LAS VEGAS, April 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- SUITEWORLD
2019 -- MANA Nutrition, a nonprofit producer of
ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), is using Oracle NetSuite to
support its mission to end severe acute malnutrition (SAM) across
the globe. With NetSuite, MANA has been able to focus time and
resources on the fight to end malnutrition by reducing
manufacturing costs, increasing supply chain efficiency and gaining
a single view into financial data across its growing
organization.
Founded in 2009, MANA produces 425,000 lifesaving meals of RUTF
per day to treat SAM (enough to feed and save 3,500 children in a
six-week treatment program). According to UNICEF,
SAM continues to result in the loss of 3 million young lives a
year across the world and MANA has provided food to almost 3
million children to date. To extend its impact in reducing the cost
of RUTF treatment across the market, and support its growth, MANA
needed a unified business platform that could automate
manufacturing processes, improve supply chain efficiency and
increase visibility into financial data. To support these goals and
enhance measurement and reporting to its benefactors, MANA selected
NetSuite early in its development.
"Our mission is simple, we're here to help end malnutrition for
children around the world. We are on a never-ending quest to find a
better way and are guided by the mindset of 'if it's good, let's
make it great,'" said Chris
Whitfield, CFO, MANA
Nutrition. "NetSuite has been great. It continues to give us
ever increasing levels of visibility into our operations and
enabled us to dramatically and consistently reduce costs by driving
efficiencies across our organization. This has helped us
demonstrate our impact to benefactors and allowed us to reallocate
funds to create more food and save more lives."
With NetSuite, MANA has been able to take advantage of
accounting, inventory management, manufacturing and sales
capabilities on a single platform to improve the efficiency of its
manufacturing process and increase the quality of its products. In
addition, the powerful analytics and financial management
capabilities with NetSuite have helped MANA automate financial
reporting, gauge how its performing against budgeted standards and
milestones, improve investor relations by increasing transparency
into financials and pass stringent audits by international aid
organizations.
"Child malnutrition can stunt a child for a lifetime,
and MANA is making a huge impact through its own work and its
broader impact on the industry," said David
Geilhufe, senior director and social impact leader, Oracle
NetSuite. "We're incredibly proud to work with organizations like
MANA which are creating social impact every day. By giving them the
technology and support to help expand their mission, we are
enabling them to grow and play a small part in making the world a
better place."
NetSuite supports more than 1,300 nonprofits and social
enterprises globally. MANA is currently benefitting from Suite
Pro Bono as part of the NetSuite Social Impact program, which
provides nonprofit and social enterprises with coaching and support
from NetSuite employees. MANA was also able to utilize the
discounted licensing the NetSuite Social Impact program provides to
nonprofits, which has helped MANA lower the prices of RUTF for its
international aid customers.
MANA is also participating in the Hackathon
4Good event happening at SuiteWorld where NetSuite developers,
partners and customers give their day to help NetSuite nonprofit
customers address a complex challenge they are facing.
About MANA Nutrition
MANA Nutrition produces ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), a
fortified peanut paste designed specifically to treat children
diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition (SAM). On average, three
packets of MANA per day for six weeks will save the life of a
starving child. MANA Nutrition also seeks to spread awareness of
SAM and find creative ways to get RUTF to the millions of children
who need it each year. For more information, please visit
www.mananutrition.org or follow us on Instagram at
@mananutrition.
About Oracle NetSuite
For more than 20 years, Oracle NetSuite has helped organizations
grow, scale and adapt to change. NetSuite provides a suite of
cloud-based applications, which includes financials / Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP), HR, professional services automation and
omnichannel commerce, used by more than 16,000 customers in 203
countries and dependent territories.
For more information, please
visit http://www.netsuite.com.
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About Oracle
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applications for Sales, Service, Marketing, Human Resources,
Finance, Supply Chain and Manufacturing, plus Highly Automated and
Secure Generation 2 Infrastructure featuring the Oracle Autonomous
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