Inventory Management
Your Recipe Is in Grams. Your Vanilla Comes in Fluid Ounces.
A buyer's recipes are in grams and his vanilla comes in fluid ounces. What I got wrong on the call, and how density now bridges the two in SKU.io.
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Inventory Management
The Order Nobody Was Supposed to Change
When an order changes after it has gone to the 3PL, SKU.io pulls it back instead of patching it. One brand we onboarded puts it at about a dozen a business day.
Inventory Management
When Does a Unit's Cost Stop Changing?
The invoice for January's stock arrives in February, $10 a unit higher. SKU.io books it in February by default. I restate my own books. Here is why.
Inventory Management
The One-Minute Test for Whether a Vendor's AI Is Real
An embedded chat assistant is the floor, not the ceiling. Open the browser console next to the product and see what an outside agent could actually do.
SKU.io Is Now an Approved Walmart Marketplace Solution Provider
Walmart Marketplace has approved SKU.io as a Solution Provider. Here is what that means for sellers, what the integration does, and how to connect.
Inventory Management
Hiding a Problem Is a Worse Design Than Showing It
On a usability call, someone setting up a customer account asked for a way to filter old open POs out of sight. I said no. The same call cost me an argument about database IDs.
Inventory Management
Should You Build Your Own ERP? (2026)
I built our own ERP in 2008 and ran on it for eleven years. What AI made cheap about building a custom ERP or inventory system, and what it still did not.
Inventory Management
Negative Inventory Is a Design Failure, Not a Data Problem
Most systems let stock go negative and the contradiction disappears into a minus sign. Here is what we record instead, and how it gets settled.
Inventory Management
Run Inventory and Purchasing with AI Agents (2026)
How I run parts of my own e-commerce business through a terminal AI agent — and how to point Claude Code, GPT or Gemini at SKU.io with our open-source skills.
Cloud Control: How the Best Cloud-Based Inventory Management Software Transforms eCommerce
AUGUST BLOG: Cloud Control: How the Best Cloud-Based Inventory Management Software Transforms eCommerce
How Smart Inventory Sync Can Unlock New Sales Channels.
Growing an eCommerce business often feels like building a tower out of paper—one misstep, and the whole thing shudders. Early on, you may manage inventory
Why Your Inventory System Should Talk to Your Accounting Software.
I remember the moment I realized something had to change. I was staring at two spreadsheets—one showing my inventory levels in WMS, the other reflecting what