NetSuite 2025.2 essential new features

The digital landscape is constantly evolving, and staying ahead means embracing innovation. At OneKloudX, we are thrilled to share the highly anticipated NetSuite 2025.2 release, packed with powerful new features designed to revolutionise how businesses operate. This update focuses on enhancing scalability, flexibility, and efficiency through advanced automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and tailored industry solutions.

NetSuite 2025.2 takes AI integration to a new level, empowering your teams with intelligent tools that streamline workflows and provide deeper insights:

• AI-Powered Financial Forecasting. Say goodbye to guesswork. NetSuite Planning and Budgeting now offers AI-based multivariate forecasting. This allows businesses to model multiple correlated variables, like sales, marketing spend, and supply chain costs, in a single, precise forecast. The system automatically selects the best forecasting approach, enabling more data-driven budgeting and strategic decision-making.
• Intelligent Close Management. Speed up your financial close with AI-powered Job Analytics Insights. This feature analyses job logs, identifies failed processes, suggests corrections, and highlights problems, all within Close Management and Consolidation. This means faster troubleshooting and increased confidence in your financial reports.
• Contextual Insights in NetSuite Analytics Warehouse. Gain a deeper understanding of your data. This new AI-powered tool automatically generates comparative insights and visualisations, helping your teams quickly identify key trends, outliers, and opportunities for growth without the need for complex manual analysis.
• AI-Powered Text Enhance. Boost productivity with generative AI for content creation. NetSuite Text Enhance can now assist in generating multilingual text in 22 languages for global communication, and offers AI-generated suggestions to optimise job descriptions for talent acquisition.
• AI Assistant in Compliance 360. Simplify audits and ensure compliance. This AI assistant summarises audit findings, recommends actions, and even suggests next steps, making the audit process more efficient and proactive with real-time alerts on threshold events.

NetSuite 2025.2 continues to deliver targeted solutions designed to meet the unique needs of various industries:

1. Property Development, Project Based, Multi Location businesses

Pain Points: Project costing, managing resources, and financial tracking across multiple properties.

Solutions: NetSuite 2025.2 introduces new specialised user roles for Project Managers and Site Operators. These roles are designed to give users targeted functionality at a lower cost, allowing them to manage resources, projects, and expenses in the dedicated SuiteProjects module, which is crucial for managing individual property developments and their budgets. This allows for more precise access control and efficiency for specific operational functions, like managing physical locations or project resources.

2. Life Science, Healthcare and Compliance driven organisations

Pain Points: Stringent regulatory compliance, meticulous audit documentation, and real-time security monitoring.

Solutions: Compliance 360 has been enhanced with an AI assistant that summarises audit findings, generates recommendations, and suggests next steps. This feature, along with real-time email alerts on threshold events, significantly reduces the manual burden of audits and helps the industry maintain strict regulatory standards. Beyond the AI Assistant in Compliance 360, this release further simplifies audit documentation and supports user activity monitoring, crucial for maintaining stringent regulatory standards.

3. Manufacturing

Pain Points: Supply chain disruptions, inefficient production planning, and inventory traceability.

Solutions: The new MRP Planning Views provide planners with suggestions for rescheduling or cancelling orders based on real-time disruption signals. Additionally, Lot/Serial Auto Numbering is now integrated into NetSuite Warehouse Management, which is essential for traceability and simplifies inventory management.

4. Coffee Roasting, Wholesale and Distribution

Pain Points: Managing a perishable inventory, optimising logistics, and ensuring quality control and traceability.

Solutions: SuiteProcurement now allows users to combine items from multiple suppliers into a single request, reducing administrative overhead.. Pickup Scheduling in Ship Central automatically notifies carriers when packages are ready, which enhances logistics efficiency. The improved Lot/Serial Auto Numbering and MRP Planning Views also help manage inventory traceability and optimise supply chain planning.

5. Childcare & Education

Pain Points: Managing compliance with staffing ratios, parent communications, and financial reporting across multiple locations.

Solutions: The Site Operator role can be used to manage physical childcare centres, providing tailored functionality for tasks like reviewing sales data, managing inventory, and approving bills. This, combined with general improvements to Compliance 360, helps with the rigorous reporting and operational consistency required for regulation.

6. Employment Services

Pain Points: Time-intensive recruiting, creating accurate job descriptions, and managing timesheets.

Solutions: The AI-Powered Text Enhance feature now helps create multilingual content and provides AI-generated suggestions for optimising job descriptions, which can significantly speed up the recruiting process.

7. Sports and Entertainment & Hospitality and Leisure

Pain Points: Managing diverse revenue streams, accounting for packaged offerings, and coordinating operations across different venues or locations.

Solutions: The new Project Manager and Site Operator roles offer tailored functionality to manage events or venues. General enhancements to financial planning like AI Powered Multivariate Forecasting can help with complex revenue models, enabling more accurate budgeting and strategic decisions across multiple business drivers.

8. SaaS and High Tech

Pain Points: Difficulty in tracking critical metrics like Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR), Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and customer churn. Complex revenue management for subscriptions, pro rata billing, renewals and change orders. Data silos to get a complete picture of the customer lifecycle from sales to support.

Solutions: A new SaaS 360 Dashboard provides real-time insights into critical recurring revenue metrics and comes with built-in industry-standard KPIs and charts, allowing executives, sales, and marketing teams to quickly assess revenue health and identify performance trends. Real Time Metric Calculation introduces new fields and records that automatically monitor transaction impact and calculate SaaS metrics integrated into the new SaaS 360 Dashboard and SuiteAnalytics. The AI-powered multivariate Forecasting allows for increased accuracy in budget planning by modelling multiple correlated business drivers at once.

Beyond the powerful AI and industry specific updates, NetSuite 2025.2 introduces several enhancements that improve daily operations and user productivity:

• Improved Procurement. The ability to combine items from different vendors into one purchase request simplifies the process of managing approvals and reduces manual data entry.
• Outlook Connector. Seamless syncing of data between Outlook and NetSuite will be available, reducing manual data entry and improving CRM usability.
• Sticky Sublist Headers. No more losing your place on long records. Sublist headers now remain visible while scrolling, making navigation easier for all teams.

This release reinforces NetSuite’s commitment to providing a unified, cloud based ERP system that adapts to your evolving business needs. By leveraging these new AI powered insights, industry specific tools, and streamlined workflows, you can:

1. Reduce manual effort and administrative costs.
2. Improve data accuracy and reporting speed.
3. Empower departments with intelligent tools.
4. Support regulatory compliance at scale.
5. Make faster, more informed decisions across your organisation.

At OneKloudX, we are dedicated to helping businesses like yours maximise their NetSuite investment. We also host the NetSuite User Group in Australia and New Zealand. We offer two key services:

1. ERP recovery & support: taking over existing NetSuite projects where customers are not satisfied with their current provider. We offer flexible engagement models from ad hoc support to full-service, long-term partnerships.
2. End-to-End ERP implementation: full NetSuite deployment using our proprietary FlexSafe™ methodology: a sprint-based, user-led approach that keeps people at the centre and ensures clarity, collaboration, and real results. ERP is no longer a differentiator. The real difference is in how it’s delivered. That’s why we don’t follow rigid, off-the-shelf methods. We work with you, not just for you, to make ERP implementation easier, more human, and more effective.

Our team of experts can guide you through the latest features of NetSuite 2025.2 and ensure a smooth transition to unlock its full potential.