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How Can Foodservice Distributors Keep Up with the Cheney Bros.?
By John Bek, Segment Leader, NetSuite Food and Beverage The past few years have been active ones for the foodservice industry. In the most recent year alone, US Foods acquired All American Foods, F. Christiana and Toba Inc. Sysco got in on the game a year earlier, acquiring Brake Bros., North Star Seafood and Supplies on…
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New Buyers, Shadow Channels Present Significant Challenges for Traditional Channel Partners
Posted by John Goode, Senior Director of Channel Marketing Changing buyer behaviors and requirements present some real challenges to traditional IT resellers. In fact, those challenges, which include a shift in the actual buyer and the knowledge necessary to sell to that buyer among others, are only going to become…
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Innovation in the Finance Function: A Global CFO's Perspective
Posted by Lauren Davies, EMEA Campaign Manager Organisations face a challenging future—one where existing competitors are constantly innovating, and new start-ups are reinventing entire business models thanks to evolving technology. For the modern CFO, inertia is not an option. It’s a Balancing Act Customer-facing…
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What European Manufacturers and Distributors Need to Know about Amazon’s B2B Venture
Posted by Natasha Cleary, EMEA Campaign Marketing Manager Amazon’s domination of the retail industry is well known. Its superiority in customer experience has shaped the day-to-day expectations of today’s consumer when shopping online: next day delivery, same day delivery, one-click to purchase and a never-ending stream of…
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Nucleus Research Finds Partners Grow an Average of 30% with NetSuite
Posted by John Goode, Senior Director Channel Marketing A quick search for jobs with “NetSuite” in the title on the popular IT job search website Dice.com quickly reveals what many NetSuite partners already know: there is intense competition for talent in the marketplace right now. In fact, finding people to meet the…
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The Greater Boston Food Bank Poised to Distribute Three Meals a Day to Those in Need
Posted by Ian McCue, Content Manager The Greater Boston Food Bank’s goal to end hunger in Eastern Massachusetts has not changed since founder Kip Tiernan started passing out food from the back of her station wagon in 1974. But like any other organization, it has grown and evolved over the last 40 years. The Greater Boston…
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How Toad&Co Grew into a Leader in Sustainable Clothing without Growing Resources
Posted by Kendall Fisher, Executive Producer and Host of The NetSuite Podcast Toad&Co is an outdoor clothing and lifestyle brand that’s set out to make a difference in the world by helping the planet and helping people. The apparel industry is the fourth largest polluter of air and water in the world, and Toad&Co has…
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How to Perfectly Time Your Next Investment in Talent or Technology
Posted by Evan Heby, Service Industry Marketing Technology is forcing people to reinvent the way work is done. Today, services companies must figure out a balance that works between processes, talent and technology to ensure maximum efficiency. Traditionally, process and people had a symbiotic relationship with one…
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Continuous Accounting is the Key to Faster Close, Smarter Reporting
Posted by Thomas Sutter, Global Solutions Centre of Excellence For many in the finance department, the phrase “financial period close” brings with it visions of long days filled with time-consuming, cumbersome and stressful processes. Yet, despite the time devoted to it, this record-to-report process of accounts…
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UK CFOs, Finance Making Progress into More Strategic Roles, Research Finds
Posted by Thomas Sutter, Global Solutions Centre of Excellence The oft-repeated phrase “CFO’s must become more strategic” that has permeated finance stories for what seems like decades may now be becoming a reality. And it’s not just the position of the CFO itself. Throughout the finance department, people are taking a…
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More Good Together: NetSuite Joins NetHope’s Center for the Digital Nonprofit
Posted by Morgan Carey, Nonprofit Industry Marketing Lead Technology has become a primary ingredient for social change in nonprofits, whether it’s enabling fundraising through channels like social media or forming a strong operational and financial backbone. It’s in that spirit that NetSuite continues to seek opportunities…
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Distributor Details its Reasons for Choosing NetSuite over Infor, Epicor and Microsoft
Posted by Hayley Null, Manufacturing Industry Marketing Lead NetSuite’s Ranga Bodla recently sat down with Tim White, CIO of L.N. Curtis & sons, a leading distributor of emergency responder equipment and previous Infor customer, to discuss the company’s decision to move off Infor for a new long-term ERP system. L.N. Curtis…
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Retailers Use Facebook Live to Connect with Customers
Posted by Ian McCue, Content Manager At first glance, Hammitt and Becker Safety and Supply may seem to have little in common. They are brands with distinct audiences in different industries with dissimilar business models. But the two businesses share a common goal: deliver innovative experiences to connect with shoppers…
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The Key Drivers and Challenges to International Growth: A Finance Team’s Perspective
Posted by Lauren Davies, EMEA Campaign Marketing Manager International expansion is a proven recipe for growth, but it comes with its own set of challenges. A recent survey from Frost & Sullivan and NetSuite found that 27 percent of European firms point to international expansion as an obvious growth opportunity for their…
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Banishing Your Planning and Budgeting Nightmares
Posted by Kendall Fisher, Executive Producer and Host of The NetSuite Podcast It’s that time of year again. Planning and budgeting season is officially upon us, which means it’s time to set hours of your day aside in order to plug data into those excel spreadsheets… Or not. No, we’re not saying throw your hands in the air…
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How The Second City Is Growing Beyond the Stage, Bringing More Laughter to More People
Posted by Kendall Fisher, Executive Producer and Host of The NetSuite Podcast You probably know The Second City as the world-famous comedy mecca with an impressive list of alumni, including Tina Fey, Steve Carrell, Chris Farley, Michael Key, Jordan Peele and many, many more. But something you might not know is that The…
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It’s Always Budgeting and Planning Season
Posted by Tom Kelly, Senior Director of Product Marketing Businesses seeking to create and maintain growth need to be firmly committed to budgeting and planning. And while planning and budgeting has traditionally been an annual or quarterly endeavor, to really be successful, it is probably best to always be in a budgeting…
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Zeta Global Hops to the Cloud to Scale its Business
Posted by Macy Moore, Marketing Campaign Specialist Zeta Global has come a long way since its beginnings in 2007. Listed in Forbes’ Top 50 Most Promising Private Companies, the N.Y.-based marketing technology firm is dedicated to retaining and growing customer relationships for today’s leading brands by using proprietary…
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How Steiner Sports Manages Over 2,000 Athletes & $20 Million of Inventory
Posted by Kendall Fisher, Executive Producer and Host of The NetSuite Podcast Steiner Sports doesn’t have time to focus on its systems. In case you missed the article earlier this year, Steiner Sports is a $50 million sports marketing corporation with two lines of business. On the B2B side, the company utilizes the power…
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OpenAir - NS Connector will require Token-Based Authentication for NetSuite 2019.1
Support for user credentials as a method to connect OpenAir to NetSuite will be deprecated with the NetSuite 2019.1 release. Customers must configure NetSuite Integration Credentials to use Token-Based Authentication (TBA) for integrations to work with the NetSuite 2019.1 release. As a reminder, support for user…
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How NetSuite Is Investing in Social Impact More than Ever Before
Posted by Kendall Fisher, Executive Producer and Host of The NetSuite Podcast Last week, NetSuite announced the very exciting news to expand its offerings for nonprofit and social enterprise organizations—a goal aimed to accelerate social impact globally. To do so, the NetSuite Social Impact program is making new…
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SuiteConnect: Bakers, Microlenders and Warriors Manage Growth
Posted by Barney Beal, Content Director The story of Andrew Ly, a Vietnamese refugee who fled a Malaysian camp and was robbed at sea by pirates before ultimately arriving in the United States, buying a bakery with his brothers and building a successful business provided a successful blueprint for managing growth during…
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Accomplish More with the New 18.2 Fall Release
Posted by Anand Misra, Sr. Manager, Product Marketing We are excited to announce the NetSuite 18.2 Fall Release. In addition to introducing many new features, the release also provides product improvements. By delivering regular updates and keeping our products fresh, NetSuite helps our customers accomplish more by being…
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Learning Cloud Support Select Gives Organizations a Single, Customizable Training Solution
Posted by Dean Sprankling, Vice President of Education Services In my previous blog, I introduced our new education services offering, Learning Cloud Support (LCS) Pass. LCS Pass is a great offering giving individuals unlimited access to NetSuite training resources. To complement this, I'm excited to announce our new…
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OpenAir | SAML SSO Certificate Renewal
The certificate used for SAML-based Single Sign On (SSO) in OpenAir production will be renewed on October 29, 2018, prior to its expiration on October 31, 2018. ** Customers are strongly advised to consult with their internal technical team as to potential impacts ** What is Changing?Required ActionsThe SAML certificate…
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SuiteConnect London Offers Growing Pains and Success Stories from European Customers Who’ve Blazed a
Posted by David Turner, Senior Marketing Director, EMEA From private equity to financial innovation to the promise of ecommerce and the challenges of Amazon, businesses in Europe face a wide array of triggers and barriers to growth. Fully understanding and adapting to these trends will be on full display on 18[SUP]th[/SUP]…
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Engineering Success Through Every Step of Growth Across the Globe
Posted by Kendall Fisher, Executive Producer and Host of The NetSuite Podcast Business leaders are always questioning their company trajectory toward greater success: Can I take this next step? Are we really able to grow internationally? Can we actually automate new operations, processes or lines of business? More often…
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The Power of One: Leveraging NetSuite and Oracle’s Research & Development Teams
Posted by Brian Chess, Global VP of Infrastructure, Security and Compliance Focused on fulfilling market needs and flexing to meet customer demands, software companies like NetSuite invest hundreds of millions of dollars in research and development (R&D) every year. Whether they are building out new products, revamping…
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3 Lessons Learned from BoxWorks 2018
Posted by Anthony Stames, Industry Marketing Lead - Software Today, many cloud companies are racing to introduce the next big innovation in data management. At BoxWorks 2018, Box’s annual user conference, attendees were reminded why continued innovation is critical. Box is an enterprise content management platform that…
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Navigating the New Lease Accounting Regulations: ASC 842 and IFRS 16
Posted by Tom Kelly, Senior Director of Product Marketing Now that public companies have adopted ASC 606 for revenue accounting and private companies are on track to do the same by the end of this year, a new accounting change is on the way that will address the way companies account for leases. These new lease accounting…