NetSuite launches into new verticals

NetSuite, which specialises in on-demand technology, today announced a new edition of its business application suite aimed at the wholesale and distribution industry vertical.

The enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and e-commerce application vendor has added new features including advanced inventory and order fulfilment, demand-based inventory replenishment, a transaction forms assistant and matrix item assistant, vendor returns and wholesale and distributor customer portals.

NetSuite says these features provide industry-specific capabilities while centralising the business processes of mid-sized wholesale or distribution companies to run their entire business cycle - from lead generation to sales orders and from warehouse and inventory management in multiple locations to shipping - with end-to-end accounting support.

One NetSuite user and distributor Endoscopy UK, a service contractor of medical equipment, said the software has allowed it to increasingly automate manually based processes.

A 25-year veteran enterprise technology expert, Miya Knights applies her deep understanding of technology gained through her journalism career to both her role as a consultant and as director at Retail Technology Magazine, which she helped shape over the past 17 years. Miya was educated at Oxford University, earning a master’s degree in English.

Her role as a journalist has seen her write for many of the leading technology publishers in the UK such as ITPro, TechWeekEurope, CIO UK, Computer Weekly, and also a number of national newspapers including The Times, Independent, and Financial Times.