Inventory Management Lifecycle

Reference behaviour: Inventory Batch, Inventory Position and Inventory Quantity (Quantities) with CORRECTION

• This article will give a good understanding of Last On Hand and how OMS calculates the Inventory On Hand quantity.  
• Covers how inventory quantity values are handled during the batch process.
• For the Virtual Catalogue and Virtual Positions, please refer to the training articles.

Reference behaviour: Inventory Batch, Inventory Position and Inventory Quantity (Quantities)with RESERVED & SALE

• This article will give a good understanding of Last On Hand and how OMS calculates the Inventory On Hand quantity.  
• Covers how inventory quantity values are handled during the batch process.
• For the Virtual Catalogue and Virtual Positions, please refer to the training articles.

Reference behaviour: Batch Inventory, Inventory Position and Inventory Quantity (Quantities) with CORRECTION

• This article will give a good understanding of Last On Hand and how OMS calculates the Inventory On Hand quantity.  
• Covers how inventory quantity values are handled during the batch process.
• For the Virtual Catalogue and Virtual Positions, please refer to the training articles.

The Sources section provides visibility for inventory and batch-processing metrics, enabling data ingestion and processing efficiency tracking. It includes:

• Sources Dashboard – Monitors inventory updates, failure rates, and processing times.
• BPP Metrics Dashboard – Tracks batch-processing efficiency, showing processed, changed, and unchanged records with a date range filter of up to 31 days.

Both dashboards use structured data, support trend analysis within configurable time frames, and require METRICS_VIEW permission for access.

• Sources Dashboard provides real-time tracking of failed updates, update frequency, total received updates, and estimated processing times.
• BPP Metrics Dashboard enhances visibility into batch data ingestion by tracking record modifications.

This page describes how Inventory Batch Pre-Processing (BPP) works, the opportunities available for configuration, and the implementation improvements enabled by using Inventory Batch Pre-Processing.

• Inventory Batch Pre-Processing optimises the performance of inventory ingestion using Inventory Batches
• This optimization can reduce the processing time for Inventory Batches, depending on the volume and data redundancy ratio.
• Inventory Batch Pre-Processing can be enabled per Account and Retailer as needed

This document is intended to introduce the Inventory Feeds feature to Customers and Partners. This page will describe the Inventory Feeds feature and how they fit within the Fluent Big Inventory Product and will direct the reader to resources describing how to use Inventory Feeds.

The Fluent Big Inventory Web App is a powerful tool for managing products, inventory, feeds, and sources. Key features include:

• Feeds: View inventory feed details.
• Sources: Track inventory update integrations.
• Products: Manage catalogs and product data.
• Unifies View of Inventory: Gain real-time inventory insights across locations and channels for optimal stock management.
• Inventory: Monitor allocation, Stock On-Hand (SOH), real-time updates, and buffers.
• Stores: Oversee individual and network locations.
• Insights: Track system events.
• Admin: Configure user access and settings.

• The Fluent Big Inventory Web App offers a comprehensive suite of functionality.
• With dedicated sections for Sources, Products, Inventory, Stores, Insights, and Admin, the web-based interface provides users with a holistic toolset, allowing them to observe and track integrated sources, manage product catalogues, exercise precise control over inventory, oversee individual and networked store locations, monitor system events comprehensively, and efficiently administer the entire inventory availability system for a seamless and valuable user experience.

This document outlines the functionality of Inventory Batch Pre-Processing, offering insights into how unchanged records are filtered during the inventory ingestion process using Inventory Batches.

• Efficient Processing: Inventory Batch Pre-Processing handles batch inventory updates before they reach the inventory workflows, streamlining the process.
• Change Detection: Identifying inventory records that have changed, ensuring the workflow engine processes only necessary updates.
• Performance Improvement: Reduces workflow engine load by filtering unchanged records, enabling faster and more efficient inventory processing.
• Enhanced Flexibility: Supports additional fields in batch records, allowing for more precise control and management of inventory updates.

The Unified View of Inventory (UVOI) consolidates data from multiple locations and channels into a single, real-time interface. It provides centralized inventory search, advanced filtering, and customizable views. It enables you to monitor, analyze, and act on inventory data.

• Centralized Inventory Management: The Unified View of Inventory (UVOI) consolidates data from multiple locations and channels into a single, real-time interface, simplifying inventory management and improving decision-making.
• Advanced Filtering Capabilities: UVOI offers flexible filters for refining search results, including catalog, stock status, on-hand quantities, and product or location-specific criteria.
• Comprehensive and Customizable Views: The Inventory Search page provides a detailed overview of inventory, with drill-down capabilities for stock levels, available-to-sell quantities, and update histories. Users can navigate to location-specific or product-specific views and customize filters and criteria to tailor the experience to their operational needs.

The Fluent Big Inventory Web App is pre-configured with standard functions that provide the interface for managing products, inventory, feeds, and sources and serve as a starting point for your projects.

The default UX templates are hosted on the platform, so you don't have to create the manifest settings unless you need to customize the existing baseline configuration.

• The Fluent Big Inventory Web App comes with pre-configured standard functions, offering a user-friendly interface for effective management of products, inventory, feeds, and sources.
• Default UX templates are readily available on the platform, eliminating the need to create manifest settings unless customization of the existing baseline configuration is required, streamlining the setup process for a seamless user experience.

Events are a fundamental part of the Fluent Platform. Not only are they used to trigger workflow logic, but they also capture everything that happens within the system. Events are categorized by type.

• Event Types: Understand the different event categories such as ORCHESTRATION, ORCHESTRATION_AUDIT, API, and GENERAL events, each serving distinct purposes within the Fluent Platform.
• Event Retrieval: Use the GET methods with appropriate parameters to retrieve specific events or a filtered list of events, ensuring you handle possible 404 errors for not found items.
• Event Creation: Leverage the POST methods to create new events either asynchronously (/event/async) or synchronously (/event/sync) based on the workflow requirements.
• Authentication: Remember that authentication is required for all operations within the Event API, ensuring secure access and interaction with the event system.

Discover how the Reports page in the Big Inventory Web App enables understanding an account Inventory Position Update and Inventory Position Change usage for selected periods.

• The reports provided enable a user to understand an account Inventory Position Update and Inventory Position Change usage for selected periods of time
• These usage metrics are split into two different reports so the user can analyze the metric that is most important

The Inventory module of the Fluent Web app provides comprehensive inventory management capabilities:

• Inventory visibility
• Inventory allocation
• The total quantity of stock for a specific item (stock on hand(SOH)) and the status of that inventory
• Available to promise inventory levels
• Inventory buffers to reduce overselling of products

• The Fluent Web app's Inventory module offers a comprehensive suite of capabilities, including inventory visibility, allocation, total stock quantity (stock on hand), inventory status, available-to-promise levels, and strategically implemented buffers to prevent product overselling.
• The module is equipped with various configurations, such as Inventory Catalogues, Control Groups, Virtual Catalogues, Cross-Catalogue Views, and Location Inventory Views, providing users with versatile tools to tailor their inventory management approach according to specific business needs and scenarios.

This document will describe how Inventory Feeds work and guide users through understanding any prerequisites to integrate with Inventory Feeds.

• Inventory Feeds will export a view of inventory data from the Fluent platform into a Customer environment
• The schedule of the export is configurable based on the Customer requirements
• The exported data is ready to be synced with any further systems within a Customer ecosystem to provide real time inventory availability

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.

Fluent Big Inventory is an enterprise inventory hub provided by Fluent Commerce. Fluent Big Inventory is designed to work within your omnichannel ecosystem, managing inventory availability across all your channels to ensure you have a single, unified view of inventory across all of your different go-to-market channels.

• Fluent Big Inventory is made up of multiple services
  • Intelligent Inventory Processing
  • Enterprise Inventory Availability
  • Available to Promise Data
• Each service includes a range of features detailed below