Dealing with "committed" inventory

Does anyone have parts inventory for sale that also deals with this confusing "committed" inventory column?  Can we shut down committed because it just seems to cause more confusion than for little benfit it gives?

Or, how do we deal with this committed column? It's so puzzling as we'll show e.g. 500 on hand, but have a backorder of 12 that ends up in committtted (along with other non invoiced sales orders) thanks for any guidance

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  • Committed means the inventory is locked by an un-posted transaction (in a data entry table). 

    If the values are incorrect for lot / serial cost tiers, run Rebuild Sort files for IM (and click Yes to the prompt).

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  • Committed means the inventory is locked by an un-posted transaction (in a data entry table). 

    If the values are incorrect for lot / serial cost tiers, run Rebuild Sort files for IM (and click Yes to the prompt).

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  • in reply to Kevin M

    Kevin I believe he is referring to the Committed field in Inventory Maintenance/Inquiry window.  The committed column in the window that displays Qty on Hand and on Sales Order and the like refers to items on a sales order that has not yet been invoiced.  The inventory is committed in the sense that you have committed the inventory to an order that is due to ship.   There is no way to stop the system from populating this field in this manner but you can go into Custom Office and Hide that column so it is not displayed. 

  • in reply to BigLouie

    You're probably right.  My comments pertain to tab 7's Committed column.