Inventory service
The Inventory service is a cloud service that processes inventory supply and demand activity to provide accurate and real-time global visibility information across various selling channels in Sterling Intelligent Promising. As retailers, you can use this information to optimize their business operations to enhance the customers' shopping experiences and prevent inventory stockout and overselling. The inventory service can seamlessly integrate with any existing commerce solution monitor their inventory insights.
Overview
The Inventory service provides real-time inventory visibility across your entire fulfillment network. The service processes supply and demand events to maintain accurate inventory positions, enabling informed fulfillment decisions and preventing stockouts or overselling.
Key capabilities include:
- Real-time inventory tracking: Process supply and demand events in real time to maintain accurate inventory positions across all fulfillment locations.
- Multi-channel visibility: Provide unified inventory views across e-commerce, stores, marketplaces, and other sales channels.
- Safety stock management: Configure safety stock thresholds to protect inventory for critical channels or customer segments.
- Inventory segmentation: Allocate inventory to specific channels, customer groups, or business priorities using segment-based rules.
- Availability calculations: Compute available-to-promise (ATP) inventory by considering on-hand quantities, reservations, and safety stock.
- Inventory anomaly detection: Identify and report inventory discrepancies or unusual patterns for investigation.