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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

Major releases


NetSuite has two major releases per year. The precise schedule changes each year but you can expect the first release in or around April and the second in August, give or take. The releases are usually designated the format of release year.1 and release year.2.

It would be pretty difficult to upgrade each and every NetSuite database on the same day, not to mention risky, so NetSuite phases a release over a period of a few weeks. This enables them to upgrade customers over that period of time. Think of it as NetSuite upgrading 20 percent of customer databases every weekend for 5 weeks. The actual schedule differs each year.

What release am I on?

The easiest way to tell the precise release that you are working on is to check out the bottom of the home dashboard:

This database is on the 2018.2 release

Notifications

You must be thinking: how will I be notified of a new release?

NetSuite will send the primary contact notifications of upcoming releases. In addition, the administrator can...