Author: Manu Antony

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

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

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

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

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

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