From growing mid-market companies to industry leaders across the US and beyond, process manufacturers choose Folio3 to implement NetSuite ERP for process manufacturing.
Standalone systems and siloed data are a recipe for disaster in process manufacturing. Here are the biggest pain points we help solve.
Relying on spreadsheets for recipes and formulas is risky. One wrong cell, one outdated version, and your batch scale-up or yield calculation is off. There are no built-in checks, so errors slip through and compound as you grow.
When you need to trace a specific ingredient lot from the supplier all the way to the shipped product, the process is manual and slow. By the time you find the information, a small issue can already become a major recall problem.
Quality test results and compliance paperwork are stored outside the main system. That means no one sees the full picture in real time. It's harder to spot patterns, catch issues early, or prove compliance quickly during an audit.
When batch yields go up and down and when you have multiple co-products from one run, figuring out the real cost per unit becomes guesswork. Without a clear way to allocate costs, you cannot trust your margins or pricing decisions.
Cost allocation across co-products is done using miscalculated averages, and by-product revenue is inconsistently tracked. Yield variance between expected and actual outputs goes undetected. By the time actual costs reconcile, dozens of batches have closed.
Expired raw materials get used in production. Finished goods expire before reaching customers. Inventory write-offs accumulate, and customer trust erodes with every expired product delivered to them.
NetSuite ERP for process manufacturing combines robust manufacturing functionality with process-specific configuration to deliver an environment that aligns with your unique production model.
Manage formulas, recipes, ingredients, product specifications, revisions, and production requirements.
Plan and execute production batches while accounting for material consumption, batch sizes, yields, waste, and production outputs.
Manage production scenarios where a single raw material yields multiple outputs, with flexible cost allocation and yield tracking.
Define production operations, work centers, resources, setup times, run rates, and operation sequences tailored for process manufacturing.
Support incoming, in-process, and finished-product quality processes, including inspection, quarantine, release, specifications, and quality-related inventory controls.
Track material, labor, machine, and overhead costs throughout production with batch-level cost visibility and variance analysis.
Build full material genealogy from supplier receipt through production to finished goods shipment to enable rapid recall response and compliance reporting.
Manage perishable inventory with FIFO and FEFO inventory movement, expiration date tracking, and automated alerts for approaching expiry dates.
Analyzes historical sales, order patterns, and inventory levels to help you plan production schedules more accurately.
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Define pass/fail criteria, specify inspection plans for ingredients and finished goods, and track inspection results.
Support more sophisticated replenishment, inventory planning, safety stock, and multi-location requirements.
Manage supplier purchasing, raw materials, ingredients, packaging, and other production requirements.
Support process manufacturers operating across multiple subsidiaries, countries, currencies, and locations.
We're a NetSuite Alliance Partner with a dedicated manufacturing practice. Our industry-specific methodology involves mapping your actual production workflows and then configuring NetSuite to match how your business really works.
We understand that process manufacturing involves complex recipes, strict traceability, and heavy compliance requirements. We design your system around those realities, not the other way around.
We’ve successfully implemented NetSuite SuiteSuccess Manufacturing for food & beverage companies, biotech & pharma businesses, and other organizations.
Our team includes certified manufacturing specialists who understand your business from the ground up. We turn your requirements into clear technical actions.
We configure all core and supporting NetSuite modules, including NetSuite Procurement, Quality Management, Inventory Management, and more.
Our manufacturing integration specialists help you connect NetSuite to your MES, ecommerce, 3PL, EDI, and other systems using both prebuilt and iPaaS integrations.
We thank Folio3 team who was involved in the integration side of this project. We at Biomason are truly grateful for Folio3’s expertise, patience, & diligence in making our implementation of NetSuite a success. We really appreciate all the information sharing & responsiveness to our requirements. This has truly been a team effort & we at Biomason are fortunate to have been able to partner with the Folio3 team.
Books now close by the 5th, instead of weeks later.
Better forecasting keeps stock ready for big retail partners.
Billing transparency dramatically cleaned up account aging.
One unified system replaced error-prone spreadsheets. |
Every process manufacturer has operational requirements that do not fit neatly into an out-of-the-box ERP workflow. Folio3 builds manufacturing-specific solutions around those requirements.
Calculate product costs dynamically across manufacturing, assembly, and procurement scenarios to support faster and more accurate quoting and costing.
Batch-process work orders with custom filters. Issue, complete, close, and finish operations on multiple orders, all from one unified screen.
Connect production and inventory transactions with automated label generation via Zebra printer for finished products, lots, containers, pallets, and other manufacturing units.
Track inventory at pallet, bin, and container levels to provide more granular control over material movement and traceability.
It simplifies data entry, tracks inventory with precision, auto-generates labels, reduces errors, and improves shop-floor efficiency.
Sync NetSuite with your Manufacturing Execution System to create a continuous flow of data between production execution and enterprise resource planning.
Connect NetSuite to your warehouse management system for real-time inventory visibility and synchronized warehouse activity.
Automate document exchange with customers, suppliers, distributors, and trading partners to eliminate manual data entry and speed up transactions.
Link NetSuite with your ecommerce platforms to keep customers, products, inventory, orders, pricing, and fulfillment in sync across all channels.
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