Along with POS data, channel inventory data is one of the fundamental building blocks of all channel management activities. Inaccurate or flawed inventory data can lead to lost sales due to stock-outs, increased costs due to too much inventory, and other serious problems, including poor sales forecasting and flawed revenue recognition. Best practice channel management replaces manual inventory reporting processes with reliable software automation. Incent4’s Channel Data Management - Inventory module provides the industry's best automation and reporting/analytics solution available.

When companies move inventory channel data collection and management to Incent4, they gain real-time visibility into their channel-wide inventory levels and operations.

Instant Visibility

Inventory data collection is fully automated and can take advantage of any transfer method that is used by your channel partners (email, EDI, SFTP, etc.). Inventory data are captured, processed, and aligned from different tiers in the channel (e.g., distributors and resellers) directly into Incent4’s CDM application. The cleansed, normalized, and enhanced inventory records are instantly visible via dashboards, analytics, and executive business intelligence functions.

Inventory Accuracy

Once in Incent4’s Channel Data Management suite, inventory data can be further validated and reconciled via our SISO (Sales-In-Sales-Out) Inventory Reconciliation module. With automated reporting, discrepancies in beginning and ending inventory can be identified instantly. Incent4 data analysts will follow up with your channel partners to offload the burden of tracking down discrepancies between reported and calculated inventory quantities. Incent4’s channel data inventory module supports sell-through revenue recognition functionality.

Channel Inventory Analytics

Generate on-demand, interactive inventory analytics for an overview by partner, sales-in-sales-out trends, stagnating inventory, potential stock-outs and more.

Best of Breed Channel Data Management

Automated data
collection and
enhancement

Partners submit in
any format

Normalization and
validation

Enrichment and
customer matching

Rich exception
handling capabilities