Dynamic Inventory Availability to Commerce
Respond quickly to changing business needs by dynamically adjusting inventory availability views across sales channels with Manhattan Active® Order Management’s Available to Commerce.
Dynamic Inventory Availability to Commerce
Order Management
The retail business is a dynamic industry. Seasonal, logistical, operational, and a multitude of other business changes occur constantly. These changes directly influence inventory availability at specific locations, such as seasonal changes driving the need for more inventory at particular stores. Retailers need to be able to readily adjust inventory availability to respond and adapt to constantly changing business needs. Manhattan Active Order Management's Available to Commerce capability lets retailers quickly define and reconfigure inventory availability views or scenarios to match business needs to the right inventory levels.
Available to Commerce is an advanced constraint engine that is part of Manhattan Active Order Management's dynamic inventory management capabilities. Retailers can use Available to Commerce to fine-tune inventory availability to the location level based on multiple factors, such as operational constraints like fulfillment outages and store workload.
Business applications, like ecommerce and point of sale systems, can view precise global and location inventory availability, as refined through Available to Commerce via REST-based APIs. With real-time access to precise inventory availability information across sales channels, retailers can accurately promise inventory to customers at the point of purchase, which boosts sales and customer satisfaction.
Key Takaways
- Allows retailers to readily adjust inventory availability to provide a precise view of availability for use in selling across the business.
- Considers multiple factors like geography, merchandising, logistics, finance, store operations, and other user-defined characteristics to adjust inventory availability as business needs change. For example, store inventory availability views can be adjusted to protect in-store inventory from being sold online or in other stores to ensure sufficient store inventory to satisfy walk-in customers during seasonal peak demands.
- Helps retailers achieve global inventory visibility precision, boosting sales and customer satisfaction.
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