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Boston NetSuite User Group

Wednesday, November 5 th

Welcome!

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Welcome and Thank You!

Meet the Board

• Mike Kean – Co-Chair

• Stephen Enfield – VP and Co-Chair

• Charlene Doherty – Speaker Chair

• Mike Tarentino – Membership Chair

• Cara Foley – Co-Chair

Meet the Sponsors

• ERP Guru

• Piracle

• SPS Commerce

Corporate Sponsor

• Altico Advisors

Speakers

• Ken Phu, Hub Pen Company

• Olivier Simard, ERP Guru

Non-Board Assistance

• Jaynelle Bellemore

Boston NetSuite User Group

Approach

• ½ Day Morning Meeting

• 2 Technical Sessions

• Networking and sharing

Event paid for by Sponsors

• ERP Guru

• Piracle

• SPS Commerce

* Covers cost of room rental, food and drinks

* Sponsors introduce sessions- commercials

Agenda

8:00 – 8:30 a.m.

8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

8:45 – 10:15 a.m.

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Registration and Networking

Welcome

Technical Session I: Enhancing NetSuite Dependent Dropdown Fields and Custom Records

Technical Session II: NetSuite Integration Concepts

Closing Remarks

TECHNICAL SESSION I:

Enhancing NetSuite: Dependent Dropdown Fields and Custom Records

Presented By: Ken Phu

Agenda

• Dependent Dropdown Fields

• Definition

• How They Work

• Steps to create a Dependent Dropdown Field

• Custom Records

• Overview

• Create One on the Fly

• Example: Custom Field w/Custom List

Dependent Dropdown Field

A field’s list values are dependent on the value selected in a different field.

How They Work

Data Relationship

Steps to Create Dependent Drop Down Fields

1.

Determine your Trigger Field

A.

Existing NE Field (List)

B.

Custom Field Using Existing List

C.

Custom Field w/Custom List

2.

Create Components of the Trigger Field

A.

Existing NS Field (List) – No work jump 3.

B.

Custom Field (Using Existing List) – Create custom field and reference the list.

C.

Custom Field w/ Custom List – custom list first then the custom field referencing the custom list.

3.

Create the list values using a custom record for the Dependent Field

4.

Create the Dependent Field

1.

Where do you create the custom field?

2.

Reference the list value

3.

Apply Filtering/Data Relationship

NetSuite Custom Records

NS Custom Record = Table in a Relational Database = Custom Table in NS

Table Name

Field Names

Relationship

Example: Trigger Field is a Custom Field With Custom List

1.

Custom List (For Trigger Field)

2.

Create Custom Field (Manufacturer) and apply Custom List From Step 1

Determine where to create the custom field?

3.

Create a list value for the dependent field

• Create Custom Record First

• Add the fields to the custom record

• Add records to the custom record that represents the list value

4.

Create dependent field (Car Models)

Where do you create this?

Apply Filtering/Data Relationship to Car Model (dependent) field

Questions?

Break Until 10:00 am

Use this time to:

• Visit with our sponsors

• ERP Guru

• Piracle

• SPS Commerce

• Network with your NetSuite peers

TECHNICAL SESSION II:

NetSuite Integration Concepts

Presented By: Olivier Simard

Agenda

What is integration and why consider integration

Examples:

Integration of ERP & CRM

Integration of ERP & 3PL

Integration of ERP & ecommerce

Conclusion

Questions

What is integration and why consider integration

The goal of integration is to connect multiple systems with heterogeneous data formats to support business use cases.

Each integration project is done for different reasons, depending on the needs of the company.

Examples:

Linking an e-Commerce Web Site with an ERP solution

Linking a new CRM tool with an ERP solution

Example 1: Integration NetSuite with SugarCRM

Description

The client is a software company. The client was already using SugarCRM and had decided to move forward with NetSuite for their ERP

Main needs

Sync: leads / contacts, activities (phone calls, tasks and events), campaigns / campaign responses

Challenges (issues with Flow)

Definitions of a lead and a contact differ in NetSuite vs. SugarCRM

Data mapping: example Country, State, activities from different time zones, other

What activities should be synched

More…

Example 1: Integration NetSuite with SugarCRM cont’d

Potential solutions

Daily manual import

Connector between the 2 systems to allow sync every 30 min.

Connector between the 2 systems to allow sync in real-time

Development of the connector (sync every 30 min)

Maintaining close communications with the customer at all times / reduce time for decision making

Most discussions touched on data mapping / NetSuite has more restrictions that SugarCRM

Connector required a lot of custom rules

Result: An automated process

Example 2: 3PL Integration with DotCom (Distribution Case)

Description

The client primarily drives business through an online store selling office supplies.

They already had NetSuite and they decided to acquire a new 3PL system

(DotCom Distribution)

Main needs

Provide order to DotCom so it can be fulfilled

Receive fulfillments from DotCom, support drop ship items & sync inventory between systems

Challenges

Supporting partial fulfillments from DotCom to NetSuite

Shipping code discrepancy

Inventory count and packages

Example 2: 3PL Integration with DotCom (Distribution Case) cont’d

Potential solutions

Sync of orders (without supporting partial fulfillment)

Connector between the 2 systems to allow sync of orders every 15 min.

Connector between the 2 systems to allow sync of orders and inventory

Development of the connector to allow sync every 15 min

Result

In this specific Integration, originally the requirements were without specifying Partial Fulfillment. It changed overtime because the client realized that for the big office furniture, it couldn’t package them together. After the connector was released, they chose to implement the Inventory Check and automating the creation of Inventory Adjustments.

Example 3: E-Commerce Business Case

Description

The client is a high quality wine distributor with an online web store. The client decided to purchase

NetSuite and integrate it with their online web store and their current in-house management system.

Main needs

Get real-time information from online store

Keep the in-house management system populated with some information from the web

Be able to do bi-directional synchronization for customer records, unidirectional for sync of inventory, orders, items and custom records

Challenges

Supporting the existing records from the in-house system and incorporate new records from NetSuite

Support real-time updates and search the web store/NetSuite while continuing to support the in-house database

E-Commerce : Solution

Example 3: E-Commerce Business Case cont’d

Potential solutions

Use of a connector & the NetSuite scripting solution for real-time processing

Use NetSuite only (NetSuite scripting solution)/eliminate in-house system

The connector only to sync data between NetSuite and the in-house system

Result

Integration of real-time processing of info between Netsuite, In-House

System and Web Store!

NOTE: Design based on current processes and third-party company involved for other parts of the Integrations . The Web Store was made by the third-party company and was in development during integration (posed issues for final testing)

Conclusion

Today’s presentation provided specific business profiles and examples of integration but so much more is possible with NetSuite and other systems:

• Shipping Integration

• Payment Integration

• Ticket Management System

• Project Management System

• More….

Questions?

Closing Remarks

• Recap of event

• Initial Feedback and Suggestions

• Next Meetings (tentative dates)

• Wednesday, March 18 th

• SuiteWorld

• Wednesday, June 10 th

Thank You!

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