Demand Planning and Inventory Allocation

When you process backorders, NetSuite helps automate your process for allocating anticipated future inventory when you use customer priority settings. To maintain strategic customer relations, you can prioritize order processing in favor of customers who make up a significant portion of your sales. NetSuite lets you set up order processing to ensure inventory is reserved for timely fulfillment of priority customer orders.

Backordered items can be shipped based on the commitment priority you designate. Employees who manage sales orders can use this prioritization option to reallocate the quantity committed to orders based on designated priority.

First, assign priority numbers for customers. NetSuite calculates the expected ship dates for sales order items based on priority standing and when inventory is expected to arrive in your warehouse. NetSuite examines the quantity on hand or uncommitted quantities and can automatically prioritize planned sales orders and transfer orders based on their importance.

To set up your account to use enhanced inventory allocation and customer prioritization, see the following topics:

• Enabling Features for Enhanced Allocation

• Setting Inventory Allocation Preferences

• Setting Customer Commitment Priorities

• Committing Orders

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