NetSuite Helps Improve Construction Project Margins and Cash Flow

Oracle NetSuite, the #1 AI Cloud ERP, has announced a comprehensive new AI-powered solution to help general contractors, subcontractors, and specialty-trade firms connect construction accounting workflows and financial management in one system.

NetSuite for Construction Businesses gives finance and project teams a shared view of job performance by bringing together estimates, contracts, job costs, billing, and work in progress (WIP) accounting.

“Construction businesses operate on tight margins, and small gaps between project activity and financial information can quickly impact profitability and cash flow,” said Evan Goldberg, founder and executive vice president, Oracle NetSuite. “NetSuite for Construction Businesses gives finance and project teams the visibility they need to spot cost pressures earlier, keep work and billing aligned, and make better decisions as their business grows.”

NetSuite for Construction Businesses helps finance and project teams reduce manual work and stay aligned as jobs progress by connecting job-level construction accounting with the general ledger, multi-entity financial management, procurement, and company-wide reporting. Ask Oracle, NetSuite’s natural language AI assistant, provides a conversational entry point to AI agents that help streamline job setup and payment application preparation. NetSuite for Construction Businesses includes:

• Estimate Import Agent: Helps finance and project teams automate job setup by converting estimates into contracts, schedules of values, and cost-coded job budgets. Source traceability enables teams to verify imported information against the original estimate and establish a consistent financial baseline for each job.

• Payment Application Agent: Helps project and billing teams reduce manual work and accelerate billing by preparing payment applications based on verified progress, approved changes, and retainage terms. Project managers verify percent complete and billing teams review and approve before posting.

• Construction Workbench: Helps project managers and controllers identify cost exposure and potential margin issues earlier by monitoring job performance and providing a single view of budgets, committed and actual costs, billed-to-date amounts, and estimated cost to complete.

• Change order and progress billing: Helps project and billing teams keep approved work aligned with billing by carrying change orders into schedules of values and subsequent payment applications. Construction-specific progress billing features support the preparation and review of amounts requested for payment.

• WIP accounting: Helps finance teams achieve a clearer basis for assessing job results and the amounts still to be collected by aligning earned and billed revenue, adjusting for over- and under-billing, and keeping retainage visible through final collection.

• AIA-style progress billing: Helps contract administration and billing teams prepare and review consistent payment requests by using American Institute of Architects (AIA) payment applications based on schedules of values, verified progress, approved changes, retainage terms, and stored materials. This gives teams a construction-specific structure for presenting and reviewing amounts requested for payment.

• Payroll: Helps payroll and finance teams manage construction-specific payroll requirements by supporting garnishments, multi-rate overtime, certified payroll, wage determinations, and payroll exceptions. It connects employee time with project/contract, job-cost, and financial data.

• AI-powered financial orchestration: Helps finance leaders manage job and company performance in the same financial environment by connecting construction accounting with the general ledger, multi-entity accounting, procurement, and company-wide reporting. Close enhancements include AI guided close-plan orchestration, and reconciliation. This keeps job-level performance connected to the broader financial management of the business.

NetSuite for Construction Businesses is built on NetSuite’s integrated business suite and SuiteCloud platform, enabling organizations to connect and extend financial, operational, and industry-specific workflows. It leverages the AI capabilities and experiences in NetSuite Next, including Ask Oracle, to help users find insights, automate tasks, and interact with AI agents.

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