Lumber breaks standard ERP in a specific way: the unit of measure is not stable. A board is bought by the thousand board feet, held as pieces, sold by the linear foot, and every conversion is a chance for the inventory to stop matching the yard.
LumberSuite adds board-foot calculation and dynamic UOM management to NetSuite, so board-foot quantities resolve automatically on sales orders, purchase orders and work orders instead of being calculated off to the side and typed in.
tally management creates a digital tally on receiving, tracks piece counts and board footage, and allocates tally to work orders. What arrived is recorded as what arrived, and stays connected to what it becomes.
yield analysis compares input board footage against output board footage so sawmill recovery is a reported rate rather than an end-of-month surprise. Repack Orders covers remanufacture and re-bundling with the lot chain intact.
Grade and species are not attributes you can afford to lose at the first machine. Material issued to a work order is issued by lot and bin, so the specific parcel — and everything recorded about it — stays attached through ripping, planing and re-bundling rather than dissolving into a generic quantity of board feet. When a unit is broken down and rebuilt, Repack Orders keeps the parent and child lots connected, which is what makes a claim about a finished bundle answerable weeks later.
FactorySync handles visual scheduling and capacity planning across the mill, and FactoryBridge records what actually happened at each station — timed operations, coded downtime, and material issued by lot and bin. For operations that also run project-based work, Project2Prod connects projects to production.
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Explore LumberSuiteYes. LumberSuite resolves board-foot quantities on sales orders, purchase orders and work orders, so the same calculation applies wherever the material is transacted.
A digital tally is created at receipt with piece counts and board footage, and can be allocated to work orders, so a bundle stays a list of pieces rather than collapsing into a single quantity.
Yield analysis compares input board footage against output board footage, which is the recovery rate, reported rather than reconstructed.
Dynamic UOM management is the point of the module — material can be received, held and sold in different units with the conversion applied consistently.