Inventory Activity Detail Report Narrative Insights
With the Narrative Insights feature, you can use generative AI to quickly understand key inventory movements and highlights from your Inventory Activity Detail Report. This feature summarizes critical information, including top contributing items, high-quantity transactions, and periods with significant inventory changes. This data helps Warehouse Managers, Buyers, and other inventory stakeholders to make timely, informed decisions.
The summary is generated using AI and reflects only the filtered data shown in your current report. Exact figures, document numbers, dates, and categories are preserved, with no rounding, averaging, or inferred calculations.
For more information, see Narrative Insights Overview.
This feature is currently available only in Classic mode. Availability is subject to account region and language preferences. For more information, see Generative AI Feature Availability in NetSuite.
This feature provides the following key benefits:
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Quickly highlights items and transactions most impacting closing inventory
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Identifies periods and categories with significant inventory movements
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Provides actionable, suggestion-oriented takeaways based on your data
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Saves time by reducing the need for manual report review
This feature is available only to standard roles. To use this feature, your assigned role must have Reports > Inventory permission. Typical roles include Accountant, Buyer, CFO, Store Manager, Warehouse Manager, and others.
The Enable Narrative Insights preference on the AI Preferences page controls whether you can generate insights. This preference is enabled by default. Users with an Administrator role can disable this preference at any time. For more information about Narrative Insights preferences, see Managing Narrative Insights Preferences.
To generate an insight from the Inventory Activity Detail Report:
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Go to Reports > Inventory/Items > Inventory Activity Detail (Administrator).
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Apply the necessary filters, such as subsidiary, date range, or location.
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Click the Generate Insight button.
The Narrative Insights dialog displays the AI-generated narrative insight for your current results.
The insight includes the following details:
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Summary paragraph: Briefly states overall inventory findings and total figures in a neutral tone (without referencing specific items or categories).
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Key Points:
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High contributing items and transactions (which items/SKUs and transactions most significantly contributed to closing quantities)
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High quantity transactions (detailed entries with exact quantities, document numbers, and dates)
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Highest contributing item category (category with the biggest contribution to closing inventory)
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Key timeframes for inventory changes (notable periods/dates with major movements)
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Key Takeaways: Suggestion-oriented insights, mentioning relevant items and quantities, focused on helping you take action.
The AI-generated summary maintains precision and references only the data shown on your report.
Before using this feature, note the following:
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Data Privacy and Accuracy: The Narrative Insights dialog uses AI to generate content from your NetSuite data. Verify all information with your underlying reports. Insights may differ each time they're generated, even for the same data.
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Limitations: AI does not perform calculations, inference, or rounding. If the report lacks sufficient data for a summary, an error message may appear.
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Support: For access issues, feature questions, or troubleshooting, contact your account administrator or NetSuite Customer Support.