A connected-device company carries what software companies do not: bills of material, component inventory, contract manufacturers, and a supply chain that determines whether each unit ships at margin. That needs a real operational ERP, not a finance-only tool. Zanovoy implements multiple partners for hardware and device IoT companies around inventory, manufacturing, and device unit economics, then supports it as you scale production.
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Where Device Companies Get Stuck
The majority of expanding hardware companies use a single system for their finances and separate tools or spreadsheets for inventory and production. When production is scaling, the true unit cost and margin remain unknown since the two never reconcile.
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When component stock, work in progress, and finished goods are tracked separately from the general ledger, the cost of goods sold is an estimate. You find out what a build run really cost after it is done, not while you can still act on it.
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Purchase orders to contract manufacturers, component lead times, and landed costs sit in email and spreadsheets. Finance reacts to what was spent instead of seeing commitments as they are made.
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A device that ships with a subscription or data plan has two revenue streams that need different handling. A system built for one or the other forces finance to bridge the gap by hand.
The Right Platform for a Physical Operation
We do not hand device companies a flat list of applications, and we do not force a finance-only tool to run a supply chain it was never built for. We map how you source, build, ship, and bill, then build the stack around the system that fits.
NetSuite unifies inventory, manufacturing, procurement, order management, and accounting in a single system. It provides real-time visibility into costs, margins, inventory, and revenue, making it an ideal platform for companies that build and ship physical products.
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For operating spend and corporate cards, Ramp gives finance real-time visibility into expenses as they happen, with policy and approvals built in, so non-production spend is controlled without heavy procurement overhead.
Selling physical devices creates sales-tax and transaction-tax obligations across states and jurisdictions. Avalara calculates, monitors, and reports them automatically and keeps current as rates and product-category rules change, so a growing hardware footprint does not become a manual tax problem at quarter close.
For planning, Abacum lets a lean finance team build models quickly and run real-time variance against live operating and production data, so forecasting stays a function the existing team owns rather than a reason to hire.
For production and inventory analytics, Power BI reads from NetSuite so leadership sees build, stock, and margin trends without exporting data by hand. It fits naturally where the team already runs on the Microsoft stack, turning live operational data into the dashboards that show where cost and throughput are moving.
Why Device Companies Work With Us
Most IT firms can stand up a database but do not understand bills of material, landed cost, or why margin per device is the number that determines whether a hardware business is healthy. Our teams come from accounting and systems backgrounds and approach your operation from the finance seat.
We earn a commission on the platforms we implement, but our priority is putting you on the right solution. If your business involves inventory, manufacturing, and shipping, you need an operations platform, not just a finance tool, and we’ll tell you that directly.
We configure inventory, BOM structures, manufacturing workflows, and costing to match how you actually build and ship, so the system fits a first production run and still holds at scale.
Component tracking, work-in-progress costing, landed cost, and device margin are the core of the work here, not a generic ERP rollout with the hardware specifics left for you to sort out.
We connect contract manufacturers, billing, spending, analytics, and any device-subscription billing to NetSuite through direct integrations so the data moves on its own and unit margin is visible without manual gathering.
We set up clean records and traceable inventory and revenue from the first month, so a board update, a lender request, or a diligence round is a query, not a fire drill.
The people who advise on the platform are the people who implement it and the people who support it afterward.
A 30-minute conversation about your operation, not a sales demo.
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How the Engagement Runs
We map how you source, build, ship, and bill, then confirm the right configuration, including an honest read on whether your operation needs the full NetSuite platform or a lighter setup would suffice. You get a requirements document and a decision rationale.
We build the inventory structure, bills of material, manufacturing workflows, costing, and chart of accounts around how you actually produce and migrate clean data off your prior systems.
We connect contract manufacturers, billing, spend, analytics, and device-subscription billing to NetSuite through direct integrations, so production and revenue data flow automatically instead of through manual entry.
After go-live we support the monthly close, tune inventory and manufacturing configuration as production scales, and manage integrations so a lean finance team does not need to hire a dedicated NetSuite admin.
Bring your current setup. We'll map an honest path from where you are.
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