NetSuite-Magento
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This project occurred in the fall of 2014 when this particular company were in urgent need of a NetSuite specialist who could administer their numerous system integrations existing on their current technology stack. They were already integrating NetSuite with Magento and
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from what I observed, everything seemed cluttered. To fully understand these issues I decided to draw up the 'as-is' architecture:
It was daunting to discover this company funded in excess of 30+ systems; all of which the client was tied in contracts with. In many cases, I found that two or more systems had the same capabilities which were completely unnecessary. For instance:
• Metapack was used to facilitate the shipping process
• Accellos was used for stock management of products
• NetSuite was used for the storing of orders, customer records and reporting.
NetSuite clearly had superior capabilities to fulfil the same job as the Metapack and Accellos systems. That aside, there were areas of genius coming from Celigo's Magento Connector which (unlike the platform they helped build on my previous Venda project) was processing records near real-time:
• Metapack was used to facilitate the shipping process
• Accellos was used for stock management of products
• NetSuite was used for the storing of orders, customer records and reporting.
NetSuite clearly had superior capabilities to fulfil the same job as the Metapack and Accellos systems. That aside, there were areas of genius coming from Celigo's Magento Connector which (unlike the platform they helped build on my previous Venda project) was processing records near real-time:
