2024.1 Multi Source Inventory
- Yurii Pochtovyk
The official documentation of feature - Inventory Management
What?
Inventory Management features include:
Different configurations for merchants whose inventory originates from a single source and from multiple sources
Stocks for tracking available aggregated quantities through assigned sources
Concurrent checkout protection
Shipment matching algorithms
The following terms are important as you work with Inventory Management APIs:
Sources represent physical locations that store and ship available products. These locations can include warehouses, brick-and-mortar stores, distribution centers, and drop shippers. (Any location can be designated as a source for virtual products.)
Stocks map a sales channel (currently limited to websites) to source locations and on-hand inventory. A stock can map to multiple sales channels, but a sales channel can be assigned to only one stock.
Aggregate Salable Quantity is the total virtual inventory that can be sold through a sales channel. The amount is calculated across all sources assigned to a stock.
Reservations track deductions from the salable quantity as customers add products to carts and complete checkout. When an order ships, the reservation clears and deducts the shipped amounts from specific source inventory quantities.
The NetSuite Connector supports work with locations(sources). The data flows from NS to Magento.
In NetSuite, a locations are created. Each item has quantity by location in NS.
How?
This feature require module RocketWeb_NetSuiteInventoryMultiManagement.
Magento gets data from NS. The import data process we can split on two parts.
First is initial part. We need to import locations from NS to Magento(Connection: netsuite_internal_id = location_id in NS).
Second step is import stock data by source. The period between stock import we have ability to configure in admin. Technical details, please see - 2024.1 Inventory Management 2024.1 Stock Options