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NetSuite for Consultants - Second Edition

By : Peter Ries
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NetSuite for Consultants - Second Edition

By: Peter Ries

Overview of this book

ERP and CRM consultants can effectively implement NetSuite for a client organization with the aid of NetSuite for Consultants, revised with the latest features and best practices for NetSuite 2023. After reading this book, you’ll have a thorough understanding of how to configure the NetSuite ecosystem for any business. You’ll learn how to apply new features such as the Manufacturing Mobile application, NetSuite budgeting features, and tools for handling rebates and trade promotions. This edition also includes expanded coverage of technical topics such as SuiteQL and the SuiteTalk REST API. Understanding what a business requires is a crucial first step toward completing any software product deployment, and this NetSuite guide will teach you how to ask meaningful questions that ascertain which features, basic and new, you will need to configure for your client. Most importantly, you’ll not only learn how to perform a NetSuite implementation; you'll also learn how to prepare clients to use the software confidently, which is the true test of a great consultant.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
1
Section I: The NetSuite Ecosystem, including the Main Modules, Platform, and Related Features
5
Section II: Understanding the Client’s Organization
11
Section III: Implementing an Organization in NetSuite
21
Section IV: Managing Gaps and Integrations
25
Other Books You May Enjoy
26
Index
Appendix: My Answers to Self-Assessments

Summary

We typically spend anywhere from two weeks to a month working with a client, getting their items list set up in the system initially. We then tweak the item definitions throughout the rest of the implementation, right up until we go live. Most of the details you set initially can be changed later, but some are tougher to modify, such as the item’s type. Following this book’s order of events, you should have clear requirements documented before you start to define items in an account. However, we are always open to changing our plans as our understanding of the client’s business changes over time.

This chapter should make it clear that the order in which we perform setup steps in an account is very important, and you should note that we need to have a good, solid first pass on the full item list that is imported into an account before we tackle setting up and processing transactions. We will start that work in Chapter 13, Financial Transactions and...