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KES Consultant Spotlight: Q&A with Chrystal Chambers
Welcome to our KES Consultant Spotlight Series. Our goal is to introduce the members of our NetSuite consulting team and also to provide valuable insight into Cloud ERP trends and topics – all from a KES NetSuite consultant’s point of view. Featured Consultant: Chrystal Chambers, Member and Senior NetSuite Consultant KES Team Member since 2004…
Read MoreMaintaining Momentum in 2021
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…
Read More6 Steps to Improving the Financial Close Process
In this blog, KES would like to share with you a recent article posted to the Oracle NetSuite Blog, ‘6 Steps to Improving the Financial Close Process’. This article was written by D. Scott Beaver, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Oracle NetSuite, and was originally posted to the Oracle NetSuite Blog on December 2, 2020.…
Read More3 Steps to Taming Intercompany Accounting
In this blog, KES would like to share with you a recent article posted to the Oracle NetSuite Blog, ‘3 Steps to Taming Intercompany Accounting’. This article was written by D. Scott Beaver, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Oracle NetSuite, and was originally posted to the Oracle NetSuite Blog on October 21, 2020. Intercompany accounting…
Read MoreKES Consultant Spotlight: Q&A with Sam Sanford
Welcome to our KES Consultant Spotlight Series. Our goal is to introduce the members of our NetSuite consulting team and also to provide valuable insight into Cloud ERP trends and topics – all from a KES NetSuite consultant’s point of view. Featured Consultant: Sam Sanford, Member and Senior NetSuite ERP Consultant KES Team Member since…
Read MoreReveling in Constructive Friction: Freakonomics Author Stephen Dubner on the Importance of Conflicting Perspectives
In this blog, KES would like to share with you a recent article posted to the Oracle NetSuite Blog, ‘Reveling in Constructive Friction: Freakonomics Author Stephen Dubner on the Importance of Conflicting Perspectives’. This article was written by Barney Beal, Content Director, and was originally posted to the Oracle NetSuite Blog on October 20, 2020.…
Read More7 Tips to Make Your ERP Implementation a Treat
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…
Read More3 Ways to Prepare for Budgeting Season
In this blog, KES would like to share with you a recent article posted to the Oracle NetSuite Blog, ‘3 Ways to Prepare for Budgeting Season’. This article was written by Rami Ali, Senior Product Marketing Manager, and was originally posted to the Oracle NetSuite Blog on August 5, 2020. Whether we like it or…
Read More4 Qualities of a Good NetSuite ERP Partner
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…
Read More6 Tips To Improve Your Accounting Team Efficiency
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. …
Read More3 Reasons CFOs Switch From QuickBooks to NetSuite and 3 Wins That Result
In this blog, KES would like to share with you a recent article posted to the Oracle NetSuite Blog, ‘3 Reasons CFOs Switch From QuickBooks to NetSuite and 3 Wins That Result’. This article was written by Suzy Strutner, Customer Story Specialist, and was originally posted to the Oracle NetSuite Blog on July 14, 2020.…
Read MoreDo I Need A NetSuite Sandbox?
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…
Read MoreHow Businesses Can Weather Monumental Challenges Through Thoughtful Aggression and Radical Generosity
In this blog, KES would like to share with you a recent article posted to the Oracle NetSuite Blog, ‘How Businesses Can Weather Monumental Challenges Through Thoughtful Aggression and Radical Generosity’. This article was written by Tony Kontzer, and was originally posted to the Oracle NetSuite Blog on July 1, 2020. About 10% of companies…
Read MoreThe Importance Of An ERP Health Check
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…
Read More12 Examples of Smart Business Adaptations Amid COVID-19
In this blog, KES would like to share with you a recent article posted to the NetSuite Blog, ‘12 Examples of Smart Business Adaptations Amid COVID-19’. This article was written by Suzy Strutner, Managing Editor at Grow Wire, and was posted to the NetSuite Blog on May 20, 2020. The coronavirus dealt a powerful blow…
Read MoreHow CFOs Are Managing Cash Flow, Planning and Forecasting as the Economy Reopens
In this blog, KES would like to share with you a recent article posted to the NetSuite Blog, ‘How CFO’s Are Managing Cash Flow, Planning and Forecasting as the Economy Reopens’. The article and video content below was originally published by NetSuite and was written by Kendall Fisher, Executive Producer and Host of The NetSuite…
Read MoreImproving the Efficiency of Your Accounting Department
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…
Read MoreKraft Enterprise Systems Narrows Focus to NetSuite Product Line
In-House Developers Expand SuiteApps Offering to Enhance Software Capabilities Kraft Enterprise Systems, LLC (KES), the Southeast’s premier provider of enterprise cloud business solutions, is now focusing exclusively on its proven NetSuite practice and related SuiteApps. On March 13, KES sold its Microsoft Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) division. The sale means that KES is now exclusively…
Read MoreKES Receives NetSuite’s 5-Star Partner Award
Brentwood, TN – May 22, 2019 – Kraft Enterprise Systems, LLC (KES), the Southeast’s premier provider of enterprise cloud business solutions, today announced that it has received the Oracle NetSuite 5-Star Partner Award. The award acknowledges members of the NetSuite Solution Provider Program that continue to deepen their commitment to NetSuite customers through strategic expertise…
Read MoreNetSuite Rolls Out New Release 2019.1
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…
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