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Summary: This article throws light on NetSuite Enterprise Performance Management, software specifically structured to assist thriving business organizations in planning and analyzing trends. You can leverage advanced functionalities to drive more efficiency, productivity, and scalability than ever.
Chiefly, NetSuite 2024 Release 1 comes with new and inventive capabilities aimed at assisting finance professionals in driving more efficiency across routine financial tasks. Primarily, these include planning and budgeting, account reconciliation, financial close, and reporting.
For the most part, NetSuite 2024 Release 1 brings these adaptive technologies together under the NetSuite Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) offering.
Given these points, NetSuite EPM connects
- Planning
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Account Reconciliation
- Financial Close
- Reporting Processes from across the organization.
Notably, it is orchestrated on the foundation of Oracle Fusion Cloud Performance Management and integrated into NetSuite ERP. Hence, this suite of extensively structured cloud applications helps multiply business visibility, improve decision-making, and elevate the finance team’s efficiency.
AI-Driven Analysis and Deeper Insights for Planning
Undeniably, NetSuite Enterprise Performance Management renders both new and existing NetSuite solutions. For instance, the existing NetSuite Planning and Budgeting is now augmented with Intelligent Performance Management (IPM).
Explicitly, NetSuite Intelligent Performance Management uses predictive algorithms by leveraging data science and machine learning capabilities. Hence, business administrators can make the most of NetSuite EPM to continuously monitor and analyze plans, forecasts, and variances. In addition, the Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM solution inspects large amounts of data to unleash growth trends, anomalies, or any hidden correlations. This way, your finance team can analyze in less time and take quick actions on data-driven insights.
Needless to say, NetSuite EPM offers
- NetSuite Profitability and Cost Management Reporting
- Detailed insights into the most profitable products and customer services
- Combining data from the General Ledger and other financial systems with operational systems
- A deeper understanding of profit drivers so they find the right projects to allocate the right resources.
Accurate and Accelerated Financial Closure
Markedly, business organizations can leverage NetSuite Account Reconciliation to automate the reconciliation process for
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Bank and Credit Card Transactions
- Prepaid Accounts
- Accruals and Fixed Asset Accounts
- Intercompany Transactions
- Other Balance Sheet Accounts
In particular, this new task management capability in 2024.1 multiplies the efficiency and accuracy of NetSuite Account Reconciliation as it delivers a centralized and integrated platform to assign tasks from the close checklist to team members and customize business activities.
NetSuite Close Management and Consolidation
This other solution in NetSuite Enterprise Performance Management helps business companies comply with regulatory requirements and internal governance standards. For the most part, it provides a centralized platform to manage the consolidation and financial close process. Given these points, organizations can maintain data integrity throughout the consolidation process by driving automation across the data collection, validation, and consolidation from multiple sources.
Automation to Reporting
NetSuite Corporate Tax Reporting
Notably, NetSuite Corporate Tax Reporting eases the complexity and automates tax reporting processes. Here, NetSuite EPM enables organizations with multinational operations to efficiently comply with new OECD country-by-country reporting obligations.
In addition,
- New Range of Workflow
- Task Management
- Transfer Pricing Capabilities helps the finance teams improve the speed and accuracy of tax reporting.
NetSuite Narrative Reporting
This capability in NetSuite EPM helps businesses contextualize financial data. For the most part, it provides narrative writing alongside financial statements and data in a single report. Given these points, it gets easier for stakeholders to understand and interpret the crucial data. Furthermore, the finance team gets a centralized environment to collaborate across the creation and publication process for internal and external reporting.
Optimized Profitability with Additional Features
Additional Transaction Line Distribution Support
Interestingly, the NetSuite Transaction Line Distribution SuiteApp, in addition to vendor bills and credit distribution, now also distributes expenses from purchase orders, expense reports, credit card transactions, and checks across benefitting subsidiaries or units of a business.
Added Intelligence to NetSuite Bill Capture
Notably, NetSuite Bill Capture is revived with additional fields, such as PO number, memo, posting period, discount date, and custom segments—added to the Review Bill page. Undeniably, these intelligence capabilities enhance the user experience in Bill Capture with added filters for vendor, upload source, and email source on the scanned vendor bills page.
NetSuite Benchmark 360
The version launched in 2024.1 provides this tool to help a business analyze key financial and operational metrics, such as
- Days cash on hand
- Days sales outstanding
- Days payable outstanding
- Employee turnover rate
- Revenue per full-time employee
NetSuite Electronic Invoicing
Markedly, businesses can make the most of the Electronic Invoicing SuiteApp that now connects to national, international, and government e-invoicing platforms directly from within NetSuite. Here, you can reach out to the #1 ORACLE NetSuite Channel Partner and leverage NetSuite E-invoicing solution as per your business needs and meet global e-invoicing mandates without a hitch.
NetSuite Analytics Warehouse
Needless to say, NetSuite Analytics Warehouse adds quicker and more secure access with single sign-on and one set of login credentials. Here, people will get an option to refresh both standard and custom data at a higher frequency and in real time. Lastly, a new financial analysis in NetSuite 2024.1 combines relevant financial datasets and incorporates inventory and payroll-like data sources for effective reporting and to gain actionable insights into spending.
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FAQs
What is EPM in NetSuite?
NetSuite Enterprise Performance Management, commonly known as EPM delivers a set of solutions to connect planning, budgeting, forecasting, account reconciliation, financial close, and reporting processes. In particular, EPM connects core operations within the entire organization to help elevate business visibility and enhance decision-making.
What is enterprise performance management?
For the most part, Enterprise performance management, or EPM is specifically orchestrated and structured to analyze and plan budgeting, forecasting, and financial management strategically. Moreover, it renders data analytics, reporting, and forecast modeling to help businesses understand and plan strategically.
Is ERP and EPM the same?
In general, ERP is structured to operate the business and its day-to-day transactional activity. On the other hand, EPM helps manage the business, analyze, understand, and report on the business organization.
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