Hi, I'm looking to include the "committed on sales orders pending approval" in the calculations to determine the inventory on hand. (In our business we have many SOs pending approval that will be fulfilled so these numbers significantly impact our inventory) Any advise on how to accomplish this? Curious to understand more of how this works in general.

Why do you have so many SO pending approval? I suggest you make a workflow that would auto approve SO's

We have many SOs created automatically in the system - they're created with a status of pending approval. They need someone to look them over before approving but they pretty much all get approved. So it almost ends up being a "mass approval" process.

I would suggest setting up a list of rules that if all are matched get the SO auto approved. and if not, then go to a list for human review.

Our business is more customized - we want human review (at least cursory) on each order...

You are battling the native NS setup of a Pending Approval order which doesn't commit inventory until the SO is Approved. In this case, why look at the Inventory Committed value? Would it make more sense to just look at all unfulfilled quantities on Sales Orders instead regardless of order status? Note I don't think this is the best setup, but seems to be how your company views quantities on SO's.