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NetSuite for Consultants, 2e

You're reading from   NetSuite for Consultants, 2e Your comprehensive guide to becoming a successful NetSuite consultant in 2023

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837639076
Length 346 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Peter Ries Peter Ries
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Table of Contents (28) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section I: The NetSuite Ecosystem, including the Main Modules, Platform, and Related Features
2. Introduction to the NetSuite Ecosystem, Platform, and Related Features FREE CHAPTER 3. Selecting and Applying an Implementation Methodology 4. Creating a Project Plan 5. Section II: Understanding the Client’s Organization
6. Documenting the Organization’s Requirements 7. Analyzing the Organization’s Users and Roles 8. Understanding the Organization’s Accounting and Finance 9. Getting to Know the Organization’s Entities and Items 10. Identifying the Organization’s Main Transactions 11. Section III: Implementing an Organization in NetSuite
12. Custom Forms, Records, and Fields 13. Centers and Dashboards 14. Items and Related Lists 15. Customers, Vendors, Contacts, and Other Entities 16. Financial Transactions and Period Closes 17. Procure-to-Pay Transactions 18. Order-to-Cash Transactions 19. Other Transactions and Custom Transactions 20. Analytics, Reports, and Data Exports 21. Section IV: Managing Gaps and Integrations
22. Managing Gaps and Creating Custom Automations 23. Managing Integrations 24. Managing Data Migrations 25. Other Books You May Enjoy
26. Index
Appendix: My Answers to Self-Assessments

Summary

During implementation projects, we’re typically on a very short schedule, and time is always tight. It might be tempting to skip a lot of customization and configuration around the things covered in this chapter – centers and dashboards. You could, for instance, just make sure the roles are set up with the right default center and then use the default dashboards that come with those. You could tell the client they need to figure out how to customize those things, or (worse!) tell each user they need to do this for themselves. But that, in my opinion, is the wrong approach.

As administrators of the system, we have a responsibility to use the advanced features that NetSuite offers to really turn the system into a much easier-to-use and efficient tool, allowing users to get more work done in less time. These features can do that if they’re set up well by experienced guides such as you. This fits into the default Waterfall method we usually follow for...

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