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Omnichannel inventory sync template

Keeping one available-to-sell number across stores, warehouses and online channels: stock events, safety buffers, channel allocation and oversell handling. This flowchart template contains 18 labelled steps, 4 decision points, branches such as “Yes”, “No”.

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Steps in this flowchart

  • Stock event: sale, receipt, return or transfer
  • Inventory service updates on hand
  • Central inventory ledger
  • Subtract reservations & safety stock
  • Calculate available to sell
  • Below channel threshold?
  • Hide or limit item on marketplaces
  • Publish quantity to all channels
  • Web store
  • Marketplaces
  • Store POS & ship from store
  • Order placed?
  • Reserve stock at sourcing node
  • Reservation succeeded?
  • Release to fulfilment
  • Try alternate node
  • Stock elsewhere?
  • Cancel or backorder & notify customer

How to use this flowchart template

  1. Click Open in the editor. The flowchart opens on a new page in FlowDiagram — nothing is uploaded and there is no sign-up.
  2. Rename, add or delete shapes and drag them where you want; connectors stay attached as things move.
  3. Drop in vendor logos from the library — 1,160 of them, including every AWS, Azure and Google Cloud service icon — or restyle it with the colour and theme controls.
  4. Prefer text? Edit the Mermaid source below and paste it in through ☰ → Import diagram (see the Mermaid editor); it imports as an editable diagram.
  5. Export to PNG, SVG or PDF, or press Ctrl+L for a link that carries the whole diagram.

Mermaid source

The whole template is the text below. Paste it into FlowDiagram, keep it in Git next to the code it describes, or hand it to an AI assistant to extend.

flowchart TD
  A([Stock event: sale, receipt, return or transfer]) --> B[Inventory service updates on hand]
  B --> C[(Central inventory ledger)]
  C --> D[Subtract reservations & safety stock]
  D --> E[Calculate available to sell]
  E --> F{Below channel threshold?}
  F -->|Yes| G[Hide or limit item on marketplaces]
  F -->|No| H[Publish quantity to all channels]
  G --> H
  H --> I[Web store]
  H --> J[Marketplaces]
  H --> K[Store POS & ship from store]
  I --> L{Order placed?}
  J --> L
  K --> L
  L -->|Yes| M[Reserve stock at sourcing node]
  M --> N{Reservation succeeded?}
  N -->|Yes| O[Release to fulfilment]
  N -->|No| P[Try alternate node]
  P --> Q{Stock elsewhere?}
  Q -->|Yes| M
  Q -->|No| R[Cancel or backorder & notify customer]
  O --> A

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