Fluent Big Inventory Web App Overview

Product and Inventory Management with Fluent Big Inventory Web App

The Fluent Big Inventory Web App is a web-based interface designed to streamline the management of products, inventory, feeds, and sources. Key functionalities encompass:

• Feeds. The Feeds interface includes the Feeds Dashboard, which provides general information about inventory feeds for an account.
• Sources. The Sources interface allows users to track and manage inventory data sources effectively. It includes:

• Sources Dashboard – Displays integrated inventory update sources and their status.
• BPP Metrics Dashboard – Provides in-depth visibility into Batch Pre-Processing (BPP) metrics, enabling users to monitor batch data ingestion, track efficiency, and optimize inventory submission strategies.

• Products. The Products interface allows a user to manage product catalogs and products.
• Unified View of Inventory (UVOI). This interface provides a consolidated view of inventory across locations and sales channels, offering real-time data to optimize stock levels, improve inventory allocation, and enhance fulfillment efficiency.
• Inventory. The Inventory interface provides robust inventory management, including visibility of allocation, stock on hand (SOH) for specific items, real-time inventory status, available-to-promise levels, and inventory buffers to prevent overselling.
• Stores. The Stores interface allows you to manage individual locations and networks of locations.
• Insights. The Insights interface provides comprehensive details on monitoring all the system events that have occurred.
• Admin. The Admin interface provides administrative capabilities to manage the system and users.

Each interface contributes essential reference capabilities integrated into the Fluent Big Inventory Web App, which offers an unparalleled user experience and delivers value across diverse business scenarios.

Value Proposition

Implementing the Fluent Big Inventory Web App has the following benefits:

• View statistics and metrics about inventory feeds and inventory updates
• View product and inventory details and change buffer or safety stock values
• Manage and edit Product Catalogues, Inventory Catalogues, Virtual Catalogues, and Control Groups
• Manage users and settings

Fluent Big Inventory is an application powered by our UX framework. The UX framework allows our Customers and Partners to easily configure or extend each feature to match their business needs.

Features

Inventory Update Overview

The Inventory Update Overview provides a detailed dashboard view of the inventory management system, offering insights into data flow and processing efficiency. It consists of the Sources and the BPP Metrics dashboards.

The Sources Dashboard includes the following key metrics:

• The number of updates that encountered failures from each source system.
• Time elapsed since the last update was received from each source system.
• The total number of inventory updates received from each source system over the past 24 hours.
• Estimated processing time for newly submitted inventory updates.

The BPP Metrics Dashboard provides in-depth visibility into batch data ingestion. It tracks processed, changed, and unchanged inventory records, highlights modification rates, and helps refine submission strategies for improved efficiency and accuracy.

Feeds Insights

Feeds Insights provides users with a comprehensive dashboard view of their inventory feeds over the past 24 hours.

Product Management

Product Management is where users can manage everything related to their product SKUs. It encompasses the management of Product Catalogues, Products, and Categories.

Unified View of Inventory

The Unified View of Inventory (UVOI) centralizes inventory data from all locations and sources into a single, real-time view. This feature empowers inventory managers, store associates, and eCommerce teams to monitor stock levels, reduce inefficiencies, and address operational challenges quickly. The UVOI supports smarter decision-making and seamless inventory operations by providing a holistic view and actionable data.

Inventory Management

Inventory management provides a comprehensive range of capabilities. Users can oversee inventory visibility, allocation, stock quantity (Stock on Hand—SOH), and status, gain insights into available-to-promise inventory levels, and strategically employ inventory buffers to prevent product overselling. Read more about Inventory management capabilities.

Admin Management

The Admin user interface in the Fluent Big Inventory Web App offers a suite of administrative features to manage the system efficiently:

• Manage the users with access to your Fluent Big Inventory Accounts;
• Manage the roles and permissions to precisely control how many of your Accounts each user can access;
• Customize application settings to control the operation of your Fluent Account to align with your business needs.

Further Reading

• Learn how to get started configuring the Fluent Big Inventory Web App
• Learn how to extend the Fluent Big Inventory Web App