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NetSuite for Consultants

By : Peter Ries
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NetSuite for Consultants

By: Peter Ries

Overview of this book

NetSuite For Consultants takes a hands-on approach to help ERP and CRM consultants implement NetSuite quickly and efficiently, as well deepen their understanding of its implementation methodology. During the course of this book, you’ll get a clear picture of what NetSuite is, how it works, and how accounts, support, and updates work within its ecosystem. Understanding what a business needs is a critical first step toward completing any software product implementation, so you'll learn how to write business requirements by learning about the various departments, roles, and processes in the client's organization. Once you've developed a solid understanding of NetSuite and your client, you’ll be able to apply your knowledge to configure accounts and test everything with the users. You’ll also learn how to manage both functional and technical issues that arise post-implementation and handle them like a professional. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the necessary skills and knowledge to implement NetSuite for businesses and get things up and running in the shortest possible time.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
1
Section 1: The NetSuite Ecosystem, including the Main Modules, Platform, and Related Features
5
Section 2: Understanding the Organization You Will Implement the Solution for
11
Section 3: Implementing an Organization in NetSuite
21
Section 4: Managing Gaps and Integrations
Appendix: My Answers to Self-Assessments

Making NetSuite work for you with scripts

As I mentioned in the previous section, there are requirements from a client that cannot be met via native features, workflows, or any existing SuiteApps. In these cases, we typically consider whether a SuiteScript can meet the client's need next. A script is a lot like a workflow, except for a couple of differences.

First, they are developed with what we call code, which is a set of script commands written out in a text file. NetSuite offers its own programming language for automating tasks within the system, and that's SuiteScript. It's based on JavaScript, a very common web programming language that's been around for a long time. There are a lot of developers in the world with JavaScript experience, although learning how to use SuiteScript is not nearly as common a skill.

Second, scripts are executed by the system in the background and they do not have any logs you can see when looking at a given record's screen...