Large Commercial Bakery Startup Runs Fast-Growing Process Manufacturing Business with NetSuite Cloud ERP
NETSUITE SUITEWORLD 2016 SAN JOSE, Calif.—May 18, 2016—NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP and omnichannel commerce software suites, today announced that Specialty Bakery, a leading supplier of frozen bakery goods, has deployed NetSuite to run its entire core business including sales, purchasing, order management, supply chain execution, manufacturing, warehouse management and financials. With NetSuite, Specialty Bakery opened a state-of-the-art, 225,000-square-foot commercial bakery in Indianapolis, Indiana, where employees use shop floor mobile devices for real-time access to inventory, order and shipping data for better quality control and execution.
Launched as a green-field project in 2013 by innovators from the commercial baking industry, Specialty Bakery’s strategy is to invest in top-quality baking equipment, personnel and IT infrastructure as it grows its business in the food service and retail in-store bakery industries. After evaluating competing SAP and Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) solutions, Specialty Bakery selected NetSuite based on its rapid implementation time, customization capability with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) and deep batch manufacturing functionality. This helps the company to gain process automation for optimal efficiency, quality control tracking and scalability to expand the business as new customers come on board—all with a user-friendly interface and functionality.
“We use NetSuite to run the business—it’s the cornerstone of our IT strategy,” said Specialty Bakery CEO Ahmad Hamade. “When we looked at NetSuite, we were wowed by its capabilities from a manufacturing perspective. NetSuite was hands-down the best solution for us.”
With NetSuite, Specialty Bakery is better able to:
“Our strategy from the beginning was to ensure that our investments were highly scalable, and NetSuite aligns very well with that,” Specialty Bakery’s Hamade said. “We believe we’ve built a flagship solution with NetSuite that provides real value to our customers in terms of driving efficiencies and speed to market solutions.”
Today, approximately 30,000 companies and subsidiaries depend on NetSuite to run complex, mission-critical business processes globally in the cloud. Since its inception in 1998, NetSuite has established itself as the leading provider of enterprise-class cloud ERP suites for divisions of large enterprises and midsized organisations seeking to upgrade their antiquated client/server ERP systems. NetSuite continues its success in delivering the best cloud ERP/financial suites to businesses around the world, enabling them to lower IT costs significantly while increasing productivity, as the global adoption of the cloud accelerates.
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