u/After_Side1341

Hi, cross-posting from r/SolidWorks but I work for a manufacturing firm that used SolidWorks for CAD. We are trying to integrate PDM vault to NetSuite.

This requires that the PDM API becomes publicly available. TriMech [our PDM / SW vendor] should be able to authenticate using a PDM Web API URL with a user's credentials using Postman from a different network (Not TriMech’s network). The URL is what we're going to need in SharpSync [our middleware vendor].

I feel like TriMech is kind of dicking us around on this. They gave us a service quote for web API "without public-facing validation, installed as-is with default settings."

They want even more more money to take us to our end goal.

Has anyone successfully integrated PDM vault with NetSuite using SharpSync, and if so, do you have any advice on whether we can handle any of this in house, or do we have to suck it up and pay TriMech?

(Note: SharpSync has been great. And NetSuite is already connected, so this is just on the PDM / SolidWorks side)

Hi, cross-posting from r/NetSuite but I work for a manufacturing firm that used SolidWorks for CAD. We are trying to integrate PDM vault to NetSuite (our ERP for inventory and financials).

This requires that the PDM API becomes publicly available. TriMech [our PDM / SW vendor] should be able to authenticate using a PDM Web API URL with a user's credentials using Postman from a different network (Not TriMech’s network). The URL is what we're going to need in SharpSync [our middleware vendor].

I feel like TriMech is kind of dicking us around on this. They gave us a service quote for web API "without public-facing validation, installed as-is with default settings."

They want even more more money to take us to our end goal.

Has anyone successfully integrated PDM vault with NetSuite using SharpSync, and if so, do you have any advice on whether we can handle any of this in house, or do we have to suck it up and pay TriMech?

(Note: Sharp Sync has been great.)

Two questions today.

1. Is there any native way to auto number new item records? (My gut says no because it's not on the list of records that can be auto-numbered but I was told to seek out side verification so here I am)

2. My Engineering team wants all items set up as assemblies, even if they aren't assemblies.
   My guts says this is a BAD PLAN. We do have a large volume of items that are assemblies which we also purchase as finished goods. Assembly is the correct record type for those.

But there's plenty of items we purchase that are just straight off-the-shelf items from a vendor that we re-sell or consume as-is. I said those need to be in the system as straight inventory items. I was asked to explain why and honestly, I don't have the knowledge to articulate why beyond "please use NetSuite the way it's designed to be used."

Can someone present an argument for or against "all assemblies." Am I over-reacting and it will be fine, or is this the hill I need to choose to die on? (Context: Engineering is the source of most of our item records, and PDM Vault is our "book of truth" for any item on a BOM)