Multichannel Inventory & Order Management | Descartes
Multichannel Inventory Management Software & Order Management System
Growing ecommerce businesses often spend too much time manually updating inventory and deciding where to ship from when selling on multiple channels. This results in overselling, cancelled or late orders, and rising costs. Descartes offers an all-in-one multichannel inventory management (IMS) and order management system (OMS) to help.
The best businesses rely on Descartes to manage inventory and orders
Prevent overselling and inaccurate inventory across channels
No more manually updating inventory on each platform. An inventory management system keeps track of what you have and where you have it. Automatically reserve inventory when an order is created and never oversell again.
Centralize order management and stop updating multiple systems
Automatically import orders from all sales channels to expertly update shipping and tracking information in one place. No more logging into multiple platforms to process orders, update inventory, or track shipments.
Automate fulfillment and deciding which location to ship from
Set up business rules to automate fulfillment location decisions, update shipping services, and split orders to save shipping costs. Keep your delivery promise with our order rule engine and custom plugins.
What can Descartes do for you?
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Reduce operational complexity
Simplify multichannel ecommerce by simultaneously updating inventory and orders in real time.
Ensure marketplace compliance
Only sell items you have in stock and keep your order cancellation rate marketplace-compliant.
Help grow your business
Add more sales channels and SKUs without losing control of inventory visibility or orders.
All-in-one inventory and order management solution
Sync everything in one place
Keep your inventory levels synchronized across all channels, marketplaces and shopping carts.
Manage multiple warehouses
Easily move and track inventory between bins, brick-and-mortar locations, and warehouses.
Complete inventory tracking
Know where everything is, from receiving to shipping. Easily track your inventory throughout its lifecycle.
Custom inventory calculations
Set strictly defined rules for calculating the optimal quantity you need on your channels.
Create kits and bundles
List multiple items as a kit and bind all products' inventories to prevent overselling of components.
Reserve inventory for special use
Keep a specific amount of stock reserved for preferred channels and special promotions.
Automate inventory planning
Never run out of stock. Use predictive purchasing and alerts to prevent backorders and late shipments.
Predictive restocking for FBA
We tell you the quantity to restock based on past sales and current Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) inventory.
Update inventory from vendor feeds
Vendor feeds can be automatically imported and synced with your catalog and inventory levels.
Ready for omnichannel ecommerce growth
Schedule a meeting with our team to evaluate the impact of an IMS/OMS on your business
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2x multichannel ecommerce growth
“[Descartes] Sellercloud allowed us to grow, including almost doubling the number of channels that we used to be on in our previous system, as well as handling the increased amount of order flow and requirements. I am confident that Sellercloud can help us continue to grow with adding new channels and handling our additional order volume.”
Sharon Leckron, Senior VP of Channel Development, CPG.IO
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Our customers are masters of inventory and order management
Managing seven ecommerce sites
“We’ve been using [Descartes Sellercloud] since 2017 and still going strong. I’m able to manage all my platforms in one place. I can set things up once and just post from Sellercloud instead of having to navigate seven separate sites. More time efficient. We have seven online stores and are still working on growing. Sellercloud allows us to keep our inventory set and separated so that we can manage all sites simultaneously.”
AJ on G2
Increasing our channel presence
“We have seen massive growth since we implemented [Descartes] SellerCloud, and we are able to work more efficiently than ever before. When I say we have seen massive growth, I mean we have seen our sales about double where they were before we implemented SellerCloud. Though there are other factors that have contributed to this, one of the biggest factors has been our ability to increase our channel presence. Moreover, we are able to meet our increased production demands without a substantial increase in our HR overhead.”
Joshua A. on Capterra
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Customer success stories
Eliminating Bottlenecks in Inventory and Order Management
Bambi Baby is an omnichannel retailer of mid- to high-end baby items, including infant car seats, strollers, and nursery furniture such as cribs and dressers. In the past, “Shipping, inventory [and] communicating with the website was always a problem.” How did they solve it?
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Managing Inventory, Orders, POs, and Accounting in One Place
First Choice Online sells a wide variety of products, from beauty products to electronics and pharmaceuticals. Before, as the business grew, it was harder to track processes, reporting was fractured, and they could not improve efficiency. What changed?
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Accurate Omnichannel Inventory Levels and Tracking
Golf Superstore offers golfing hard goods and soft goods, specializing in custom club fittings for all brands. How does the retailer efficiently manage inventory between the warehouse, brick-and-mortar stores, and marketplaces while keeping levels accurate everywhere?
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Looking to stop overselling your inventory?
By leveraging multichannel inventory management software, businesses can automatically sync inventory on all sales channels and stop overselling.
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FAQ'S
Why do I need a transportation management system?
A transportation management system plays a central role in the total supply chain. It is a powerful tool that enables businesses to automate activities like carrier selection or invoice audit, gain control over costs, a better visibility on their logistics processes, which will result in lower costs and higher customer satisfaction. It can provide you with a competitive advantage by enabling you to have lower costs per order/transport and meet customer demands more effectively and efficiently.
How much does a TMS cost?
The cost of a Transportation Management System (TMS) will vary widely depending on a range of factors such as the number of shipments, the modalities in scope and the level of functionalities needed. Generally, TMS pricing models fall into several categories, follow this link to read what they are.
How do you quantify the results of a TMS?
With Carrier Connectivity, users save significant time per booking/tender while benefiting from the largest network of connected partners and seamless integrations with ERP and back-end systems. Consolidation/ Optimization features enable cost reductions of 3% to 15%, offering multi-mode, multi-leg, and global optimization along with true fleet versus for-hire optimization. Bid/Spot Booking/Tendering functionalities ensure finding the best rates, reducing risks, and improving on-time percentages through automated bid initiation and inclusive carrier processes. Real-time visibility with ETA Calculation not only reduces charges and fees by over 50% but also provides predictive ETAs and the highest compliance rate in the industry, offering visibility and real-time updates to customers and internal teams.
Is CO2 emission reporting included in a TMS?
A Shipper TMS is the ideal place to determine the carbon emissions by collecting and analyzing data of all the transportation activities of an organization and applying the same logic across the different forwarders/carriers. Of course, taking into account the applicable modality, weight and type of transport. Data which is typically fully available in a TMS. The key aspects of how a TMS will measure carbon emissions are; Mode of transportation, Load weight, Distance travelled & Fuel consumption.
Can Visibility be a separate solution from your TMS?
A Transportation Management System (TMS) and Visibility software can be separate solutions. The more complete TMS platforms offer built-in visibility features tightly integrated into the whole TMS providing more flexible and advanced options to use the data for all TMS users and other internal or external users. Such complete TMS can also use that data to automatically communicate updates via EDI/API messages to forwarders/carriers if needed.
What is Descartes MacroPoint and what does it do?
Descartes MacroPoint is a global, real-time freight visibility platform. We provide load location information to customers so they can see all their in-transit freight in real time, at one time, in one portal. Real- time updates and dynamic ETAs enable your customers to monitor the timeliness of their loads and shipments and adjust delivery windows when necessary.