NetSuite Planning and Budgeting

Summary: This article highlights the inception of generative AI in NetSuite Planning and Budgeting in NetSuite 2024.1 Release. For the most part, it will help thriving business organizations steer productivity with improved planning and smart decision-making capabilities on actionable insights.


NetSuite 2024.1 Release Offers AI to NetSuite Planning and Budgeting

In general, many businesses are using AI-powered tools that catalyze to start looking at use cases for AI. Despite the high interest, business companies are struggling with the way businesses should move forward with Artificial Intelligence.

Given these points, most companies don’t yet have AI capabilities. Experts believe that a few companies are using or testing AI, some are evaluating AI tools or products to test in the next few quarters, and many have no plans for AI.

The NetSuite 2024.1 Release introduces new AI capabilities under NetSuite Planning and Budgeting, designed to help modern businesses use AI features without the associated cost and complexity. This latest release aims to assist and guide business owners by providing three AI-powered tools built into NetSuite Planning and Budgeting:

  • Text Generation
  • Invoice Data Capture
  • Elimination of Manual Data Entry
  • Automatic Data Analysis

NetSuite Planning and Budgeting comes with the NetSuite Bill Capture

Undeniably, this inventive and innovative feature captures vendor invoices instantly with fewer errors. Notably, NetSuite Planning and Budgeting in NetSuite 2024.1 Release helps eliminate manual data entry and steer automation across the invoice capture process.

For the most part, businesses can scan invoices and detect AI-based document objects and extract required data via optical character recognition automatically to populate the billing record. Here, the system synchronizes invoices with associated purchase orders and receives documents to monitor pricing, quantities, and totals.

In NetSuite 2024 Release 1, some additional fields cover

  • PO Number
  • Memo
  • Posting Period
  • Discount Date
  • Custom Segments are added to the Review Bill page.

In addition, these updates offer a more comprehensive and accurate bill creation experience to deliver greater flexibility that best fits the company’s specific operational requirements.

Moreover, NetSuite 2024.1 enhancements come with a better and improved user experience to Bill Capture. Also, it adds the option to filter by vendor, upload source, and email source to the Scanned Vendor Bills page. One can make the most of these new filters for easier search ability with the option to filter by source and vendor for those with a large number of uploaded bills.

NetSuite-2024.1

Use Predictive Analytics to Improve Planning

In general, NetSuite 2024.1 release delivers Intelligent Performance Management (IPM) to NetSuite Planning and Budgeting. For the most part, thriving business executives have witnessed extensive improvement in forecasting, business analytics, and decision support from Artificial Intelligence.

Explicitly, Intelligent Performance Management, or IPM utilizes predictive algorithms powered by machine learning to continuously monitor and assess plans, forecasts, and variances. Given these points, the system throws light on the growth trends, anomalies, biases, and correlations it finds. Most importantly, the finance team can easily analyze and take purposeful action on the insights.

Forecasting

In particular, the forecast variance metric helps the finance teams in assessing the reliability of their forecasts. In general, it helps evaluate the difference between historical scenarios and actual outcomes. For the most part, forecast bias assists in identifying business tendencies to over or under-forecast to adjust future predictions.

Predictions

Markedly, predictions assist businesses in identifying the likelihood of meeting or missing a target forecast by analyzing variations between forecasted figures and auto-generated predictions. For the most part, NetSuite Planning and Budgeting quantifies associated risk and allows proactive measures for the finance team to address important deviations in forecasts.

NetSuite-Bill-Capture

Generative AI in NetSuite Planning and Budgeting

Undeniably, the NetSuite Text Enhance feature, powered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure generative AI service, embeds generative AI in different tasks. In general, it assists in drafting personalized, contextual content using relevant NetSuite data. Given these points, your workforce or employees can analyze and revive that first draft content, accelerating their work and minimizing the complexity.

In this NetSuite 2024.1 release, Text Enhance assists in increasing the efficiency of customer service, human resource, and marketing teams.

With such inventive, generative AI capabilities, business leaders can

  • Make product descriptions for invoices, websites, and POS systems
  • Create job descriptions and requisitions
  • Set employee goals
  • Develop customer support communications

Why NetSuiteExpert?

At NetSuiteExpert, you can connect to our accredited and acclaimed NetSuite Consultants. For the most part, our subject-matter experts are acknowledged globally for offering a proven methodology, deep knowledge of the product, and industry-centric practices to make the most of NetSuite Planning and Budgeting.

In addition, our consultants deliver extensive experience in driving Digital Transformation and their skills across leveraging generative AI around NetSuite Planning and Budgeting capabilities. Above all, our consultants help business owners in making smart decisions and that too, without burning a hole in their pocket.

For more details, write to us at info@netsuiteexpert.in Or Schedule A Demo