ERP stands for enterprise resource planning and is a very powerful business tool that unites almost all processes needed to run a business. From inventory, order management over accounting and human resources, to customer relationship management, everything is covered by ERP’s. ERP systems enable the flow of data and tie together all different kinds of business processes. Since all data and processes are saved in one location, companies save time and effort, which also saves companies from data duplication and providing data integrity with just a singular source, which they can always trust and rely on.

With an ERP, employees from different positions and divisions all have access to the same information and new data can be shared instantly. It streamlines production times and eliminates errors that would occur when these tasks would be done manually. As most ERP Systems, NetSuite is cloud based and working on a global level has never been easier. ERP systems are very comprehensive systems and include a variety of features including:

Integration: data is turned into reports and can be shared across the entire organization
Automation: ERP enables repeating business tasks to be automated, reports can be automatically triggered etc.
Reporting: use data in the most efficient way
Human Resources: end-to-end employee management
Supply Chain Management: tracking demand, inventory and manufacturing
Customer Relationship Management: all customer data in one place

Using product information from NetSuite in InDesign is a common practice for very good reasons.

The elements contained in this type of document are mostly product information, and NetSuite is a technology with specific parts designed to handle this kind of data.

Compared to other business applications, NetSuite is very suitable for use with:

• Grouping product codes into different categories
• Editing long sales and marketing product descriptions
• Managing multilingual content
• Associating products with pictures

In short, NetSuite is a great platform for storing all the details you want to publish in a catalog.

Without a system like NetSuite, firms run the risk of spreading critical data about their products across too many locations. Updating these data takes a long time, which may lead to falling behind and not updating all the needed product information on an ideal schedule.

Using product information from NetSuite in InDesign is a common practice for very good reasons.

The elements contained in this type of document are mostly product information, and NetSuite is a technology with specific parts designed to handle this kind of data.

Compared to other business applications, NetSuite is very suitable for use with:

• Grouping product codes into different categories
• Editing long sales and marketing product descriptions
• Managing multilingual content
• Associating products with pictures

In short, NetSuite is a great platform for storing all the details you want to publish in a catalog.

Without a system like NetSuite, firms run the risk of spreading critical data about their products across too many locations. Updating these data takes a long time, which may lead to falling behind and not updating all the needed product information on an ideal schedule.

When product details are stored in NetSuite, it’s easy to update and to present them on the Web, but sometimes it needs to be presented in a well-formed and complete document, one intended for print or digital publishing. The reasons for this are many. The main thing is that, very often, a print document has a high conversion rate (there are many examples of this).

These documents help customers to buy more and more easily, and they enable sales teams to sell more.

Catalog and price lists help both sales and marketing teams by:

• Showing the products in their best order
• Bringing consistency to the company’s message (i.e., following the brand style guidelines)
• Conveying higher product values
• Facilitating customers’ product searches

That is exactly what the Web is not able to offer.

Netsuite has an extension of applications called SuiteApp, to meet your businesses needs. SuiteApp offers an array of applications, developed by third-party software developers. The applications are created to take advantage of, and further extend NetSuites capabilities. There are many different types of extensions offered by NetSuite, which can make your life easier, like basic widgets and calculation tools and of course the recently integrated extension from Pagination.

For your convenience, Pagination has implemented its own free app in the SuiteApp extension of Netsuite. You can work directly in the SuiteApp and create beautiful catalogs and price lists automatically in minutes.

To install Paginations Netsuite you can go to Customization > SuiteBundler > Search & Install Bundles. You can also go to SuiteApp.com and search for the extension in the Search bar or filter under “Business Needs”, “Verticals”, “Languages” and “Countries”.

When a company wants to publish product information from the Web (such as that stored in data management software or on an e-commerce site) in a ready-to-print document or PDF file, some peculiarities arise, and a great deal of attention must be paid. 

This is because print-ready documents and PDF files have specific rules related to the long development of both the print design and typographic industries, such as:

• the use of layouts, 
• grids, 
• fonts, 
• bleeds and slugs,
• CMYK color spaces, 
• and so on. 

Any slight imprecision in the final document could yield a less than perfect result. On paper, these are very eye-catching, and not in a good way.

For all of the reasons mentioned above, the expectations concerning a document that is going to be printed are higher than those for one destined for publication on the Web, but the fast pace of digital publishing is now dictating the cycles of the printing industry, too.

Technologies like NetSuite have an “export to PDF engine,” but in most cases, the results are not perfect, and if a company aims to enhance and bend the logic of HTML to a PDF engine, the path is very hard. Sometimes, the desired results (those expected from the print medium) cannot be achieved.

The only way to guarantee the quality of a typographic document export action is for it to pass through InDesign. This is exactly the service we offer at Pagination.

The connector allows you to start the automatic creation of your documents directly from NetSuite. Click Pagination > Project > Project and open link in  new tab to open the interface of the NetSuite/Pagination Connector.