Go Healthy supplements its success with NetSuite

Why Go Healthy chose NetSuite ERP

The last decade has seen additional opportunities for the growing Go Healthy brand, including the development of Go Healthy Australia, the establishment of their manufacturing division for increasingly vertical integration, and the need to consolidate their international operations. The challenge, as Veldman sees it, was the need to have a common platform across the three businesses. And that meant operating in the cloud. 

“One platform was on the existing premises, one was cloud-based, but we’d grown beyond its limitations. And Australia didn’t yet exist! We needed a recognised system that would work across the businesses that could be quickly implemented in Australia.”

Shaun Veldman | Group IT Manager

Go Healthy worked with a consultancy firm that knew and trusted that NetSuite could deliver a true cloud strategy. NetSuite could be customised to Go Healthy’s needs, minimising barriers to growth and scalability and reducing unnecessary costs and admin time.  

Within a short time of transitioning their operations to NetSuite, Go Healthy knew they were onto a winner.

“The new NetSuite manufacturing module developed allowed us to become more process driven,” says Veldman. “Our previous solution’s steps were out of order, so it created a lot more work at the other end. NetSuite enabled us to focus on proper throughput – it’s helped us reflect on and improve our manufacturing processes too.” 

One of the big wins for the New Zealand branch has been the “massive improvements” to the shipping and scanning for the business, which has had flow-on effects to customers, including batch traceability and documentation. Add to that the EDI interface between NetSuite and Go Healthy’s third-party logistics suppliers that enabled them to transfer orders directly to the supplying arm and file the invoice back, and the project has been considered a “big success.”

Now, rather than manually bringing in data from three disparate systems, NetSuite’s streamlined accounting processes have enabled Go Healthy to halve the time spent reconciling financial information.  

By utilising a scalable cloud solution, Go Healthy has been able to fast-track its ambitious growth plans. Despite the tight timeframe, the business was successfully established and fully operational with NetSuite by the launch of the Australian brand.