Enterprise Inventory Availability
Unified inventory produces a single sellable inventory count for every product sold online even if it is stocked at multiple locations.
By integrating with POS, WMS, and ERP systems for a complete company-wide inventory view, unified inventory creates a single, simple sellable inventory number that is easy to integrate with sales channels without compromising omnichannel configurations.
Enterprise Inventory Availability
With unified inventory logic, inventory from all locations is consolidated and adjusted automatically based on rules like safety stock, thresholds, and deductions from offline stores.
Once a product’s inventory is set up, it's ready to be sold across all sales channels, without the risk of over or underselling.
Prevent Stockouts and Improve Fill Rate
Unified inventory even excludes the inventory promised for orders awaiting allocation from sellable inventory.
This allows retailers to commit inventory to an order as a company level even if an order has been held from fulfillment for further processing or reallocation.
Prevent Stockouts and Improve Fill Rate
While traditional safety stock is tied to products at an individual location level, global thresholds let retailers apply an inventory buffer at the company level.
Instead of managing buffers for individual stores or warehouses, the global threshold applies to the aggregated inventory count, making it easier to prevent overselling and keep stock available for all orders.
Intelligent Inventory Allocation
Unified inventory allows retailers to control which stores contribute to online sales. Factoring in which locations sell inventory online before publishing to online channels ensures that inventory from dedicated offline locations is suppressed and not promised to online customers.
Retailers can also set up fallback fulfillment locations that don’t publish inventory online but can be used as last-resort fulfillment locations if stock is depleted at selling locations unexpectedly.
Intelligent Inventory Allocation
Different fulfillment locations play different roles.
High-traffic stores can reserve stock for in-store customers by contributing inventory only for BOPIS, while locations with more space or less foot traffic can support both BOPIS and shipping, enabling omnichannel fulfillment without compromising stock availability for walk-ins.
Intelligent Inventory Allocation
Unified inventory also gives retailers a level of control that would natively be impossible to configure on any sales channel. Retailers can control inventory locations down to the SKU level, deciding where and how products are sold.
Hot product launches can be reserved for in-store pickup or warehouse fulfillment to protect stock for foot traffic. Items with special packaging or handling needs can be limited to specific fulfillment locations, while the rest of the catalog ships as usual. No matter the scenario, Unified inventory makes it configurable.
