NetSuite Admin Tip | Joining Employees and Vendors in Purchase Order Using SuiteQL

When working with SuiteQL to analyze Purchase Orders, you may want to include additional information about related Entities (e.g., Vendors) and Employees (e.g., Sales Reps). However, not all Purchase Orders are associated with an Employee, so it's important to structure your joins correctly.

This guide demonstrates how to build a SuiteQL query that pulls Purchase Orders along with:

• The Entity (Vendor) information — always required.
• The Employee information — if available.

INNER JOIN vs LEFT OUTER JOIN:

• INNER JOIN (Entity): Ensures that only transactions with a valid associated entity are returned. This is appropriate for the Entity join, as all