Are you ready?
We hope 2025 is off to a great start! With the start of a new year comes the first phase (February) of the NetSuite 2025.1 Release upgrade, and the upgrade will continue with the second phase (March) and third phase (April). The NetSuite Release 2025.1 contains enhancements which are intended to improve business efficiency, streamline operations, and boost user experience.
The first group of NetSuite customers were moved to 2025.1 this past weekend (Feb 15 and Feb 16). While normally we see limited impact by the upgrade, this past weekend customers recurringly faced issues in the below four areas. If you are seeing challenges in your Production instance or in your Release Preview testing, please contact mPower for work around solutions until resolved by NetSuite.
- Shared and Public CSV import files
- Drag n Drop not working
- Sticky Notes not working
- Entering zip code does not populate city and state for Addrexx customers
If you want to learn more about your schedule and the release, look in the New Release portlet of your dashboard. The portlet includes your Scheduled Upgrade Date along with links to the Release Notes and Release Preview Guide. Additionally, you can request a Release Preview environment by navigating to Setup > Company > Release Preview. Upgrades are scheduled during non-business hours and clients should not experience any downtime or disruptions.
As a best practice, we recommend requesting a NetSuite Release Preview environment. This is a sandbox environment of your company’s instance with the 2025.1 updates. In the release preview environment, it is a best practice to perform regression testing that includes processes related to order to cash, procure to pay, inventory and record to report.
mPower has captured highlights from the NetSuite 2025.1 release below. Each section contains a Deep Dive button to see additional details for that section.
System/Administration
- The Redwood Experience theme was introduced in 2024.2. It is a more modern and updated user interface. Additional updates include selectable colors and screen layouts. If you turn on Redwood or are currently utilizing Redwood and later turn it off, an optional user survey will be presented to provide feedback.
- For users with the NetSuite Administrator role, 2025.1 includes updates to AI preferences.
- Text Enhance includes updates to text fields and custom actions defined through Prompt Studio.
- For authentication, outbound single sign-on (SuiteSignOn) end of support occurs with NetSuite 2025.1
- New Product Recommendation Messages are now displayed.
Finance/Accounting
- Banking – Match Bank Data Auto-create rule – NetSuite updated the behavior so that it no longer creates an auto-create rule b default.
- NetSuite continues to add enhancements to their Bill Capture product. Bill Capture is a separately licensed application. A few of the 2025.1 enhancements include Scanned Vendor Bills page, Review Scanned Bill page, Bill Creation, and New Bill Capture Preferences.
- Fixed Asset Management (FAM) includes updates to include Mid-life Leases and the system Setup Page.
- Enhancements to Revenue Recognition include Merge Revenue Arrangements and New Target fields for revenue recognition field maps.
Manufacturing
- Manufacturing Routing enhancements include adding delays between manufacturing tasks, and manufacturing Operation tasks of Add, Delete, and Reorder.
- Manufacturing mobile enhancements related to the 2024.2 release includes:
- Refined Bin Selection
- Operation Log
- GS1 Item Label Printing
- Label Printing Enhancements
- Pause Reason on Restart Pages
Supply Chain
- Supply Planning Enhancements include Scoped Planning Repository Refresh, Supplier Filter on Supply Planning Workbench, and Query Item Data using the Planned Order Saved Search.
- Quality Management enhancements for 2024.2 include Statistical Sampling, Enhanced Receipt Return Authorization, and Process and Visibility Enhancements.
- SCM mobile enhancements release includes Support for Redwood Experience Preference, Print to File Without Third-Party Integration, Multiple Row Selection for Transfer Tables, Date Selection from a Calendar By default, and New Mobile Configuration Capabilities.
Customer Relationship Manager (CRM)
- Security Enhancements to External Case Response Page in Case Management.
- Use Customer 360 to View Additional Metrics.
Deep DiveThe following link will take you to a full listing of 2025.1 Release Notes.
If you have any questions related to the NetSuite 2025.1 Release, please reach out to your Meridian resource or email Meridian at mpower@meridianbusiness.com.
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