Release highlights
AI-fortified financial management
NetSuite Intelligent Close Manager lets finance teams easily gauge the progress of sales and spend close tasks, while AI-driven insights highlight trends, errors, upcoming activities, and areas that need focus. NetSuite Exception Management now considers vendor information to help detect potential payment fraud. Bank transaction matching uses new generative AI capabilities to improve automatic matches and accelerate reconciliation. NetSuite Intelligent Payment Automation simplifies paying bills across all subsidiaries, requiring just one record per vendor.
Better AI outcomes with unified data
The NetSuite Integration Platform connects key business systems through an integration-platform-as-a-service, or iPaaS solution. Connect external AI clients like Claude with data from NetSuite Analytics Warehouse. AI-generated inventory narratives analyze data from inventory reports and produce summaries, key highlights, and recommended actions tailored to the specific report or screen in use. The new AI assistant for NetSuite CRM automatically summarizes support cases, and NetSuite Customer 360 can produce a comprehensive AI-generated customer overview with a single click.
AI optimized business operations
The new rules-based pricing engine, NetSuite Advanced Pricing, helps optimize margins while providing consistency and control, and AI-generated pricing summaries let managers quickly make more informed, data-driven decisions. The vendor consignment feature manages vendor-owned inventory stored at a merchant’s facility. Dozens of enhancements to NetSuite WMS, Ship Central, and the SCM and Manufacturing mobile apps are available, along with the new NetSuite Connector for Loop Returns. The new commitment allocation feature in SuiteBilling manages commitment credits across subscription services.
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AI-fortified financial management
- Bank transaction matching leverages generative AI to extract richer, more structured bank data to strengthen the auto-match engine. This results in a higher number of successful auto-matches, greatly reducing the need for manual intervention and accelerating reconciliation processes.
- NetSuite Intelligent Close Manager provides users with AI-powered, data-driven monitoring to help keep teams on track for a timely close. Finance teams can gauge progress at a glance and built-in AI insights highlight trends, errors, projected activities, and areas to focus on, helping accounting teams close their books with confidence and speed.
- NetSuite EPM solutions Account Reconciliation, Planning and Budgeting, and Profitability and Cost Management gain new AI assistants that enhance accuracy, increase transparency, and boost confidence across core financial workflows.
- NetSuite SuiteBilling now supports shared commitment credits across multiple usage-based services for seamless and flexible subscription management. NetSuite Subscription Metrics is enhanced to support advanced cohort analysis with heat map visualizations, helping organizations segment subscribers and quickly identify trends in customer behavior such as growth, retention, and churn patterns.
Better AI outcomes with unified data
- As an integration as a service platform, the NetSuite Integration Platform integrates your core business systems together. With low-code tools, process automation, and dozens of prebuilt adapters, organizations can easily integrate systems and applications using a centralized approach that provides a single place to build, manage, and monitor integrations.
- The NetSuite AI Connector Service for NetSuite Analytics Warehouse authenticates and securely connects external AI platforms such as Claude Desktop, Cline AI, and GitHub Copilot with data maintained in NetSuite Analytics Warehouse for analysis.
- Instead of asking teams to interpret dense reports or records, AI in NetSuite now transforms raw data into clear narrative explanations and recommended next steps right where the work happens. These narrative insights are appearing across the Suite— including inventory, payroll, pricing, support, journal entries, project status, and more.
- NetSuite CRM now includes an AI assistant that automatically summarizes each customer case—including sentiment, message history, notes, and escalations—directly on the case page.
- Generative AI is used in NetSuite Customer 360 to instantly produce a clear, narrative overview of every customer—summarizing transactions, activities, and support interactions with a single click. Instead of navigating multiple records and tabs, sales, and service, teams get one unified view.
AI optimized business operations
- NetSuite Advanced Pricing debuts a rules-based pricing engine that supports cost-plus pricing and the ability to set targeted prices by date, item, and customer. Additionally, AI-generated pricing summaries pull together critical data, including inventory levels, costs, and historical sales trends to help managers make informed, data-driven decisions quickly, improving competitiveness and profit margins.
- The new consignment inventory management feature lets organizations efficiently manage inventory that is owned by vendors but stored at the organization’s facility or warehouse, minimizing risk and improving cash flow.
- The new NetSuite Connector for Loop automates the flow of returns data from Shopify into NetSuite.
- Dozens of enhancements to NetSuite WMS, Ship Central, and the SCM and Manufacturing mobile apps are available that bring efficiency to daily tasks.
Next-generation AI platform extensibility
- NetSuite now integrates with leading AI platforms, including ChatGPT, Claude, and any other MCP-compatible system, through the NetSuite AI Connector Service. This scalable integration layer allows leading AI agents to securely access your NetSuite data and functionality using natural language prompts while fully conforming with NetSuite’s security model and role-based permission structure.
- The SuiteCloud Developer Assistant introduces an AI-driven coding companion that integrates with Visual Studio Code via the Cline plugin. Developers can generate SuiteScript 2.1 code, including unit tests, using natural language prompts. The assistant also generates SuiteCloud Development Framework objects; explains or refactors existing code; and follows SuiteScript API standards, TypeScript definitions, and SDF schemas.
- The new Custom Tool Script Type allows developers to build tools that external AI clients can invoke through the NetSuite AI Connector Service. These scripts also support the N/log module and include UI support for listing and managing deployed tools through MCP.
- REST APIs move to full parity with SOAP web services to support a smooth transition from SuiteTalk SOAP. These enhancements align SuiteTalk REST web services and APIs with industry benchmarks and let developers move away from integration solutions based on legacy SOAP protocols.
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