Let's take a quick look at what's built into the platform from an administration view. As I edit a product, I can click on the Inventory tab. Here's where we have a field where I can manually add an inventory count. This is available for small businesses that don't have an ERP or PIM to manage their inventory. The field next to it is automatically incremented throughout the day as each product is sold via our eCommerce interface.
Our B2B inventory management software automatically subtracts the items allocated for sale from the available stock quantity, ensuring that the proper inventory counts are always displayed to your customers. Then, either when you receive new inventory into stock, you update the stock quantity. Or, in most cases, we integrate our clients' ERPs so each time we sync our inventory counts, we clear the allocated field and update the inventory field from the ERP. This covers simple inventory tracking.
But what if you got inventory stock in multiple warehouses or locations? We've got that built in as well. I've turned on our warehousing functionality, which allows me to define all of my inventory locations, naming them anything I want. In this case, Warehouse Austin, and Warehouse Denver. I've also gone into each warehouse, and defined multiple locations indicating where the inventory is stored within the warehouse. You could use this for things like buildings, sections, bins, and shelves.
Back to my product, you can see, as I add a new warehouse, I can easily add the Austin Warehouse Section 1, with its appropriate inventory count. Then, I'll add Denver Section 2 and its inventory. We can then update the eCommerce UI to either showcase both inventory locations, or use it to auto select the warehouse based on the purchaser's IP address, selecting the closest warehouse to them. Either way, we track the allotted sales throughout the day until we auto sync with your ERP configuration, or you update the inventory accounts manually.