Purchasing in NetSuite, Receiving in ION
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Sync purchase orders created, approved, or rejected in NetSuite with ION Purchases. This integration allows your organization to utilize NetSuite's advanced purchase order approvals, accounting, and finance systems. Once the purchase order is created in ION, receive the inventory from each purchase order and sync the receipts into NetSuite so you can 3 way match.
Use the Setup below for instructions on how to deploy this integration.
Purchases that do not yet exist in ION will be created and a custom attribute called "Netsuite PO Number" will store the NetSuite PO Number associated with the ION Purchase. These will not match so please use this value to compare NetSuite against ION.
Purchase order updates like line changes or header changes will be reflected on the ION side
Suppliers will be created in ION if they do not exist at the time of purchase
Parts need to be manually maintained in both systems for the ION purchase to be correctly populated. Warning logs will appear that let you know when parts or suppliers do not exist in ION.
Receiving: Upon saving a receipt in ion (pressing Save Receipt), an itemReceipt will be created in NetSuite for the purchase order linked to the receipt.
Upon closing a PO in NetSuite, open purchase order lines in ION will be canceled
Upon deleting a PO in NetSuite the PO will be deleted in ION
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Follow the initial setup on the Automations page to get started.
To authenticate with NetSuite, please follow these instructions as an administrator:
Enable SuiteTalk
Navigate to Setup > Company > Enable Features
Under the Suite Cloud tab, ensure that both REST WEB SERVICES and OAUTH 2.0 are checked.
To Create an OAuth 2.0 app with JWT Option
Go to Setup > Integration > Manage Integrations > New
Give your integration a name and a description.
Un-check TOKEN-BASED AUTHENTICATION and TBA: AUTHORIZATION FLOW under Token-based Authentication
Ensure the following are checked under OAuth 2.0
REST WEB SERVICES
CLIENT CREDENTIALS (MACHINE TO MACHINE) GRANT
Take note of and save your CONSUMER KEY and CONSUMER SECRET as it will not be shown again in Netsuite after this step
Generating the Certificate ID and Private Key for JWT
A private key is required for JWT-based authentication. Follow the steps below or refer to the NetSuite Documentation for generating or importing a private key.
On your machine create a valid certificate abiding by the Netsuite requirements using OpenSSL in a terminal. This will generate two .pem files on your local machine containing key used as the Private Key for JWT information and the certificate for the next step
Example query: openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -sha256 -keyout auth-key.pem -out auth-cert.pem -nodes -days 730
.pem files generated: auth-key.pem, auth-cert.pem
In Netsuite, navigate to Setup > Integration > OAUTH 2.0 CLIENT (M2M) SETUP and select Create New
Choose the proper Entity, Role, and select the Application created in the previous section.
For Certificate choose the auth-cert.pem file generated in the previous steps.
Press save
Once saved, a Certificate ID is generated. Save this for the Prismatic integration.
In your Prismatic Integration Connection configuration Select the Netsuite OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials connection Type and enter the following:
Certificate ID from OAUTH 2.0 CLIENT (M2M) SETUP
Private Key from the auth-key.pem file. copy the entire text including the -----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY----- and -----END PRIVATE KEY----- text
Consumer Key (Client ID) from the Netsuite integration
Consumer Secret (Client Secret) from the Netsuite integration
For the integration to work successfully you need to create the following custom attributes in your organization settings:
purchase order -- key: "Netsuite PO Number", type: String
purchase order -- key: "Netsuite RecordID", type: String
purchase order line -- key: "Non-receivable", type: Boolean
purchase order line -- key: "ns_line_id", type: Number
Configure your custom attributes by mapping ION custom attribute name (left) to the attribute name in your Netsuite instance. Below is an EXAMPLE of what a mapping can look like. Please reach out to your Netsuite IT administrator or consultant to get a list of attributes to map.
Hit Finish and take note of the URL for the Purchasing Flow
Create a custom script by navigating to Customization > Scripting. Save the below script locally and use that when creating a new script. The script that will send updates to ION when Purchase Orders in NetSuite are updated and created. Update the URL in the HTTPS POST method to the URL you copied from above.
WARNING: When you upload the script, ensure that your script name has .js after it or you will get a 'MODULE NOT FOUND' error when saving a purchase order.
Hit Deploy Script and deploy the script to Purchase Orders. Set the attributes according to the image below.
How it works: When you close a purchase order in NetSuite the corresponding purchase order in ION will be cancelled, which moves unreceived lines to unavailable.
To setup the cancellation functionality you will need to create a mass update script that will scan for closed purchase orders daily and will then run an edit/save update on each; triggering the integration to run and cancel the ION PO. Here is what that mass update will look like:
Pending Supervisor Approval
Draft
Approved by Supervisor
Pending Receipt Partially Received
Ordered
Pending Bill,
Fully Billed
Received
Closed
Canceled