Inventory Management
Which Box Is It In? Bin Locations Without the Spreadsheet
A spreadsheet of which box holds what goes stale the first time someone picks. Why we start every unit in Unassigned and let each move write the bin.
SKU.io Blog
E-commerce operations, inventory management, and multi-channel selling insights.
Financial Accounting
Is Your Sales Tax Filing Missing Your Wholesale Orders?
A filing service connected to your store files what your store saw. Wholesale and B2B orders you create yourself never reach it. How to check, and how we fixed it with Numeral.
Inventory Management
Why Wholesale Orders on Shopify Still End Up in Email
Wholesale buyers go back to emailing purchase orders. The email is fine. Retyping it into two systems is where stock, reorders and the books go blind.
Inventory Management
In Stock, Not Listed
77 units of my own stock had no Amazon listing with anything behind it, and I found them by accident on a supplier call. Why no marketplace report shows it.
Inventory Management
Creating the PO Is the Easy Half
A purchase order takes a minute to write. A 39-minute screen share on my own store's receiving showed me where the work is: the receipts that arrive after it.
Product Information Management
Create All the Products, Then Enrich Them
A catalog launch that verifies each product before creating it never ships. Keep "does it exist" apart from "can I trust it", from an 84-minute onboarding call.
Inventory Management
Live Does Not Mean Anyone Is Using It
A purchase order nobody receives just stays open. Why a system can be live and hold nothing, and the one thing I check before calling an onboarding done.
Inventory Management
Moving Off the Inventory Spreadsheet Without Losing Count
The cleanest inventory spreadsheet still holds one person's memory. Where sheets break, and the order I'd move a brand off one without losing count.
Inventory Management
Same SKU, Different Parts: What Did Each Unit Cost?
The recipe said 13 sheets a unit and the floor used 12 and a half. How SKU.io costs what was used, and what it can't do yet for rebuilt goods.
Inventory Management
Where Should a Bundle Turn Into Its Parts?
In SKU.io a bundle becomes its components on the sales order, before the warehouse sees it. One onboarding where I signed off on a setup that skipped that.
Inventory Management
The FBA Inbound Order That Can't Exist Yet
Amazon wants box counts before it names a warehouse. A 3PL wants an order before it will touch stock. The usual workaround breaks something else.
Inventory Management
What an Oversell Costs, Worked Out From One Call
A thousand units oversold on a channel, an $8 second shipment on a $10 margin, and a TikTok shop at risk. One operator's numbers from a recorded call, worked through.