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NetSuite ERP for Administrators

By : Anthony Bickof
Book Image

NetSuite ERP for Administrators

By: Anthony Bickof

Overview of this book

NetSuite ERP is a complete, scalable cloud ERP solution targeted at fast-growing, mid-sized businesses and large enterprises. It's the smartly executed combination of financial management operations and built-in business intelligence, which enables companies to make data-driven and well-informed decisions. This book will help administrators become expert enough to be seen as the NetSuite leader at their company and to be able to advise department heads on specific processes, and strategic decisions. We start with an overview of ERP and NetSuite ERP, before going on to explain the built-in features to show the breadth of NetSuite ERP's product and its ease of use. We then discuss business aspects, focusing on the most important processes in NetSuite. Then you'll understand the implementation aspects that are generic enough to cover all the features. The focus then shifts to specific skills that you will need to administer for any system, such as roles, permissions, customization, and data imports. Moving on, you'll learn how to centralize the creation of search templates and give users the tools to pivot the data and expose it to the user in useful ways, such as on the dashboard. The book ends with checklists providing actionable steps that you as an administrator can take to do your job and support the application through new releases and troubleshooting problems.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Contributors
Packt Upsell
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Integration

Salesforce.com, Magenta, and Shipstation. These are all specialist software with deep, rich functionalities. On the other hand, NetSuite is an ERP and CRM suite and, being a generalist, offers deep functionalities over a large breadth of departments. Specialist tools, on the other hand, have a narrower focus but go much deeper into functionality. Should this be implemented in NetSuite or alternatively set up in a specialist product that is then integrated with NetSuite?

This is a question that has either come up or will come up in your deployment. I guarantee it. In this chapter, we want to focus on this question and develop a framework for answering these types of questions.

This chapter will cover: 

  • The suite versus best of breed
  • The framework