2026.1 Inventory Management: Consigned Inventory, WMS Receiving/Picking, and MRP Workbook

NetSuite 2026.1 delivers a sizable inventory release: a brand-new Consigned Inventory Management feature, multiple WMS/SCM Mobile enhancements for receiving and picking, a new SuiteAnalytics workbook template for MRP results, kit-item support on Earliest Item Availability, and two Supply Planning fixes. Oracle's notes are light on technical detail (no SuiteScript module names, REST endpoints, or governance figures are mentioned), so several items below flag what an admin or developer should verify in their own account before relying on the behavior.

New: Consigned Inventory Management

This is the headline feature. NetSuite now tracks vendor-consigned stock using a distinct set of inventory statuses, separate from owned inventory, end-to-end from PO through fulfillment. Key mechanics called out by Oracle:

• Item records enabled for consigned inventory track quantities and values for consigned vs. non-consigned separately within each location.
• Costing methods gain a required vendor consigned asset account and an optional vendor consigned COGS account.
• Supports regular, lot, and serialized items, plus bins (your existing per-location/per-item bin settings carry over).
• Supported transactions: PurchaseContract (new Consigned flag), PurchaseOrder (line-level Consigned checkbox or whole-order link to a consigned contract), ItemReceipt, VendorReturnAuthorization, SalesOrder/TransferOrder, ItemFulfillment, CashSale/Invoice, and VendorBill (auto-includes only consumed quantities).
• Ownership transfers automatically at the time of sale, so vendor bills only reflect sold/consumed quantity.
• A Consignment Purchases workbook is provided for tracking consumption.

What the release notes do not say: the exact new field IDs on item, transaction, and account records, whether new SuiteScript record types are added, or whether SuiteTalk REST/SOAP schemas have been versioned. Verify in a sandbox before writing automation against these objects.

What to do (Consigned Inventory)

1. Enable the feature in a sandbox first. Inspect the Item, PurchaseContract, PurchaseOrder, ItemReceipt, and VendorBill records in the Records Browser to capture new field IDs (likely something like isconsigned/consigned on PO lines) before writing N/record or SuiteQL against them.
2. Create the new vendor consigned asset GL account (and optional vendor consigned COGS account) and wire them into your costing method setup.
3. Define or repurpose inventory statuses dedicated to consigned stock so existing saved searches and availability logic can distinguish them. Review any custom availability/ATP scripts that filter by status.
4. Review integrations that post POs, item receipts, or vendor bills. SuiteTalk and CSV imports that don't set the new Consigned flag will continue to behave as non-consigned, but downstream auto-population of consigned quantities on vendor bills will change behavior — regression test your AP automation.
5. Audit custom workflows / user event scripts on itemreceipt and vendorbill that assume ownership at receipt; under consigned flow, ownership doesn't transfer until sale.
6. Confirm bin-management scripts handle the new status set correctly for mixed (owned + consigned) bins.

Warehouse Management (SCM Mobile + Oracle NetSuite WMS)

Install order remains: (1) SCM Mobile then (2) Oracle NetSuite WMS. Enhancements are gated by System Rules for NetSuite WMS, not script deployments.

Landed Cost during receiving

• New rule: Set Landed Cost During Receiving. Can be enabled for all PO/TO/Inbound Shipment receiving or a single process.
• Only works with transactions configured for Landed Cost Allocation per Line.
• Mobile users can set landed cost categories and actual amounts per item line, or pick a template if Estimated Landed Cost is enabled.
• Settings apply whether or not Manually post item receipts? is on.

Manual posting of item receipts

• Activating Manually post item receipts? exposes a Post Item Receipt action on the Enter Item mobile page after at least one line is received.
• You cannot append additional items/quantities to a previously posted receipt from the same transaction — downstream item receipts will be split.

Reversal of inbound shipment receiving

• The NetSuite UI now allows reversing inbound shipments processed via the app, even before item receipts are posted.
• Limitation: reversals are line-level only — you cannot specify quantities to reverse. The app may delete only reversed lines, or the entire item receipt if all lines are reversed. Custom scripts that listen to item receipt deletion should be reviewed.

Search Inventory for kit/package items

• The Search Inventory mobile flow now returns kit/package items and can print labels per component (with lot/serial).
• Without PrintNode, generated labels are saved to the File Cabinet.
• The Advanced Barcode system rule enables GS1-format barcode labels.

Zero-quantity and partial picks

• Mark All Done closes both zero and partial picks for the order in the wave — tap this before processing partials if you only want to close zero picks.
• Mark Partial Picks Done closes only partial picks.
• Pick task subrecords show lines set to Done. Zero-qty picks produce no staging bin and no generated item fulfillment — integrations or saved searches that expect a fulfillment per pick task line need to handle this.

Picking work orders with backordered components

• You can now pick work orders that have backordered components. A new Backordered Qty column is available on the WO list.
• The existing Pick only fully committed work orders rule still blocks this if enabled.
• New rule: Show app notice for backordered quantities — activate to suppress the confirmation popup. Configurable per process (sales/transfer/work order) or globally.

What to do (WMS)

1. Upgrade SCM Mobile before Oracle NetSuite WMS. Verify both bundle versions in the sandbox.
2. Decide which new system rules to enable and at what scope (global vs. per-process). Document the rule state alongside your WMS deployment notes.
3. If you use Landed Cost, confirm affected transactions use Landed Cost Allocation per Line; the WMS feature is silently ignored otherwise.
4. Audit user event / workflow scripts on itemreceipt and itemfulfillment for the new partial-post and zero-pick edge cases (no fulfillment generated for zero picks; receipts may be deleted on inbound reversal).
5. If you push pick/fulfillment data to a downstream WMS or TMS, retest the wave-completion payload with mixed zero/partial picks.

Supply Chain Planning & Allocation

Supply Chain Planning Results workbook (SuiteAnalytics)

• Requires the MRP feature.
• New workbook template built on the Planning Results Pegging dataset.
• Pages: Supply Overview for Purchasing, Supply Overview for Sales, Supply Overview for Production, Production Summary.
• Customizable like any workbook — you can clone it and add columns/filters from the underlying dataset.

Earliest Item Availability now supports kit items

• With Supply Allocation enabled, the Earliest Item Availability page accepts kit items and computes per-location availability from component availability.
• Entering a required kit quantity returns the earliest date that quantity is achievable.
• If Sales Channel Allocation is also on, results respect existing channel reservations.

What to do (Planning)

1. If you maintain a custom availability/ATP service, evaluate replacing component-by-component logic with the new kit-aware Earliest Item Availability behavior.
2. Pivot any custom MRP reporting onto the Planning Results Pegging dataset to align with the new standard workbook.

Supply Planning fixes

• Purchase Orders use the standard form for all order items. Supply Planning now creates POs on the standard form even when a custom PO form is preferred. Action: ensure the role(s) used by the planning engine have access to the standard PO form, or planning-generated POs will error.
• Supply Type and Supply Lot Sizing Method auto-populate when duplicating an item. Applies only to items that started on Reorder Point and were switched to MRP. Previously, Supply Type kept following MRP behavior but didn't reflect the default Reorder Point values on duplication.

SCM Mobile and Quality Management

The release notes index also lists SCM Mobile Enhancements and Quality Management Enhancements, but no detail is provided on this page. Check the linked subpages in Oracle's release notes for those modules.

Caveats

Oracle's source page is written at a feature-overview level. It does not enumerate new field IDs, record types, SuiteScript module changes, REST/SOAP schema versions, or governance impact. Before integrating against any of the above — especially Consigned Inventory — validate the actual record metadata in a 2026.1 release-preview account.