Every job different, every machine contested. Schedule the floor, see the load, and quote what you can actually deliver.
Fabricators and machine shops run dozens of jobs at once, each with its own routing across cutting, forming, welding, machining, and finishing, all competing for the same machines and the same skilled people. Promise dates depend on capacity that changes by the hour. NetSuite gives job shops one system for quoting, work orders, inventory, and financials, and Consule Solutions implements it so the shop floor and the front office work from the same schedule.
NetSuite manages work orders, routings, inventory, and costing well, and that is the backbone a job shop needs. What fabrication adds is the scheduling problem: which job runs on which machine, in what order, with which operator, and what happens to every other promise date when one job slips. That has to be visible to the floor and the planner at the same time, and it has to change in seconds, not at a weekly meeting.
That’s what FactorySync adds, natively inside NetSuite: a calendar view of work orders across days, weeks, and months; Gantt scheduling by work order, work center, or resource with drag-and-drop rescheduling; a capacity planning dashboard showing available hours, scheduled hours, utilization, and bottlenecks; bulk release and completion of work orders and operations; and resource planning that shows each team member’s load and utilization. Same NetSuite, same login, no integration to maintain.
Quotes and delivery dates built on the machine and labor hours actually available, not on hope.
Utilization by work center and resource, so an overloaded press or a scarce welder shows up in advance.
Drag a job to a new slot and see its operations and every dependent job move with it.
Release and complete work orders and operations in bulk instead of record by record.
Built for Job Shops
FactorySync was built for metal fabricators, machine shops, and any make-to-order operation where the schedule decides the margin, by a NetSuite Alliance Partner and Spotlight Award winner. See what FactorySync adds to NetSuite →
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