NetSuite MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning) Solution

NetSuite MRP Software Solution

NetSuite MRP is a software solution for Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP). Elevate, optimize, and automate Manufacturing Resource Planning in a single, integrated, secure, flexible, and powerful cloud business software solution with NetSuite MRP. NetSuite MRP provides the essential platform and comprehensive tools to achieve high quality, united, productive, profitable, and scalable Manufacturing Resource Planning with reduced operational expenses. NetSuite MRP enables real-time accurate visibility, insightful analytics, and actionable forecasts to measure Manufacturing Resource Planning success. NetSuite MRP supports most countries, currencies, languages, industries, models, areas, processes, and departments. Suite Certified is NetSuite certified & authorized, skilled, and experienced for more than 25 years to implement all business requirements, from the most basic to the most complex, in NetSuite MRP to ensure NetSuite MRP is a business asset for your company or organization.

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What is NetSuite MRP?

NetSuite MRP is a software solution for Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) including discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, outsourced manufacturing, assembly item, bill of materials (BOM), bill of materials revision, bill of materials revision component item source, assembly component yield, assembly structure, assembly levels, subassembly, subassemblies phantom, assembly component items, engineering change order, work center calendar, work center, work order, production work order, special order work order, work in process (WIP), work order issue, work order completion, work order close, backflush, charge item, cost categories, labor setup overhead, labor run overhead, machine setup overhead, machine run overhead, machine setup, machine run, labor setup, labor run, cost templates, costed bill of materials inquiry, routing, operation tasks, operations overlap, lag amount, manufacturing task scheduler, manufacturing traveler, time entry, routing completion, work order as built or closed, WIP and routing general ledger impact, assembly build, assembly unbuild, dashboard reminders, supply chain management SuiteApp, advanced manufacturing SuiteApp, and quality management SuiteApp.

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What is NetSuite MRP Discrete Manufacturing?

NetSuite MRP Discrete Manufacturing is a production method that uses component parts to produce identical products, such as electronics, devices, appliances, automobiles, aircrafts, and furnitures. Most often, component parts are counted in units. The finished product can be disassembled into the original raw materials.

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What is NetSuite MRP Process Manufacturing?

NetSuite MRP Process Manufacturing, also known as Batch Manufacturing, is a production method that uses formulas or recipes to produce goods, such as foods, beverages, paints, cosmetics, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals, by combining ingredients or raw materials. Most often, ingredients are measured in ounces or pounds for dry materials and gallons or liters for liquid ingredients. The finished good cannot be unassembled to its original raw materials.

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What is NetSuite MRP Outsourced Manufacturing?

NetSuite MRP Outsourced Manufacturing feature enables the tracking and management of sub-contracted manufacturing processes by purchasing outsourced assembly production from vendors. Outsourced Manufacturing provides automation between work orders, purchase orders, item receipts, assembly builds, inventory transfers, and item fulfillments.

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What is NetSuite MRP Assembly Item?

NetSuite MRP Assembly Item is an inventory item made of several components but identified as a single item.

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What is NetSuite MRP Bill of Materials (BOM)?

NetSuite MRP Bill of Materials (BOM) identifies the exact components needed for assemblies.

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What is NetSuite MRP Bill of Materials Revision?

NetSuite MRP Bill of Materials Revision defines the component items that should be included in assembly builds during specific time frames.

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What is NetSuite MRP Bill of Materials Revision Component Item Source?

NetSuite MRP Bill of Materials Revision Component Item Source field options include Phantom, Purchase Order, Stock, and Work Order. For each component item which is an assembly item, Item Source field value can be Phantom, Purchase Order, Stock, or Work Order. For each component which is an inventory item, Item Source field value can be Purchase Order, or Stock. For each component which is a non-inventory item, service item, or other charge item, Item Source field value can be Stock.

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What is NetSuite MRP Assembly Component Yield?

NetSuite MRP Assembly Component Yield preference automatically calculates quantity allowances for expected loss of raw materials during processing.

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What is NetSuite MRP Assembly Structure?

NetSuite MRP Assembly Structure is Assembly Item > Bill of Materials > Bill of Materials Revision > Components.

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What are NetSuite MRP Assembly Levels?

NetSuite MRP Assembly Levels include level 1 as top-level assembly, and can include level 2, 3, 4, etc. as subassemblies.

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What is NetSuite MRP Subassembly?

NetSuite MRP Subassembly is an assembly component item which is an assembly item.

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What is NetSuite MRP Subassemblies Phantom?

NetSuite MRP Subassemblies Phantom preference, when enabled on top-level assembly item record, results in subassembly components, not subassembly, as required components on work orders. Subassemblies Phantom preference, when disabled on top-level assembly item record, results in subassembly, not subassembly components, as required components on work orders.

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What is NetSuite MRP Assembly Component Items?

NetSuite MRP Assembly Component Items can be removed, replaced, and quantities can be changed on select inventory transactions. Assembly component items can be removed on work order, assembly build, and assembly unbuild records. Assembly component items can be replaced on work order records. Assembly component items quantities can be changed on work order, assembly build, and assembly unbuild records. Assembly component items can display on work order, assembly build, and assembly unbuild records in the user interface. Assembly component items can display on estimate, sales order, picking ticket (sales order), packing slip (sales order), invoice, return authorization, and bill of materials records on printed forms.

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What is NetSuite MRP Engineering Change Order?

NetSuite MRP Engineering Change Order records document changes to an assembly item bill of materials (BOM) and authorize the implementation of those changes. Engineering change order records can also be used to enter process changes for documentation.

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What is NetSuite MRP Work Center Calendar?

NetSuite MRP Work Center Calendar specifies the days and hours the work center is available for scheduling and assigning resources to process work orders. Work center calendar information provides visibility into total scheduling capacity.

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What is NetSuite MRP Work Center?

NetSuite MRP Work Center is a group of employees that perform a specific step in the manufacturing process.

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What is NetSuite MRP Work Order?

NetSuite MRP Work Order transactions track the production of assembly items needed for stock or to fill orders. Work orders track the quantities of assemblies that need to be built and the quantities of component items required. Work order statuses include Open Planned, Firm Planned, Released, In Process, Built, and Closed. Open Planned can be rescheduled, Firm Planned cannot be rescheduled, Released can commit items, and In Process is a posted transaction.

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What is NetSuite MRP Production Work Order?

NetSuite MRP Production Work Order tracks assemblies that need to be built to increase stock and are not intended for a particular sale.

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What is NetSuite MRP Special Order Work Order?

NetSuite MRP Special Order Work Order tracks assemblies to be built for a particular sale.

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What is NetSuite MRP Work In Process (WIP)?

NetSuite MRP Work In Process (WIP) feature tracks the work order through the entire production process in steps from gathering materials through assembly on the shop floor and finally stocking finished goods. Work order status records include Work Order Issue, Work Order Completion, and Work Order Close.

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What is NetSuite MRP Work Order Issue?

NetSuite MRP Work Order Issue record is used to indicate that particular quantities of raw materials, or component items, have been gathered for the production of the assembly item (or items).

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What is NetSuite MRP Work Order Completion?

NetSuite MRP Work Order Completion record is used to indicate that assemblies have been built. Work order completion is available with backflush or without backflush. With backflush documents that raw materials (components) have been consumed as part of the assembly process. For example, a work order completion with backflush can be entered if the associated work order issue record did not document the consumption of all the materials used.

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What is NetSuite MRP Work Order Close?

NetSuite MRP Work Order Close record is used to indicate that all accounting variances that might have arisen during the assembly process have been resolved.

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What is NetSuite MRP Backflush?

NetSuite MRP Backflush issues components and documents consumption of components. Component consumption is based on the proportion designated on the original work order and the assembly build quantity. Backflush utilizes inventory adjustment transactions to reconcile/flush the inventory count for a work order.

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What is NetSuite MRP Charge Item?

NetSuite MRP Charge Item is an other charge (for purchase) item or service (for purchase or for resale) item used in the general ledger impact of a work order completion, where the expense account is credited for a routing operation.

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What are NetSuite MRP Cost Categories?

NetSuite MRP Cost Categories define expenditures for routing associated with a work order. Overhead cost category types include Labor Setup Overhead, Labor Run Overhead, Machine Setup Overhead, and Machine Run Overhead. Direct cost category types include Labor Setup, Labor Run, Machine Setup, and Machine Run. Setup costs are based on time entered against manufacturing operation tasks. Run costs are based on quantity completed during the assembly build.

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What is NetSuite MRP Labor Setup Overhead?

NetSuite MRP Labor Setup Overhead is the cost of overhead associated with labor to set up a run. For example, this is the safety training expense incurred for an employee who sets up the machine used to paint the widget.

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What is NetSuite MRP Labor Run Overhead?

NetSuite MRP Labor Run Overhead is the cost of overhead associated with labor to run an assembly. For example, this is the safety training expense incurred for an employee who completes an assembly run.

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What is NetSuite MRP Machine Setup Overhead?

NetSuite MRP Machine Setup Overhead is the cost of overhead associated with setting up a machine used in a run. For example, this is the water expense incurred by running a machine during the machine set up.

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What is NetSuite MRP Machine Run Overhead?

NetSuite MRP Machine Run Overhead is the cost of overhead associated with running a machine during assembly. For example, this is the water expense incurred by running a machine during an assembly run.

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What is NetSuite MRP Machine Setup?

NetSuite MRP Machine Setup is the cost of time spent to set up a machine to be used in a run. For example, this is the wear and tear expense incurred to set up the machine that will be used to paint the widget.

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What is NetSuite MRP Machine Run?

NetSuite MRP Machine Run is the cost of time spent to run a machine during assembly. For example, this is the wear and tear expense incurred to use the machine that paints the widget during the assembly run.

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What is NetSuite MRP Labor Setup?

NetSuite MRP Labor Setup is the cost of time for labor to set up a run. For example, this is the cost of paying an employee to set up the machine that will be used to paint the widget.

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What is NetSuite MRP Labor Run?

NetSuite MRP Labor Run is the cost of time for labor to run an assembly. For example, this is the cost of paying an employee to use the machine that paints the widget during the assembly run.

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What is NetSuite MRP Cost Templates?

NetSuite MRP Cost Templates consist of cost categories. One of each Direct Cost category types can be included. One or more of each Overhead Cost category types can be included.

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What is NetSuite MRP Costed Bill of Materials Inquiry?

NetSuite MRP Costed Bill of Materials Inquiry can be run for standard cost assembly item, and enables examination of the standard cost breakdown of an assembly. The Costed BOM Inquiry report displays individual and aggregated assembly costs, and shows how different cost components roll up to an assembly item based on the Bill of Materials.

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What is NetSuite MRP Routing?

NetSuite MRP Routing feature provides the ability to schedule and track manufacturing operational activities against a complex work order that requires multiple teams of employees or work centers. Routing features include Work Center Calendar, Work Center, Work Order, Charge Item, Cost Category, Operation Task, Manufacturing Task Scheduler, Manufacturing Traveler, and Time Tracking. Routing can be viewed or created on Manufacturing subtab of assembly item records. Routing is selected on a WIP work order. If no routing is selected, then Start Date and End Date for the order are based on work order lead times defined on the assembly item record.

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What are NetSuite MRP Operation Tasks?

NetSuite MRP Operation Tasks are created based on the routing, and displayed on Operations subtab of a WIP work order that has a designated routing. After work for the operation task has been done, manufacturing operators can log progress against each operation task on a work order completion form. The status of operation tasks is determined by the system.

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What is NetSuite MRP Operations Overlap?

NetSuite MRP Operations Overlap is where work order operations can be processed in a staggered method through the production cycle, rather than one at a time, based on lag amount.

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What is NetSuite MRP Lag Amount?

NetSuite MRP Lag Amount defines what portion of an operation needs to be completed before the next operation can start. Lag amount is entered based on time, quantity, or percentage on the manufacturing routing.

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What is NetSuite MRP Manufacturing Task Scheduler?

NetSuite MRP Manufacturing Task Scheduler feature provides a graphical view of operation tasks assigned and scheduled per work center. Identify work centers that are overloaded or underloaded. Reassign or reschedule operation tasks from overloaded work centers by dragging and dropping to a different time slot or work center.

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What is NetSuite MRP Manufacturing Traveler?

NetSuite MRP Manufacturing Traveler, also known as work order traveler, is a system-generated document that provides shop floor personnel with the manufacturing specifications needed to perform the job, such as process steps, materials, quantities, work instructions, and supporting barcodes for mobile devices. Manufacturing traveler is typically printed when the job is released and travels with the job as it progresses through the shop.

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What is NetSuite MRP Time Entry?

NetSuite MRP Time Entry is labor time and machine time for completed manufacturing operation tasks, entered by users against manufacturing operation tasks on a work order Operations subtab. Planned time is displayed on a work order Planned Time subtab when Show Planned Capacity on Work Orders preference is enabled.

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What is NetSuite MRP Routing Completion?

NetSuite MRP Routing Completion is a work order completion and time entered against the final required manufacturing operation task to document the assembly item as put into inventory.

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What is NetSuite MRP Work Order as Built or Closed?

NetSuite MRP Work Order as Built or Closed shows the assembly item as being assembled without finishing all the individual steps for each manufacturing operation task. Status of all manufacturing operations tasks is set to Completed.

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What is NetSuite MRP WIP and Routing General Ledger Impact?

NetSuite MRP WIP and Routing General Ledger Impact can include WIP other current asset account, WIP – Cost Variance expense account, Charge Item expense account, Scrap expense account, Inventory Asset – Revision Component Item other current asset account, and Inventory Asset – Assembly Item other current asset account.

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What is NetSuite MRP Assembly Build?

NetSuite MRP Assembly Build documents the physical manufacture of an assembly item from component items and the related inventory level changes.

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What is NetSuite MRP Assembly Unbuild?

NetSuite MRP Assembly Unbuild documents the physical taking apart of an assembly item back into its component items and the related inventory level changes.

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What is NetSuite MRP Dashboard Reminders?

NetSuite MRP Dashboard Reminders, such as Assemblies to Build, can be added to Reminders portlet on a center tab dashboard.

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What is NetSuite MRP Supply Chain Management SuiteApp?

NetSuite MRP Supply Chain Management SuiteApp manufacturing related features include engineering change order records, manufacturing task scheduler, and manufacturing reports.

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What is NetSuite MRP Advanced Manufacturing SuiteApp?

NetSuite MRP Advanced Manufacturing SuiteApp extends manufacturing routing into advanced manufacturing work bench, enabling manufacturers to define work instructions, associate material usage, compare resource supply with demand, and establish planned start and end times.

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What is NetSuite MRP Quality Management SuiteApp?

NetSuite MRP Quality Management SuiteApp allows for inventory receipt and manufacturing process standards to meet regulatory and internal quality expectations.

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