Sales Channel Availability Management

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.