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Every inventory transaction affects your bottom line, yet many businesses struggle to track costs accurately across fluctuating purchase prices and multiple warehouse locations. NetSuite's average cost method—the platform's default inventory costing approach—automatically calculates a weighted average cost whenever you receive or adjust inventory. When implemented correctly, this method eliminates manual cost tracking headaches and delivers accurate COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) on every transaction.

Paper-based quality checklists and spreadsheet tracking might have worked a decade ago, but today's manufacturing and distribution operations demand real-time inspection data, automated compliance workflows, and audit-ready documentation. NetSuite Quality Management transforms how organizations handle inspections by integrating quality control directly into inventory receipts, work orders, and shipments—eliminating manual data entry while maintaining complete traceability for FDA, ISO, and FSMA requirements.

Your fixed asset register hasn't matched your balance sheet in months. Your auditor is asking questions. Your CFO wanted answers yesterday. If you're still tracking depreciation in spreadsheets, you're not alone—but you're also bleeding time and accuracy. NetSuite Fixed Asset Management eliminates this chaos by automating the entire asset lifecycle within your ERP, delivering a 30% reduction in manual errors and significantly reducing month-end close time.

Managing restricted funds with Excel spreadsheets puts your nonprofit at risk every audit season. Manual fund tracking causes the majority of compliance findings, erodes donor trust, and drains your finance team's time that should go toward advancing your mission. NetSuite's fund accounting capabilities—powered by dimensional GL segments and automated compliance workflows—eliminate these headaches while delivering faster financial close processes. Whether you're outgrowing QuickBooks or replacing legacy nonprofit software, this guide walks you through every step of setting up NetSuite for nonprofits.

Managing multiple legal entities across different countries, currencies, and tax jurisdictions creates operational complexity that spreadsheets and disconnected systems simply cannot handle. NetSuite OneWorld solves this challenge by consolidating financial data from all subsidiaries into a single cloud-based platform—enabling real-time visibility, automated intercompany transactions, and global financial consolidation without the manual reconciliation headaches that drain your finance team's productivity.

Professional services organizations face a brutal reality: resource utilization directly determines profitability, yet most firms struggle to optimize it. Oracle OpenAir—now officially rebranded as NetSuite SuiteProjects Pro—delivers a cloud-based Professional Services Automation (PSA) solution that unifies project accounting, resource management, time tracking, and billing into a single platform. With the 2025 release introducing AI-powered project risk analysis and a refreshed Redwood design interface, service-based businesses finally have the tools to transform operations and maximize profitability.

Your planning team just spent 35 hours building next month's inventory forecast in Excel. The spreadsheet is already outdated, and you're still flying blind on what to order and when. With integrated demand planning systems helping businesses dramatically improve forecast accuracy and reduce carrying costs, NetSuite's Demand Planning module transforms months of manual calculations into automated, data-driven inventory decisions that protect your bottom line.

Managing your workforce shouldn't mean juggling disconnected systems while finance waits on HR data to close the books. NetSuite HCM, delivered through the SuitePeople platform, brings human capital management directly into your ERP—eliminating integration headaches and giving your team a single source of truth for both people and financial data. With 78.6% of organizations now selecting cloud-based ERP solutions, understanding how to leverage NetSuite's human capital capabilities has become essential for growing businesses.

Organizations that routinely optimize their NetSuite environments experience significantly faster processes and reduced operational complexity. Yet as businesses scale and customizations accumulate, even the most robust ERP system can grind to a halt. If your team is waiting on slow page loads, sluggish saved searches, or lagging transactions, it's time to take action. Whether you're managing NetSuite optimization in-house or working with partners, these strategies will help you reclaim system performance. We analyzed recommendations from 10+ NetSuite solution providers, official Oracle documentation, and real-world implementation case studies to identify the most impactful performance optimization strategies. From quick wins any admin can implement today to strategic improvements requiring developer expertise, here's how to make your NetSuite instance faster.

Still manually exporting payroll data from Workday and re-keying it into NetSuite? You're wasting 10-15 hours every month and exposing your organization to costly errors. When your HR and finance teams operate in disconnected systems, data silos create bottlenecks that slow month-end close and cloud decision-making. The good news: a properly executed NetSuite integration with Workday eliminates these pain points while delivering measurable ROI.

Manual accounts payable processes drain finance teams of time that should be spent on strategic initiatives. Organizations integrating Tipalti with NetSuite report 60 hours per month reduction in manual AP workload and 40% faster financial close cycles. For businesses running NetSuite ERP services, this integration eliminates tedious data entry while automating global payments across 200+ countries in 120 currencies. This guide walks you through the complete integration process—from NetSuite preparation through post-go-live optimization—so your finance team can stop processing invoices manually and start focusing on growth.

NetSuite ERP requires management if you want to keep the data clean. Bookkeeping services are one way to help you keep your accounting data clean, but what about the rest of your ERP data. This article gives four NetSuite roles methods to help keep their data clean to properly perform their role. There are tips for accountants, supply chain, marketing, and C-Suite. Take a look at the video in the blog to improve your NetSuite instance.