Inventory management

Inventory truth for every store, warehouse, channel, and promise.

IMV keeps stock movement connected to POS, orders, ecommerce, accounting, reporting, and AI-ready catalog data so teams can sell confidently without chasing spreadsheets.

Location-level availability Transfers and receiving Counts and exceptions
Availability command view
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Ready to promise
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Austin retail
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Store 031
Dallas retail
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Regional DC
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Inventory promise

Sell, reserve, transfer, replenish, or route with the same stock truth.

The inventory record is not just a quantity. It is the promise every downstream experience depends on.

The inventory problem

Retailers lose margin when stock data is technically present but operationally unreliable.

The numbers may exist somewhere, but stores, ecommerce teams, planners, and finance often see different answers at the moment they need to act.

IMV approach

Make every stock movement an operating-platform event with location, status, cost, order, and channel context attached.

Phantom stock

Items show as sellable even when they are reserved, damaged, in transit, or already committed elsewhere.

Transfer blind spots

Teams need to know what is requested, sent, in transit, received, shorted, or cancelled.

Channel conflict

Stores, ecommerce, marketplaces, pickup, and ship-from-store compete for the same stock.

Costing cleanup

Finance needs inventory impact, COGS, shrink, adjustments, and receiving variance tied to real activity.

Inventory model

A stock record should explain what can happen next.

IMV models inventory by product, location, state, commitment, cost, and channel eligibility so teams can make decisions instead of interpreting raw quantities.

Location

Store, warehouse, region, pickup point, supplier, or in-transit node.

State

Available, reserved, damaged, inbound, transfer, quarantine, or pending count.

Commitment

Linked sales, pickup promises, ship-from-store routing, order holds, and future demand.

Financial context

Cost, COGS, landed cost, shrink, receiving variance, and entity/location accounting dimensions.

Inventory lifecycle

From purchase intent to sellable promise, every movement has a state.

Teams can see where stock is, why it moved, what it is committed to, and what should happen next.

1

Plan

Use sales, seasonality, channel demand, and thresholds to guide replenishment.

2

Receive

Capture supplier receipts, shortages, overages, cost changes, and landed-cost context.

3

Allocate

Reserve stock for stores, ecommerce, pickup, ship-from-store, or priority customers.

4

Move

Transfer between stores and warehouses with sent, in-transit, received, and variance states.

5

Reconcile

Close counts, shrink, adjustments, returns, and COGS into operational and financial reporting.

Replenishment and control

Know what to buy, where to send it, and what needs attention.

Inventory planning becomes more useful when it is connected to real sales, store-level demand, transfer capacity, supplier timing, and ecommerce availability.

Reorder signals

Minimums, sell-through, velocity, seasonality, and demand exceptions.

Supplier context

Lead times, incoming purchase orders, receiving variance, and cost changes.

Inventory workbench

Low-stock watchlist
SKU/location pairs approaching promise risk.
Overstock rebalancing
Move product from slow locations before reordering.
Count exceptions
Shrink, mismatch, and adjustment queues ready for review.
Connected operating layer

Inventory should power every retail surface, not just stock reports.

When availability is trusted, POS, orders, ecommerce, accounting, reporting, and AI catalog experiences can all make better promises.

AI and search commerce

Availability is part of the answer.

Search engines, on-site discovery, and LLM catalog experiences need more than product descriptions. They need to know whether a product can be bought, picked up, shipped, transferred, or substituted.

Sellable state

Available, reserved, incoming, damaged, or hidden from sale.

Fulfillment promise

Pickup, ship, transfer, backorder, or notify when replenished.

Safe handoff

Guide shoppers to the channel that can fulfill with confidence.

Inventory flow review

Find where stock truth breaks in your current retail stack.

We can map locations, stock states, transfers, counts, order commitments, ecommerce promises, and finance handoffs to identify the fastest inventory wedge for IMV.