GameWear Cuts Waste and Streamlines Order Management with NetSuite
"Using the NetSuite Ecommerce platform in itself is boosting sales, and gives us the opportunity to scale up our business-to-consumer operations."
—GameWear
Results:
- GameWear reclaiming seven hours per week on stockout research
- With NetSuite, GameWear automatically imports and processes orders on continuous cycle, improving shipment times and customer satisfaction
- Raw materials ordering delays as long as nine weeks eliminated with superior NetSuite inventory management
- Royalty and commission reporting cut from four hours to four minutes with NetSuite analysis
- Accounts receivable paid on average three weeks faster with NetSuite solution
Challenges:
- Bulk of business is in B2B sales with 5,000 retailers, creating account management challenges
- Poor integration between QuickBooks and PVG Commerce led to duplicated effort and flawed order management
- Orders batch-processed only once per 24 hours, leading to unnecessary shipment delays
- Lack of visibility led to costly trans-Pacific research for minor order exceptions and stockouts, impairing margins
- Comparable on-premise systems with comprehensive inventory, ERP, CRM and Ecommerce capabilities looked too expensive
- Trans-Pacific raw materials tracking was extremely difficult and labor-intensive
Solution:
- GameWear managing 3,500 unique items through NetSuite inventory solution
- NetSuite meets GameWear's complex requirements at an affordable price
- NetSuite automation simplifies formerly labor-intensive purchase order generation
- NetSuite integrates invoices and email, speeding accounts receivable processes
- Integrated customer records make all customer contacts visible from single interface, improving relationship clarity