Does anybody know is there’s a way to auto-build assembly items? Like if I have an assembly item with subassemblies, it would be ideal with my top-level assembly would have inventory whenever the requisite subassemblies are built and available. I’m sure I could do it with a script, but I was hoping for something a little easier…

Sounds to me like the top item is not an assembly is more likely better set up as a kit if its magically auto-built with no manufacturing effort.

We run a couple of scripts to do this - one scheduled which runs hourly and picks up new demand for small volumes of builds from new orders, and a map/reduce for large batches of stock where we get thousands to build at once. It's not difficult to do but, as Sandii says, I'd recommend looking at your case for doing this before doing something similar. The build process works without any real issues, but the problem is the data usage that goes with it. Each build is a work order plus an assembly build record. If you move assembly items in volume, data usage quickly becomes an issue.

@Sandii Yeah, that would be great, but this top level item has to be a matrix item where customers are able to select the items’ options. The problem is that this manufacturer implemented NetSuite and built all of their items not knowing about matrix items and now wants to convert everything to matrix items so that they don’t have a page full of product that all looks the same, all without changing any of their existing SKUs. My solution was to build a web-exclusive assembly item where the only component is their existing item, but they’re not going to want to build assemblies twice.