What is Inventory Ahead? Inventory Ahead Review, Features

Inventory Ahead is a software designed to help small and large businesses systematize the day-to-day operations of their e-commerce platforms.

About Inventory Ahead

• Inventory Ahead collects all your data and helps you take control of your business. No need to use Excel spreadsheets, add-ons and hire a bunch of secretaries, Inventory Ahead is a one-stop solution for you. Avoid extra hassles and simplify your business.
• Buy with budget, expand with profit, easily identify the best performing products across channels to improve your sales strategy, avoid over-buying, over-stocking of non-essential items, and receive notifications when your most needed, profitable items are running out and need to be restocked immediately.

Inventory Ahead Features

1. Procurement and Receiving

• Create, edit and upload purchase orders
• Receiving partial and full orders
• Easily reorder individual items from a kit
• Upload purchase orders directly to suppliers
• Manually add/adjust discount codes, taxes, and shipping costs
• Leave notes on your PO to communicate with your team by sku
• Receiving Amazon Removal Back into Inventory
• Receive via our app

2. Inventory

• Manage all your inventory from one place
• Track and never lose track of your inventory
• Real-time synchronization
• Receive, ship and transfer inventory across all warehouses and channels
• Eliminate oversold or excess inventory.

3. Products

• Product catalog overview
• Quickly view orders, profits and inventory for each product across all sales channels
• Easily create bundles and kits
• Customize dashboards, filters, and labels
• Print and design custom labels
• Product Description

4. List

• Depth information for each list
• View all orders and profits for a specific list
• A detailed breakdown of inventory and expenses per channel
• Manage pricing for each listing
• Setting up pricing rules
• Create shipments and replenish inventory
• Real-time inventory synchronization

5. Reordering and Smart Forecasting

• Assign your reordering rules
• Receive alerts when your stock is running low and send your reorders directly to your supplier
• Buy wisely to avoid out-of-stocks or overstocks
• Easily see how much lead time each item, manufacturer/supplier requires
• View demand patterns based on order, sales, ranking and profit history

6. Supplement

• Create your own replenishment rules
• Fba delivery replenishment suggestions
• Create shipments directly from alerts to replenish warehouses
• Replenish local inventory for FBA and WFS
• Get notifications and out-of-stock alerts when your fulfillment distributors are running low on stock
• Maintain a consistent flow from local warehouses to your fulfillment centers

7. Order fulfillment

• Create shipping rules to streamline the process
• Shop around for the cheapest shipping rates across all major US shipping lines
• Create a selection list for faster processing
• Automated shipping from Amazon.
• Using our Apps

8. FBA shipments

• Create a shipment to Amazon
• Add or edit an existing shipment (per Amazon guidelines)
• Print your labels with one click
• Verify your shipment and file a claim immediately
• Choose from web form, QR code or jump box information
• Choose your shipping method, Amazon Partner or Other

9. User permissions

• Permissions/access rights granted to each employee
• Multiple Users

10. Profits and Reports

• Detailed sales report for each order
• Track profit and loss for each project
• Get profit breakdown by item, list or supplier
• Inventory Balance and Value Reports
• Detailed sales reports

Advantages

1. Inventory made easy

Track products from inventory to fulfillment so nothing falls through the cracks.

2. Single platform

Manage your inventory from purchasing to accounting.

3. Think ahead

Reorder based on demand, season, and most profitable item forecasts.

4. Under control

Sync your inventory across all your sales channels in real time.

5. Easy to use

Easy to understand, easy to navigate.

6. Mobile-Friendly

Receive, create and send through our apps.