NetSuite SCM

NetSuite SCM Software Solution

NetSuite SCM is a software solution for Supply Chain Management (SCM).

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What is NetSuite SCM?

NetSuite SCM is a software solution for Supply Chain Management (SCM) including supply planning, demand planning, purchasing, receiving, transferring, selling, picking, building, packing, store locations, fulfillment requests, pickups, route delivering, shipping, drop shipping, special ordering, returning, and mobile applications.

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What is NetSuite SCM Item Types?

NetSuite SCM Item Types include inventory (standard, lot, serial) items, and assembly (standard, lot, serial) items, plus other charge for purchase items for landed cost.

What is NetSuite SCM Inventory Numbers?

NetSuite SCM Inventory Numbers feature includes serial numbers and lot numbers. Inventory numbers are case sensitive.

What is NetSuite SCM Item Replenishment Method?

NetSuite SCM Item Replenishment Method field options include Reorder Point, Time Phased, Master Production Scheduling, and Material Requirements Planning. Reorder Point results in Advanced Inventory Management feature used to calculate demand. Time Phased results in Demand Planning feature used to calculate demand.

What is NetSuite SCM Item Component Supply Type?

NetSuite SCM Item Component Supply Type field options include Purchase, Build, and Transfer for assembly items. Purchase creates planned purchase orders. Build creates planned work orders. Transfer creates planned transfer orders.

What is NetSuite SCM Inventory Costing?

NetSuite SCM Inventory Costing methods include average, group average, First In First Out (FIFO), Last In First Out (LIFO), and standard. Inventory standard costing enables the tracking of item expected cost in total or by cost categories to compare item expected cost to item actual cost in total or by cost categories, and to analyze cost variance and reason (purchase, production, etc.) for cost variance in total or by cost categories.

What is NetSuite SCM Landed Cost?

NetSuite SCM Landed Cost feature includes estimated landed cost and landed cost. Landed cost is tracked at the transaction level or transaction line item level. Landed cost expenses contribute to item cost of goods sold and inventory valuation. Example landed cost expenses include shipping charges, freight costs, origin and destination charges, import fees, duty fees (excise and customs), taxes, insurance, and handling charges. Landed cost can be used on item receipt, vendor bill, credit card, and check transactions.

What is NetSuite SCM Inventory Cost Template?

NetSuite SCM Inventory Cost Template contains a list of material overheads and landed costs you want to associate with an inventory item or an assembly item that can be purchased. Inventory cost templates are used for standard cost and landed cost.

What is NetSuite SCM Customer Part Number?

NetSuite SCM Customer Part Number feature allows the assignment of part numbers of customers to item records. Use customer part numbers, instead of item numbers, to add items to transaction records. Print transactions that display both items and customer part numbers.

What is NetSuite SCM Item Substitution?

NetSuite SCM Item Substitution feature allows the creation of substitute items for item records. During the sales order entry process, review available substitute items on the sales order record, such as to address scenarios of inventory shortage of items.

What is NetSuite SCM Locations?

NetSuite SCM Locations include warehouse location, store location, and item location configuration records.

What is NetSuite SCM Location Supply Type?

NetSuite SCM Location Supply Type field options include Purchase, Build, and Transfer for assembly items. Purchase creates planned purchase orders. Build creates planned work orders. Transfer creates planned transfer orders.

What is NetSuite SCM Inventory Balances?

NetSuite SCM Inventory Balances can be returned by item, inventory and bin numbers, inventory balance, and inventory numbers search types. Physical inventory worksheet report includes “As of” date filter, whereby inventory balances on hand count is impacted by inventory transaction date.

What is NetSuite SCM Supply Orders?

NetSuite SCM Supply Orders include purchase orders, transfer orders, and work orders that add inventory.

What is NetSuite SCM Demand Orders?

NetSuite SCM Demand Orders include sales orders, order reservations, transfer orders, and work orders that remove inventory.

What is NetSuite SCM Advanced Inventory Management?

NetSuite SCM Advanced Inventory Management feature performs inventory calculations automatically at night on the day of week configured, or manually triggered that night. After advanced inventory calculations are performed, Order Items page and Mass Create Work Orders page display planned order lines with Order Date set to the next day after inventory calculations are performed. Use Order Items page to create purchase orders and/or Mass Create Work Orders page to create work orders.

What is NetSuite SCM Demand Planning?

NetSuite SCM Demand Planning feature allows for a demand plan record and a supply plan record associated with each applicable item record to be automatically or manually created. After demand planning calculations are performed daily, Order Items page and Mass Create Work Orders page display planned order lines with Order Date set to applicable dates. Use Order Items page to create purchase orders and/or Mass Create Work Orders page to create work orders.

What is NetSuite SCM Inventory Management Pages?

NetSuite SCM Inventory Management Pages include Order Items, Mass Create Work Orders, Replenish Location By Transfer Order, and Replenish Location By Inventory Transfer. Reorder Point Items tab is for items using advanced inventory management. Time Phased Items tab is for items using demand planning. Planned Orders tab is for items using demand planning with supply plans. Blanket PO Items tab is for items on blanket purchase orders.

What is NetSuite SCM Centralize Purchasing In A Single Location?

NetSuite SCM Centralize Purchasing In A Single Location preference functions on Order Items page, for each vendor selected, one purchase order is created with a line item for each unique item with quantity equal to aggregated quantity across locations and rate equal to purchase price for vendor for central location.

What is NetSuite SCM Supply Allocation?

NetSuite SCM Supply Allocation feature allows for allocation strategies to be applied to sales order line items. Sales order line item Supply Required By Date field defaults to current date, but can be set to a date in the future. Sales order line item quantity allocated is tracked separately from quantity committed, whereby quantity committed is a subset of quantity allocated.

What is NetSuite SCM FEFO Lot Allocations?

NetSuite SCM FEFO Lot Allocations feature automatically assigns lot numbers based on First Expiry First Out (FEFO) for sales order lines with a lot numbered inventory or assembly item.

What is NetSuite SCM Automatic Location Assignment?

NetSuite SCM Automatic Location Assignment feature enables the automatic assignment of fulfillment locations to sales order lines based on automatic location assignment rules and fulfillment strategies. A fulfillment strategy is based on minimize fulfillment locations, or optimal fulfillment location. Minimize fulfillment locations minimizes fulfillment locations to assign as few locations as possible. Optimal fulfillment location is based on closest location, highest ranked location, or fulfillment workload distribution.

What is NetSuite SCM Fulfillment Request?

NetSuite SCM Fulfillment Request is a transaction that acts as an intermediary step between the sales order and the fulfillment stage of the order fulfillment workflow. Fulfillment request fulfillment types include ship, or store pickup. Ship is to ship to a customer from a store location instead of a warehouse location, which results in an item fulfillment record. Store pickup is for a customer to pick up from a store location, which results in a store pickup fulfillment record.

What is NetSuite SCM Store Pickup Fulfillment?

NetSuite SCM Store Pickup Fulfillment feature enables the fulfillment of sales orders from a retail location instead of a warehouse or distribution center. Create a store pickup fulfillment record on which you mark the items as picked. Then, when the customer visits the store to collect the items, mark the items as picked up on the store pickup fulfillment record.

What is NetSuite SCM Shipping?

NetSuite SCM Shipping feature supports domestic and international shipping. Shipping supports shipping and return shipping directions. Shipping supports single package, multi-package, and Less-than-Truckload (LTL) package types. Shipping supports shipping cost and handling cost. Shipping is integrated with UPS, FedEx, USPS, and ShipEngine. Shipment tracking numbers can be referenced on purchase order, sales order, item fulfillment, cash sale, invoice, and return authorization records.

What is NetSuite SCM Multiple Shipping Routes?

NetSuite SCM Multiple Shipping Routes feature allows for a shipping route per line item on estimate, sales order, cash sales, invoice, and credit memo records, plus return authorization records created from applicable cash sale or invoice records. A shipping route is a unique combination of ship from address, ship to address, shipping carrier, and shipping method. To generate a list of shipping routes for a transaction, click Calculate Shipping button on Shipment tab.

What is NetSuite SCM Static Route Management?

NetSuite SCM Static Route Management feature allows for distribution management of trucks and routes. Each route contains multiple sales orders for multiple customers. Sales order Shipping tab contains Ship Date, Route, Location Time Zone, Route Stop #, and Shipment Stop # fields. Sales order can be moved to a different stop in the same route or to a different route.

What is NetSuite SCM Drop Ship?

NetSuite SCM Drop Ship feature allows for a purchase order record associated with a sales order record to be automatically or manually created. The purchase order record is marked shipped to create an item fulfillment record associated with the sales order record.

What is NetSuite SCM Special Order?

NetSuite SCM Special Order feature allows for a purchase order record associated with a sales order record to be automatically or manually created. The purchase order record is received to create an item receipt record associated with the purchase order record. The sales order record is shipped to create an associated item fulfillment record.

What is NetSuite SCM Available To Promise?

NetSuite SCM Available To Promise feature calculates estimated ship date on opportunity, estimate, and sales order line items, plus check item availability page, based on supply and demand considerations.

What is NetSuite SCM Supply Chain Control Tower?

NetSuite SCM Supply Chain Control Tower feature simulates inventory supply and demand across the supply chain. Optionally, configure predicted risks on location and/or vendor records. Forecasting simulations are used to analyze whether inventory levels are in line with demand or planned levels.

What is NetSuite SCM Warranty and Repairs Management?

NetSuite SCM Warranty and Repairs Management feature enables the registration of item warranties and processing of warranty related claims. Use cases include return and replace, return and credit, and return, repair, and replace.

What is NetSuite SCM Mobile Application?

NetSuite SCM Mobile Application, which can be used on a mobile, tablet, or desktop device, provides the mobile capabilities and user interface for NetSuite WMS, NetSuite Manufacturing Mobile, NetSuite Ship Central, and NetSuite Smart Count applications.

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