Background While NetSuite is strong as a general-purpose ERP platform for distributors, there are some business flows where the system out-of-the-box does not have ready-to-go algorithms. One such practice is called Consignment Sales. Instead of the dropship model where a seller does not possess the good but then instructs a supplier to ship directly to… Continue reading Automate NetSuite Consignment Sales Obligation Programs
Month: April 2025
Learn How To Automatically Apply NetSuite Landed Costs from Purchased Freight
NetSuite Landed Cost Considerations Note, I have seen many organizations attempt to track actual landed costs against item receipts. The primary challenges of tracking actuals have to do with the fact that actual costs may take significant time to be known; vendors may present their bills well past the time that services were rendered. In… Continue reading Learn How To Automatically Apply NetSuite Landed Costs from Purchased Freight
Rescheduling Scheduled or Map/Reduce NetSuite Script Considerations
Background In our professional services practice, we created a tool called “Queue Manager” to help us with complex NetSuite jobs. The Queue Manager simply is a record structure to help us understand when we want to schedule or queue up background processing work — using it helps us optimize the way we use threads/processors in our… Continue reading Rescheduling Scheduled or Map/Reduce NetSuite Script Considerations
NetSuite Vendor Bill Created From Purchase Order References
Background NetSuite’s general transaction architecture is to generate child records from copies of parent records. For example, on the Sales Order, when it is time to bill, the resulting invoice is effectively a copy with a cross-reference via the Created From field. This pattern is used extensively in the NetSuite environment. Yet, there may be use cases… Continue reading NetSuite Vendor Bill Created From Purchase Order References
Learn the SuiteScript Pattern to Generate Target Purchase Orders from Sales Orders
Background We have clients that are in industries that use both drop ship purchase orders and third party assembly operations. In many of these operations, the sales process is sufficiently complicated where every sales order requires consideration of one or more suppliers that will ultimately produce (an element of) the fulfillment. When creating the sales order, the… Continue reading Learn the SuiteScript Pattern to Generate Target Purchase Orders from Sales Orders
How To: Link a Standalone NetSuite Vendor Bill to a Purchase Order Accounting
Background While subject to a separate article, during a client implementation of a consignment sales flow, we sought to couple the specific sale of an item to the creation of a related vendor bill. In this case, since the items were serialized, we knew exactly where we acquired the item by looking it up via… Continue reading How To: Link a Standalone NetSuite Vendor Bill to a Purchase Order Accounting
Fixing CSV Column Misalignment Due to Commas in Field Values
Problem Summary When generating CSV files, field values that contain commas can cause column misalignment. This typically happens with descriptive fields like Customer or Project names, especially in entries like: 10001 ABC Company : Commercial Development at BKC, Mumbai The comma in “BKC, Mumbai” causes the CSV parser to split this value into two separate… Continue reading Fixing CSV Column Misalignment Due to Commas in Field Values
React Error Boundaries
Error boundaries are special React components that catch JavaScript errors in their child component tree, log them, and display a fallback UI instead of crashing the whole app. Why Use Error Boundaries? React components can crash due to bugs or unexpected data. Without error boundaries, a single component error could take down your entire app.… Continue reading React Error Boundaries
Using useRouter for Conditional Rendering in Next.js
The useRouter hook from Next.js allows you to access route info inside your components. You can use it for conditional rendering based on the current route. Why Use useRouter? Sometimes, you want to hide/show content depending on the route—like hiding a header on the login page import { useRouter } from ‘next/router’; export default function… Continue reading Using useRouter for Conditional Rendering in Next.js
Create a button to generate print from vendor return authorization
To create a button to generate print from vendor return authorization User event script define([], () => { /** * Defines the function definition that is executed before record is loaded. * @param {Object} scriptContext * @param… Continue reading Create a button to generate print from vendor return authorization