Sales Channel Availability Management
Author:
Fluent Commerce
Changed on:
13 Dec 2023
Overview
How to manage visibility to each sales channel
Key points
- Describes the relationship between Available to Sell / Available to Promise and Stock on Hand.
- Types of Virtual Catalogues available Out of the Box (OOTB)
Virtual Positions Creation and Management
Virtual Positions are a further abstraction of the Position where you can do and specific buffers and modifications to create an AVAILABLE TO SELL or AVAILABLE TO PROMISE value which can be presented to customers to represent Product Availability. Virtual Positions are held within the Virtual Catalogue and are the outward facing values a retailer will share.
Virtual Positions are created under Virtual Catalogues, a is a representation of the counts within a specific . These counts have buffers applied to them to factor in changes a retailer will want to ensure that a customer is offered products which a retailer is confident they can fulfill.
A will have a relationship to an Position, whereby each will be related to a specific Inventory Catalogue and be a representation of a modified STOCK ON HAND value within that specific . Each Position will have a related within every Virtual Catalogues that has the Positions within the related .
The 2 types of Virtual Catalogues featured as part of the Module are BASE and AGGREGATE. A BASE Virtual Catalogue represents the virtual value of a single Position within a . Whereas an AGGREGATE Virtual Catalogue represents the virtual value of all Positions summed within a .