Fulfilment Inventory Management

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13 Dec 2023

Overview

An overview different types of fulfilment that is used in OOTB workflow

Key points

Explanation of fulfilment Reservation / Sale and Cancellation

Fulfilment Reservation

When orders are placed in the Order Module an event is sent to the Inventory Catalogue to reserve the purchased inventory quantity. This will trigger a recalculation of the Inventory Position and any related Virtual Positions.

Fulfilment Sale

When orders are fulfilled in stores, the Store Fulfilment module sends an event to the Inventory Catalogue to confirm the fulfilled quantity. This will trigger a recalculation of the Inventory Position and any related Virtual Positions.

Fulfilment Cancellation

When orders are cancelled or short-picked due to a shortage of inventory, the Store Fulfilment module sends an event to the Inventory Catalogue with the cancelled inventory quantities. This will trigger a recalculation of the Inventory and any related Virtual Positions.

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Inventory Catalogs

Edited 854 days ago

While the majority of inventory management may happen through integrations and business rules. The Fluent OMS provides a high-level view of inventory.Users need to have sufficient permissions to view the inventory module in the OMS.

Inventory Module Getting Started Guide

Edited 152 days ago

The Inventory Reference Module is the foundation for inventory-related implementations. It provides reference Workflows for inventory ingestion and processing. Extensible by design, use this Module as a base to build a solution to your customers' needs.

Virtual Catalogs

Edited 859 days ago

This pages shows you how to navigate the Virtual catalog and understand the correlation with other related inventory entities.