Blog by Peter Fung, Senior Director Product Management ERP, Oracle NetSuite
NetSuite 2019 Release 2 Brings Business Impact in a Big Way
The beginning of summer brings more than picnics in the park, big action movies and family vacations. It also brings a hotly-awaited NetSuite product release, and this year’s NetSuite 2019 Release 2 is a barbecue, blockbuster and trip to Disneyland all rolled into one.
NetSuite customers receive two major upgrades per year, each bringing new features and functionality that are completed within an hour on average at no extra cost. NetSuite 2019 Release 2 delivers significant business impact, with everything from powerful new financial capabilities and refined human capital management processes to beefed-up analytics and an expanded box of developer tools, as well as a wide array of industry-specific features.
Mobile Enhancements
NetSuite mobile enables users to stay connected, even on the go. iPhone users of NetSuite can now capture time and expense offline, when they are not connected. Once connected, the app will sync all the information captured. Simplified navigation will help users easily maneuver through app. A dashboard call log enables easy tracking of incoming and outgoing business calls. Reset password has also been added for forgotten passwords.
SuiteAnalytics
SuiteAnalytics meets customers’ growing thirst for actionable data, and an intuitive new user interface brings those insights to the entire NetSuite environment faster than ever. Pre-built SuiteAnalytics workbooks for Commerce, Sales and Procurement improve execution by highlighting opportunities and revealing potential issues. What’s more, SuiteAnalytics can be used to leverage analytics anywhere within the SuiteCloud platform.
Global Financials
Meanwhile, on the financial front, NetSuite 2019 Release 2 will provide the increasingly diversified and global population of NetSuite customers with:
- Improved multi-subsidiary management and accounting.
- New advanced data import features that streamline bank reconciliation.
- More flexible and granular revenue recognition capabilities.
- Improved support for your operations around the world with general ledger impact printing for China and additional depreciation methods for Japan.
Industry-Specific Enhancements
NetSuite 2019 Release 2 addresses a wide array of problems for businesses across industries.
For food wholesale distributors and manufacturers, this release includes:
- A new warehouse management solution that increases productivity with a flexible wave release process, paperless picking and an intuitive mobile interface.
- Supply allocation that improves customer service levels by optimizing usage of current and future inventory assets for customer orders.
- The Supply Chain Control Tower, which provides unparalleled visibility and enables manufacturers and wholesale distributors to avoid problems in their supply chains. The enhancement gives users a single view of the state of their supply chains and delivers predicted risks and recommended actions to avoid disruptions.
- Learn more about new enhancements for Manufacturers and Wholesale Distributors in NetSuite 2019 Release 2.
Platform Improvements
As with every NetSuite release, there are also goodies for developers. SuiteCloud Platform enhancements in NetSuite 2019 Release 2 include support for industry standards such as REST services for integration and OpenID Connect for federated authentication, enabling developers to further customize and extend NetSuite.
In general, NetSuite 2019 Release 2 pushes the developer and administrator experience forward, making it easier to localize NetSuite applications, harden security and harness the power of SuiteScript and NetSuite’s software development framework.
Clearly, there’s a lot to learn about NetSuite 2019 Release 2—more than I can possibly communicate in a blog post. Please read the release notes and check out our Sneak Peek to learn how this latest NetSuite release can benefit your organization.
Perhaps more importantly: Access your preview account as soon as it’s available. Not only can you see how the new features will work with your own data, but it doesn’t cost a dime.