What’s New in the TrueCommerce EDI Integration for NetSuite ERP?

By Ryan Tierney 

For most supply chain businesses, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and electronic data interchange (EDI) solutions are linked at the business process level. EDI documents like invoices and purchase orders (POs) are created within the ERP/business system. Likewise, when trading partners share business documents using EDI, the recipient’s EDI platform can automatically translate the data into an ERP-ready format—if ERP and EDI are integrated. 
 
An EDI solution that integrates seamlessly with your ERP is a strategic investment that can help improve customer experience, business agility, and profitability. Without EDI/ERP integration, employees must manually enter data between the two systems, a process that is both time-consuming and prone to errors, ultimately hindering business growth. 
 
This blog shares important new features now available with the TrueCommerce EDI integration for NetSuite ERP, along with their business value and common use cases.  

What is the TrueCommerce EDI NetSuite Integration? 

As the industry’s most accredited EDI provider and an integration expert, TrueCommerce develops and maintains feature-rich integrations with all the leading ERP platforms. Our cloud-based EDI integration for NetSuite ERP is certified as “Built for NetSuite,” reflecting a close, longstanding collaboration with Oracle that ensures smooth order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, and remote warehouse transactions.  
 
Providing an automated EDI solution for NetSuite that meets all your customers’ EDI requirements, TrueCommerce EDI integration with NetSuite streamlines supply chain processes without adding unnecessary complexity. It is proven to pay for itself over and over by eliminating manual effort, reducing errors, cutting process lead times, and minimizing paper usage while freeing up staff to focus on value-added tasks. 
 
TrueCommerce EDI integration with NetSuite ERP supports a wide range of integrated document types, and our user-friendly interface makes navigation, reporting, and field mapping between your EDI platform and NetSuite simple and convenient for business users. Built-in process controls eliminate errors by ensuring that your outbound EDI documents are complete and validated against any predefined rules before sending them. 

TrueCommerce Enhancements for EDI Integration with NetSuite ERP 

The TrueCommerce EDI integration with NetSuite now includes three important new features, discussed below: 

1. NetSuite Ship Central integration to automate your outbound ASN creation. 

2. Support for the 200 series transportation documents to automate your interactions with transportation carriers. 

3. Improved auto-pack functionality to simplify how you create packages. 

4. Embedded labeling making it easy to print compliance labels from NetSuite. 

Seamless NetSuite Ship Central Integration 

TrueCommerce EDI now integrates with Ship Central, NetSuite’s native fulfillment solution. This enables you to streamline your shipping process by automating outbound ASN creation, including Standard, No Pack, and Pick and Pack ASNs.  

The solution can now pull shipment data directly from Ship Central, to optimize your fulfillment workflow in alignment with current business processes while ensuring ongoing compliance with trading partner requirements. This new capability also eliminates the need to maintain custom integration software to create your outbound ASNs. 

Support for EDI 200 Series Transportation Documents 

TrueCommerce EDI for NetSuite ERP now supports the 200 series transportation documents, including: 

• Motor Carrier Load Tender (204). It is used by shippers to tender an offer for a shipment to a full truckload motor carrier. It may be used for creating a new shipment, updating or replacing a shipment, or canceling a shipment. Shippers may include manufacturers, distribution centers, wholesalers, or any other organization that handles and ships goods. A 204 transaction typically provides detailed pick-up and delivery information for a load, usually for a single pick-up location. 

• Freight Details & Invoice (210), which contains details on charges and services rendered by the motor carrier. This document will create a standalone bill in NetSuite. 

• Transportation Carrier Shipment Status (214), which carriers use to inform shippers, consignees, and their agents on shipment status. This document will automatically update the transportation status data in NetSuite to improve your supply chain visibility. 

By automatically processing these key transportation documents, TrueCommerce EDI now integrates key shipment data with NetSuite’s item fulfillment information.  

Exchanging these documents with your transportation carriers using EDI automates your business communications and reduces the need for separate, manual processes or a custom NetSuite integration.  

Enhanced Auto-pack Functionality 

The new auto-pack enhancements make life easier for business users by eliminating the need to execute the auto-pack function manually. It will now execute automatically when saving the item fulfillment record and run the process in the background. 
 
Now you can create packages automatically on the item fulfillment record when saving the document, versus having to navigate to the packaging details and selecting auto-pack, then waiting for the update to complete. 

Embedded labeling 

The TrueCommerce Labeling add-on automates creation of UCC/GS1-128 compliant, barcoded labels, with label and packing list template updates included free—making it easy to create and print UCC-128 labels to meet customer needs and further streamline your shipping processes. 

Next Steps 

These new features are in production and available now for our NetSuite EDI integration customers.  

Reach out to us today for more information on these latest NetSuite integration enhancements and how they can help your business save time and money while improving your customer experience.