Fluent Big Inventory Web App Overview
Author:
Fluent Commerce
Changed on:
6 Jan 2025
Overview
The Fluent Big Inventory Web App is a powerful tool for managing products, inventory, feeds, and sources. Key features include:
- Feeds: View inventory feed details.
- Sources: Track inventory update integrations.
- Products: Manage catalogs and product data.
- Unifies View of Inventory: Gain real-time inventory insights across locations and channels for optimal stock management.
- Inventory: Monitor allocation, SOH, real-time updates, and buffers.
- Stores: Oversee individual and network locations.
- Insights: Track system events.
- Admin: Configure user access and settings.
Key points
- The Fluent Big Inventory Web App offers a comprehensive suite of functionality.
- With dedicated sections for Sources, Products, Inventory, Stores, Insights, and Admin, the web-based interface provides users with a holistic toolset, allowing them to observe and track integrated sources, manage product catalogues, exercise precise control over inventory, oversee individual and networked store locations, monitor system events comprehensively, and efficiently administer the entire inventory availability system for a seamless and valuable user experience.
Product and Inventory Management with Fluent Big Inventory Web App
The Fluent Big Inventory Web App is a web-based interface designed to streamline the management of products, inventory, feeds, and sources. Key functionalities encompass:
- Feeds. The Feeds Dashboard contains general information about inventory feeds for an account.
- Sources. The inventory data sources allow users to observe and track integrated inventory update sources.
- Products. The products section allows a user to manage product catalogs and products.
- Unified View of Inventory (UVOI). This section provides a consolidated view of inventory across locations and sales channels, offering real-time data to optimize stock levels, improve inventory allocation, and enhance fulfillment efficiency.
- Inventory. The Inventory section provides robust inventory management, including visibility of allocation, stock on hand (SOH) for specific items, real-time inventory status, available-to-promise levels, and inventory buffers to prevent overselling.
- Stores. The stores section allows you to manage individual locations and networks of locations.
- Insights. The insights section provides comprehensive details on monitoring all the system events that have occurred.
- Admin. The admin section provides administrative capabilities to manage the system and users.
Each section contributes essential reference capabilities integrated into the Fluent Big Inventory Web App to offer an unparalleled user experience and deliver value across diverse business scenarios.
Value Proposition
Implementing the Fluent Big Inventory Web App has the following benefits:
- View statistics and metrics about inventory feeds and inventory updates
- View product and inventory details and change buffer or safety stock values
- Manage and edit Product Catalogues, Inventory Catalogues, Virtual Catalogues, and Control Groups
- Manage users and settings
Fluent Big Inventory is an application, powered by our UX framework. The UX framework allows our Customers and Partners to easily configure or extend each feature to match their business needs.
Features
Inventory Update Overview
Inventory Update Overview provides a comprehensive dashboard view of the inventory management system. Users can track the following data:
- number of updates that have encountered failures from each source system;
- time elapsed since the last update was received from each source system;
- total number of inventory updates received from each source system over the past 24 hours;
- estimated processing time for a newly submitted inventory update.
Feeds Insights
Feeds Insights provides users with a comprehensive dashboard view of their inventory feeds over the past 24 hours.
Product Management
Product Management is where users can manage everything related to their product SKUs. It encompasses the management of Product Catalogues, Products, and Categories.
Unified View of Inventory
The Unified View of Inventory (UVOI) centralizes inventory data from all locations and sources into a single, real-time view. This feature empowers inventory managers, store associates, and eCommerce teams to monitor stock levels, reduce inefficiencies, and address operational challenges quickly. The UVOI supports smarter decision-making and seamless inventory operations by providing a holistic view and actionable data.
Inventory Management
Inventory management provides a comprehensive range of capabilities. Users can oversee inventory visibility, allocation, stock quantity (Stock on Hand—SOH), and status, gain insights into available-to-promise inventory levels, and strategically employ inventory buffers to prevent product overselling. Read more about Inventory management capabilities.
Admin Management
The Admin user interface in the Fluent Big Inventory Web App offers a suite of administrative features to manage the system efficiently:
- Manage the users with access to your Fluent Big Inventory Accounts;
- Manage the roles and permissions to precisely control how many of your Accounts each user can access;
- Customise application settings to control the operation of your Fluent Account to align with your business needs.
Further Reading
- Learn how to get started configuring the Fluent Big Inventory Web App
- Learn how to extend the Fluent Big Inventory Web App
