Inventory thresholds

The HCL Commerce+ Inventory enables inventory thresholds to be set and modified by business users. Thresholds are used to monitor when there are too many or too few of a specific SKU at a specific Inventory Location. Use threshold settings in order to effectively monitor and react to changing inventory conditions.

Threshold overview

Thresholds are set on a per-Inventory Location basis, and define both low and high stock levels for individual SKUs.

Threshold alerts are observable within the Listing Inventory, where the total is tallied across your inventory. Thresholds for each SKU are highlighted under the Available column, where a hazard icon appears to indicate stock level warnings. To view the warning content, select the icon. A pop-up indicates the warning status of the SKU, and the number of associated Fulfillment Centers where the SKU is above threshold, below threshold, or out-of-stock.

Threshold defaults

Threshold defaults are applied to your inventory at the SKU level during catalog upload for all Inventory Locations (as defined within the Catalog data file (items.csv)).

The catalog definition includes:
  • A minimum threshold for the SKU. This is the value when a SKU is considered low-inventory.
  • A maximum threshold for the SKU. This is the value with a SKU is considered overstocked.
Restriction: Threshold values are a default set at the Item level. Individual store threshold overrides cannot be loaded via file upload, and must be set manually via the Inventory dashboard.When there are no overrides item configuration settings to be apply to all channels.

Setting thresholds

Business users can manually set global, or per-store thresholds.

For more information, see Setting inventory thresholds.