Manufacturing

NetSuite 2026.2 includes the following enhancements to Manufacturing features:

• Rough-Cut Capacity Planning

• Preference to Exclude Zero Quantity Components from Manufacturing Transactions

• Update to Storage of Assembly Components for Advanced Bill of Materials

• Updating Costs for Manufacturing Charges

Rough-Cut Capacity Planning

The new Rough-Cut Capacity Planning feature helps you review required and available capacity by work center over a selected date range. The report uses planned time from work orders and planned work orders to identify potential overloads and underloads.

You can filter the report by subsidiary, location, work center, date range, assembly item, supply plan definition, and other planning criteria. Results can be viewed in daily, weekly, or monthly time buckets.

The report shows total and required machine and labor capacity, as well as machine and labor utilization. You can refine results by resource type and utilization range to identify overloaded or underutilized work centers.

You can expand report rows to review related transaction details, including operation, transaction number, start and end dates, required capacity, and utilization.

When Supply Planning is used, planned work orders are included in RCCP only if they are created from a Supply Plan Definition with the Include in RCCP box checked.

Work Center records now include total machine and labor capacity resource fields used to calculate available capacity for RCCP reporting.

For more details, see the Rough-Cut Capacity Planning help topic.

Preference to Exclude Zero Quantity Components from Manufacturing Transactions

Before NetSuite 2026.2, component lines with zero quantity were stored on manufacturing posting transactions during transaction transformation.

Now, you can use the new Do Not Store Zero Quantity Components on Transaction Lines preference to control whether zero quantity component lines are stored on selected manufacturing posting transactions. This preference helps improve performance of manufacturing transactions and costing by reducing the number of stored transaction lines in the system.

This preference can be enabled for the following transaction types:

• Assembly Build

• Assembly Unbuild

• Work Order Issue

• Work Order Completion

The preference is available when the Assemblies feature is enabled.

When a selected transaction type is created, NetSuite checks the preference and does not store component lines with zero quantity on that transaction.

This preference does not affect existing transactions.

For more details, see the Manufacturing Preferences help topic.

Update to Storage of Assembly Components for Advanced Bill of Materials

Before NetSuite 2026.2, assembly item components were stored on hidden transaction lines for several transaction types.

Now, when the Advanced Bill of Materials feature is enabled, assembly components are no longer stored on hidden transaction lines.

The change applies to the following transaction types:

• Cash Refund

• Cash Sale

• Sales-Type Custom Transaction

• Credit Memo

• Invoice

• Deprecated Custom Transaction

• Estimate

• Opportunity

• Revenue Commitment Reversal

• Revenue Commitment

• Authorization

• Sales Order

Updating Costs for Manufacturing Charges

You can now bulk update costs for manufacturing charge items (including routing operations charges) on production transactions. You can update costs using either the current purchase price defined on the item record or a specified custom unit cost, ensuring accurate production costing across transactions.

This feature supports manufacturing charges for Service, Non-Inventory, and Other Charge items with Purchase or Resale subtypes. Items with cost categories such as Outsourcing Charge, Landed, or Service cannot be updated.

A new preference, Allow Bulk Update Costs for Production Charges, must be enabled to use this feature.

For more information, see Updating Costs for Manufacturing Charges.

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