Better manage product inventory levels within your channel to minimize exposure to price changes, achieve optimal balance, and implement the proper controls
Companies who don’t have comprehensive visibility into their inventory levels on a partner-by-partner and product-by-product basis are unable to effectively determine exposure to price changes (price protection), perform optimal balance calculations, or implement the proper compliance and controls. Without a comprehensive view of inventory data, companies also run the risk of exposing themselves to fraud. But managing channel inventory levels is challenging at best — gathering and processing inventory data from channel partners is a costly, error-prone and manual process.

Remove the complexity and discrepancies from your inventory management process with Inventory Data Manager. Inventory Data Manager automates the collection of channel partner inventory data, accurately identifies your products through a matching process, and delivers an audit trail to ensure compliance. With Inventory Data Manager, you will know:

Actual inventory balances of your partners
Fraudulent or erroneous inventory reporting by partners
Exposure to pricing changes
Product slippage within the channel
Needed adjustments to product production, shipping, and placement

How does it work?
Inventory Data Manager leverages InfoNow’s patented identification and matching technology to:

Collect inventory data via online tools from your distributors / resellers
Identify what and how much inventory is at each channel partner location
Append this information to your inventory data


The Features:
Zero footprint – no IT staffing or hardware requirements
Easily configured for various inventory reporting formats and shipping variables
User-friendly interface, minimal training required
Patented partner and product identification and matching technology
Alert generation when discrepancies are found
Built-in exports and inventory level reporting

The Benefits:
Frees internal resources from manual processing
Minimizes inventory costs and exposure to price protection commitments
Tracks unusual channel activity such as gray market sales or incomplete partner reporting
Determines production requirements based on accurate views of inventory and sales levels
Audits data trails to support revenue recognition practices and compliance requirements
Supports inventory and capacity planning forecasts

 

 

 

Demo:

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Contact us today at 866-868-INOW to more effectively manage your inventory data.