Available to Promise Earliest Availability
When you enable the Supply Allocation feature, you can view the earliest availability estimate in the Sales Order line, according to your supply allocation policies. This new availability calculation provides an earliest available date based on a real-time simulated supply allocation.
The computed availability date follows supply allocation policies, which means sales order required by dates have a higher probability of being met.
Enabling supply allocations prompts the following changes in NetSuite:
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The Expected Ship Date field is disabled and the embedded link to the Check Item Availability popup window is not visible.
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The Transactions > Inventory > Check Item Availability page is not available.
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The Earliest Availability icon is embedded in the Sales Order Supply Required By Date column.
Supply Allocation does not consider buffer stock when allocating and setting expected item ship dates.