The Highlights
We hope your 2025 Summer has been enjoyable! We are quickly approaching the fall which means it is time for the second bi-annual NetSuite upgrade to 2025.2 to occur. The 2025.2 upgrade will be rolled out over a three-month period, or phases. The first phase started in mid-August and the last phase will occur in mid-October. If you’re uncertain about your upgrade schedule, you can find your Scheduled Upgrade Date along with links to the Release Notes and Release Preview Guide in the New Release portlet on your dashboard. 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 2025.2 updates. In the release preview environment, we recommend testing those business processes supported by NetSuite.
MPower has captured highlights from the NetSuite 2025.2 release below. Each section contains a Deep Dive button to see additional details for that section.
System/Administration
- With 2025.2, a NetSuite Service Tier Dashboard is now available where information on monthly transactions, monthly transaction lines, user licenses and file cabinet storage can be viewed in one location.
- Additional updates for NetSuite system administration includes: Near Match Duplicate, Removal of unsupported permissions from standard NetSuite roles, and two new specialized user roles (Project Manager role and Site Operator role).
- The Redwood Experience theme is a more modern and updated user interface and it was introduced with the 2024.2 update. Additional updates for 2025.2 include more NetSuite functions and the user’s security questions page now uses the Redwood Experience theme by default. 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.
- Sublist headers now remain fixed as the user scrolls through the sublist.
- NetSuite now supports multiple NetSuite sessions per user.
- SOAP Web Services Version 2025.2 is not yet available but should be released this Fall. When it becomes available, version 2018.2 will be retired.
- The 2025.2 upgrade includes OAUTH 2.0 Certificate Expiration Notifications and Refresh Token Validity.
- The 2025.2 upgrade includes updates to AI preferences page. The update will include a new subtab, “Text Enhance Translations” where language translations can be managed.
Finance/Accounting
- Create Revenue Recognition Field Maps for Identical Custom Fields can now be performed. This enhancement eliminates the need to manually update the target field value after the source field value changes.
- Updates to Direct Revenue Posting for ARM Workflows – A user can now configure SuiteFlow to automatically post transactions to an item revenue account using the Direct Revenue Posting option. This can be useful for transactions that recognize revenue at the time of the sales transaction date and this can provide flexibility when configuring ARM workflows in SuiteFlow.
- With the 2025.2 update, changes to SuiteScript and REST Restrictions on Revenue Recognition and Reclassification Journal Entries have been made. A user can no longer use SuiteScript and REST Web Services to edit Debit and Credit amounts in the Lines subtab of revenue recognition and revenue reclassification journal entries.
- Enhanced transaction management for bank reconciliation include enhancements with bulk selection and processing capabilities which should provide additional flexibility to manage transactions with bank reconciliation.
- NetSuite continues to add enhancements to their Bill Capture product. Bill Capture is a separately licensed application. A few of the 2025.2 enhancements include improvements to matching logic and new bill capture preference.
Manufacturing
- BOM revision components system notes – Increased access to system notes on BOM revisions provides the history of changes that are made within an advanced BOM revision.
- Improved relationship information between the build and unbuild transactions. The NetSuite 2025.2 upgrade now allows the user to determine if there are assembly unbuilds related to a Work order or an individual assembly build.
- Outsourced manufacturing enhancements – includes changes to the price of an outsourced manufacturing item in a purchase order can be reflected in the related assembly build or the final production cost.
- Manufacturing mobile enhancements related to the 2025.2 release includes the ability to auto generate new serial numbers for serial items.
WMS Enhancements
- Import large volumes of putaway data using CSV vs bin putaway worksheet (manual) – does not require WMS. New record added to CSV Import
- Support for bin reporting, blocking in WO picking allows users to proactively identify and resolve bin related issues during pick
- Currently WMS system rule – enable bin reporting and blocking exists.
- Now extended to WO, you can also configure primary AND additional recipients on Location Record or under General Preferences>Custom Preferences as to who receives notifications on Bin Blocking.
- Automates serial number handling to reduce manual errors in PO receiving and WO assembly tasks- This is a WMS rule to be applied to WO build OR PO receiving. Selected by setting process type. IF blank, applies to both. Then fields to be set on item record. Including number format, starting sequence, etc…
- In Mobile Configuration, the user can select/add elements that are used to auto configure serial numbers. Fields show in mobile when receiving PO.
- Enhances transparency by updating users on system status, navigation, submissions and progress in WMS mobile
- Bulk assign pick tasks can now be assigned by item process group or by item process family. When setting criteria on bulk pick task record, it shows all items/picks that will get assigned as a sublist.
- Multiple item aliases may now be assigned to an Item, which can be displayed under WMS item alias subtab under WMS tab
- Tailored loading text during WMS processing – during mobile transaction, a loader message will provide visual cue to indicate a background process is in progress.
- Sync PrintNode printers with NetSuite on demand – minimizing wait times.
- Connection is sometimes lost due to inactivity.
- In NetSuite UI, the RESYNC PRINTERS option enables the user to rerun scripts. WMS Config>Printing Setup>Resync Printers.
Supply Chain
- SCM mobile enhancements release includes Resyncing Printer Connections, Time Entry for Dates, and Tailored Loading Text for Mobile Actions.
- Additional Filters in Planning Workbench Views that include filtering results by subsidiary and preset filters by action type to assist planners.
- Exclude Transfer Orders from Supply Planning field as a parameter in SuiteFlow Workflows.
- New Expedited Option on Planned Purchase Orders and Order Items Pages. A checkbox “To Be Expedited” will be an option on the Planned Purchase Orders and Order Items pages.
- With 2025.2, Supply Planning Data is now available in SuiteAnalytics.
- Supply Allocation Enhancements NetSuite 2025.2 include Earliest Availability for kit items, Default Allocation Stratey, and a Lead Time Calculation on Transfer Orders.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Enhanced Customer 360 Metrics and Data Visibility related to Opportunities and Estimates, Orders and Returns, Receivables, and New Activities.
- Improved Visibility into Automatic Location Assignment Processing – enhanced information will provide the reasoning behind location assignment decisions, making it easier to trace how location assignment decisions are made for each order line.
The following link will take you to a full listing of 2025.2 Release Notes.
If you have any questions related to the NetSuite 2025.2 Release, please reach out to your Meridian resource or email Meridian at mpower@meridianbusiness.com.
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