Getting Started with Fluent Big Inventory

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4 June 2024

Overview

This document will explain how to use Big Inventory for existing Customers and Partners. Additionally, we will cover any pre-requisites for each new feature and any existing configuration needed.

Key points

Fluent Big Inventory has added many new features and capabilities to the Fluent Commerce platform. These features must be configured to ensure they work to their full potential.
These are:

Pre-Requisites

To start using any of the new services, you must:

Be using Global Inventory for your Inventory Availability orchestration

To start using Batch Pre-Processing:

You must ensure that your workflows and implementation are compatible with Batch Pre-Processing. To do this, follow our How to Enable Batch Pre-Processing guide.

To start using the Metrics API:

You must configure permissions to allow your users to make Metrics queries. See getting started with Metrics API

To start using the Inventory Web App:

You need to configure the correct user roles to access the web app. See Getting Started Configuring Fluent Big Inventory Web App

Migration of existing customised pages

You may need to migrate customised manifests from the Fluent OMS Web App. This is required if you have modified the Inventory pages within the OMS web app

To start using Inventory Feeds:

You must set up and configure Inventory Feeds per your business needs. See Inventory Feeds User Guides
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is required to store the inventory feed data files

Where to start

Batch Pre-Processing

Metrics API

Inventory Web App

Inventory Feeds

Related content

You should have knowledge of How Metrics works.
You should have knowledge of Metrics usage for Platform Observability.
You should have knowledge of GraphQL.
You should configure your User role with `METRICS_VIEW` permission for Metrics data access.

Inventory Feeds User Guides

Edited 323 days ago

This document will guide you through how to use Inventory Feeds and some example cases where an Inventory Feed is a preferred data export option.
Pre-requisitesThis document assumes you are knowledgeable and aware of the following subjects:

GraphQL API
Fluent Big Inventory
Inventory Module
- Specifically Virtual Catalogues and Inventory Catalogues
How do Inventory Feeds work
AWS S3

Key points

Use the guides here to create a new Inventory Feed via GraphQL
Additional guide also provides insight into troubleshooting Inventory Feed issues

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Where to start

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Metrics API

Inventory Web App

Inventory Feeds

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