Global View of Inventory
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.
Global View of Inventory
Consolidating inventory from all locations and applying inventory rules like safety stock and deducting inventory from offline locations means eCommerce teams only have to set up a product’s inventory once in the OMS and it's ready to be sold on any sales channel. No risk of over or underselling.
Configure Unified Inventory
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 not promised to online customers.
It also lets retailers set up fall back fulfillment locations that don’t publish inventory online but can be used as last resort fulfillment locations if stock is depleted at the warehouse unexpectedly.
Configure Unified Inventory
Unified Inventory also gives retailers a level of control that would otherwise be impossible to configure on any sales channel. Retailers can configure inventory locations down to each individual SKU giving an unprecedented level of control over how their catalog is sold online and making sure that their customer experience is uncompromised.
Hot new launches can be set to only fulfill from warehouse locations to ensure stores can hold inventory for walk-in customers while regular products continue to ship normally. Or maybe a special product line requires unique packaging during fulfillment that can only be delivered from a particular location. Whatever the scenario, retailers can configure it with Unified Inventory.
Configure Unified Inventory
Unified inventory even excludes the inventory promised against 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 re-allocation.
Configure Unified Inventory
While traditional safety stock is applied to products at an individual location level, Global Thresholds allow retailers to apply a buffer on their inventory at a company level as well. Instead of being bound to any physical location, Global Threshold is applied to the aggregated inventory count, making it much easier for eCommerce teams to ensure that inventory will be available for all orders without worrying about which location to buffer inventory from.
