Inventory Management
NetSuite 2026.1 includes the following enhancements to inventory management features:
New Consigned Inventory Management
NetSuite 2026.1 introduces the Consigned Inventory Management feature to track vendor consigned inventory using a distinct set of inventory statuses. This feature lets you process vendor consigned regular, lot, and serialized items from purchasing and receiving to outbound fulfillment. It also supports processes, like vendor returns, inventory counts, replenishment, and adjustments, that ensure accurate and adequate levels of stored items.
If you have multiple locations, you can assign a location to your own consigned inventory statuses. Item records enabled for consigned inventory track quantities and values for consigned and non-consigned inventory separately within each location. When you set costing methods, you can assign a required vendor consigned asset account and optional vendor consigned COGS account. If you use bins, your bin settings for locations and items also apply to consigned items.
Based on your business requirements, you may use transactions that support the feature and add consigned items automatically or manually, as follows:
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Create a purchase contract for consigned items by marking it Consigned.
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Check the Consigned box on purchase order lines or link an entire order to a purchase contract for consigned items.
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Add received items with appropriate inventory statuses to item receipts generated from purchase orders.
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Add unconsumed items to vendor return authorizations without ever taking ownership.
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Add sales or transfer order lines for outbound consigned items, and then generate fulfillments for fulfilled quantities.
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Add sold items to cash sales or invoices, whether generated or standalone.
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Generate vendor bills from purchase orders that automatically include consigned items with consumed quantities only.
To distinguish from non-consigned items, ensure that consigned items have the appropriate default inventory status or one of your own. Enhanced tracking and integration among procurement, fulfillment, and sales flows ensure that you pay only for sold or consumed vendor consigned items, with ownership automatically transferred at the time of sale. Using the Consignment Purchases workbook, you can view and track consignment consumption.
Warehouse Management Enhancements
Use of Warehouse Management requires installation of these two SuiteApps in the following order: (1) SCM Mobile and (2) Oracle NetSuite WMS.
In NetSuite 2026.1, Warehouse Management includes the following enhancements for inbound, inventory, and outbound processing:
Receiving with Estimated or Actual Landed Cost
If you use the Landed Cost feature, you can activate the Set Landed Cost During Receiving system rule for the app. You can activate it for all purchase order, transfer order, and inbound shipment receiving processes or a single process of your choice. Landed cost setting through the app applies only to transactions that use landed cost allocation per line.
You can set landed cost categories and actual landed cost amounts for each item line through the app. If you also use the Estimated Landed Cost feature, you can choose an associated landed cost template for each item line instead. Regardless of whether you activate the Manually post item receipts? rule, manually created or generated item receipts reflect your landed cost settings.
For more information about landed cost, see Landed Cost Overview or Estimated Landed Cost. To set landed cost per line, see Landed Cost Allocation per Line. To activate the system rules, see System Rules for NetSuite WMS.
Manually Posting Item Receipts During Receiving
If you activate the Manually post item receipts? rule, you can post receipts for one or more item lines through the app. After you partially or fully receive at least one item, the Post Item Receipt option appears on the Enter Item mobile page. Before you generate a receipt, you can review all items and quantities included. Through this option on the app, you can't add more items or quantities from the same transaction to existing item receipts.
To activate system rules, see System Rules for NetSuite WMS. For more information about receiving through the app, see Inbound Processing.
Reversal of Inbound Shipment Receiving
Within the NetSuite UI, you can reverse the receiving of inbound shipments processed through the app even if item receipts haven't been posted yet. For each inbound shipment, you can choose the associated fully or partially received purchase order lines to reverse.
Note that you can't specify quantities to reverse, either per item line or per order. The app may adjust received quantities after you reverse inbound shipments, regardless of whether item receipts have been posted. It may also delete only the reversed item lines, or the entire item receipt if all lines are reversed.
For more information, see Inbound Processing.
Search Inventory for Kit/Package Items
Through the app, you can now use the Search Inventory process to view information for kit/package items. You can print item labels for each component, which may include lot or serial numbers. Without PrintNode integration, you can save generated item labels to your file cabinet. If you activate the Advanced Barcode system rule, you can print labels with an item bar code in GS1 format. For more information, see Searching for Inventory.
Processing Zero Quantity Picks
During sales or transfer order picking, you can close pick tasks that don't have any picked quantities. On the app, you can choose one of the following options to process pick tasks:
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Mark All Done - This option closes both zero and partial quantity picks associated with the order in the wave.
If you want to close zero picks only, make sure that you tap this button before you process any partial picks.
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Mark Partial Picks Done - This option closes only partial quantity picks associated with the order in the wave.
Both options enable you to stage any partially picked quantities. On pick task subrecords, you can view the pick task lines that have been set to Done status. For zero quantity picks, no staging bins or generated item fulfillments appear in the subrecord.
For more information, see Picking Orders.
Picking Updates for Backordered Quantities
Through the app, you can now pick work orders even if one or more component items have backordered quantities. On the list of work orders, you can display the Backordered Qty column to view the total quantity backordered across all item lines in an order. If you activate the Pick only fully committed work orders rule, an error message still appears when you choose orders with backordered quantities.
You can activate the Show app notice for backordered quantities system rule if you want to always hide the confirmation popup window for affected orders. This rule can be activated it for all sales, transfer, or work order picking processes or a specific process of your choice.
To activate system rules, see System Rules for NetSuite WMS. To pick sales or transfer orders, see Picking Orders. To pick work orders, see Picking Component Items for Work Orders.
Supply Chain Planning and Allocation Enhancements
View the Supply Planning and Allocations 2026.1 New Feature Preview (Article available only in English).
NetSuite 2026.1 includes the following capabilities for inventory planning and allocation:
New Supply Chain Planning Results Workbook Template in SuiteAnalytics
With the Material Requirements Planning (MRP) feature enabled, you can now use the Supply Chain Planning Results Workbook template in SuiteAnalytics. This enhancement provides a comprehensive view of current and future supply and demand across your supply chain operations.
The workbook template is built on the Planning Results Pegging dataset and includes the following pages:
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Supply Overview for Purchasing
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Supply Overview for Sales
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Supply Overview for Production
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Production Summary
You can also customize the workbook to highlight the insights that are most relevant to your role.
Earliest Item Availability Page Now Includes Kit Items
The Earliest Item Availability page now supports viewing kit item availability across all locations. This enhancement provides accurate calculations of available kit quantities and dates based on the combined availability of each kit's components.
If the Supply Allocation feature is enabled, you can select kit items to view available quantities at each location. Quantities are calculated based on the combined availability of each kit's components. When you enter a required kit quantity on the page, the earliest availability date for that quantity is displayed.
If the Sales Channel Allocation feature is also enabled, NetSuite limits kit item availability and dates across locations according to existing sales channel reservations.
These enhancements provide distribution, fulfillment, and customer service teams with precise data to answer availability inquiries and set accurate promise dates for kit item orders.
Supply Planning Issue Fixes
As of 2026.1, Supply Planning feature includes the following issue fixes:
Purchase Orders Use the Standard Form for All Order Items
NetSuite now creates orders using this form even when a custom purchase order form is preferred. To prevent errors, make sure your role has access to the standard purchase order form.
Supply Type and Supply Lot Sizing Method Fields Automatically Populate
NetSuite populates these fields when you duplicate an item. The change applies only to items that first used the Reorder Point replenishment method then had it changed to Material Requirements Planning (MRP).
Previously, the Supply Type field followed MRP behavior and didn't reflect the default Reorder Point values.