Consigned Inventory Processing in NetSuite WMS
If you use the Consigned Inventory Management feature, you can complete inbound, inventory, and outbound processing of vendor consigned items through the NetSuite WMS app. It adds the following mobile app capabilities when you process items enabled for vendor consignment:
Consigned Inventory Management does not yet support the following mobile processes within NetSuite WMS:
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Build Assembly
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Inbound Shipment Receiving
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Inventory Transfers
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Work Order Picking
For more information about this feature, see Consigned Inventory Management or Consigned Inventory Management Setup.
Displaying the Consigned Column on Mobile Tables
During receiving or returns processing in the app, you can show the Consigned column to identify transaction lines for vendor consigned items. The column's Yes or No value reflects the Consigned box setting on item lines of associated purchase orders, receipts, or non-standalone vendor returns.
For example, you want to select pick tasks for damaged consigned items that you want to return to a vendor. You can display the Consigned column on the pick tasks table. When you want to select consigned items to receive for a purchase order, you can display the same column on the item table.
For transfer order receiving, the Consigned column's value depends on the inventory status of items from associated item fulfillments.
In other mobile processes with item and bin tables, you can show the Consigned column to complement the Status column. For items enabled for vendor consignment, a Yes value identifies quantities with a consigned inventory status. A No value may also appear for the same item to identify quantities with a non-consigned status.
For example, when viewing information in the Search Inventory process, you can show the Consigned column on both the item and bin tables. Depending on the item type, you can also show this column for certain lot and serial number tables.
To make columns visible on a table, see Table Elements.
Assigning Consigned Inventory Statuses Through the App
Mobile processes, such as Change Inventory Status and receiving, enable you assign the default Consigned-Good status or your custom one to consigned quantities. To avoid ownership transfers during processing, you can't assign them any non-consigned inventory statuses.
An item may appear in multiple transaction lines, such as one with consigned and non-consigned quantities in a single purchase order. If you scan or enter the item during receiving, you process its transaction lines in the order they appear in the transaction's sublist. As you continue processing the item, you can select the appropriate inventory status.
For items in bins, you can mix consigned and non-consigned item quantities in the same bin, which may also have the same lot number. Mixing of items or lot numbers in bins follows your item settings. You can distinguish between consigned and non-consigned quantities in bins by using your naming convention for custom inventory statuses. For information about statuses, see Creating Consigned Inventory Statuses. For information about settings for mixing items or lot numbers in bins, see Creating Items for NetSuite WMS.
If you activate the Tally Scan rule, on the Enter Quantity page of supported mobile processes, be sure to do the following:
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Tally scan item bar codes, including those for lot or serial numbers, with a similar inventory status.
You can view the list of lot numbers with quantities per consigned or non-consigned inventory status. For serialized items, you can view the current inventory status of each serial number.
Tip:Without Tally Scanning, you can view the inventory status of a serial number on its associated item record. For information about viewing consigned quantities on item records, see Tracking Consigned Quantities and Values.
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Change the inventory status to match the status of the item that you want to tally scan.
If the status doesn't match, you may encounter issues about invalid items, insufficient quantities, or invalid inventory statuses.
For more information about system rules, see System Rules for NetSuite WMS.
After you complete tasks that include journal posting, you can view the GL Impact subtab on the associated transactions. For more information about GL accounts for consigned items, see Journal Accounts for Vendor Consigned Inventory.
On individual purchase orders, you can view the consignment consumption quantity per line. To view the consignment consumption across items using a workbook, see Generating Consignment Consumption Reports.