Hello All, Is there a way to commit items when SO is in pending approval status? Any alternate solutions?

Logically - what if it gets rejected? 🙂 no reason to commit, right?

We are looking at this from a strict inventory management viewpoint as we have other business processes dependent on the statuses of sales order remaining as they are. We are just looking to make any sales order commit inventory, regardless of the sales order status.

Responded to your suitescript thread which was worded a little differently since that one referred to changing the quantitycommitted field, which I am curious to know how you currently modify that for your orders in Pending Fulfilment, i know you can change wether the line is committed or not but didnt know you could change the quantitycommitted. As for you main questions, no it is not possible to commit to orders in Pending Approval. Enhancement 76715

Sounds maybe like a business process issue, not NS issue…

maybe customize a double approval process? first approval is system SO approval, make it the default on SO saves. inventories are committed at this time. add a custom second approval task to replace the actual approval action.

@Israel Gonzalez Am not bothered about the pending fulfillment. If I could do it by any means of customization for the pending approval state, I should be able to do it for pending fulfillment as well

approve and let the SO go to pending fulfillment. add a custom checkbox "hold for fulfilment" and do not fulfill. this way inventories are committed. have some logic to uncheck "hold for fulfilment", then the SO moves on. you might need also have a way to block picking when hold for fulfilment is T. this is just brainstorming, I have not implemented such working solution in production. I don't see why is would not work. and it will also affect forecasting since these SOs are "approved".