NetSuite Customization
With more than 500 Oracle NetSuite ERP implementations completed, we’ve learned to customize NetSuite ERP to meet the needs of our clients. Whether your team needs minor configuration changes or a NetSuite customization, we can help. Let’s start with a better understanding of what a NetSuite customization is.
What’s an ERP Customization?
After you purchase an ERP system, your vendor usually configures it as part of the implementation. ERP configurations are minor changes that your vendor makes to fine-tune the out of box functionality of the ERP system. Depending on your company’s needs, your ERP supplier will change fields, forms, languages, time zones, currencies, units of measure, and other items. The vendor’s tweaks to the system ensure that the final configured solution matches your business requirements.
Whereas ERP configurations are minor changes, if your company needs system customization, your vendor must build new capabilities that didn’t previously exist in the ERP. ERP customizations require a great deal of product knowledge and are often carried out by an ERP partner, like Softype.
Reasons for an ERP Customization
ERP Customization Examples
Standard ERP Customization Risks
Reasons for an ERP Customization
Building new capabilities that didn’t previously exist in the ERP system
Deep knowledge of ERP, along with practical implementation and customization experience
Creating unique industry company-specific solutions for a better user experience
Addition of new features to support new functionalities and requirements
ERP Customization Examples
Creating significant changes and design modifications based on brand colors, user preference
Creating custom layouts, formats, invoices, special delivery notes, documents, and forms
Third-party application integration to support functionalities like Salesforce + NetSuite
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integration
Source code customization to add extra features and to improve existing work processes
Standard ERP Customization Risks
Excessive costs and long development times
Over-customization lock a company on their present version because upgrading could break the software that the customizations that were built on
Version lock software forces customers to choose between changing systems or attempting to support an antiquated one
Why have Softype Customize the Oracle NetSuite ERP?
NetSuite ERP Removes Customization Risks
NetSuite uses a unified data model—the entire system and all elements are built on a single code source. As a true cloud, the “one source of truth” approach that the NetSuite platform is built on makes customizations and developing add-ons to the systems more secure and simplified.
In addition to the unified data model approach, NetSuite reduces customization risks by:
Ensuring that no client is ever version locked by using a patented twice-yearly upgrade process
Assuming any of your consulting charges that could be required if customizations broke on upgrade
Your Business Needs Specific Enhancements
Every business has its own unique set of business processes. NetSuite services various industries and verticals, which means that sometimes companies need to enhance the out-of- the-box system to fit their needs.
However, to make the most of your NetSuite ERP investment, you may consider the option of customizing the solution to meet the unique needs of your business. NetSuite customization helps align with long-term business goals.
What NetSuite ERP Customizations can Softype Provide?
On your behalf, Softype will build new functions, extend NetSuite to third-party applications, and customize software functions and dashboards. Softype will use NetSuite’s SuiteCloud technologies to develop your customization. SuiteCloud is a comprehensive toolkit used to build and implement complex processes.
SuiteScript enables organizations like yours to completely customize and automate business processes, allowing them to build new functions, processes, and applications in NetSuite. Using SuiteScript, you can:
Access and manipulate core business records and user information via scripts that are executed at pre-defined events
Build custom HTML, Flash, or NetSuite-based interfaces from scratch or by leveraging SuiteScript User Interface (UI) Objects
Automate workflows and customize business processes using JavaScript extensions
Enforce data validation and business rules by triggering User Event SuiteScripts as users open, edit, or save records
Facilitate field-level calculations and alerts which run within the user’s browser as they work with data and records within NetSuite
SuiteTalk allows your company to integrate NetSuite with various on-premise and cloud environments. SuiteTalk makes enhancing, extending, and integrating third-party and legacy systems easy. Using SuiteTalk, your company can:
Build website-to-NetSuite integrations as well as create lightweight custom mobile applications
Exchange any data element, workflow process, or transaction to create a seamless, unified business management solution
Use any programming language or platform that supports the SOAP or REST standard to generate NetSuite business objects in that language
Achieve full support for customization, including strongly typed custom fields with automatic validation based on the field type
SuiteBuilder allows organizations to customize components that control how users interact with NetSuite. You can tailor NetSuite to individual business needs and processes using a simple point-and-click interface for creating fields, forms, record types, and transaction types. Using SuiteBuilder, you can:
Customize the NetSuite application without having to write a single line of code
Define how users interact with NetSuite and what data they have access to by setting permissions for individual roles or specific groups of roles with similar
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tasks
Customize data relationships and user interfaces via Custom Records that can stand-alone or easily tie in with standard objects such as customers or items in data relationships ranging from one-to-one, one-to-many, to many-to-many
Customize dashboards and view key performance indicators and trend graphs to enhance productivity
SuiteAnalytics allows you to leverage embedded Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities to unearth real-time insights from custom applications. Using SuiteAnalytics, you can:
Build KPIs from custom data and applications and overcome the complexities of managing and maintaining separate reporting tools
Embed real-time dashboards with custom applications and identify critical issues quickly
Leverage self-serve real-time analytics across all areas to quickly get the answers you need across your
customizations
customizations
SuiteBundler provides a way to package and deploy customizations from a sandbox to a production environment. Using SuiteBundler, you can:
Bundle groups of customizations, manage versions and deploy customizations in near real-time
Effectively manage customizations by packaging them quickly and easily and moving them between NetSuite accounts
Softype has the Expertise to Customize Your NetSuite ERP Instance
From NetSuite SuiteExtensions to building localization enhancements and even designing an education ERP, Softype has the skills, personnel, and experience you can count on to customize your NetSuite environment. Listed below are a few of the customizations Softype has developed:
edERP for K12 & University
GoApprove
GoLease
GoAsset
GoBudget
GoFulfill
Softype combines practical solutions with expert service, thus maximizing our clients’ investments in their business automation solutions. Our experts can help guide your team through the customization process.
Connect with us today to learn more about NetSuite Customizations.