SOS, im starting my first company on netsuite. I have all the open sales orders, and added all of the inventory - how can I get the inventory commited to the sales orders?

@KJ McLaughlin, where are you looking to extract this info (i.e. saved search, a view)?

Our sister company has this automatic such that inventory is committed to an order as soon as available

Have you checked in Creating Allocation Strategies?

AKA - NetSuite recognizes there is a quantity on hand and a quanity on backorder - how can I apply the backorder to the open sales order?