Inbound Shipment in Supply Allocation

Supply Allocation includes Inbound Shipments as a source of supply for calculating purchase order supply allocations. NetSuite defines an Inbound Shipment as a trading document that lists items ordered and received in a shipping consignment (for example, a container). This new functionality enables you to create multiple inbound shipments, each with a delivery date and receiving location for each purchase order line.

Supply allocation can assign both the inbound shipments and the purchase orders to ensure that the assigned quantities are allocated across these sources of supply. This additional source of information provides more accurate availability information about sales orders.

Inbound shipments in supply allocation handles each shipment and its related purchase order as separate sources of supply which it allocates demand orders. This enables you to do the following:

Assign a single purchase order line into multiple supply events and allocate each event by their own date of supply.
Direct the supply to a location other than the purchase order location.
Commit received inventory to the allocated demand order.

NetSuite reconciles the purchase order allocations and related inbound shipments, so that:

The purchase order supply quantity is depleted by the related inbound shipment quantities to ensure that the total available supply is not counted twice.
The remaining order supply quantity and shipment item receipts are updated by location.
The quantity received against the purchase order, including all shipments, is maintained on the order.

To setup Inbound Shipment for Supply Allocation, see Enabling Inbound Shipment for Supply Allocation.

The Inbound Shipment Future Inventory Type is now included in the Order Allocation Strategy form. To create an Allocation Strategy that includes Inbound Shipments as a source of supply, see Creating Allocation Strategies.

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