NetSuite Industries: Furniture
Inventory Management for Wholesale Suppliers
Built to Keep Up with a
Complex Supply Chain
Furniture and home décor companies manage some of the most complex inventory in wholesale distribution. A single product line can span dozens of SKU configurations, with finish options, size variants, and components that all need to be tracked separately. Layer in the pressure of selling across multiple channels, and every operation from receiving to fulfillment carries real risk of error.
Maintaining inventory accuracy isn't optional. Whether you're fulfilling a single-item B2C order or a large wholesale drop shipment, your customers and retail partners expect the right product, on time, every time. Getting there requires real-time visibility across your supply chain.
Why Mobile Technology is Critical for Tracking Furniture with NetSuite
From small accessories to oversized case goods, the variety of items moving through a furniture warehouse creates real opportunity for error at every step, from receiving and put-away through picking and shipping. Manual processes can't keep pace with that complexity.
By automating warehouse operations with a NetSuite WMS mobile solution or the NetSuite Advanced Manufacturing solution, you gain real-time, accurate inventory data that is key to making business-critical decisions. If you are working with big-box retailers or eCommerce partners like Amazon and Wayfair, barcoding and automation are a must-have to avoid fines for stockouts, mispicks, or shipping delays.
You should be automating:
NetSuite Work Orders, Purchase Orders, Transfer Orders, Sales Orders, etc.ReceivingPickingInbound putawaysStock countingAssembly BuildsLicense PlatingShipping
Streamlining Furniture Shipping with RF-SMART
The furniture industry faces unique shipping challenges. With both small, fragile items and large, bulky ones, it's crucial to find a solution that is fast, easy, and cost-effective. RF-SMART Shipping helps companies tackle these issues, giving power back to the shippers.
Customers using our shipping solution benefit from:
Unified Shipping Platform
RF-SMART Shipping helps shippers process all shipments through a single user interface, eliminating the need to switch between multiple carrier systems.
Training in Seconds
Our user-friendly interface trains shippers in just 30 seconds, guiding them through each shipping step and removing the need for manual decisions.
Auto Carrier & Rate Selection
Shippers can easily compare rates in real-time, automatically selecting the most cost effective carrier based on predefined rules of your specific shipment needs.
Streamlined Documentation
Automatically generates Bill of Lading (BOL) documents and pallet labels, reducing the need to manually enter data & eliminate paperwork errors.
Furniture Companies on NetSuite: Thinking Beyond Barcoding
To effectively manage your processes, you may have needs for more
advanced mobile tools to further automate and speed up your operations:
Automated Wave Picking
With tools like Pick Planner, you can reduce the time spent on administration and paperwork while gaining faster pick times for orders is by planning picking tasks directly in NetSuite for multiple order types (criteria like Tote picking or wave picking). The tasks are sent to a mobile device instantly to guide your workers on the most efficient route through the warehouse at the designated time you set.
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Easy Automation to Machines
Many furniture wholesalers rely on machines to move product faster. Trying to get that data into NetSuite can be cumbersome at best. Our Automation module uses our proven Built for NetSuite integration to communicate and update NetSuite in real-time with material movement and inventory changes.
Work Order Reporting
If tracking metrics is important, a tool like Work Order Reporting will have shop floor workers working quickly and accurately while managers can keep a pulse on job times, productivity and cost metrics. The intuitive touch screen interface is easy to use or they can scan straight from the shop floor.
Label Printing & Vendor Compliance
Furniture companies managing multiple sales channels often deal with strict and varying label requirements across retail partners. RF-SMART Cloud Printing works natively inside NetSuite, enabling you to print item labels, carton labels, packing slips, and more with the push of a button or automated workflow trigger. Multiple label templates can be configured per function, so your team can print the right format for the right customer or retailer without manual decisions or switching systems.
Real Results with RF-SMART:
Inside a 140,000 sq ft Home Décor Operation
A fast-growing furniture and home décor company managing a 140,000 sq ft fulfillment center, a retail storefront, and 30 dropship partners turned to RF-SMART to get control of their inventory before their growth outpaced their operation. With RF-SMART's Pick Planner and License Plating functionality built natively into NetSuite, they transformed how their team picks, receives, and moves inventory every day.
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“Pick Planner is organizing the work for you, versus a manager having to organize the orders. It's been hugely impactful with big labor cost savings. It was one of my favorite improvements.”
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Furniture & Home Décor Leader: Scout Design Case Study
“RF-SMART has helped us pick things in a much quicker way. It also helps us find things and keep track of them.
We’ve improved in our picking times, and it has helped a lot with our fulfillments.”
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Challenges
Scout Design Studio, a curator of artful home décor and furniture, faced significant inventory management challenges across their multiple locations, including a 15,000-square-foot showroom and vintage store. Prior to implementing RF-SMART, they relied on memory to locate items, resulting in frequent lost inventory, over/understocking issues, and limited visibility. Their manual processes were particularly challenging given their vast array of thousands of different items and complex multi-location inventory movements.
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Solution
To address these challenges, Scout design Studio partnered with RF-SMART for NetSuite to revolutionize their inventory management processes. To solutions Transfer Order function streamlined inventory movements between locations, while handheld device-driven picking dramatically improved efficiency. RF-SMART's Inventory Reporting Tool (IRT) provided crucial visibility and data-driven insights, enabling proactive inventory management and better decision-making.
Results
By implementing RF-SMART for NetSuite, Scout Design Studio:
Improved inventory accuracy and visibility Sped up picking times Established more organized inventory movement between locations Reduced stock outs Improved customer experience 
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