2020-07-16T06:21:04Z

What is your primary use case for NetSuite ERP?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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AB
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-12-07T14:59:35Z
Dec 7, 2023

We plan to utilize the component specifically designed for financial planning and budgeting within NetSuite, known as NSPB. This will enable us to budget for the upcoming year. Additionally, we will employ the platform for accounting purposes, including bank reconciliations and fundamental accounting tasks.

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Venkat Sudni - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2023-06-02T16:36:12Z
Jun 2, 2023

NetSuite is a complete set of business applications that covers everything from financial auditing to manufacturing and customer support.

Juan Carlos Escobar Gama - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-04-21T20:30:00Z
Apr 21, 2023

It is a very solid product for finance and procure-to-pay processes.

YJ
Real User
Top 5
2023-03-31T12:49:00Z
Mar 31, 2023

We use it for the projects we do in the telecom industry.

Mohammed Shakir Ibrahim - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2023-01-30T14:50:00Z
Jan 30, 2023

Primarily, NetSuite is used for finance, procurement, inventory, and CRM. The solution offers advanced CRM features such as newsletter and marketing capabilities. Furthermore, NetSuite ERP has advanced project management functionalities, making it a great fit for trading and distribution companies, construction companies, retail, and hospitality industries.

Nitin Mothilall - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-01-13T09:49:18Z
Jan 13, 2023

It's used in manufacturing and other environments for day-to-day operations.

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GirirajInja - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-10-12T14:29:45Z
Oct 12, 2022

Our primary use case for NetSuite ERP is finance. We're also using the procurement module and other modules, but we're mainly using the solution for finance.

SudhakarJha - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-05-15T17:03:31Z
May 15, 2022

The NetSuite which we are using is mostly for our financial processes, mostly OTC or maintenance, the creation of reports, getting dashboards, tracking the payments or cancellations, et cetera. All this is something for which we are using this solution. At the same time, we are using the SuiteAnalytics feature where we can create our custom reports as well for NetSuite.

RM
MSP
Top 5
2022-04-25T12:10:49Z
Apr 25, 2022

This is specialized software, an ERP, for the financial and management functions of an enterprise.

AB
Reseller
2022-03-10T15:26:11Z
Mar 10, 2022

NetSuite ERP is used for a lot of things. It has modules for accounting, distribution, and services. It's a full-fledged ERP solution.

OD
Real User
2021-11-09T21:01:43Z
Nov 9, 2021

We use NetSuite ERP as a production and application support solution.

HP
Real User
2021-07-07T02:48:35Z
Jul 7, 2021

Sonic is on the smaller side of small to medium.  


We will leverage the full system from CRM (We don't need a SalesForce type CRM) all the way through to accounting and finance.  This will allow us to see from start to finish leads, opportunities to sales orders and purchasing and inventory management including MRP.  


The reporting and dashboards are key to keeping information right in front of each employee in their specific role and the reporting tools are powerful. Best of all the ability to customize records, add fields, check off boxes and add script where it is beneficial without the system getting wonky after updates it truly clutch. The ability to add on specific apps is also very beneficial such as direct integrations with DocuSign and Expensify.

VV
Real User
2021-05-25T17:22:40Z
May 25, 2021

We have different verticals of business like manufacturing plants, software consulting, and development. We use both aspects of the things in one module of NetSuite, where we manage multiple subsidies. For manufacturing, we use work orders. We will use working process modules, and we automate the entire process of a production plan in that. Then we schedule those and have those things executed for our fulfillment and invoice the end customers. In software, we manage it via the project plans, where we have the timesheets managed. We automate the process in that whereby we can generate the invoices from the projects themselves. We have automated the milestones and the time and material billing on NetSuite.

GH
Real User
Top 10
2021-03-03T20:57:32Z
Mar 3, 2021

NetSuite ERP has been exploding in all kinds of young and up-and-coming businesses using manufacturing. We pioneered some use in pharmaceutical manufacturing; we've seen it in general business. A lot of our e-commerce companies are using the NetSuite platform — a lot of startups. Five of every eight companies that went out for IPO two years ago were NetSuite customers. It's very big in the startup community in California. A lot of newer tech companies are using it, but a lot of standard older traditional companies have begun using it, too. Over the last year, we've done some furniture distributors, we've done nutraceutical manufacturing, we've done companies that import and build electric scooters and leisure products like bicycles, etc. We've seen it in financial groups, as well. In short, it carries a broad range of applications, specifically in the field services area. We've seen some construction companies move into it. We've got a group that does large AV installations. They will do a theater or an auditorium or a stadium; they handle all of the server-based audio-visual signal processing and large screens and large speaker systems for public consumption, etc. They'll have these million-dollar projects that they put together in their facilities, in a manufacturing type environment test, and then do all of the engineering there, and then they will send crews all over the world to implement these. That's kind of the field service part. I worked with some of the largest NetSuite resellers in the world — they're partners of mine. We're affiliated and we use each other's services, but we're not financially tied. We see everything, including startups, that maybe pre-revenue, started to use NetSuite. They know when they go out to raise funds that the investors look at that and say, "Hey, these guys have really got their financial house in order. We feel good trusting you guys". What Oracle does, is they say that, from zero to $250 million a year, we approach them with NetSuite over $250 million a year. We'd like them to be looking at Oracle fusion. However, with our partners, we go into $500 million and $700 million companies. We put in NetSuite plus. We may be doing a variety of products in that type of setting, but NetSuite is the core product there, and they're very successful with it. The thing about made-for-cloud software is that NetSuite was released in 1992, and a lot of the development took place in the '92 to '96 era. We were beginning to change the way we did software. This is when iPhone started coming out, etc. The name NetSuite refers to the fact that you have a network suite of products that you can use. There are apps in the NetSuite Suite cloud app store that companies can buy. This is very difficult to explain to new users because using multiple pieces of software has always been a nightmare. It's been problematic. You have different products giving you different versions of the truth. You've got problems keeping them tied in together and integrated. You've got different release schedules, you've got customization. It's just been a nightmare and everybody has a bad view of that. What I tell my clients is, "How many of you guys have a phone in your pocket?" I'll say, "Do you like the customizations on your phone?" They'll reply, "What are you talking about? There's no customization on my phone". I'll respond, "Every one of those apps is a customization". They'll fire back, "No, it's not, it's on the phone". That's exactly how NetSuite approaches the suites of products. They open their technology app, they allow outside developers to develop functionality. They test, approve, and do quality control before release. When you buy one of these apps and there's an app for field services that fits in, plus services, it's so different. It's really hard for any product to fit everything in. You look at this particular app and if it fits, you licensed the app, and it's just another tab inside your NetSuite system. You can't tell that you're in another product. The screens look the same, the integration is already taken care of on the backend. You don't have to deal with any of that. One time, Adaptive Insights was sold as a NetSuite advanced financials package. People did not know it was not NetSuite advanced financials. All they knew was, that their FPNA reports were on one tab, and their regular basic reports are in another reporting area. That being the case, we have gone into situations where people were (this was before the merger) paying $1,000,000 a year in maintenance charges to a tier-one software group. We were able to duplicate the functionality and improve it in several areas. I'm not saying it was as good and in every area, but in several areas, key areas, it worked much better. We were able to implement NetSuite and the apps and the integrations for under $500,000 for the entire new system. That was a net savings of $500,000 a year. It was more modern technology, it was working better for them. Plus, they didn't need a team of three, tier-one experts on staff to manage the system. There were some huge losses there for a large organization. What I'm talking about is one of the more difficult concepts for today's IT groups to understand, because frankly, they've been through nightmares of software modification and customization. It's been a bad idea and it hasn't worked out well, but those were products that were created back in the '80s and the early '90s. Those are pre-internet era technologies that were proprietary. ERP vendors used to want to be proprietary because that way, nobody could copy their software. It was considered a security measure against somebody duplicating the discs and reselling them. Today, the Internet is the integration tool that you're using — what could be more open than that? Now, the idea is, let's open this up to everybody. Let's let everybody develop on it. That's, what's made Salesforce so strong, and that's what has made NetSuite so strong. Through all of this, you have to remember that there were no cloud-based ERP systems. Everybody was terrified to put their financial data into this cloud thing everybody was talking about until NetSuite came along. Now, NetSuite has roughly 22,000 companies using it. Every single ERP vendor in the world now has a cloud version to try and compete with NetSuite. The problem is, if I call Salesforce today or NetSuite tomorrow and say, "Hey, I want to license this, here's my credit card". In 20 minutes, if there's a system provision for me ready to use, I'm ready to go.

EM
Reseller
2021-01-05T23:23:37Z
Jan 5, 2021

We use NetSuite ERP to order cash, general layer issues, compliance, financial statement generation, accounts payables, account receivables, and invoicing. We don't use it for inventory or annual fiscal requirements, just general use.

RW
Real User
2020-11-20T21:34:15Z
Nov 20, 2020

The client's use cases really revolve around core financial and accounting tasks such as ARAPGL cash management and things of that nature as well as some supply chain. Inventory management at a rolled-up level. They had a separate system for their core product inventory life cycle management, however, this was from the financial aspect and vendor integration and purchasing side of supply chain and billing management was going to be done through the NetSuite implementation. Due to the fact that they had more on their wishlist, we were going to get into some commerce stuff, however, we backlogged that. CRM is what they're actually going to start on next year. We backlogged that as well. I'm all about focusing. I'm really about accounting. The initial high-level inventory management is the core thing we deployed as part of the first phase.

DB
Real User
2020-07-16T06:21:04Z
Jul 16, 2020

I have multiple pharmaceutical distributions. I'm currently doing two projects with companies that are what are called stevedoring companies. They're companies that load and unload these massive vessel ships that come into the ports all over the world. Containers and cruisers and things of that nature. I've also done a large 3PL shipping company. I've done a couple of manufacturing companies. I've done a couple of manufacturer distributor companies. It's a very versatile system. It can be used for a variety of businesses.

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