Logistics

Infor e-Commerce provides very basic stock-management features. It enables you to store your current stock of each item and to set minimum and maximum stock amounts. However, because orders probably be arriving both through Infor e-Commerce and through traditional channels, stock levels are not updated automatically with each order submitted to Infor e-Commerce. Merchants who wish to automate the stock-levels stored in Infor e-Commerce must interface these fields with their own back-end business systems.

In the Customer Center, the customer is warned when trying to order an out-of-stock item and alternative items may be presented (see Item relations for details). Some customers might elect to disallow orders that include out-of-stock items, while others might choose to submit such orders and wait until items are re-stocked (each user’s Partial Orders settings controls which options can be used, see Customer users for details).

The Items:Logistics area of the Business Center provides a quick list of all items whose current stock values are recorded as being below the minimum stock value for that item. To view details and/or edit stock levels of any item listed here, click its ID in the Item Number column. For complete details about how to work with item details including how to set stock levels, see Adding an item.