Streamline Your Meat Processing Operations with Integrated Cloud ERP Solutions

A $30 billion industry. Razor-thin margins. And most processors are still running five disconnected systems.

Here's what's making that harder every year:

→ Export markets now want lot-level tracking from intake to dispatch. Electronically, within hours. If your traceability data lives in a different system to your financials, every audit is a scramble.

→ Labour shortages aren't going away. A 20%+ workforce gap has been the norm for years. The processors investing in automation and digitisation are the ones pulling ahead.

→ Catch-weight, variable pricing, and multi-entity structures make month-end genuinely complex. That's a systems problem. Not a people problem.

→ Export compliance keeps getting more expensive. Trade policy shifts, ESG requirements, biosecurity protocols. Managing that across disconnected platforms multiplies cost and risk.

Cloud ERP like NetSuite brings lot traceability, catch-weight inventory, multi-entity consolidation, and real-time production costing into one system. Not bolted together. Built together.

We've seen this firsthand. DWR Consulting implemented NetSuite for both Gundagai Meat Processors and Westpork, two of Australia's established meat processors dealing with exactly these challenges. Different operations, different scale, same core problem: disconnected systems that couldn't keep up with the complexity of their business. Today both run traceability, compliance, financials, and production on a single platform configured around how their teams actually work on the floor.

If you're running a processing operation and you're ready to stop stitching systems together, let's have a conversation. No pitch. Just an honest look at whether NetSuite makes sense for your business.

Book a free consultation → https://www.dwr.com.au/contact-us
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