As businesses continue to prioritize efficiency and productivity in 2025, NetSuite has responded with its latest release packed with powerful new features. NetSuite 2025.1 brings significant enhancements across the platform, from new connectors and procurement solutions to AI-powered tools and manufacturing improvements. Let’s dive into how these updates can help streamline your operations and boost your business performance.

More Connections to External Systems

NetSuite 2025.1 introduces three new connectors that will help you eliminate data silos and reduce manual data entry:

• NetSuite Connector for Salesforce: This connector automatically shares data between NetSuite and Salesforce to accelerate your order-to-cash and revenue recognition processes. With aligned data in both systems, you’ll gain improved visibility into order records, customer insights, and financial data. Available in North America, this connector is powered by Oracle Integration Cloud, letting you set up and monitor data flows through a self-serve interface.
• NetSuite Connector for Shopify B2B: Map data between NetSuite and the Shopify B2B ecommerce platform to streamline your operations. This connector syncs business customers, payment terms, and price lists, keeping NetSuite as your single source of truth for customer, catalog, inventory, and sales data.
• NetSuite Connector for Microsoft Outlook: Keep your CRM records up to date by syncing emails and calendar events from Outlook with NetSuite CRM. This integration automatically creates and updates leads directly from Outlook.

Enhanced Procurement with SuiteProcurement

The 2025.1 release introduces NetSuite SuiteProcurement, an indirect procurement solution powered by Oracle Business Network (OBN). This new module helps you:

• Track and control purchases of operating supplies
• Increase accuracy by automating approval processes
• Manage documents electronically
• Shop on suppliers’ ecommerce sites with access to volume discounts

When making a purchase, SuiteProcurement creates a purchase request, initiates the approval process, and automatically transmits the order once approved. Amazon Business and Staples Business Advantage are the first supported suppliers, offering significant benefits to SuiteProcurement customers.

Streamlined Field Service Management

Field technicians and managers will benefit from several new features in NetSuite Field Service Management:

• Automatic Time Bills: The system now automatically creates time bills based on the start and end times of each job, helping you track field service activity more accurately and reduce billing errors.
• Bulk File Uploads: Technicians can now upload multiple files at once to the mobile app, saving valuable time when providing proof of work or documenting repairs.

Manufacturing Enhancements

NetSuite 2025.1 introduces two key tools to optimize your manufacturing processes:

• NetSuite Manufacturing Scheduler SuiteApp: This tool helps production managers optimize production by allocating tasks across multiple work centers while considering constraints like operation duration, dependency sequences, and unique work center calendars.
• Auto Serial Numbering SuiteApp: Automate serial number generation to improve traceability, simplify inventory management, and reduce manual errors. You can define unique serial number formats for different item codes and automatically assign them at every stage.

AI-Powered Reporting and Analytics

Finance teams will appreciate the new AI capabilities in NetSuite 2025.1:

• NetSuite Narrative Reporting: This new feature in NetSuite Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) uses generative AI to quickly create narratives and explanations from your financial and transactional data.
• Enhanced Cash Forecasting: NetSuite Cash 360 now incorporates amounts and due dates from installments to more accurately forecast cash inflow and outflow from customer invoices and vendor bills.

Improved Bill Capture and Financial Management

The 2025.1 release includes several enhancements to NetSuite Bill Capture:

• Reference number column and duplicate detection warnings
• Ability to add user notes that carry over to the bill
• Option to remove uploads in bulk
• Templates per subsidiary and vendor combination
• Support for NetSuite SuiteTax, discounts, and payment holds
• Side-by-side split view of uploaded files and generated bills
• UK support when used with NetSuite SuiteTax

Additionally, NetSuite has expanded its bank connectivity with a new financial aggregator that allows connections to over 14,000 financial institutions in the US and Canada, including OAuth connections to over 700 banks.

Simplified Compliance and Grant Management

Compliance is easier with these new features:

• NetSuite Compliance 360: Access new, reusable templates for recurring audits, enhanced audit documentation functionality, and improved user experience with intuitive visuals.
• Grant Management SuiteApp: Add grant management functionality to any SuiteSuccess edition, including segments, records, KPIs, and reporting to support organizations that receive both commercial and government revenue.

Warehouse Management Improvements

NetSuite WMS gets several efficiency-boosting updates:

• Break down larger pick tasks into smaller quantities
• Replenish multiple bins using a cart
• Import CSV files in bulk for bin transfer
• Receive items in any configured unit of measure during a tally scan

Customer Experience Enhancements

The 2025.1 release brings several improvements to enhance your customer relationships:

• Direct Invoice Payment Option: Generate invoices with email links that direct customers to your NetSuite SuiteCommerce site, allowing them to easily access and pay specific invoices.
• Enhanced Customer 360: Access new charts, metrics, and lists to quickly get up to speed on a customer’s status and relationship history. New features include an opportunities and estimates tab, orders and returns tab, and an enhanced overview tab with more transaction types and dynamic sales headlines.
• Theme Refresh for Commerce Solutions: NetSuite SuiteCommerce gets a facelift, improving usability and interface inclusivity.

Security and Development Updates

For developers and administrators, NetSuite 2025.1 includes:

• End of SuiteSignOn (SSO) support, requiring transition to NetSuite as an OIDC Provider
• End of support for RSA PKCSv1.5 (OAuth 2.0), requiring migration to the RSA-PSS scheme
• New custom objects for prompts and Text Enhance actions in SuiteCloud Development Framework
• Removal of the outdated Ext JS library to encourage migration to modern frameworks

Additional Enhancements

• Specialized User Roles: Lower-priced licenses for users who only need access to specific records, reports, and features.
• Enhanced Rebates Calculations: Calculate rebates on sales orders from NetSuite SuiteCommerce and based on data elements unique to individual operations.
• SuiteTax Improvements: Better US tax reporting and support for combining time items and detail items on invoices and expense reports.
• Workforce Management Features: New region-based override options for managing pay for noncompliant meal or rest breaks, plus pre-configured wage agreements for the hospitality and fast food industries in Australia.
• Digital W2 Form Access: Employees can now access their digital W2 forms themselves through the employee center.

Getting Started with NetSuite 2025.1

NetSuite 2025.1 is rolling out in phases between February and April 2025. You can check your specific upgrade date in the New Release Portlet on your NetSuite dashboard. For hands-on access to see how these new features will work with your data, workflows, and customizations, don’t forget to request your Release Preview test account.

With these comprehensive enhancements, NetSuite 2025.1 provides you with the tools you need to increase efficiency, streamline operations, and stay competitive in today’s fast-paced business environment.