INDUSTRY 08.3 — MANUFACTURING & WHOLESALE

Software and websites for manufacturing and wholesale businesses

This sheet is for manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and importers: a factory or warehouse that makes and ships to order, a sales desk that takes orders by phone, email and trade portal, and an inventory or ERP system — Cin7, Unleashed, MYOB Advanced or NetSuite — that every order is meant to pass through. Ozwebnet builds websites, web applications, online stores, data platforms and integrations around the systems you keep. Written from scratch in Adelaide for businesses across Australia, source code and IP assigned to you, under one fixed quote.

FIG. I.03 — THE PARTS BIN: ONE SKU, ONE QUANTITY, ONE BIN, AND A PICK LIST THAT AGREES WITH ALL THREE · HOVER TO POUR
THE SOFTWARE THIS INDUSTRY RUNS 02 / 06

What software does a manufacturing or wholesale business already run?

Most run an inventory or ERP system at the centre — Cin7, Unleashed, MYOB Advanced, NetSuite or Fishbowl — with Xero or MYOB for the accounts. Around it sit the parts the ERP does not reach: orders arriving by phone, email and PDF and keyed in by hand, a production schedule kept in a spreadsheet, a website that shows the range but cannot take a trade order, and a month-end report assembled in Excel from several exports.

01

Cin7

Cin7 Core, formerly DEAR, and Cin7 Omni: stock across warehouses, purchase and sales orders, assemblies and a standard B2B portal, connected to Xero and Shopify. The portal and the screens are the same for every business that runs it; ordering written for your customers and tracking written for your floor are built around it.

02

Unleashed

Cloud inventory for manufacturers and wholesalers: stock by warehouse, bills of materials and assemblies, batch and serial tracking, sales and purchase orders, with Xero and Shopify connections and a sales portal for trade customers. It records what was made and sold; it does not schedule the floor or price a made-to-order product for a customer.

03

MYOB Advanced

MYOB Advanced, now sold as MYOB Acumatica: a full cloud ERP for the mid-sized business — general ledger, inventory, distribution, manufacturing and payroll in one system, across several entities and warehouses. It covers most of what the office needs; the customer-facing side — website, portal, quoting — and the connections to systems outside it are built.

04

NetSuite

Oracle NetSuite: financials, inventory, order management, work orders and CRM as one cloud system, used by larger wholesalers and manufacturers. It has an API most systems can be connected through and its own store add-on; the particular ordering, floor and reporting screens a business wants are built against it rather than inside it.

05

Fishbowl and Katana

Manufacturing inventory for the smaller factory: bills of materials, work orders, stock and purchasing, connected to Xero or QuickBooks, with Shopify on the sales side. They plan what to make from what is in stock; the screen at each station, the job board by machine and the customer's own quoting front end are not in the box.

06

Xero and MYOB

The accounts: invoices, bills, payments, payroll and the BAS, and the books the accountant reads. Neither is a warehouse or production system, so stock, assemblies and price lists usually live in one of the systems above, and the invoice, the bill and the payment land here. Most builds for this industry write to one of them at the end of the flow.

07

Shopify and WooCommerce

The public store and, on Shopify Plus, a wholesale channel with company accounts and price lists. Both sell a catalogue well. Made-to-order products priced by specification, credit limits and approval rules inside a customer's account, and a close connection to the ERP are where a store written for your trade takes over.

08

Spreadsheets, and the pick list on the clipboard

The production schedule in Excel or Google Sheets, the pick list printed from the ERP and walked around the warehouse, and the month-end report assembled from exports. Each is one person's copy of the truth. A production board, a scanning app and reports that read straight from the source replace them.

PRODUCT NAMES BELONG TO THEIR OWNERS. WE CONNECT TO WHAT YOU KEEP; WE DO NOT RESELL ANY OF THEM.

THE FIVE SERVICES, FOR THIS INDUSTRY 03 / 06

What does Ozwebnet build for a manufacturing or wholesale business?

03

Custom websites

A website that shows the range properly: every product with its specifications, data sheet and drawing, capability pages for what you make and to what standard, and a quote request that lands with the right person. A wholesaler's site adds a stockist finder and a trade-account application. The catalogue is yours to edit.

CUSTOM CMS WEBSITES 
04

Web applications

A production board the floor runs on: work orders by machine or cell, each job scanned at every station, materials issued against it, and dispatch told when it is packed. For a warehouse, a pick, pack and scan app on a handheld. Both read orders from your ERP and write status back.

INTERNAL TOOLS 
05

Online stores

A B2B ordering portal for your trade customers: each account logs in to its own price list, reorders from history, sees stock on hand and orders on account, with the sales order landing in Cin7, Unleashed or NetSuite untouched. A made-to-order line gets a configurator that prices as the customer specifies it.

B2B ORDERING PORTALS 
06

Data platforms

One store your ERP, accounting and online orders all feed, and reports written for the decisions you make: margin by product and customer, stock cover and slow movers by warehouse, orders shipped in full and on time, output by machine. A dashboard for the morning meeting, and a month-end pack that arrives by itself.

DASHBOARDS AND REPORTING 
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Systems integration

Orders from the store, the portal and a customer's EDI feed land in your ERP as sales orders, with nobody keying them. Stock on hand goes back to the store, the invoice and payment to Xero or MYOB, the consignment to the carrier, the tracking number to the customer: each a rule that runs itself.

WORKFLOW AUTOMATION 

Not sure which? Ten minutes on 1300 699 321 tells you — Mon–Fri 9–5 ACST.

SPECIMEN 09.4 — A CONCEPT BUILD 04 / 06

What does an engineering firm's site look like when it is built for buyers?

Aldric Precision is a concept build for a CNC machining firm: capabilities laid out like a data sheet, materials, inspection practice, and a request-for-quote flow that asks for the drawing, quantities, material and finish up front. Designed and coded from scratch in its own design system, the way a site for your operation would be.

Aldric Precision is a fictional business. The page is a concept build, designed and coded by Ozwebnet to show the work — not a client project.

OPEN THE SPECIMEN
The Aldric Precision specimen as first seen: a concept build for a fictional business, designed and coded by Ozwebnet
SPECIMEN 09.4 — Aldric Precision · CONCEPT BUILD · NOT A CLIENT
REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION 05 / 06

Questions before you call

RFI-01How much does custom software cost for a manufacturing or wholesale business?

One fixed quote, set in writing before the build and staged against milestones. Stop at any milestone and keep a working system.

RFI-02Do we have to replace Cin7, Unleashed, MYOB or NetSuite?

No. Your inventory or ERP system stays the master of products, stock and customers. We build the portal, the floor screens or the reports around it and connect to what you keep.

RFI-03Can our trade customers order online at their own prices?

Yes. A B2B ordering portal gives each account its own price list, order history and terms, and writes every order into your inventory or ERP system as a sales order.

RFI-04Who owns the software when it is finished?

You do. The source code is delivered and the IP assigned to you at handover.

RFI-05Do you build for manufacturers and wholesalers outside Adelaide?

Yes, Australia-wide. Adelaide first, remote-capable. Call 1300 699 321, Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm Adelaide time; we reply within one business day.

RFQ — REQUEST FOR QUOTE 06 / 06

Get a fixed quote for a manufacturing or wholesale business.

Call, or answer a few short questions — what you run, what breaks, when you need it working — and we reply within one business day. The quote is fixed in writing before any build starts.

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