Published on July 8, 2021.

A NetSuite client recently contacted me, and asked for help with a query involving items abd bins. She needed to identify items that were in stock and stored in bins that were not the item's primary bin.

Here's the query that I provided to her.

SELECT
	Item AS ItemD,
	BUILTIN.DF( Item ) AS ItemName,
	Bin AS BinID,
	BUILTIN.DF( Bin ) AS BinName,
	OnHand
FROM
	ItemBinQuantity
WHERE
	( PreferredBin = 'F' )
	AND ( OnHand > 0 )
ORDER BY
	Item

As you can see, this is a simple query, involving a single table. Everything that my client needed was available in the ItemBinQuantity table, including the item ID, the bin ID, the quantity of the item in the bin, and a column indicating if the bin is "preferred" (i.e. the "primary" bin). I used the BUILTIN.DF function to provide the item and bin names, thus avoiding the need to join to the Item and Bin tables.

Do you have a question about this query, or SuiteQL in general? Feel free to contact me and I'll do my best to help.