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CSM Listings - Inventory Availability

CSM can calculate the availability of a listing's Business Central item and send that quantity to the sales channel.

Channel-wide defaults are set on the sales channel's Listing Management FastTab (see CSM Sales Channels - Listing Management) and are copied to each new listing, where they can be overridden. 

 

This applies to Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Magento and Amazon:

Prerequisites

  • External Inventory ID on the listing's Inventory Information FastTab must be populated with the channel's inventory/variant ID. CSM retrieves this automatically when the listing is first linked to the channel product.
  • Channel Inv. Location ID on the sales channel identifies the channel location that receives the quantity. One or more Business Central locations can be mapped to it; CSM aggregates availability across all mapped locations.

Availability FastTab

Field Purpose
Send Availability Enables availability for this listing (defaults from the channel)
Availability Basis Business Central quantity used as the basis
Compare Availability To Last Value Sent compares the calculation to the last quantity sent. External Inventory on Hand is not supported at this time.
Available Channel Percent Percentage of Business Central availability to send (use to hold back safety stock)
Available Min Qty Threshold Minimum quantity to send. Below this, CSM sends zero.
Subtract Threshold From Availability Also subtracts the threshold from the calculated quantity
Available Last Qty Calc Result of the last calculation
Available Last Qty Sent Last quantity sent to the channel
Availability Requires Update Flags the listing for the next automation run

Example

Available Channel Percent 90, Min Qty Threshold 15, Subtract Threshold = Yes, on-hand 600: (600 × 90%) − 15 = 525.

Calculating and Sending

  1. Choose Actions > Calculate Channel Availability. The result is written to Available Last Qty Calc.
  2. If the result differs from the comparison value, choose Actions > Send to Channel > Availability.

Both steps normally run through CSM automation rather than manually. Configurable items are handled the same way as simple listings.

Advanced Availability Operation

This applies to Shopify and Magento: when Advanced Availability Operation is enabled on the sales channel, availability is tracked per location using CSM Inventory Availability records, shown in the Advanced Availability part of the listing.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart.