NetSuite Optimization Self-Audit: Identify performance gaps in 30 minutes
Is your NetSuite running at full speed — or slowing your team down? In just 30 minutes, this self-audit will help you find the bottlenecks in your system and fix them before they impact your bottom line.
If your NetSuite feels slower, clunkier, or more manual than it should, you’re not alone. Many growing companies hit a wall after their initial NetSuite implementation. Processes that once worked fine start dragging. Reports take longer to run. Teams rely on workarounds, and leadership loses visibility into what’s really happening across the business.
The good news? Most of these problems can be spotted quickly with the right framework. This 30-minute self-audit will help you identify where performance gaps are costing you time, money, and momentum.
Step 1: Evaluate your financial close process
If your month-end close is taking longer than five days, it’s a red flag. Review your journal entries, reconciliations, and approval chains. Ask: which parts could be automated or simplified? Many clients have reduced their close from ten days to four just by optimizing NetSuite workflows and approvals.
Step 2: Review automation and workflow uptime
Automation is only powerful when it’s reliable. Check for failed workflows, scripts, or integrations. If your automation uptime isn’t near 99%, you’re spending too much time firefighting instead of forecasting.
Step 3: Assess integration stability
Shopify, Amazon, 3PL, EDI—if any of these connections break, your business slows down. Audit your integration logs for recurring Celigo or API errors. Even a 2% failure rate can mean hundreds of delayed or lost orders a month.
Step 4: Measure reporting and visibility
How quickly can finance and operations leaders get answers to basic questions? If dashboards lag or data requires multiple exports, it’s time to tighten your data pipelines. A well-optimized NetSuite delivers real-time visibility across your entire business.
Step 5: Examine user experience and training
A powerful system is only as effective as its users. If your team relies on manual steps or can’t find what they need, productivity stalls. Review permissions, saved searches, and training resources to make everyday tasks easier.
When a self-audit isn’t enough
Sometimes, the gaps you uncover go deeper than expected. That’s where AlturaCare comes in. Every new AlturaCare engagement begins with a comprehensive HealthCheck, a deep, data-driven analysis that pinpoints exactly where inefficiencies are hiding and builds the roadmap to fix them. From there, our team stays hands-on to keep your NetSuite performing at its best, month after month.
Take the next step
Don’t wait for inefficiencies to become bottlenecks. Download the 30-Minute Optimization Checklist to pinpoint your biggest opportunities and see what’s possible when your systems are seamless.
Download your 30-Minute Optimization Checklist and uncover what’s slowing you down.
Big News for NetSuite Optimization and Integration
Discover how Altura Innovation is redefining NetSuite optimization and integration for growth-stage companies. From implementation to project rescue and full-stack data services, we combine technology, process, and people to remove ERP bottlenecks—and enable scalable growth across e-commerce, distribution, manufacturing and field service operations.
Today, I introduce you to Altura Innovation, your technology partner in the NetSuite ecosystem.
Our Mission
To bridge the gap between unmet needs and the transformative potential of fully optimized technology solutions. By leveraging cutting-edge technology such as AI, automation, and NetSuite ERP, we enhance and elevate capabilities in e-commerce, retail, distribution, manufacturing, and field service.
Altura Innovation is unlike any other NetSuite or Celigo consulting firm. We accept a limited number of clients at any one time, devoting all our efforts to your business and treating it as if it were our own. In other words, we aren’t an ERP Consulting company; we are a strategic advisor focused on aligning people, process, and technology to be a growth multiplier for our clients.
Altura Innovation’s deep learning gained through leading companies in product management, engineering, delivery, sales and marketing makes us the most technically proficient problem solver in the NetSuite ecosystem and positions us as the perfect partner to support your success.
NetSuite Services
Implementation
Ask any business that has implemented NetSuite—even those that recommend NetSuite Professional Services for their excellent implementation packages—you’ll often hear how invaluable it would have been to have a trusted advisor to help navigate the transition from their existing accounting system to NetSuite. Altura Innovation enables business process owners to harness their knowledge into a more effective design, avoiding the pitfalls of a convoluted system setup.
Support and Optimization
If your business process owners are complaining that you've taken a step backwards or the old system was better than the new way, your system isn’t optimized. The solution is closer than you think. Instead of causing your team to rage against IT-driven changes, we can help you automate and they will fall in love with the technology supporting your vision. We are also experts at documentation and training. That seems like it should be table stakes, but it’s generally an afterthought for most NetSuite consulting firms.
Project Recovery & Rescue
It’s very frustrating as a leadership team to learn that your ERP implementation is out of budget with no light at the end of the tunnel. We can quickly assess your project and offer you a clear, crisp, no-bulls**t path to getting the outcomes you expected from your technology transformation project.
Field Service Management Expertise
As a field service micro vertical thought leader, I have over 8 years of experience supporting over a hundred implementations. I recognize that the team in the field is the foundation for everything service organizations do for their customers. Altura Innovation can help you ensure your technology transformation is seamlessly adopted.
Integration Services
NetSuite Integrations
We are experts at harmonizing the data between NetSuite and your other systems. We have experienced full-stack developers and Celigo Integration Engineers who can deliver rapid solutions. We meticulously document the flow of data and build robust integrations. In other words, you can maintain it yourselves instead of having to call for support because of a fragile design and non-existent exception handling.
Data Services
Business Intelligence (BI)
We help you leverage your data to drive actionable insights and improve strategic decision-making.
Are you ready? Visit us at www.alturainnovation.com
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The 3 most common ERP performance failures
ERP systems don’t usually fail overnight—they slow down, pile up errors, and quietly drain productivity. This post breaks down the three patterns Altura Innovation sees most often in underperforming NetSuite environments and how the right optimization strategy restores speed, accuracy, and control.
These are the top 3 performance failures NetSuite customers make and what you can do about them.
Tailoring the robust NetSuite ERP to fit your specific requirements promises enhanced efficiency and a competitive edge by automating manual steps incorporation validations, and integrating your business systems like Shopify, Salesforce, BigCommerce with Celigo. To ensure your NetSuite environment thrives, do these 3 things.
1. Beware of Poorly Written Scripting and Customizations
The power of NetSuite lies in its flexibility, including the tremendously powerful use of scripts, such as programmatically updating a Sales Order Record while it's saving with value added information. However, this flexibility can be a double-edged sword. It's common for so many use cases to be added, that the scripts become bloated and sap the performance from your system. Loading many scripts/workflow is less efficient than using one per request type. Combine them and eliminate anything that doesn't add value. Requests that don't need to be synchronous on order save should be moved to MapReduce scripts.
2. Avoid Poor Integration Design and Performance
Integrating NetSuite with other systems is a common practice for expanding its capabilities and ensuring seamless data flow across your business ecosystem. Integrations that are not thoughtfully designed, considering data volume, sync frequency, and error handling, can lead to poor performance, and reliability issues. Use event based integrations where there is a performance need, and state based where near real time will do. Consider using an iPaaS software like my favorite Celigo to make it much easier to get a performant solution that checks all of the boxes.
3. Do Not Underestimate the Importance of Proper Data Management
An often overlooked aspect of NetSuite customization is the strategic management of data within the system. Having a thousand custom fields in the system with drop down lists that have an insane number of choices will sink your performance. Inadequate data management practices, such as creation of unnecessary records, failing to archive old data or not maintaining data integrity across records, can significantly slow down your NetSuite environment. Efficient data management ensures that your system can quickly access and process the information it needs, without being bogged down by irrelevant or outdated data. Thoughtful design of the data structure, regular data audits, and the use of data archiving or purging mechanisms are essential steps in maintaining a high-performing NetSuite system.
If you are already experiencing system performance or Integration pain in your NetSuite environment, you can improve it with tips like what I shared above or grab time with me to review your tech stack.
Together, we can review your system, identify potential improvements, and unlock the full potential of your NetSuite investment.