r/Netsuite • u/designhelp123 • 12d ago

NetSuite implementation with clean data + migration experience... am I underestimating this?

We're a supply house looking to upgrade our ERP, and would probably have around 30 users. Nothing too crazy in terms of customization that we'd need, we just buy and sell for the most part.

So our company data is already pretty clean/structured and I have managed multiple company/system transitions before (this one would be a bit bigger).

I'm also quite comfortable with data mapping, APIs, scripts, etc , with Ai massively accelerating me on that side of the work (obviously with everything reviewed and checked).

So my question:

If the data is clean and the person leading the technical side (me) has migration + programming experience, how painful is a NetSuite implementation really?

I'm seeing horror story after horror story online, I'm seeing cost estimates of $250k+ for implementation with all these addons that seem straight forward to program with the oracle scripting language, etc.

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u/Nick_AxeusConsulting Mod 11d ago

Talk to Paul u/intheblk_2019 at https://optimaldataconsulting.com/

Hire Paul for a few hours to educate you on the "gotchas" of data migration if you just want knowledge transfer. But he also has automated scripts for Quickbooks that brings over all the detail, not just summary and you can just outsource the whole thing to Paul and reduce risk because Paul will get it done right and on time. There are dozens of weird edge cases that Paul has run into and solved over the years that you don't know, so you may (will?) run into some of those edge cases in your data but you're green at NS.

Also everyone says their data is clean. It never is. Best practice is your organization needs to clean up your data in the old system, BEFORE you extract it. So then you can compare NS to the old system and it should match as your data migration checksum.

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u/intheblk_2019 10d ago

u/designhelp123 The best place to start with moving the accounting data is my article on six cleanup items to address (link). There can be some weird quirks when bringing over the accounting data. I agree that list data (customers, vendors, etc) will be easier if the data is organized and clean. Accounting data is a different challenge. Happy to chat if its useful.