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Sales Channel Availability Management

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22 Feb 2024

Overview

This article provides information on managing inventory visibility of your inventory across various sales channels.

Key points

  • Relationship between Available to Sell (ATS) / Available to Promise (ATP) and Stock on Hand (SOH).
  • Types of Virtual Catalogues (VCs) available Out of the Box (OOTB).

Virtual Positions Creation and Management

Virtual Positions are a further abstraction of the Inventory Position where you can do Network and Location 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 Virtual Position is a representation of the Inventory counts within a specific network. These counts have buffers applied to them to factor in changes a retailer will want to ensure that a customer is offered products that a retailer is confident they can fulfil.A Virtual Position will have a relationship to an Inventory Position, whereby each Virtual Position will be related to a specific Inventory Catalogue and be a representation of a modified STOCK ON HAND value within that specific network. Each Inventory Position will have a related Virtual Position within every Virtual Catalogues that has the Positions location within the related Network.The 2 types of Virtual Catalogues featured as part of the Global Inventory Module are BASE and AGGREGATE. A BASE Virtual Catalogue represents the virtual value of a single Inventory Position within a network. Whereas an AGGREGATE Virtual Catalogue represents the virtual value of all Inventory Positions summed within a network.

Related content

Overview of Virtual Catalogs
Edited 779 days ago
Learn how to quickly navigate the Virtual Catalog and understand the correlation with other related Inventory entities. 
Control Groups and Controls Management
Edited 215 days ago
Rules or controls that determine what inventory is available in a Virtual CatalogControls can be used to:
  • Exclude SKUs or product categories from a virtual catalog
  • Manage buffer or safety stock by SKU, Category and/or Location

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