Using Inventory Planner

Glossary of Terms

Learn the ins and outs of what your metrics mean and how they are computed

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Configure Inventory Planner with an Inventory Management (or Warehouse Management) System

Configure Warehouses, Purchase Orders & Transfers, Forecasts and Replenishment, Bundles and Assemblies, and More.

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Configure Inventory Planner with a Custom Integration (CSV)

Configure Warehouses, Purchase Orders & Transfers, Forecasts and Replenishment, Bundles and Assemblies, and More.

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Configure Inventory Planner with an eCommerce Connection

Configure Warehouses, Purchase Orders & Transfers, Forecasts and Replenishment, Bundles and Assemblies, and More.

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Configure Inventory Planner with Amazon

Configure Amazon Connections (Marketplaces) and Warehouses, FBA Shipments, Forecasts and Replenishment, Assemblies (FBA Prep), and Transfers

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Launching Inventory Planner [Videos]

Get started in Inventory Planner - From connecting your store to setting up vendor and variant information

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How to Create a New Account

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Connecting your store

Learn how to connect your store or connect a second store

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Inventory Planner Account Settings [Video]

Customize warehouse settings, low-stock alerts, seasonality, connect to accounting systems and more.

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Inventory Planner 101

Getting started with Inventory Planner, and becoming familiar with the basics of forecasting, replenishment, and reporting.

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Inventory Planner Overview [Video]

Get started video for Inventory Planner

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Catalog

Central point to manage vendors, costs, warehouse lead times, listings, bundles, components, forecast settings, alerts, and more.

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Import Stockout History or Stock Level History

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Changing platforms connected to Inventory Planner

If you are switching platforms, here is a checklist to transfer information.

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How to Import Data to Inventory Planner

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Replenishment Report [Video]

Get started with replenishment

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Edit Forecast

Review, fix and reconcile the forecast for your products

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Forecast Methods and Settings: How to Configure the Forecast

Setting forecast methods based on recent sales and trends, seasonality, or stockout history.

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Wholesale Planning

Separate past wholesale orders from past regular sales to improve forecast accuracy, and plan future wholesale orders in Replenishment.

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Assembly Orders

Assembly Orders, also considered “production orders,” are used to build Assemblies from existing (or incoming) component stock.

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Forecasting for holiday season

How Inventory Planner forecasts sales for Black Friday and Christmas

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Purchase Orders

Create purchase orders for your vendors

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Compare Costs From Different Vendors

The "Cost Compare" metric shows each cost price from vendors associated with a variant.

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Purchase Orders - Receiving Stock [Video]

How can you receive information against a purchase order?

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Receiving inventory and pushing inventory to your store

After receiving inventory on a Purchase Order, select inventory to push to BigCommerce, Shopify and other stores

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Import a Purchase Order or Transfer

Upload a PO or warehouse transfer from a spreadsheet

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Change email and text when emailing a purchase order to vendor

Change text and save templates when sending a PO to your vendor

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Attaching documents to Purchase Orders

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Save purchase orders to QuickBooks

Save POs to QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop

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Save purchase orders to Xero

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Print Labels

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Vendors (Suppliers)

Create vendors and manage catalog attributes (eg. cost prices, units of measurement, minimum order quantity).

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Upload or Import Vendor Catalogs

How to import single or multiple vendor catalogs

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How to upload cost information

Learn how to bulk upload cost price and other product or vendor information

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Bundles and Assemblies

Replenishing enough components (variants) to cover the forecasted needs of bundles, assemblies, and/or individual component sales.

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IP Variant

Create a variant within Inventory Planner for components and raw goods

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Listings: Connect the Same Item

Combine Listings across the same or different platforms. Replaces the "Linking Variants" functionality.

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Combine Sales/Stock (Merge Variants)

Copies the sales (and/or stock) from one variant to another for forecasting purposes. Replaces the "merging variants" functionality.

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Bulk upload non-replenishable status

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Warehouse Set-Up

Configure warehouses, create additional warehouses

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Combined Warehouses

Setup a Combined Warehouse to generate forecasts and replenishment using combined stock and/or sales from multiple locations.

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Lead Time Set-up for Multiple Warehouses

How to configure replenishment settings using a Combined Warehouse

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Set up and Configure Amazon Warehouses

Connect FBA and FBM warehouses, one connection needed per Amazon region

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IP Warehouse

Set up and use a manual warehouse to track additional inventory

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Open-to-Buy Planning (OTB) Planning [Video]

Planning a purchasing budget based on planned revenue goals, optimal stock cover, and cashflow requirements.

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Inventory Planner Public API

Programmatic way to access your inventory metrics

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Overstock Report [Video]

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How to Export Data from Inventory Planner

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Inventory KPIs Report [Video]

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Stock History Report

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Inventory Aging Analysis Report

Learn more about the Inventory Aging report (Inventory Ageing)

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Compare Warehouse Report

Transferring stock, balancing stock, and viewing SKUs across warehouses are all accomplished with the Compare Warehouse report

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Assortment Report [Video]

Use the assortment report to see performance within groups

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