NetSuite Ship Central Setup

To set up Ship Central, follow the procedures in these topics:

Note:

If you want to review requirements for integrations with ShipEngine and PrintNode before you begin your Ship Central setup, see NetSuite Ship Central FAQs.

1. Installing the SuiteApps for NetSuite Ship Central

   Install the required SCM Mobile SuiteApp and NetSuite Ship Central SuiteApp.

2. Enabling Features for NetSuite Ship Central

   Enable required features to use the Ship Central app. Enable optional features for shipping, bar code scanning, international shipping, and bin management, among others.

3. NetSuite Ship Central Roles and Permissions

   Assign the predefined roles or add permissions to existing roles to perform packing and shipping tasks.

4. If you enable features for shipping and international shipping, you can continue the shipping setup by completing the following tasks:

   a. Entering Company Information for Shipping – Enter company details that you want to use to create and register your NetSuite ShipEngine account.

   b. Registering and Integrating Your Carrier Accounts – Create a ShipEngine account within NetSuite, sync your carriers or company logo, and manage synced carriers.

   c. Updating Shipping Settings – Enable required settings for international shipping and showing customer names, with optional shipping settings.

   d. Ship Central Preferences – Depending on your business needs, you can enable return labels and settings for the logo or shipment references, among others. Includes settings for these additional shipping capabilities: International Shipping for Ship Central and Third-party Billing for Ship Central.

5. Setting Up Records for NetSuite Ship Central

   Depending on the features you want to use, set up locations, items, packing items, shipping items, and cost distributions.

6. Defining Autogenerated ID Formats

   Set up autogenerated IDs for cartons, pallets, shipments, BOL, or SSCC-18.

After your Ship Central setup, you can configure your kiosk or tablet devices and mobile app access.

Mobile Device Requirements

Refer to the following device hardware and software requirements or recommendations:

• For new kiosk and tablet devices –

  • Kiosks: Windows 10.0 or higher

  • Tablets: Currently, only devices that have Android 7.0 or higher versions are supported. Support for Android versions may change subject to updates from Google.

  Devices that run on iOS and other operating systems are not supported.

• Recommended screen resolution – 1280 x 800 up to 1920 x 1080

• Optimized for horizontal user interfaces or the landscape display mode

For more information about mobile app requirements, see SCM Mobile Setup.

Enabling Mobile App Capabilities and Access

If you already use another SCM Mobile app, you may have enabled mobile app capabilities such as bar code scanning, weighing scale support, mobile printing, and tally scanning. When you set up Ship Central, these capabilities also apply to packing and shipping. In addition, you may enable settings and rules specific to Ship Central processes. For more information and instructions, see the following topics:

• Ship Central App Settings and Capabilities – Includes mobile printing, weighing scale support, and bar code scanning

• Configuring Ship Central Rules

To set up mobile app access, see the following SCM Mobile topics:

• Language Preference Setup for SCM Mobile

• SCM Mobile App Access

Mobile Configuration and Customization for Ship Central

You can update mobile pages, page elements, and actions to suit your app requirements, as described in the following topics:

• To perform basic configurations on standard mobile processes, see SCM Mobile App Configuration.

• To clone mobile processes and perform customizations such as adding or deleting fields, see SCM Mobile App Customization.

• If you enable Mobile Printing and want to customize templates and printing settings, see Mobile Printing Customization.

Related Topics

• NetSuite Ship Central
• SCM Mobile
• NetSuite WMS Overview

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