How to create an inventory on hand report

Having a clear view of inventory on hand is essential for any retail or ecommerce business, but it’s often a challenge. Compiling and standardizing your data into a reportable format takes a long time when you’re pulling spreadsheets and vendor reports manually. 

But automating these processes so you have easy access to your inventory on hand can be done before you have your morning coffee.

Whether you want to break down your inventory reporting by SKU, by 3PL, by parcel size — or all of the above — you can create a customized workflow with virtually any logic baked in and automate it so it’s easily repeatable.

In this guide, we’ll show you how to:

• Plan what your inventory report will include
• Gather and standardize your data
• Segment it out in any way you want
• Visualize, share, and collaborate on your data