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  • Inventory Management
    • Overview inventory modules
    • Listing
    • Article categories
    • Stock
      • Stock availability
      • Stock properties
      • Stock updates
    • Reservations
    • Inbound process
    • Storage location
    • Zone
    • Inventory traits
    • Channel inventory
    • Measurement units
    • Stow jobs
    • External stock change reasons
    • Configurations
  • Availability & Promising
    • Availability & promising in customer journey
      • Earliest possible delivery date
      • Availability in delivery time period
      • Availability for specific delivery date
      • Checkout options
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    • Latest picking start
  • Distributed Order Management
    • Order management
    • Order routing
      • Fences
      • Ratings
      • Order split
      • Routing strategy
      • Item bundles
      • Re-route
      • Decision logs
      • Unroutable orders
      • Pre- and backorders
      • DOMS toolkit
  • Order fulfillment
    • Picking
    • Packing
    • Handover
    • Custom services
    • External documents
    • Load units
    • Interfacility transfer
    • Pick job target time
    • Configurations
      • Picking configuration
      • Packing configuration
      • Handover configuration
      • Printing & document configuration
      • Parcel tag configuration
  • Carrier management
    • Carriers and connection to facilities
    • Carrier country service mapping
    • Same day delivery
    • Custom carrier
    • Available carriers
  • Returns Management
    • Introduction to returns
    • Return reasons
  • Use Cases
    • Creating & executing stow jobs
    • Creating orders with interfacility transfers
    • Demand-driven replenishment
    • Expected stock in availability
    • Incoming goods & storage
    • Multi order picking
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  1. Inventory Management

Overview inventory modules

Inventory management offers various functionalities that can be used modularly depending on the individual use case and requirements. Central modules such as stocks are necessary to manage inventory via fulfillment tools.

Store

Dark store / small warehouse

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Required for all inventory features besides storage locations. Recommended for routing & picking.

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Automatically made when using orders & routing.

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Used to reserve stock in stores for offline customers.

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Recommended for tracking expiry dates or other special attributes on stock level. Prevents expired items from being sold, and can be used for picking by FIFO.

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Recommended when using expiry dates or sales periods so that expired / outdated products are not sold.

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Categories can be used to mark listings as belonging to a specific group.

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Used for reserving stock for specific (sales) channels.

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Recommended if other units than pieces should be tracked.

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Allows managing the storage and re-location of items.

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Allows giving reasons for changes in stock levels (can only be used in combination with stow jobs as of now).

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Recommended if the same article with different attributes (e.g., expiry date) should not be stored on the same location.

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Recommended if items should be tracked until handed over to a shipping provider / customer.

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Recommended if channel inventory feature is used.

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Recommended if inbound and expected stock features are used.

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Recommended if storage locations are used.

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Allows managing the goods receipt, storage and re-locating of items via an Android app.

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Recommended so that article data can be shown in the front end & can be used.

Used for differentiation between (non-) pickable and/or (un-)blocked stock. Enables assignment of articles to dedicated locations for .

Necessary for making already available for sale. Allows managing the goods receipt and storage process via fulfillmenttools.

Allows managing the facility layout and using the , storage, re-locating, , and features.

Recommended if useful for managing the facility layout or using .

Recommended if picking is used and stock should be adapted after .

Listing
stock properties
Stock
Reservations
Stock properties
Inventory traits
Article categories
Inbound
expected stock
Storage locations
Zone
Channel inventory
Measurement units
Stow jobs
External stock change reasons
inbound
location recommendations
running sequence
location recommendations
Safety stock
Stock available until
Short-pick configuration
Unmixed storage configuration
Outbound stock configuration
Backoffice – Stock overview
Backoffice – Listings
Backoffice – Channel inventory
Backoffice – Inbound
Backoffice – Storage locations
Inventory App
zone picking
short-picks