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Inventory

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

/ˈɪnvəntɔːri/nounCore term

In e-commerce, inventory means: All the products a business has available to sell, and the records that show how many of each item are in stock and where.

In Turkish: stok, envanter

How it is used

Used by store owners, warehouse staff and finance teams. You manage, track, count and sync inventory across channels. If the inventory in the store does not match the warehouse, you may sell items you no longer have.

Example sentences

  1. Our inventory syncs every 15 minutes between the website and the marketplaces.

  2. We're holding too much inventory of last season's coats.

Common collocations

  • manage inventory
  • inventory levels
  • inventory management
  • sync inventory
  • hold inventory
  • stock levelThe number of units of a product that a seller currently has available, usually tracked per SKU and per warehouse.
  • SKUShort for stock keeping unit: a unique code a seller gives to each product and each version of it, such as a size or colour, to track stock and orders.
  • warehouseA large building where a business stores its products and where orders are picked, packed and prepared for shipping.
  • out of stockNot available to buy at the moment because the seller has no units left; the opposite is in stock.
  • inventory turnoverA measure of how many times a business sells and replaces its stock in a period, usually cost of goods sold divided by average inventory value.

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