Ostendo Continuum Inventory and Sales
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Ostendo Continuum Inventory & Sales
Control stock, streamline order fulfilment, and improve margin visibility across your entire supply chain.
Ostendo Continuum brings inventory management and sales order processing together in one connected system, so your team can quote accurately, promise confidently, pick faster, and analyse profitability with real-world data.
Inventory Management in Ostendo Continuum
Real-time stock visibility
Keep a clear view of what you have, where it is, and what it’s worth—across warehouses, bins, and locations. Ostendo supports strong day-to-day control for businesses managing fast-moving parts, finished goods, consumables, and service stock.
Typical outcomes
- Fewer stock-outs and emergency purchasing
- Reduced excess/obsolete inventory
- Faster response to customer enquiries
- Better inventory accuracy for planning and reporting
Stock control and traceability
Inventory processes can be configured to suit how your business works—whether you’re running simple stock control or more structured traceability requirements.
Common capabilities
- Multi-warehouse / multi-location stock control
- Bin and location management
- Batch/lot and serial tracking (where required)
- Stocktakes and cycle counting
- Inventory adjustments with full audit history
- Expiry and traceability support for regulated or quality-focused environments
Purchasing, replenishment, and demand support
Inventory doesn’t operate in isolation. Ostendo helps connect stock levels to purchasing and replenishment decisions, so you can keep service levels high without carrying unnecessary inventory.
Common approaches
- Minimum/maximum levels and reorder points
- Supplier lead-time awareness
- Suggested replenishment based on usage patterns
- Visibility of committed, allocated, and incoming stock
Costing and valuation that supports decisions
Accurate costing is crucial for margin control. Ostendo supports inventory valuation and costing visibility so you can understand the cost impact of purchasing, handling, and stock movements—especially important for multi-step distribution and manufacturing environments.
Sales Management in Ostendo Continuum
Sales quoting and order processing
Create quotes and convert them to sales orders with consistent pricing, margin guidance, and availability checks—so your team can sell with confidence.
Common capabilities
- Quotes, sales orders, and invoicing workflows
- Customer-specific pricing and discount structures
- Product substitutions and alternatives
- Availability checks and supply visibility during quoting
- Support for backorders and partial fulfilments
Order fulfilment, picking, and dispatch
Ostendo supports efficient fulfilment—from picking to packing and dispatch—helping your team reduce errors and improve delivery performance.
Common capabilities
- Pick/pack/dispatch workflows
- Delivery dockets and invoices
- Allocation and reservation of stock
- Customer delivery requirements and instructions
- Returns processing (RMA-style workflows where needed)
Customer service and sales visibility
Sales teams and customer service benefit from a single view of the customer—orders, deliveries, invoices, and purchasing behaviour—so they can respond quickly and professionally.
What teams typically track
- Order status and delivery progress
- Customer purchase history and trends
- Items on backorder and expected supply timing
- Customer-specific product ranges and pricing rules
Inventory + Sales Together: The Real Benefit
When inventory and sales run in the same system, you reduce friction and improve accuracy across the entire order-to-cash cycle.
Business benefits
- More accurate promises (because availability is live)
- Faster fulfilment (because picking is driven from real orders)
- Better margin control (because costs and pricing are connected)
- Less re-keying and fewer errors (one source of truth)
- Stronger reporting (sales performance tied to stock movement and profitability)
Reporting & Visibility for Inventory and Sales
Ostendo’s built-in reporting, inquiries, and dashboards help you monitor performance and identify improvement opportunities.
Inventory reporting examples
- Stock on hand by warehouse/bin
- Stock turn, slow movers, and obsolete stock
- Reorder reports and supplier performance
- Inventory valuation and movement history
- Stock accuracy, adjustments, and audit trails
Sales reporting examples
- Sales by customer, product, category, rep, and region
- Quote conversion rates and pipeline visibility
- Gross margin reporting by order, product, and customer
- Backorder and fulfilment performance
- Returns, credits, and sales quality metrics
Mobility and Barcode Support (Optional but Powerful)
For businesses wanting faster and more accurate warehouse execution, Ostendo can be paired with mobility and barcode workflows to streamline picking, receipting, transfers, and dispatch.
Typical gains
- Reduced picking errors
- Faster receipting and put-away
- Real-time warehouse updates
- Better traceability and accountability
Summary
Ostendo Continuum helps you run inventory and sales as one connected process, improving stock control, fulfilment speed, customer service, and profit visibility. Whether you operate in distribution, manufacturing, service, or mixed-mode businesses, the platform supports scalable workflows—from simple stock and sales through to traceability, mobility, and advanced reporting.