Real-time stock synchronization across systems and locations

Purpose

1. Automate real-time stock synchronization between multiple warehouses, retail, eCommerce, and fulfillment systems, eliminating manual stock updates and inventory discrepancies.

2. Ensure all sales channels, internal teams, and distributors have access to updated stock values, automating allocation and restocking decisions.

3. Automate the process to prevent overselling, optimize replenishment, and achieve transparent supply chain visibility for all coffee SKUs and packaging units.

4. Automate notification and replenishment workflows to respond instantly to material inflows and stockouts across all systems and physical locations.

Trigger Conditions

1. New stock intake (e.g., supplier delivery scanned into inventory).

2. Product sale or deduction in POS, eCommerce, or order management platform.

3. Manual inventory adjustments (e.g., cycle count corrections, write-offs).

4. Stock transfer initiated between branches/warehouses.

5. Scheduled automated polling or webhooks from inventory platforms.

Platform Variants

1. Shopify

• Feature/Setting: Inventory Levels API. Configure automated triggers on order creation and fulfillment events to send stock updates to connected systems.
  

2. Square

• Feature/Setting: Inventory.Change webhook. Automates bidirectional updates for every stock mutation at POS or online sales.
  

3. QuickBooks Commerce

• Feature/Setting: Inventory Stock API. Scheduled automation to synchronize stock changes with accounting and sales modules.
  

4. NetSuite

• Feature/Setting: Item Fulfillment SuiteScript or REST API for automated inventory syncing across global locations.
  

5. SAP Business One

• Feature/Setting: Service Layer API. Schedule automation to push/pull stock updates between warehouse modules.
  

6. Oracle Fusion Cloud Inventory

• Feature/Setting: Inventory Item Availability API. Configure automation for real-time inventory publishing to third-party systems.
  

7. Zoho Inventory

• Feature/Setting: Inventory Adjustment and Item module API triggers. Automate notifications and synchronizations on every transaction.
  

8. WooCommerce

• Feature/Setting: REST API – “Update Product Stock” endpoint for automated stock sync on orders and inventory edits.
  

9. ShipBob

• Feature/Setting: Webhook for inventory_updated event to automate update broadcasts to storefronts and internal tools.
  

10. Microsoft Dynamics 365

• Feature/Setting: Data Integrator or InventoryOnHand API for automating synchronization with other ERP and CRM modules.
  

11. Cin7

• Feature/Setting: Stock Updated Notification. Configure to automate broadcasting inventory updates to external sales and fulfillment systems.
  

12. DEAR Systems

• Feature/Setting: Inventory Movement API. Automate real-time synchronization when new stock comes in or leaves.
  

13. Brightpearl

• Feature/Setting: Product Stock resource. Configure webhooks for automated, event-driven updates.
  

14. SkuVault

• Feature/Setting: Product Quantity Change webhook to automate real-time inventory level pushes.
  

15. Linnworks

• Feature/Setting: Stock Level API. Automate cross-platform SKU quantity updates on every stock event.
  

16. Fulfil.IO

• Feature/Setting: Inventory webhook. Automates notifying channels when stock changes are detected.
  

17. Vend (now Lightspeed Retail)

• Feature/Setting: Inventory API event triggers for automated inter-location stock synchronization.
  

18. Fishbowl Inventory

• Feature/Setting: Inventory Update API for automating data pushes to accounting, storefronts, and WMS.
  

19. Unleashed

• Feature/Setting: Stock On Hand API. Automate to fetch and broadcast live inventory to sales/order systems.
  

20. Amazon Marketplace (MWS/SP-API)

• Feature/Setting: Inventory Feed API; automate to broadcast inventory levels from warehouse/ERP.
  

21. Odoo

• Feature/Setting: Inventory module API endpoints; automate orchestration for every stock event.
  

22. Google Sheets

• Feature/Setting: Apps Script triggering on cell edits; automate to broadcast and log stock changes.
  

Benefits

1. Automates the elimination of out-of-sync inventory levels, preventing costly overselling and backorders.

2. Automates stock transparency across systems for all team members, improving accountability and speed of operation.

3. Automatedly triggers replenishment at optimal times to prevent stockouts, enhancing supply chain efficiency.

4. Automates administrative work so staff focus on exception handling, not data entry.

5. Automating the process reduces losses, boosts fulfillment reliability, and optimizes customer service.