Multi-Supply Stock (MSI) lets you handle the stock of a product by supply (location) throughout the Magento 2 webstore.
Magento manages a single stock system for every product. Due to this fact, it will get troublesome to handle multi-channel inventories for a single web site.
Nonetheless, after the MSI function launch in Magento 2.3 retailers can handle the stock for every of the channels simply.
You possibly can handle the stock of a single product for a number of places by allocating the sources to totally different places.
This function has come in useful to unravel the stock administration inside our Magento 2 POS system permitting us to create a separate set of inventories for various sources.
Take into account that the POS system is working in offline mode and you’ve got assigned the primary product with a amount of 100 (50 for the online retailer and 50 for the retail POS outlet). Now the difficulty that may come up is that if the salesperson sells out greater than 50 portions.
Now, when the POS system comes on-line then there will probably be points with the stock sync. What this implies is that there will probably be no precise bodily inventory obtainable to ship for the additional orders which have come by means of the POS system.
That is taken care of by the MSI system, the place the shop proprietor can now create and handle the stock of a product by location sensible.
The inventory assigned to the places and every location’s respective stock is separate from the online.
