Inventory Management

Inventory Management is the record of what you have, where it is, and how much of it you can actually sell. OTO ships it as OTO INVENTORY, and it is the number every storefront in your business quotes back to a customer.

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The problem it solves

Overselling and stocking out are the same failure seen from opposite sides. Sell what you do not have and you cancel an order that was already paid for; hide what you do have and you turn away a sale that was already made. Both come from the same cause — a stock number that is a guess by the time anyone reads it. The difficulty is that stock is not one number. A unit can be on a shelf and already promised to someone. It can be in the building but damaged. It can exist in a warehouse that this particular storefront does not ship from. A system that reports “47” and leaves the reader to work out which 47 it means is the problem, not the solution.

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Two numbers, and the gap between them

OTO INVENTORY keeps two figures for every product, and almost everything in this module is downstream of the distinction.

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Where it lives

Two more columns follow them. Bin Quantity is the same stock totalled from the bins it actually sits in, and Min Inventory is the floor you have set for that SKU at that location. Every column filters — the quantity columns by a Min/Max range — and the Tools menu above the table holds the maintenance actions covered in inventory tracking.

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Who runs it

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Functions in this module

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What it connects to

• Warehouse Management — the physical movements that change these numbers.
• Sales Channels — where availability is published.
• Order routing — routing decides which location fulfills, and stock is the constraint it works within.

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At a glance