Board feet, tallies, contractor pricing, and yard delivery on the ERP that runs the rest of the business.
A lumber and building materials distributor buys a mill unit priced per thousand board feet, sells it by the piece, the bundle, or the lineal foot, and delivers it to a jobsite on a boom truck. Random-length tallies make every unit different, commodity prices move weekly, and contractors expect their own pricing, their own job accounts, and a quote that holds. Standard ERP inventory counts each and prices each. NetSuite, extended by Consule with LumberSuite, understands board feet and tallies and keeps the yard, the counter, and the books in agreement.
Board feet native to every transaction. LumberSuite’s board foot engine calculates board feet by species, grade, and thickness on purchase orders, receipts, sales orders, and invoices, so unit cost and selling price reflect the wood actually moved.
Tallies from the mill to the jobsite. Tally management tracks tally sheets from vendor entry or CSV import through allocation and sale, so a random-length unit is sold as what it is, not as an average.
Dynamic units for how customers buy. Sell the same item by the piece, the bundle, or the board foot with pricing that converts correctly, while inventory stays in the unit the yard trusts.
Remanufacturing and repacks tracked. Resaw, cut-to-length, and repack runs are recorded with inputs, outputs, and yield, so the cost of a ripped or trimmed board is real.
Everything else NetSuite already does. Contractor credit and job accounts, multi-yard inventory and transfers, drop shipments from the mill, vendor rebates, and financials that close on time.
Cost and price on the same unit give true margin by species, grade, and customer, not an estimate after month-end.
Contractor quotes built on current cost and tally, so the job is priced right when it is won and still right when it ships.
Tallies, pieces, and board feet reconcile, so the count in the system matches the units in the shed.
Orders, delivery, receivables, and accounting on one record, so a contractor’s balance and open jobs are always current.
Built for lumber, by a partner who builds for it
Consule’s LumberSuite is a native NetSuite product developed for lumber manufacturers, distributors, and yards. If you sell lumber and building materials on a legacy yard system, spreadsheets, or a NetSuite account that was never set up for board feet, we will walk through your own tallies and invoices with you.
Consule delivers this as a NetSuite implementation, a NetSuite optimization of a system you already run, or an integration project, with ongoing support under the CARE program.
These are the pages building materials and lumber distributors usually read next.
Not natively. Consule’s LumberSuite adds a board foot engine that calculates board feet by species, grade, and thickness on purchase, sales, and work order transactions, with board foot summaries on each order.
Yes. NetSuite units of measure combined with LumberSuite’s dynamic units let an item be purchased per MBF, stocked by the piece, and sold by the piece, bundle, or board foot, with pricing converting between them.
LumberSuite’s tally management records the tally for each unit at receipt, by vendor entry or CSV import, and carries it through allocation and consumption, so board feet on hand and board feet sold are both accurate.
Yes. Customers can carry sub-accounts or projects by job, each with its own pricing, tax, and ship-to address, and orders can be scheduled for delivery by truck and date. Consule configures this around how your counter and dispatch already work.
