NetSuite continues to evolve, and the 2025 Release 1 is packed with features designed to streamline operations and boost efficiency across various departments. From enhanced connectivity to external systems to improvements in field service management and manufacturing, NetSuite 2025.1 offers a range of tools to optimize your business processes. Let’s dive into some of the key highlights:
Seamless Integration with Enhanced Connectors
One of the standout features of this release is the focus on improved connectivity. NetSuite 2025.1 introduces several new connectors designed to bridge the gap between NetSuite and other critical business applications:
NetSuite Connector for Salesforce
Break down data silos between your sales and finance teams. This connector automatically shares data between NetSuite and Salesforce, providing comprehensive, up-to-date insights into order records, customer information, and financial data. This connector, powered by Oracle Integration Cloud, is currently available in North America.
NetSuite Connector for Shopify B2B
For businesses leveraging Shopify’s B2B ecommerce platform, this connector streamlines operations by syncing vital data such as business customers, payment terms, and price lists. Keep NetSuite as your single source of truth for customer, catalog, inventory, sales, and fulfillment data.
NetSuite Connector for Microsoft Outlook
Keep your sales team efficient and organized with this connector, which syncs emails and calendar events with NetSuite CRM. It can even automatically create and update leads directly from Outlook.
These connectors eliminate manual data entry, reduce errors, and provide a centralized view of your business data, empowering you to make more informed decisions.
Field Service Management Gets a Boost
NetSuite 2025.1 brings several enhancements to NetSuite Field Service Management, designed to improve visibility and efficiency for both field technicians and managers:
Automated Time Bill Creation
Say goodbye to manual time tracking. This feature automatically creates time bills based on the captured start and end times of each job, reducing billing errors and simplifying administrative tasks.
Bulk File Uploads
Technicians can now upload multiple files at once in the mobile app, saving time when submitting proof of work or repair documentation.
Streamlining Manufacturing Processes
The 2025.1 release introduces new tools to optimize manufacturing processes:
NetSuite Manufacturing Scheduler SuiteApp
Production managers and schedulers can now optimize production with this tool, which helps allocate production across multiple work centers while considering constraints like operation duration, dependency sequences, and work center calendars.
Auto Serial Numbering SuiteApp
Improve traceability and simplify inventory management with automated serial number generation. This SuiteApp lets you define unique serial number formats for different item codes and automatically assign serial numbers at every stage, reducing manual errors and ensuring compliance.
Additional Enhancements to Maximize Efficiency
Beyond the major updates, NetSuite 2025.1 includes a host of additional features designed to fine-tune your operations:
Specialized User Roles
Introducing lower-priced licenses for users who only need access to specific records, reports, and features in NetSuite CRM, WMS, and NetSuite.
Rate Capabilities in NetSuite Ship Central
Apply flat, discounted, and markup rates to real-time shipping costs, shop for rates while creating orders, and capture pallet weight using a weighing scale.
Increased Flexibility in NetSuite WMS
Break down large pick tasks, replenish multiple bins using a cart, import CSV files for bin transfers, and receive items in any configured unit of measure during a tally scan.
Upgrades to NetSuite SCM Mobile App
Download files for offline access, define custom buttons, and create or clone data tables for improved visibility.
Enhanced Quality Management
A new statistical sampling method, improved receipt return workflows, and increased visibility into inventory and operational details.
Theme Refresh for Commerce Solutions
A modernized look and feel for NetSuite SuiteCommerce.
Rebates Calculation Enhancements
Calculate rebates on SuiteCommerce sales orders, define the general ledger at the agreement level, and recalculate rebates using custom scripts.
Wrap Up
NetSuite 2025 Release 1 offers a wide array of new features and enhancements designed to drive efficiency and improve visibility across your organization. Don’t forget to request your Release Preview test account to experience these new features firsthand and see how they can benefit your specific business needs.
