Real-Time Visibility
Across Every
Profit Center.
Automotive businesses run on thin margins and complex inventory. 3988 configures NetSuite for dealerships, distributors, manufacturers, and service centers — giving you the operational clarity to compete and grow.
Four Business Models.
One ERP Platform.
Select your business type to see exactly what we configure for you.
Dealership Operations Built Into NetSuite.
Automotive Retail
Multi-rooftop dealerships struggle with fragmented reporting across vehicle sales, F&I, parts, and service. We bring every department into NetSuite with department-level P&L, vehicle-level costing, and real-time floorplan visibility.
- Vehicle-level gross profit by unit
- F&I revenue tracking and reserve reporting
- Parts department inventory and reorder
- Service labor and parts margin by RO
- Multi-rooftop consolidated reporting
- DMS integration (CDK, Reynolds & Reynolds, DealerSocket)
Parts Distribution at Scale.
Wholesale Distribution
Automotive wholesale distributors need real-time inventory, automated replenishment, and customer-specific pricing. NetSuite handles complex pricing matrices, multi-warehouse inventory, and high-volume order processing with precision.
- Multi-warehouse inventory with bin tracking
- Customer-specific price books and tiers
- Automated reorder points and PO generation
- Returns, cores, and exchange management
- Drop-ship fulfillment automation
- Supplier EDI integration
End-to-End Production Visibility.
Automotive Manufacturing
Automotive parts manufacturers need tight production cost control, material traceability, and supply chain visibility. NetSuite's manufacturing module — configured by 3988 — gives you accurate standard costing, WIP tracking, and quality control workflows.
- Bill of materials with revision control
- Production work orders and WIP tracking
- Standard cost vs. actual variance reporting
- Raw material procurement and supplier tracking
- Lot and serial number traceability
- Quality control and NCR management
Service Revenue Tracked to the Repair Order.
Automotive Repair Centers
Multi-bay service operations need labor efficiency tracking, parts margins, and job-level profitability. We configure NetSuite to give your service managers a real-time view of every open RO, technician productivity, and department margin.
- Repair order management and profitability
- Technician time tracking and labor efficiency
- Parts margin by service category
- Warranty and insurance claim tracking
- Service advisor performance reporting
- Multi-location service department P&L
Automotive Businesses Run Complex.
Your ERP Needs to Keep Up.
Most automotive operators run disconnected systems — DMS, inventory software, and QuickBooks — with no clean way to see the full picture across departments and locations.
Inventory visibility is always a day behind
Parts and vehicle inventory live in one system, financials in another. Reconciling them is manual and prone to costly errors.
No clear profit by department or rooftop
You know the total P&L, but drilling into service vs. parts vs. sales gross profit — by location — requires hours of work.
Purchasing and AP is manual and duplicated
Vehicle flooring, parts POs, and vendor invoices are tracked in different places with no unified view of what's owed.
Month-end requires heroic effort
Reconciling the DMS, parts inventory, floor plan, and accounting is a multi-day process every single month.
NetSuite Configured for Automotive Operations.
Built for how automotive businesses actually run — not a generic ERP with automotive labels.
Real-Time Inventory Management
Parts, vehicles, raw materials, and finished goods tracked in real time with automated replenishment, multi-location visibility, and cost-layer accuracy.
Vehicle & Job Costing
Every cost associated with a vehicle or repair order — parts, labor, F&I, reconditioning — tracked from acquisition to sale with accurate gross profit by unit.
Multi-Rooftop & Multi-Entity
Manage multiple dealership locations, distribution centers, or manufacturing plants in one NetSuite environment with location-level P&L and consolidated reporting.
DMS & Supplier Integrations
Connect NetSuite to your DMS (CDK, Reynolds, DealerSocket), supplier EDI feeds, and floorplan lenders so data flows automatically without manual entry.
Department P&L Dashboards
Real-time profit dashboards for every department — New, Used, F&I, Service, Parts — with benchmarking against prior periods and budget targets.
Procurement & AP Automation
Streamline purchasing across parts, vehicles, and supplies with PO automation, 3-way matching, and vendor payment workflows that eliminate manual AP entry.