NetSuite for Consultants (eBook)
346 Seiten
Packt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-83763-922-9 (ISBN)
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.
Guide clients through a NetSuite implementation with the latest features in 2023 including gathering requirements, setting up the basics, creating custom automations, and importing data with SuiteQLKey FeaturesPick up the best ways to identify a client's needs by asking the right questions in the initial interviews.Explore the new features in NetSuite 2023, including the Supply Chain Control Tower for managing inventory and gathering performance reports.Avoid pitfalls and get the implementation right first time by following the advice of a Consulting Technical Director at Oracle NetSuite.Book DescriptionERP 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.What you will learnUnderstand the NetSuite ecosystem, including the platform and its primary modules, and associated featuresLearn how to gather and document requirements, including understanding an organization's industry, transactions, and peopleLearn about the methodologies that go into creating a project plan for a NetSuite implementationFulfill client requirements with expanded coverage on managing employees, customer projects, and budgetingDiscover how to create custom automations and perform data migration with SuiteQL scriptsPerform integrations with expanded coverage on how we use the REST API for business purposesRecognize the procedures for testing and developmentRefine your skills with NetSuite tips and tricks and make each implementation process a successWho this book is forThis book is aimed at new NetSuite consultants who are tasked with guiding an organization through their NetSuite implementation. To make the most out of this book, you are expected to have already completed the basic NetSuite Foundations training course.]]>
Preface
NetSuite was created in 1998, in Northern California, from a desire to bring small- and medium-sized business processing into the internet age. A few people who worked for Oracle at the time wanted to create a CRM and ERP product you could run in your web browser without ever having to install anything in your offices. They received seed money for this new company, and embarked upon their 20+ year journey to making the set of products we use today.
I began working for NetSuite in 2012 as a technical consultant, delivering customizations and integrations for clients who were just about to go live on the platform. I’ve been working at that ever since, and one thing I’ve learned is that every business is unique and brings its own challenges when it comes to implementing NetSuite. At the same time, however, all companies share a few common traits when it comes to introducing them to the NetSuite line of products.
With this book, I hope to share what I’ve learned about helping clients use NetSuite. I’d like to think I can help make the process of getting a company up and running on NetSuite less painful and faster than it might otherwise be. I hope you find this useful and will engage with me and the rest of the NetSuite user community in online discussions regarding this topic.
Who this book is for
This book has two intended audiences. One is people who work for a company that helps other businesses implement NetSuite. We generally refer to those companies as NetSuite partners or vendors, or sometimes system integrators. They have lots of people on staff whose job is to work with NetSuite client companies and help them get started on the platform. These folks need to learn more about NetSuite and how to work with clients.
The other audience for this book is anyone working at a NetSuite client company who needs to help their users do more with the product – or maybe they’re considering whether they could self-implement without the help of a partner. This will always be a large, challenging task, but you might feel more confident about taking this on after reading this book.
What this book covers
Section I: The NetSuite Ecosystem, including the Main Modules, Platform, and Related Features
Chapter 1, Introduction to the NetSuite Ecosystem, Platform, and Related Features, is where we start, with an explanation of what NetSuite is all about and what you can do with it.
Chapter 2, Selecting and Applying an Implementation Methodology, covers implementation project methods and how to select the right one for every client.
Chapter 3, Creating a Project Plan, discusses what a NetSuite implementation project consists of and how you can schedule your time.
Section II: Understanding the Client’s Organization
Chapter 4, Documenting the Organization’s Requirements, covers all of the challenges of gathering requirements and techniques you can use to streamline the process, which is the most important step at an early phase in every implementation.
Chapter 5, Analyzing the Organization’s Users and Roles, explains how people make the system work, and so we need to understand who they are and what they will do in the system.
Chapter 6, Understanding the Organization’s Accounting and Finance, delves into the accounting and finance functions in a NetSuite account to help you learn how to work with these users to understand their needs.
Chapter 7, Getting to Know the Organization’s Entities and Items, talks about gathering requirements relating to the business entities, items and projects and how important they are to the rest of the implementation process.
Chapter 8, Identifying the Organization’s Main Transactions, covers the transactions that are a day-to-day operational need for most businesses. You’ll learn how to talk to clients about the transactions they will use the most.
Section III:Implementing an Organization in NetSuite
Chapter 9, Custom Forms, Records, and Fields, moves on from requirements gathering to the first steps we usually take when configuring an account to work as the client needs it to.
Chapter 10, Centers and Dashboards, covers how, given that organizing the data and activities in an account for users is an important task for the implementation team, you can set up the home screen and other areas for maximum efficiency.
Chapter 11, Items and Related Lists, details how to help a client get items and related lists set up correctly the first time, whether you’re tracking inventory items or services.
Chapter 12, Customers, Vendors, Contacts, and Other Entities, covers how the entity lists in NetSuite allow us to keep track of all the other companies we do business with. Getting them set up well requires a solid understanding of your client’s requirements plus the native NetSuite features.
Chapter 13, Financial Transactions and Period Closes, covers how to configure and train your users on financial transactions – journal entries and such.
Chapter 14, Procure-to-Pay Transactions, covers purchasing transactions and everything you need to know about all of the options available in NetSuite.
Chapter 15, Order-to-Cash Transactions, covers all the native transactions in the order-to-cash business process.
Chapter 16, Other Transactions and Custom Transactions, addresses a couple of special use cases, not having the room to cover all of the many transactions that NetSuite supports, to explain how we handle unusual conditions when we need to.
Chapter 17, Analytics, Reports, and Data Exports, goes into all of the amazing options we have for reporting on our data within the product, including information on SuiteQL.
Section IV: Managing Gaps and Integrations
Chapter 18, Managing Gaps and Creating Custom Automations, covers NetSuite’s SuiteCloud platform, and all of the amazing customizations and automation we can create with it to fine-tune the suite to work for each client.
Chapter 19, Managing Integrations, explains the basics of integrations, which allow us to bring outside data into the system, or export our NetSuite data elsewhere, although a lot of experience is required to know how to handle this well.
Chapter 20, Managing Data Migrations, explains how to plan for a migration, test it to ensure your success, and pull it off as part of the client’s go-live process.
To get the most out of this book
You should have access to a NetSuite account in order to follow along with each chapter. Access to the NetSuite Help system and SuiteAnswers, or the public documentation available at https://docs.oracle.com, will help a lot as well.
Every NetSuite account has different features enabled within it, so your account may not always give you access to all of the features shown in this book. When you can’t use a feature in your account, I hope the book explains its use sufficiently clearly.
After you’ve read this book, please visit the companion website at https://implementingnetsuite.com/ to follow the conversation or reach out to me.
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Conventions used
The text conventions used throughout this book are as follows:
Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: “The following is a screenshot from NetSuite and is an example of a Requirements tracking record from the free, NetSuite-provided ONE Implementation Bundle.”
CodeInText: Indicates database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. For example: “As you are helping a client import their Employee list for the first time, the client asks if they can attach a custom record to employees.”
Warnings or important notes appear like this.
Tips and tricks appear like this.
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| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.5.2023 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet |
| ISBN-10 | 1-83763-922-1 / 1837639221 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-83763-922-9 / 9781837639229 |
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