchanges propagate end-to-end andare reflected in downstream BOMs,plans and inventories.
• Extended capabilities for inventory
control tracking, planning andcosting of items in projectcontrolled environments.
• Deliver more flexibility in costingby supporting comprehensive
inventory costing methods including
LIFO, FIFO, average, standard andactual costing.
• Streamline team management
using at-a-glance allocations ofpeople with data, processes andbusiness systems.
• Integrate with other CAD applications
and simplify costing by supporting
easy importation of BOMs.

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Product Data Management
NetSuite has been built from the ground
up to support product-based businesses
and has robust capabilities to establish
and maintain all of the master data youneed to run your business including: items,
customers, partners and vendors. For any
other data you want to track, the SuiteCloud
platform can define an unlimited number ofadditional fields, tables and searches, etc.
to provide visibility into any data you want,where you want it—regardless of the source.
Bill of Materials
Assembly Items have a multi-level BOM
attached so you can easily define thecomponents that are to be consumed, thequantities in which you expect to consume
them and the expected yield during themanufacturing process.
Location Specific Settings
The NetSuite item master has uniquecapabilities when it comes to handlingcompanies that manufacture or stock
their inventory in multiple locations. The
ability to not only define how an item isstocked and replenished but the way that
it is manufactured on a location specificbasis offers a vast degree of flexibility. For
example, the same item could be 100%
backflushed in one location, materials could
be kitted and issued to the work orderin another and work centers and labordefinitions could be established and tracked
in a third.

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Routing Definition
NetSuite also offers the ability to track thelabor cost and associated overheads critical toa business, and more. Multiple routings can bedefined with a default per location. The samerouting can be applied to multiple locations.
Work Centers & Costing Templates
In order to accurately define the resources
required to complete the manufacturing ofproducts, NetSuite allows you to create workcenters along with an associated calendar
to define availability. The Costing Templateallows users to define all of the direct andindirect costs that should be attributed to themanufacturing process each time itis performed.

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Functionality for Discrete/
Assembly Manufacturers

Costed BOM Report
Users who don’t need access to the item
master can simply run the costed BOM
report to get the required information, withthe ability to filter by Subsidiary, Location,
Revision and/or Effectivity Date.

Revision Control
BOM revisions can be defined either by using
effectivity dates or revisions and the view ofthe BOM components on the item has theability to list the complete revision history or
be filtered to the most recent one.

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Track Project Status

Project Management
One of the unique characteristics of NetSuiteis the breadth of the solutions that areoffered and how widely these capabilities
are used. For example, engineers frequently
track the time that they and their teams
are spending on a particular design.
NetSuite’s complete project management
functionality includes resource definition,
time tracking, task assignment and hierarchy,
GANTT scheduling and automatic resource
assignment based on capability. The in-line
percent complete graph then makes it easy
to track the status of the multiple design
projects that are currently in progress.

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