Process: Set up inventory records

 

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Objective

Encapsulate processes for the management of inventory.

 

Description

This process is used to contain several processes that are involved in inventory management. This includes processes for managing reserves on inventory (prevent it from being allocated to orders), for managing adjustments to inventory, and for managing expected inventory. Expected inventory allows the tracking of inventory that has been ordered as well as what has and has not arrived.

Inventory includes anything that can be physically accounted for in a fulfillment center. There are specific definitions of types of inventory that can be fulfilled, such as items, products, SKUs, bundles, packages, and dynamic kits; but these are all considered inventory.

WebSphere Commerce supports the following inventory-management methods:

Available to promise (ATP) provides a mechanism to ensure that commitments made to customers are based on information a seller has about expected inventory as well as inventory currently available. You can manage expected inventory records (anticipation of arrival of inventory from a vendor to a fulfillment center) and track as well as manage inventory.

WebSphere Commerce provides tools to manage inventory:

To allow specific products to be backordered, the Product Manager selects Allow Backorder on the Product Fulfillment page of the Product notebook.

The Product Manager can also force a particular product to be backordered. To do this the Product Manager specifies Force Backorder on the Product Fulfillment page of the Product notebook.

To see which products are on backorder run the Products on Backorder report.

 

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Professional, Enterprise, Express

 

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