A 90-day NetSuite implementation for chemical and life science manufacturers, built around batch and lot handling — including multi-batch lot selection automation that stops good material from becoming scrap.

Batch manufacturing breaks generic ERP implementations. Lot genealogy, expiry, potency, and the question of which specific lots should be consumed for a given order are not edge cases in this industry — they are the daily work. Configure them poorly and your team ends up back in Excel, which is precisely where most of the chemical manufacturers we meet are when they call us.

What’s included

Multi-batch lot selection automation and optimization

This is the centerpiece, and it is the piece nobody else productizes.

When an order needs material that spans multiple lots, somebody has to decide which lots to draw from. Done by hand, that decision optimizes for whatever the person remembers to consider — and the cost of getting it wrong is material that expires or falls below spec before it can be used. Across a year, that is a meaningful amount of product thrown away for no reason other than sequencing.

We automate the selection and optimize it, so lots are consumed in the order that minimizes waste rather than the order someone happened to pick. The goal is straightforward: no scrap material wasted.

Getting you out of the spreadsheets

Chemical manufacturers accumulate remarkably sophisticated Excel workbooks — lot tracking, batch calculations, compliance records — usually built by one person over several years, and usually the single largest operational risk in the business. We move that logic into NetSuite so it is maintained by a system rather than a spreadsheet nobody else fully understands.

Batch and lot foundation

Lot-tracked items, batch work orders, and the genealogy that lets you trace material forward and backward — configured properly from the start, because retrofitting traceability onto transaction history is one of the more painful projects in this industry.

The underlying implementation

Core NetSuite configuration, chart of accounts, item and inventory setup, migration of your master data, and training for your team.

Who this is for

Chemical manufacturers and life science manufacturers — businesses where material is made in batches, tracked by lot, and where getting the lot handling wrong has consequences beyond inconvenience.

What’s not included

Custom automations for business processes specific to your company rather than standard to chemical and life science manufacturing. The Starter Kit covers the batch and lot patterns common across the industry; anything genuinely particular to how you operate is scoped separately once the foundation is in.

The 90 days

  • Discovery and design. How you batch, how you track lots, what your compliance obligations require, and what those spreadsheets are actually doing.
  • Configuration. Core setup plus lot-tracked items, batch work orders, and the multi-batch selection automation.
  • Data migration and testing. Master data loaded, then tested against real batch scenarios from your own production history.
  • Training and go-live. Your team trained, then supported through go-live.

Common questions

What does it cost?

We quote a fixed figure after a scoping conversation, in writing, before you commit.

Can you really replace our lot tracking spreadsheets?

Yes, and it is most of the value of this engagement. The harder part is usually not the technical migration — it is extracting the rules from the workbook and from the person who built it. We have done this enough times to know what to ask.

How much scrap will this actually save us?

It depends entirely on your material, your shelf lives, and how your lots are currently being selected. We would rather look at your numbers and tell you honestly than quote you a percentage we made up.

Does this handle our compliance reporting?

The lot genealogy and traceability foundation is what compliance reporting is built on, and that is included. Specific regulatory report formats vary enough that we scope those once we know which regime you are reporting under.