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Stock level

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

nounCore term

In e-commerce, stock level means: The number of units of a product that a seller currently has available, usually tracked per SKU and per warehouse.

In Turkish: stok seviyesi, stok miktarı

How it is used

Used by buyers, warehouse teams and store managers. Stock levels are high, low, running low or need topping up. Many stores show low stock messages such as 'Only 3 left' to customers.

Example sentences

  1. Stock levels for the winter boots are already low, and it's only October.

  2. The marketplace pulls our stock levels from the warehouse system every hour.

Common collocations

  • low stock levels
  • check stock levels
  • update stock levels
  • stock levels are running low
  • inventoryAll the products a business has available to sell, and the records that show how many of each item are in stock and where.
  • out of stockNot available to buy at the moment because the seller has no units left; the opposite is in stock.
  • safety stockExtra units kept on top of expected demand to avoid running out if sales are higher than forecast or a delivery from a supplier is late.
  • reorder pointThe stock level at which a new purchase order should be placed, so that new stock arrives before the current stock runs out.
  • 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.

More terms: Inventory and Stock

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