How to Overcome Inventory Challenges

In this video, we’ll explore some of the most common inventory challenges and discuss how Sellercloud helps online merchants overcome them.

Challenge #1

Display available inventory across all marketplaces

Merchants often want to list their products for sale, even if they don’t have the inventory in stock. They might know that they can get a delivery from their vendor the next day and fulfill the order on time. However, marketplaces like Amazon and eBay require merchants to specify the number of units available for sale. This creates a problem since merchants might have to manually update the inventory numbers as the stock levels change. Sellercloud solves this problem by maintaining internal inventory numbers and sending different numbers to the marketplaces based on various rules.

Challenge #2

Inventory standardization and synchronization

Merchants might receive inventory in a way that suits the vendor or manufacturer, but they need to sell it in a way that works for the customer – by the roll or by the case. This creates an inventory problem since they receive inventory one way and sell it another. Sellercloud standardizes and converts these inventory numbers from various third parties to keep them all in sync. This way, merchants can sell their products in the way customers want to buy them without worrying about inventory management.

Challenge #3

Managing inventory across multiple locations

Merchants often have inventory in multiple locations, but marketplaces like Amazon require them to display the total available inventory nationwide. Sellercloud solves this problem by aggregating inventory numbers from multiple locations and sending them in a consolidated way to the marketplace.

Additionally, Sellercloud can control shipping prices based on the location of the inventory and update them automatically as inventory levels change, making merchants’ lives easier. These are just some of the ways in which Sellercloud helps online sellers when it comes to inventory management. Now, let’s move on to the next set of issues that merchants face when selling goods online.