Industries · Manufacturing

An ERP partner who's lived your plant floor complexity.

We've delivered JDE and NetSuite across 500+ manufacturing environments, automotive suppliers, plastics molders, industrial equipment OEMs, food & beverage producers, aerospace/defense suppliers, and medical device manufacturers. Shop-floor integration, dealer network visibility, CMMC and ITAR readiness, cloud migration. This is what our consultants do every day, not what we do on the side.

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Why Now

Four market forces are re-timing every mid-market manufacturer's ERP decision.

If you're not prioritizing a platform conversation in 2026, these forces will make it for you.

Technology
April 2025
JDE World extended support ended

If you're on World, you're running unsupported. Patching gets harder every month. You have three realistic paths forward: E1 upgrade, R98403 replatform, or NetSuite migration.

Compliance
Nov 2026
CMMC Phase 2 deadline for defense suppliers

Level 2 certification is required to keep DoD flow-through contracts. Prep takes 6 to 18 months. If you miss the deadline, you lose the contracts.

Regulatory
$1.7B
EPA pollution fines in 2026, seven-year high

Manual OSHA and EPA documentation doesn't hold up under audit anymore. Auditors want system-of-record evidence they can trace.

Market
Day 5
PE portfolios want monthly EBITDA by Day 5

Most manufacturing CFOs at PE-owned operations inherit a 15+ day close. That rhythm doesn't survive contact with the sponsor.

What We Do

Core services for mid-market manufacturers.

JD Edwards
JDE Manufacturing Suite

Manufacturing, Quality, Advanced Planning, Advanced Cost Accounting, and Orchestrator for shop-floor integration. Configured for multi-mode operations: discrete, process, MTO, ETO, and mixed-mode. We've delivered 500+ JDE projects.

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NetSuite
Cloud ERP for growing manufacturers

For specialty, contract, and emerging manufacturers who don't need JDE's depth. NetSuite Advanced Manufacturing covers shop floor control, production planning, and financial close. Delivered on our DREAM methodology.

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Managed Services
AppCare & SuiteCare

Senior consultants on JDE (AppCare) or NetSuite (SuiteCare) who treat your environment like their own. You get a dedicated team that knows your plant, your processes, and your integrations. instead of a help desk queue rotating tickets through whoever is on shift.

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Dealer Program
Cloud DMS on NetSuite

A shared cloud DMS for your independent dealer network. Real-time visibility into inventory, sales, service, warranty, and parts across the whole channel. Built on NetSuite, Oracle Platinum Partner-delivered, and proven in the field with independent dealer operators like MacQueen Equipment. Giving you a reference-able platform to roll out across your channel. Dealer modernization without internal IT investment.

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Sub-vertical specificity

Manufacturing isn't monolithic. An auto supplier and a plastics molder don't run the same business.

The word "manufacturing" covers businesses with fundamentally different operational realities, regulatory loads, and customer demands. A Tier-1 auto supplier lives and dies by OEM scorecards. An injection molder lives by cavity yield and press utilization. A medical device maker lives by FDA design controls. GSI's consultants have delivered ERP across all six of these sub-verticals, these are the specifics that drive scope.
Sub-vertical
Automotive & Tier-1 Suppliers

IATF 16949 quality systems, PPAP submission workflows, and customer-specific scorecards (Ford Q1, GM BIQS, Stellantis supplier requirements) that drive production priority. EDI via ANSI X12 830/862/866 for forecasts, releases, and shipment confirmations. JIT sequencing, returnable container management, and the kind of supplier performance reporting that OEMs enforce.

Sub-vertical
Plastics & Injection Molding

Mold and tool lifecycle tracking with press utilization, cycle time capture, and scrap analysis at the cavity level. Regrind management balancing cost recovery with quality specifications. Resin inventory tied to multi-supplier contracts and color matching. Multi-cavity yield math that breaks if a single cavity fails mid-shift, and the cost accounting to match.

Sub-vertical
Industrial Equipment & Heavy Machinery

Configure-to-order (CTO) and engineer-to-order (ETO) quoting with serialized equipment tracked through warranty and service lifecycle. Parts business integrated with independent dealer networks via Cloud DMS on NetSuite. Multi-year capital project accounting for installed systems. Field service integration for the post-sale service economy that often represents 30 to 50% of lifetime revenue.

Sub-vertical
Food & Beverage Manufacturing

FSMA 204 traceability with lot-level Key Data Elements and Critical Tracking Events from raw material receipt through finished goods. Allergen management, recipe and formula control, shelf life tracking, and batch records. Kosher, halal, and organic certification requirements tied to supplier validation and lot segregation. See our food and beverage page for the full NetSuite stack detail.

Sub-vertical
Aerospace & Defense

AS9100 Rev D quality management, ITAR export controls with US Person data segregation, CMMC 2.0 Level 2 readiness for DoD suppliers, and FAA airworthiness documentation. Configuration management across serialized lifecycle with full genealogy from raw material to end-item. AOG (Aircraft on Ground) parts response workflows for aftermarket operators and MRO businesses.

Sub-vertical
Medical Device Manufacturing

FDA 21 CFR Part 820 Quality System Regulation with Design History File (DHF) and Device History Record (DHR) controls. UDI (Unique Device Identification) implementation tied to EU MDR and global traceability mandates. Validated computer systems under 21 CFR Part 11. Change control and nonconformance management at the level FDA audits probe at.

Beyond Advanced Manufacturing

The NetSuite stack GSI delivers for manufacturers.

NetSuite isn't one module. For mid-market manufacturers, a real implementation typically spans six to eight products: shop floor to capital equipment to channel rebates. This is what we configure, validate, and run. GSI is a top-ranked NetSuite partner on G2 for a reason.
NetSuite
Advanced Inventory

Lot and serial tracking, multi-location bins, landed cost modeling, cycle counting. If your operation has traceability discipline used to live in spreadsheets or a legacy WMS that didn't talk to the ERP.

NetSuite
Work Orders & Assemblies

The entry tier of NetSuite manufacturing. BOM management, work order tracking, assembly workflows. Right-sized when your operations are more than kits but not full MES. Clean upgrade path to Advanced Manufacturing as complexity grows.

NetSuite
Field Service Management

Service dispatch, technician scheduling, van inventory, preventive maintenance, service report capture. If your operation has installed equipment throws off service revenue that isn't being tracked or billed against.

NetSuite
Rebate Management

Program design, accrual tracking, payout calculation, channel partner visibility. For manufacturers running rebate programs with distributors and dealers. Turning quarterly spreadsheet surprises into real-time margin visibility.

NetSuite
Fixed Assets

Automated depreciation across multiple methods, ASC 842 lease compliance, asset lifecycle tracking. If your operation has capital equipment has been depreciating in Excel. Whose CFO has been rebuilding the schedule every month.

NetSuite
Multibook

US GAAP, IFRS, and local statutory books running in parallel from one source of truth. Essential for global manufacturers with subsidiary reporting obligations that would otherwise require three versions of every transaction.

Industry Challenges

Challenges every manufacturer is dealing with.

Sixteen challenges, four buckets, organized around how manufacturing buyers think about their work. Click through to see what each one costs and how GSI solves it.

01
Can't see past tier-1 suppliers, and tariffs are killing margin.
02
One ERP at HQ, a different system at every plant.
03
Month-end close has a 4-day inventory reconciliation bottleneck.
04
Shop-floor data and ERP live on two different planets.
Tariff volatility compounding
"I can't see past my tier-1 suppliers, and tariffs are killing my margin."

Tariff volatility has made multi-tier supply chain visibility a top cost concern. Cost roll-ups across components, suppliers, and geographies need to be real-time, but most manufacturers still run them as quarterly spreadsheet exercises. The gap between when a tariff shifts and when your cost model catches up is where margin disappears.

How GSI Solves This · JDE or NetSuite
JDE Advanced Cost Accounting handles multi-tier BOM roll-ups, landed-cost modeling, and supplier hierarchies. NetSuite handles the equivalent with a stack: Advanced Manufacturing for BOM roll-ups, Advanced Inventory for landed cost, and Advanced Procurement for supplier hierarchies and contract management.
"I'm running one ERP at HQ and a different system at every plant."

Multi-site manufacturing with disconnected ERPs creates visibility gaps, duplicated master data, and close-cycle delays. The real cost shows up at month-end consolidation, and every time sales needs cross-plant inventory visibility.

How GSI Solves This · JD Edwards
JDE multi-site manufacturing consolidation. Shared master data, cross-plant inventory visibility, single chart of accounts. We've refined this across 500+ manufacturing projects.
"My month-end close has a 4-day inventory reconciliation bottleneck."

Inventory reconciliation between shop floor, warehouse, and financial systems is the single most common source of close delays in manufacturing. Four days of reconciliation is four days you can't give investors or operational leaders real numbers.

How GSI Solves This · JD Edwards
JDE Manufacturing Accounting delivers real-time inventory-to-GL reconciliation, automated cycle counting, and standard cost variance tracking. Day-5 close is achievable.
"My shop-floor data and ERP live on two different planets."

MES, SCADA, and shop-floor systems generate data that never makes it into the ERP, leaving production planning blind. Shop-floor-to-ERP integration is where most manufacturing consultants fail, because it requires actual plant experience.

How GSI Solves This · JD Edwards
JDE Orchestrator handles shop-floor integration as native JDE, not a middleware project. Real-time data flows from MES, SCADA, and third-party systems into production planning and cost accounting.
01
We supply defense primes and CMMC Phase 2 hits in November.
02
ITAR and export control audits keep finding gaps.
03
We're the #1 cyberattack target and our ERP partner can't help.
04
EPA fines are climbing and our environmental tracking is manual.
CMMC deadline 7 months
"We supply defense primes and CMMC Phase 2 hits us in November."

If you supply defense primes, you need CMMC Level 2 certification by November 2026 to keep DoD flow-through contracts. Prep takes 6 to 18 months. Miss the deadline and you lose the contracts. The certification runway is now measured in months, not quarters.

How GSI Solves This · Cybersecurity + JDE
vCISO-led CMMC readiness assessment. JDE security role mapping to NIST 800-171 controls. SIEM deployment. Documentation aligned to what DoD assessors look for.
Audit exposure active
"ITAR and export control audits keep finding gaps in who touched what."

ITAR and EAR compliance requires person-level audit trails on who accessed which technical data, exports, and design files. Manual logs don't hold up under BIS or DDTC audit, and a single uncontrolled export is a criminal violation.

How GSI Solves This · Cybersecurity + JDE
JDE security role configuration for ITAR data segregation. Automated access logging. Integration with cybersecurity SIEM so audit trails run cross-system. Evidence becomes system-of-record.
Industry-targeted attacks
"We're the #1 cyberattack target and our ERP partner doesn't do security."

Manufacturing has been the most-targeted industry by cybercriminals for 12 consecutive quarters. Ransomware on your shop floor halts production on the spot. Most JDE and NetSuite consultants don't offer security services, leaving operators with six-figure incidents no one planned for.

How GSI Solves This · Cybersecurity
vCISO-led cybersecurity program. SIEM deployment. Endpoint detection. Incident response. All delivered by the same firm that knows your ERP, not referred out to a third-party MSSP.
EPA enforcement climbing
"Our EPA fines are climbing and our environmental tracking is manual."

EPA pollution fines hit $1.7B in 2026, a seven-year high. Manual documentation for emissions, waste streams, and environmental compliance no longer survives audit. Auditors want system-of-record evidence, not reconstructed spreadsheets.

How GSI Solves This · JD Edwards
JDE Environmental Accounting covers emissions tracking, waste stream documentation, OSHA incident logging, and EPA reporting automation. Compliance becomes a report, not a project.
01
JDE World extended support ended. We need a path forward.
02
My JDE runs on iSeries hardware that IBM is sunsetting.
03
15 years of custom JDE code and nobody remembers why.
04
Monitoring tells me there's a problem after users already noticed.
Support ended April 2025
"JDE World extended support ended. We need a path forward."

As of April 2025, JDE World environments are running unsupported. Security patches are harder to source, third-party integrations are degrading, and every new hire finds the stack harder to understand. The longer you wait, the narrower your options get.

How GSI Solves This · JDE or NetSuite
Three-path assessment that compares E1 upgrade, R98403 iSeries-to-SQL replatform, and NetSuite migration against your actual operational complexity, compliance needs, and growth plans.
Hardware EOL
"My JDE runs on iSeries hardware that IBM is sunsetting."

IBM iSeries/Power hardware supporting legacy JDE environments is reaching end-of-life for several model generations. R98403 replatforming from iSeries to SQL is a genuine technical differentiator: third-party replication tools cannot perform JDE Data Dictionary transformations.

How GSI Solves This · JD Edwards
R98403 replatform from iSeries to SQL Server, with full Data Dictionary transformation. GSI is one of the few firms that can do this migration without reimplementation.
"I have 15 years of custom JDE code and nobody remembers why."

Custom code accumulated over decades of configuration changes, integrations, and workarounds becomes institutional debt. When the developers who wrote it leave, every enhancement turns into a risk assessment.

How GSI Solves This · KinectIQ
GENOME AI for JDE custom code modernization. Converts legacy custom code to modern Orchestrations, with automated documentation, dependency mapping, and test coverage generation.
"My JDE monitoring tells me there's a problem after my users already noticed."

Reactive monitoring means the first signal of a performance problem is an angry shift supervisor or a missed schedule. By the time you notice, the issue has been degrading for days, and root-causing it takes even longer.

How GSI Solves This · KinectIQ
GENIUS AI monitors JDE and NetSuite environments 24/7. Anomaly detection, natural-language queries on environment data, and predictive alerts that catch problems before they reach users.
01
PE sponsor wants Day-5 close. We're at Day 15.
02
Just acquired a competitor. Three ERPs, three charts of accounts.
03
Opening plants in Mexico and we've never run multi-country.
04
Buyers want B2B eCommerce but our ERP has no digital layer.
"Our PE sponsor wants Day-5 close. We're at Day 15."

PE-backed manufacturers face the same close-cycle compression as other PE portfolio companies. A 15-day close turns into a deal-maker conversation, and the CFO is the one having it.

How GSI Solves This · JDE or NetSuite
Close acceleration on both platforms. Automated consolidation, multi-entity financial close, GAAP-compliant investor reporting. Day-5 close is achievable. We've delivered it.
"We just acquired a competitor. Three ERPs, three charts of accounts."

M&A integration is where manufacturing ERP decisions get made. The target's system has to integrate, migrate, or retire. The playbook you use determines whether the deal delivers synergy in months or years.

How GSI Solves This · JDE or NetSuite
M&A integration methodology. Target-system assessment, chart-of-accounts harmonization, master data consolidation, and a phased migration path that keeps both operations running through the transition.
"We're opening plants in Mexico and we've never run multi-country."

Multi-country manufacturing introduces localization, multi-currency, multi-language, and statutory reporting requirements that don't exist in domestic-only environments. Getting it wrong creates audit exposure in every country you operate in.

How GSI Solves This · JDE or NetSuite
JDE and NetSuite both support multi-country manufacturing with country-specific localizations. We configure against actual statutory requirements like SAT in Mexico, CFDI integration, bilingual reporting. Not generic templates.
"Buyers want B2B eCommerce but our ERP has no digital layer."

B2B buyers expect digital ordering, real-time inventory, and self-service quote-to-cash. Manufacturers without a digital layer are losing share to competitors who invested earlier.

How GSI Solves This · HubSpot + JDE
HubSpot CMS Hub with native JDE/NetSuite integration. Real-time inventory sync, customer-specific pricing, self-service ordering. Delivered through Flawless Inbound, our HubSpot Diamond Partner practice.
Quick Answers

Common questions about GSI manufacturing consulting.

The short version. For regulatory detail, case study depth, or differentiation, keep reading below.

What does GSI do for manufacturers?

We build and run the ERP environments mid-market manufacturers rely on. JDE Manufacturing, NetSuite Advanced Manufacturing, shop-floor integration, compliance, cybersecurity. Most of our work runs on JD Edwards for multi-site and multi-country operators, and NetSuite for growing manufacturers who don't need JDE's depth.

What kinds of manufacturers do you work with?

Discrete, process, ETO, CTO, and mixed-mode manufacturers. Typically mid-market up through publicly-traded. Automotive parts, heavy equipment, industrial, specialty, and contract manufacturing. Lufkin Industries is one of our references. We delivered JDE on Azure for 1,200 employees across 8 countries.

JDE or NetSuite for my manufacturing operation?

Depends on scale, complexity, and compliance profile. JDE Manufacturing fits multi-site operators, regulated industries, and operations needing deep manufacturing modules. NetSuite fits growing manufacturers who want cloud ERP without JDE's depth. We deliver both, so the conversation starts with your operation, not our bench.

Can GSI handle CMMC and ITAR compliance?

Yes. Cybersecurity is on the same bench. vCISO-led CMMC readiness, JDE security role mapping to NIST 800-171, SIEM deployment, and documentation aligned to DoD assessor requirements. For ITAR: person-level access logging, BIS/DDTC reporting, cross-system audit trails. Run in-house instead of being referred out to a third-party MSSP.

What about shop-floor integration?

JDE Orchestrator handles MES, SCADA, and third-party plant system integration as native JDE, not a middleware project. Real-time shop-floor data flows into production planning, cost accounting, and inventory without manual touchpoints.

What makes GSI different for manufacturing?

Three things worth knowing. We run JDE Manufacturing for publicly-traded operators across 500+ JDE projects. Cybersecurity, cloud, and AI work all run on the same bench rather than being referred out. And our consultants average 15 years in the industries they serve, so you're not paying us to learn your plant floor.

CMMC 2.0 (DoD Suppliers)

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Level 2 is required for defense flow-through contracts. NIST 800-171 controls, SIEM monitoring, and documented evidence.
Phase 2 Nov 2026

IATF 16949 (Automotive Parts)

Quality management standard for automotive production. Covers PPAP/APQP workflows, lot traceability, supplier scorecards, and nonconformance tracking.
Annual audits

ITAR / EAR (Defense & Dual-Use)

Export controls on defense articles and dual-use technology. Requires person-level audit trails, classification-aware access, and BIS/DDTC reporting.
Enforcement active

UFLPA (Supply Chain Forced Labor)

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act requires supply chain provenance evidence. Includes conflict minerals (3TG) reporting, supplier documentation, and rebuttable presumption compliance.
Customs scrutiny

EPA (Environmental)

Covers the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, RCRA, and TSCA. Emissions tracking, waste stream documentation, and reporting automation all flow through the ERP.
Fines climbing

OSHA (Workplace Safety)

Incident logging, recordkeeping, safety training records, and hazard communication. OSHA 300/300A/301 reporting is built into operations.
Daily operations

SOX (Public Manufacturers)

Internal controls over financial reporting. Segregation of duties, audit trails, and GAAP compliance across multi-entity consolidation.
Quarterly filings
Case Study

Lufkin Industries: SAP to JDE on Azure, delivered with zero client-side IT.

ManufacturingJD EdwardsAzure Cloud
How GSI replaced a heavily-customized SAP environment with a net-new cloud JDE stack.

Lufkin was migrating off a heavily customized SAP environment with no internal IT team and consultants spread across onshore and offshore firms. GSI delivered a net-new JDE implementation on Microsoft Azure for 1,200 employees across 8 countries, then stood up GatewayNow ServiceNow alongside go-live.

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GSI took ownership of the entire migration. We didn't have an IT team to throw at the problem, and they delivered SAP retirement and net-new JDE on Azure without us having to staff up.

Operations Leadership
Lufkin Industries, Specialty Manufacturing
The GSI Difference

Six practices, one bench.

Most established manufacturers run on JDE. The decision doesn't stop at the module though. Compliance, cybersecurity, shop-floor integration, and cross-platform reporting all get delivered from the same bench, with no referrals out and no offshore handoffs.
Primary practice

JDE Manufacturing, delivered at plant-floor depth

We don't just configure manufacturing modules. We run JDE environments where multi-site production, real-time shop-floor integration, and compliance audits have to hold up every month. The hard part of manufacturing ERP isn't the modules themselves. It's making them survive contact with an actual plant.
Manufacturing · Quality · Advanced Planning
Primary JDE modules in scope
Orchestrator · Shop-Floor Integration
MES, SCADA, EDI connections
500+ JDE projects · R98403 replatform
iSeries to SQL migration expertise
NetSuite
For growing manufacturers
When JDE is overkill, NetSuite Advanced Manufacturing handles production, MRP, and financials on our DREAM methodology.
HubSpot
B2B eCommerce + CRM
HubSpot CMS Hub with JDE or NetSuite integration for digital ordering. Delivered through Flawless Inbound.
Cybersecurity
CMMC + ITAR built in
vCISO, SIEM, CMMC prep, and ITAR controls. all on the same bench rather than referred out.
KinectIQ
AI for ERP environments
GENIUS monitors JDE and NetSuite 24/7. GENOME modernizes legacy code.
Delivery
North America-based
Consultants in your time zone, with no offshore handoffs when the line goes down.
Frequently Asked

The questions manufacturers ask us most.

Yes. We deliver JDE and NetSuite for suppliers to defense primes, with integrated CMMC readiness, ITAR controls, and export compliance. Cybersecurity is on the same bench, not referred out to a third-party MSSP.

Yes. Lufkin Industries runs JDE on Azure across 1,200 employees in 8 countries. We handle localization, multi-currency, statutory reporting, and country-specific workflows for Mexico, Canada, UK, EU, and APAC geographies.

Extended support ended April 2025. Our three-path assessment compares E1 upgrade, R98403 iSeries-to-SQL replatform, and NetSuite migration against your operational complexity. GSI is one of the few firms that can perform R98403 Data Dictionary transformations.

Yes. JDE Orchestrator handles shop-floor integration with MES, SCADA, and third-party plant systems as native JDE, not a middleware project. Real-time data flows into production planning and cost accounting without manual touchpoints.

Depends on scope. Single-site NetSuite implementations run 4 to 6 months on DREAM. Multi-site JDE implementations run 8 to 16 months. JDE World-to-E1 migrations run 6 to 12 months. Timelines get published at assessment, not guessed at.

Both. GSI is #1 on G2 for NetSuite for five consecutive years and is an Oracle Platinum Partner with 500+ JDE projects. We route the platform conversation based on your operational profile, not our bench utilization.

Start with an automotive assessment, not a demo.

Thirty minutes with an automotive practice lead. We'll walk you through what an assessment covers, what it costs, and whether GSI is the right fit, before anyone signs anything. 

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