At NetSuite, we’re incredibly proud of all of our Alliance Partners and the outstanding work they do for our customers. Through our Alliance Partner Spotlight Awards, we recognize companies that have demonstrated commitment and success in implementing NetSuite. That includes partners that have developed outstanding expertise, customizations and/or intellectual property in specific micro-verticals and those that demonstrate commitment to and success in implementing OpenAir, SuiteCommerce and NetSuite Planning and Budgeting.
Simplifying Complex Operations to Enable Growth
Hepion Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: HEPA), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing targeted therapies for liver disease arising from non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and chronic hepatitis virus infection (HBV, HCV, HDV), was using Sage when Archer Insights was brought in to demo NetSuite.
Thanks to Archer Insights’ in-depth understanding of the pharmaceutical commercialization process, the NetSuite partner won the deal. After a lengthy sales cycle, Hepion selected NetSuite based on Archer Insights’ industry knowledge, white-glove service approach and demonstration of how NetSuite would meet Hepion’s objectives as a public company while helping it scale.
Using its implementation methodology for public companies with SOX compliance needs, Archer Insights provided such customizations as approval routing on all objects in NetSuite for a public company, procure to pay and ongoing support. With NetSuite in place, Hepion has simplified its month-end close process, mastered financial reporting and gained visibility into spend.
In addition, Archer Insights in partnership with JP Morgan brought a fully integrated bill payment process to Hepion so staff can send out payments right from within NetSuite and automate that portion of AP.
As a leading restoration and property reconstruction company, FIRST ONSITE provides high-quality remediation, restoration and reconstruction services for specialized industries ranging from healthcare and education to general commercial and residential construction. Given its complex multi-company and -system environment, FIRST ONSITE wanted to use technology to drive scale and competitive advantage.
After evaluating Microsoft, Sage and NetSuite solutions, FIRST ONSITE chose NetSuite for its in-depth material and job costing capabilities. Working with Appficiency, the company implemented NetSuite plus several direct integrations, including Salesforce and a custom platform.
The implementation went well, and FIRST ONSITE is currently live on NetSuite for all major functions, with plans for go-live events in graduated phases across the firm’s legal entities and branches, in coordination with the release schedule for its custom job management platform.
The company now has improved visibility into key financial and operational processes as well as better insights into and easier integration with third-party systems. FIRST ONSITE can now scale its business and automate formerly manual processes that its previous systems couldn’t manage.
NetSuite Enables Growth and Scale
Founded in 2014, POWERHOME SOLAR is a fast-growing solar manufacturing and installation company and the largest residential solar installer in the Southeast and Midwest. The 2000-employee firm has grown at a rapid clip since it began generating revenue in 2016.
After years of using QuickBooks Enterprise Edition to manage its financials, the company wanted an ERP that would integrate with its Salesforce customer relationship management (CRM) system and automate as many processes as possible.
NetSuite was POWERHOME SOLAR’s ERP of choice due to its cloud-based delivery approach, flexible integrations with other applications and ability to scale as the growing company expands. POWERHOME leaned on Bring IT to plan and orchestrate the implementation, develop customizations and connect its existing Dell Boomi cloud integration platform to NetSuite.
With NetSuite as its unified ERP, POWERHOME SOLAR has reduced its month-end close time to five days from a previous 28 days and fully automated its order-to-cash process on the receivables side. Transactions are created as Salesforce entries and delivered directly into NetSuite, which creates an invoice, generates a sales order and manages revenue recognition.
As POWERHOME SOLAR continues on its growth trajectory, NetSuite will scale right along with it.
From Disparate Systems to Unified, Efficient Processes
Founded in 1994 in Montreal, VICE Media started out as an alternative print magazine that morphed into a punk ‘zine and then went on to become a diversified, global mass media company. With about 2,500 employees, the company’s lines of business and subsidiaries include VICE News, Virtue Worldwide, VICE TV, VICE Studios, Pulse Films, Refinery 29, Munchies, Motherboard, I-D Magazine and Garage Magazine.
With its master data and historical transactional data spread across a variety of source systems and more than 30 offices, VICE Media needed a unified, cloud-based ERP that would bring all of its data onto a single system. Myers-Holum provided best practices in master data management to streamline global rollups and delivered system customizations, user acceptance training (UAT) facilitation and data management.
After implementing NetSuite, VICE achieved even more success and growth across its global markets. With NetSuite, a single enterprise-level accounting system manages several subsidiary structures, thus enabling a global view of VICE’s financial performance.
Myers-Holum worked with the NetSuite professional services team and VICE to successfully deploy NetSuite across multiple regions. Now that it’s using all of the ERP’s core financial management capabilities, VICE has turned to its implementation partner to help in areas like resource skill sets, advanced procurement, advanced revenue recognition and fixed-asset management.
“Not only was Myers-Holum able to navigate VICE’s incredibly complex ecosystem, but it also provided experienced guidance and was instrumental in planning a course for immediate and future NetSuite functionality and scalability,” said Ralph Bellandi, VICE’s global chief information officer. “From what was once a disparate collection of regional accounting systems and spreadsheets, NetSuite is now the single backbone of VICE’s business and the go-to system of record for all global transactions and the aggregator of various financial, human resources and project management platforms.”
Upping the Sophistication Level
Around 1 million people in the 18 southeast Texas counties served by Houston Food Bank are considered food insecure — that is, they lack consistent access to enough nutritious food to fuel a healthy life. To address this issue, Houston Food Bank (HFB) provides access to 150 million nutritious meals to those in need through a network of more than 1,600 community partners.
HFB saw opportunity for improvement, but it needed a modern platform to accomplish its goals. After considering a number of options, NetSuite and Myers-Holum were the clear winners thanks to the partner’s deep expertise in the space and its ability to show a built-out system and relevant references.
After simplifying its processes during earlier business process design sessions, the food bank began working with Myers-Holum in January 2022. Using its NetSuite for Food Banking SuiteApp, the integration and consulting firm helped HFB tap into a full slate of features and functionalities, including an online ordering system for the food bank’s agencies, food acquisition planning, agency restrictions, food acquisition, fulfillment and automated distribution reporting.
Myers-Holum NetSuite for Food Banks allows food banks, agencies and other food and supplies relief organizations to take advantage of the power of NetSuite. The software bundle helps food banks achieve increased capacity, faster turns, accessible agency ordering, reduced waste and deeper insights so that they can deliver fresher food in greater quantities to clients in need.
When the Minnesota Twins Major League Baseball team wanted to upgrade its existing legacy ERP, it sought a solution that would help it expand its ERP footprint organically throughout the organization and deliver better reporting across the enterprise. It selected NetSuite over Microsoft and tapped NetSuite partner Appficiency to make the vision reality.
Appficiency completed multiple demos, laid out the project scope, came up with a plan for future integrations and helped the professional baseball organization integrate NetSuite and NetSuite Planning and Budgeting. The Minnesota Twins organization is now leveraging the ERP’s core elements to generate more sophisticated planning and reporting models. As a result of its NetSuite implementation, the Minnesota Twins organization has improved visibility into key financial and operational processes.
Credit Karma, an American multinational personal finance company founded in 2007, has been an Intuit brand since December 2020. The company is best known as a free credit and financial management platform, but it also offers monitoring of unclaimed property databases and a tool to identify and dispute credit report errors.
With operations in the United States, Canada and the UK, Credit Karma needed a unified ERP to manage its growing, global enterprise. For Credit Karma, Yantra implemented NetSuite, Salesforce, RPA (Automation Anywhere), MuleSoft and about 10 additional integrated systems. Credit Karma is using NetSuite’s order to cash, procure to pay, record to report, advanced financials, fixed assets and reimbursement.
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