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How to best manage assemblies and back-orders

edited Apr 18, 2012 5:37PM in Accounting / ERP 5 comments

I'm trying to figure out what is the best practice for managing inventory to build assemblies for back-ordered finished goods.  Let me explain.

We are back-ordered 1,000 pieces of product X (an assembly).

Product X is an assembly of 20 components and sub-assembly 1 and 2.

Sub-assembly 1 is 5 parts.
Sub-assembly 2 is 30 parts.

Is Netsuite smart enough to know that I have 1,000 of product X on back-order and it needs to have enough parts for the sub assemblies to get caught up?

We are building electronics and some components for PCBs have 4-26 week lead times and we are trying to increase out our output.  However, I keep running out of inventory.  I'm managing inventory by "fake" building each assembly on Fridays to see that I have enough parts for the following weeks.

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