Hi,
Is there any good documentation available on how to implement the Inventory catalogs.
I have a system with a base catalog for a specific country (US) and I have built 4 virtual catalogs based on this base catalog.
The virtual catalogs (Wholesale, Retail, ...) are developed so I can manage specific product/category inclusion and exclusion rules based on the type of customer.
I want to have 1 inventory catalog from which all 4 virtual catalogs pool their inventory from.
With the default behavior the inventory sku key is based on the catalogname which would be different for each virtual catalog.
What would be the best solution for this That uses standard pipeline components!
If I need to do custom pipeline coding that would be ok as well.
Thank you,
Anders
Implementing Inventory Catalogs
Wes Payne
Hi Anders,
The inventory catalog will work as you have described your need. The CheckInventory stored procedure splits out the Virtual Catalog SKUs and uses the base catalog to determine inventory. For example if you had a product ID of PROD001(BaseCatalog), CheckInventory would look for the inventory of PROD001 from BaseCatalog. This means that you will attach your Inventory Catalog to your base catalog as opposed to the virtual catalogs.
We currently use a similar setup for multiple currencies where each currency is a virtual catalog.
Cheers,
Colin
Evan_3
As far as virtual catalogs are concerned a virtual catalog can have its own inventory catalog or it can share the inventory information of its base catalog.
In your case you can track the Inventory information in the base catalog and all the 4 virtual catalogs can share this inventory catalog.
BobSun
Thank you very much.