ANS-1631 · INVENTORY & ITEM MANAGEMENT
How NetSuite Calculates Item Quantities: Committed, Picked, Packed, Shipped
Understand the sequential flow of inventory quantities through NetSuite sales orders and fulfillment processes.
Short answer
NetSuite manages item quantities through a series of states: manually entered, backordered, committed, picked, packed, and fulfilled. As items progress through the fulfillment workflow, quantities are allocated, reserved, and ultimately deducted from inventory, impacting committed and fulfilled quantities at each stage.
Scenario
Users often need to understand how NetSuite processes and tracks item quantities across different stages of a transaction, such as sales orders and item fulfillments. Clarification is required on how quantities like committed, picked, packed, and fulfilled are calculated and updated within the system.
Solution
In NetSuite transactions, item quantities are calculated and updated through the following sequential process:
The initial quantity is manually entered on the transaction.
If the location of the transaction and the location of the item correspond and there is not enough item in the location, the missing number of item is inscribed into
qty backordered.All the available items are automatically added to
qty committed.If
qty pickedis entered, thecommitted qtydoes not change.If
qty packedis entered, the same quantity must be picked (it will be added if it wasn't picked before) and thecommitted qtydoes not change.If
qty fulfilledis entered, the same quantity must be packed and picked (they will be added if it wasn't packed/picked before) and thecommitted qtywill be reduced by the amount of fulfilled quantity.
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