Warehouse count ≠ sales “available” count
The warehouse tally says one number, customer service quotes another, and finance reports a third. Reservations live in the order system, physical stock in the WMS, and nobody agrees until month-end.
Solutions· Operations & Finance
PO receipts, sales reservations, production consumption, and GL valuation on the same stock record, not three systems reconciled at month-end.
Built for warehouse managers, supply chain leads, and plant operations teams
Inventory command center
All warehousesBelow minimum
18
SKUs need reorder
Open transfers
6
2 in transit
Count variances
3
pending approval
Reserved qty
4,820
units committed
The gaps your inventory stack leaves
Spreadsheets track on-hand: not whether sales can promise it, whether receipts updated the warehouse, or whether finance values what operations actually hold. The real inventory picture lives in the gaps between your WMS, order system, and ledger.
The warehouse tally says one number, customer service quotes another, and finance reports a third. Reservations live in the order system, physical stock in the WMS, and nobody agrees until month-end.
Goods arrive, someone confirms the PO, then a clerk re-keys quantities into a spreadsheet or a separate inventory tool. Production and fulfillment work from yesterday’s export, not what actually landed at the dock.
Moving average cost gets calculated offline. Adjustments from cycle counts sit in email until someone updates the ledger. The balance sheet and the warehouse floor are never looking at the same moment in time.
A new QC hold step, a different count approval threshold, an extra bin level. Every operational policy change waits on a ticket while the team works around the system with manual overrides.
Beyond stock tracking
Counting boxes is the easy part. Running stock across warehouses, orders, and production takes the parts a spreadsheet, a standalone WMS, or a bolt-on ERP module was never built to connect.
Stock lifecycle
Every stage feeds the next: the receipt becomes put-away, the reservation becomes a pick, the transfer posts at destination, the count adjusts valuation. Nothing re-entered, nothing lost between systems.
PO goods receipt posts on-hand the moment qty is confirmed.
Stock routed to zone, rack, and bin in your location hierarchy.
Sales and production orders commit available qty at source.
Pick list consumes reserved stock; shipment closes the movement.
Inter-warehouse moves with in-transit state until received.
Cycle count variance approved; moving average and GL updated.
SKU-1842 · Industrial fastener kit
Active · Tracked item
Attributes
Define base units, case and pallet conversions, and the attributes your operation actually needs (reorder flags, lot tracking, costing method) on a single master record. Warehouse picks in eaches, procurement buys in cases, and finance values in base UOM without three versions of the same SKU.
Model warehouses, zones, racks, and bins to match your physical layout. Pick lists route to the exact location, cycle counts scope to a zone, and transfers move between sites with the same hierarchy, so operators stop wandering and managers stop guessing.
Every movement updates the stock position immediately. Customer service sees available-to-promise, the warehouse sees what’s physically on the floor, and finance sees valued on-hand: all from the same ledger, not three exports reconciled on Friday afternoon.
LOT-2026-0412
Exp Aug 14 · 840 units
LOT-2026-0388
Exp Jul 22 · 420 units
LOT-2026-0351
Exp Jul 8 · 180 units
Track batch and serial numbers through every movement. Expiry dates drive pick priority, quarantine holds block bad lots before they ship, and a full chain of custody stays on the record for audits and recalls, not in someone’s notebook.
TRF-0091 · DC-East → DC-West
Dispatched Jun 11 · 3 line items
Create transfers between warehouses, track partial shipments and receipts, and hold quantity in-transit until the destination confirms. Source deducts on dispatch, destination adds on receipt: no double-counting, no “where did those 200 units go?” calls.
SKU-1842 · Fastener kit
Reserved 200 of 200
SKU-2104 · Mounting bracket
Reserved 80 of 120
Sales orders and production orders commit available quantity at the moment they’re confirmed. Customer service quotes ATP from live data, the warehouse picks against reservations (not a stale spreadsheet) and shortfalls surface early enough to transfer or reorder.
PO receipt
GRN-1204 · PO-0847 · +400 ea
Put-away
Zone A · Rack 12 · 400 ea
Sales pick
PL-8821 · SO-4412 · -200 ea
Every stock movement originates from the document that caused it: purchase receipt, manufacturing consumption, sales shipment, adjustment. No re-keying between procurement, production, and fulfillment; the movement chain is the audit trail.
Count session · CC-2026-06
Zone A · Blind count · 24 SKUs
Schedule counts by zone, warehouse, or ABC band. Counters enter blind quantities, variances route for approval, and confirmed adjustments update stock and valuation in one step, with who counted, who approved, and what changed logged permanently.
SKU-1842
Min 500 · On hand 320
SKU-2104
Min 200 · On hand 96
SKU-3310
Min 100 · On hand 42
SKU-0921
Min 80 · On hand 28
Set minimum and maximum levels per SKU and warehouse. When on-hand drops below threshold, the system flags the gap and can generate a purchase requisition with suggested quantity, so buyers react to system signal, not a warehouse manager’s voicemail.
Unit cost recalculates on every receipt and adjustment using moving average. Finance sees the same valued inventory the warehouse reports, GL entries post on confirmed movements, and month-end is reconciliation, not reconstruction.
Stock accuracy
98.2%
Days on hand
34
Fill rate
96%
Live dashboards for stock accuracy, days on hand, and fill rate. Vulo AI flags SKUs trending toward stockout, batches nearing expiry, and slow-moving inventory tying up capital, so operations managers act on patterns, not on the customer complaint that arrives first.
Goods received at dock
Trigger · PO line, qty, and warehouse attached
QC hold check
Category flagged for inspection · hold until released
Warehouse manager approval
Variance over 2% · escalates after 4 hours
Stock posted
On-hand updated, costing calculated, GL entry created
QC hold rules, count variance approvals, put-away routing, and notification templates are modeled visually in the Process Designer. When operations evolves (a new inspection step, a stricter variance threshold), warehouse ops changes it in minutes with audit logs intact.
Everything included
Twelve inventory modules ship working out of the box, and because they run on Vulo, your team keeps full no-code control over every location rule, threshold, and report.
One record, multiple units of measure.
Sites, zones, racks, and bins.
On-hand, reserved, available, in-transit.
Traceability and quarantine workflows.
Inter-warehouse moves with in-transit.
Commit stock to SO and MO lines.
PO, MO, and SO linked to stock.
Blind counts and variance approval.
Min/max with PR generation.
Moving average on every movement.
Dashboards and AI stock flags.
Warehouse workflows without code.
Connected on the same platform, no integrations to build:
The platform behind it
1,200+
business apps built on Vulo
150,000+
workflow actions automated monthly
99.9%
historical platform uptime
12+
industries running core operations
Proven in production
From multi-site supply chains to batch-tracked manufacturing, teams built inventory operations on one platform, adapting workflows as the business scaled, without waiting on a development backlog.
Grinta
Logistics
Vulo helped Grinta scale their operations, manage their supply chain, and adapt to market changes faster than their competition.
3x
faster process changes
Weeks
to launch new workflows
1
platform for all operations

El Seba Spices & Herbs
Manufacturing
Vulo helps spice and herb manufacturers manage production, inventory, and quality control with custom no-code apps tailored to their workflows.
Batch-level
traceability
Built-in
quality control
Connected
production & inventory
FAQ
Yes, and it is where many growing teams start. Open stock balances and item master data import from your files, locations map to your warehouse layout, and movement workflows replace the manual tally sheet. You go live one warehouse at a time; the spreadsheet retires when the team trusts the system.
Yes. Each warehouse has its own location hierarchy and stock position while sharing a group item catalog and consolidated visibility. Transfers deduct at source, hold in-transit, and post at destination. Both sites see the same move, and finance sees valued in-transit stock.
Reservations commit available quantity when a sales or production order is confirmed. Customer service quotes ATP from live data, not a cached export. The pick list consumes reserved stock on confirmation. If reserved quantity exceeds available, the shortfall surfaces immediately with alternate warehouse suggestions.
No. Batch, serial, and expiry tracking can be enabled per item category when you need it. Items without lot tracking move through the same warehouse workflows. When you turn it on, existing movements stay in history and new receipts get batch assignment going forward.
Yes. Many teams start with one warehouse or one movement type in Vulo while legacy systems still run elsewhere, then expand as confidence builds. Because procurement, orders, and accounting also run on Vulo, the end state is one platform, but you do not need a big-bang cutover on day one.
Weeks, not months. You start from a working inventory solution, load items and opening balances, and tune locations and workflows to your warehouse. Operations keeps adjusting count rules, replenishment thresholds, and reports after go-live: no consultants required for every policy change.
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