Setting inventory thresholds
Use the Inventory dashboard to edit your default Item/ SKU thresholds, or set threshold overrides on a per-Channel basis.
Before you begin
- Ensure that you understand your organization's inventory management system and its related procedures before using the Inventory dashboard to upload inventory-related data.
- Ensure that you have a login provided to you that is assigned the Site Administrator role. This role is required to access the Inventory dashboard.
- Review Inventory thresholds.
About this task
Default thresholds are applied to your inventory globally on a per-Item/ SKU level
during catalog upload (as defined within the Catalog data file (items.csv)). Use the Inventory dashboard to update default item level settings
and additionally override these thresholds manually per channel as per business
needs.
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.
Procedure
To apply inventory settings to a Item/ SKU on a global, or per-store
basis:
- Log in to Commerce Lab
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Select Inventory.
The Inventory Dashboard is displayed.
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Under the Configuration tab, select Configure
Items/ SKUs.
The Configure Items/ SKUs page is displayed.
- Depending on whether you want to set the global threshold default, or a per-store override, select a store or clear the store selection using the Store selection dropdown.
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Apply thresholds to each Item/ SKU individually, or by selecting multiple
Items/ SKUs to override.
Selection method Override instruction Single SKUs For each Item/ SKU: - Select Edit Threshold to set the global default;
- Or select Override Threshold to set an override at a selected store.
Multi-Item/ SKU selection For each grouping of Item/ SKUs: - Locate the Item/ SKU or Item/ SKUs that you want to modify within the Item/ SKU table, or by using the search functionality.
- Select each Item/ SKU using the check box selection in the leftmost column of the table.
- Select Override Threshold or Edit Threshold above the table, to override the threshold for the selected Item/ SKUs at a selected store, or to modify the global default.