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Inventory management framework provides a flexible and non-restrictive data entry mechanism. The fundamental data objects that are responsible for stock management are fulfilment centre (FC) (a.k.a. warehouse) and SKU inventory . Fulfilment centre allows to define a logical or physical location of the inventory whereas SKU inventory specifies the quantity and SKU code to which this quantity relates to
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Each shop can be assigned one or more fulfilment centres thus providing the link between the inventory and SKU that are available in a given shop.
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Fulfilment centres (FC) are used to define a logical or physical location of the inventory depending on how the business manages their inventory. Example of a logical location could be "Discontinued stock items" or "Used items for sale". Using a separate FC would allow to logically separate these kind of products which can aid later on in configuring FC specific pricing, adjust content or email content to reflect some of the specifics of the items.
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In order to add FC a code, name must be specified and optionally a location and additional fulfilment options.
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| Adding FC from inventory management section requires administrative rights to the system. Shop administrator can add additional shop specific FCs from the shopmanagement section on "Fulfilment centres" tab. |
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When editing inventory record it is only possible to adjust the quantity to indicate a different level of stock. Reserved quantities can only be manipulated automatically by YC order state machine.
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It is recommended that most of the inventory management will be done via manual or automatic import process.
Inventory behaviour customisation
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For example use of Restriction on Backorder stock can be configured like so:
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SHOP10.productAvailabilityStrategy=productAvailabilityStrategyBackorderInStockOnly |
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- For each FC to fulfil their part of the order (i.e. delivery) on their own terms (available shipping methods and lead times, available payment methods) and provide automatic updates (in case of auto integrations) to progress deliveries in isolation.
- Provide automatic order exports to FC with items relevant only to specific delivery
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