Posts by Glenn Hofmann

By Glenn Hofmann, KES Managing Director For the year ahead, have you considered your organization’s plan for maintaining the momentum gained in 2020? As we all know, the previous year was disruptive on practically every level for most businesses, regardless of industry or size. As a result, many organizations were forced to rethink almost every…

By Glenn Hofmann, KES Managing Director  Quite simply put, implementing a new ERP system can be a scary prospect.  You know you want the new features, controls, and insights that come with a new system.  But the process of getting from “here” to “there” can be daunting…various studies show that over 60% of ERP implementations…

By Glenn Hofmann, KES Managing Director  When deploying an ERP solution such as NetSuite, an important decision is whether to work directly with the software provider or work through a partner.  As a NetSuite partner, we naturally lean toward recommending the latter option.  However, we know from experience that even when an organization does decide…

By Glenn Hofmann, KES Managing Director  As I am sure Accounting teams everywhere can attest, back office organizations such as Accounting have been under pressure for years to “do more with less”.  The COVID pandemic has accelerated this pressure dramatically, as organizations have been forced to reduce staff while maintaining the same levels of service. …

By Glenn Hofmann,  KES Managing Director Before starting a discussion of the value of a NetSuite sandbox, it is first important to understand what a “sandbox” means in the NetSuite world.  The short answer is that a NetSuite sandbox account is a separate NetSuite instance that is created by making an exact copy of your…

By Glenn Hofmann, KES Managing Director For most of us, the idea of a periodic “health check” is something we know we need to do.  Whether an annual physical or periodic vehicle maintenance, we know that performing a checkup is important to not only fix obvious issues but also to find potential problems and fix…

So many of us have learned a number of things about ourselves over the last two months.  In addition to personal learnings, organizations are also learning many things about themselves.  Everything from the importance of remote access to your company’s business systems to making sure contact info is up to date for all employees, to figuring…

By Glenn Hofmann, NetSuite Practice Director As a true cloud solution, twice a year, NetSuite pushes out a new release to all 40,000 of their customers. This not only means all 40,000 customers are running on the same version of NetSuite, but it also means that these customers all receive the new features and capabilities…