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Industries

Lumber & Milling

NetSuite, built out for how mills actually run  from the tract the log came off to the unit on the truck.

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NETSUITE CONSULTANTS

ERP for Lumber & Milling

The lumber industry has been around as long as people have been building with it. The industry has changed and the people have changed — but in many operations the software and the processes are still from times past.


Myers-Holum has built a path off those antiquated systems and manual processes. Our solution set for lumber and milling is built on the NetSuite platform and designed around the way the industry actually works: log-level inventory, land and tract management, multi-output production, and lumber-specific units of measure.


Drawing on years in the NetSuite space and work alongside industry leaders, we've built the expertise and the solutions that let clients operate now — and grow.

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NETSUITE CONSULTANTS

Mills run on spreadsheets, paper tallies and decades-old industry-specific software systems that rarely talk to each other and never give a live picture of cost. A world-class ERP, customized to lumber and milling processes, replaces that patchwork with one platform: one place for demand, inventory, production and financials.

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One system, not twelve

Retire the spreadsheets and the pen-and-paper handoffs. Demand, purchasing, production and financials share a single record.
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Traceability back to the tract

Every log and every unit traces back through production to the purchase and the land it was harvested from.

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Reporting from anywhere

Digital inventory and production reporting from the yard, the shed or the road on NetSuite's cloud infrastructure.
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SOLUTIONS & AREAS OF IMPACT

Five connected areas, following material from the tract through the mill to the customer

Land & Tract Management
Supply Chain & Materials Planning
Inventory Management
Production Planning & Execution
Sales & CRM

Land & Tract Management

Track the land behind every log — owned or leased, by species and estimated harvest — and keep the traceability chain intact from the tract forward.
Track land leased and owned
Lease and grant tracking with full management
Species and harvest estimates
Land detail including longitude and latitude
Logger, transporter and contact records
Log payments to contractors
Traceability of logs and lumber back to land

Supply Chain & Materials Planning

Advanced MRP purchases logs and lumber against a plan or against live demand, worked from a single MRP Workbench instead of a stack of spreadsheets.
Advanced Materials Requirement Planning
MRP Workbench (board)
Purchase to plan or to current demand
Consolidated supply chain management
System-predicted and current demand
Automated reaction and adjustment
Replaces spreadsheets and paper processes

Inventory Management

Manage inventory down to the individual log — dimensions, grade, cost and tally — with barcode tagging carried through to lumber units and packs.
Track and manage down to the log level
Log dimensions and grades
Traceability to purchase
Costing and LF/BF
Barcode tagging for logs and lumber units/packs
Lumber unit tally tracking and management
Tally consumption tracking
Counts by log deck, lumber shed, species or grade
Digital inventory reporting from anywhere

Production Planning & Execution

Plan to order or to stock, group runs for efficiency, and execute on the floor from a configurable UI or a mobile device — with every input, output, cost and timing recorded.
Plan to order and plan to stock
Production grouping for efficiency
Multiple inputs and outputs
Lot costing and traceability
UI or mobile manufacturing execution
Remnant tracking — by-products, co-products, offcuts, sawdust, chips and bark
Waste calculation and production reporting
Machine capacity planning, light or advanced (optional)
Complete history on inputs, outputs, costs, timing and user execution
Simplified, configurable execution UIs

Sales & CRM

From configured custom orders to high-volume distribution and reman work — quoting, pricing and job costing sit on the same platform as production.
Configure, price and quote (CPQ)
Custom order manufacturing
Direct job costing — labor, overhead, materials
Lumber distribution: buy and sell at volume
Log distribution: all grades, poles, culls, pulp
Remanufacturing, special services, coatings and treatments
Project tracking for R&D and long-term commercial work
One-off custom manufacturing
Job costing analysis
Quotes and pipeline analysis, cost-based pricing
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The lumber manufacturing industry has unique requirements that previously limited us to using industry-specific software. Working with MHI allowed us to capture the benefits of using a world-class ERP system like NetSuite while still customizing the software to fit our specific manufacturing and business processes. We have loved working with them and are grateful for their continued partnership!

Kaitlyn Wood, CFO | CIO
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FUNCTIONALITY

What's in the solution set

A core set of lumber and milling capabilities, extended with add-ons for the way your mill runs.
Multiple UOM customization

Core

Multiple UOM customization
Multiple outputs solution (production run)
Custom pricing configurations
Custom lot generation for units and logs
Custom receiving with auto item variant creation
Log scaling
Log and unit/bundle barcoding and tagging
Added to fit your operation

Add-Ons

Random dimension pack management
Mobile WMS and MES
Lumber tally for units and packs
Scaling integration
Truck scale tickets
Log scaling at receiving
Sales order unit conversions (BF/LF/SQFT)
Automated sales and batch fulfillment for lumber companies
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HOW WE IMPLEMENT

Four decades of successful implementations

MHI has successfully completed over 1,000 projects for companies ranging in size from the Fortune 500 to mid-market. Working locally, Myers-Holum is recognized as a leading NetSuite Alliance Partner.
Our NetSuite practice 
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HOW WE IMPLEMENT

Four decades of successful implementations

MHI has successfully completed over 1,000 projects for companies ranging in size from the Fortune 500 to mid-market. Working locally, Myers-Holum is recognized as a leading NetSuite Alliance Partner.
Our NetSuite practice 

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