What leaders see
Customers and partners still ask for status manually.
The portal exists, but email, calls, spreadsheets, and internal screenshots remain the dependable path.
Manufacturing Services
Manufacturing · Ecommerce · Inventory Visibility
Real-Time Inventory Visibility
Give dealers availability they can use when making an order commitment. Manufacturers and distributors need inventory visibility that distinguishes on-hand stock from allocations, holds, safety stock, inbound supply, production, and authorized locations. We engineer the ERP and WMS exchange, availability rules, permissions, and freshness indicators behind that decision.
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The Problem
Dealers cannot place dependable orders when availability requires a phone call.
Portal problems begin when a cleaner interface is placed over fragmented records, permissions, and workflows without resolving who owns the transaction and what each audience may see.
What is actually happening
The experience is disconnected from the operating record.
Pricing, inventory, orders, documents, permissions, and exceptions do not follow one governed path.
What gets worse
Self-service creates back-office exception work.
Users see incomplete or stale information while internal teams reconcile what the portal accepted.
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What Changes
What Real-Time Inventory Visibility includes.
Manufacturers and distributors need inventory visibility that distinguishes on-hand stock from allocations, holds, safety stock, inbound supply, production, and authorized locations. We engineer the ERP and WMS exchange, availability rules, permissions, and freshness indicators behind that decision.
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Live ATP by Warehouse
Calculate and present available-to-promise quantities by authorized location using governed ERP, WMS, allocation, hold, and safety-stock records.
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Allocation Visibility
Separate on-hand, allocated, held, and available quantities so the portal does not treat physical stock as an unconditional promise.
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Replenishment Dates
Present expected availability from approved purchase orders, production orders, transfers, and in-transit records with source and freshness context.
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Multi-Warehouse View
Inventory across all warehouse locations in a single view. Dealers can choose ship-from location based on proximity and availability.
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Low-Stock Alerts
Configurable alerts for dealers when frequently ordered items hit low-stock thresholds. Proactive notification before stockouts.
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Inventory Search
Search inventory by SKU, description, category, or cross-reference. Find available substitutes when primary items are out of stock.
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How It Fits Manufacturing
How Real-Time Inventory Visibility fits the manufacturing operation.
Customer, Supplier & Partner PortalsWhich audience needs which records and actions without exposing internal systems or another party's information.
Governance dependencyThe experience needs explicit permissions, governed source records, transaction ownership, and exception paths before customers, suppliers, partners, or employees can rely on it.
Permissioned records and actions
accounts and roles
pricing and products
inventory and orders
documents
status and exceptions
What must be defined before engineering begins
- What the manufacturing business needs to change and why.
- Which systems, records, risks, and readiness gaps shape the work.
- What should be built, how it fits the architecture, and in what order.
Related Services and Planning
What to evaluate next.
Follow the dependencies behind this service instead of treating it as an isolated project.
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Integration Engineering
Connect the portal to the governed records and transactions it is allowed to expose.
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Operational Analytics
Give portal users and internal teams consistent status, measures, and operating context.
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Workflow and Exception Automation
Route requests, approvals, documents, and exceptions beyond self-service.
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Self-Service Readiness
Confirm that records, permissions, workflows, and exceptions are ready for outside users.
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Start Your Transformation Roadmap
New material work begins in Launchpad so Metrotechs can validate the operating need, evidence, feasibility, architecture direction, and sequence before engineering begins.
Explore next stepStart With the Manufacturing Objective
Define the smallest sound response and delivery sequence.
Metrotechs determines what the operation actually requires before selecting technology. New material work begins in Launchpad so the evidence, feasibility, architecture direction, priorities, and sequence can be validated before engineering begins.
Metrotechs designs, builds, integrates, and supports the approved solution for the manufacturing operation.
A technical-service request does not bypass discovery. The proposed solution remains a working hypothesis until Metrotechs validates it in Launchpad.
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Delivery sequence
How Metrotechs delivers Real-Time Inventory Visibility.
Manufacturers and distributors need inventory visibility that distinguishes on-hand stock from allocations, holds, safety stock, inbound supply, production, and authorized.
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Inventory Source Mapping
Map your inventory data sources — ERP, WMS, 3PL systems. Define which locations, stock types, and quantities to expose to dealers.
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Integration Development
Design the inventory exchange and available-to-promise rules around source ownership, allocations, holds, safety stock, replenishment, latency, reconciliation, and failure behavior.
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Display Configuration
Configure how inventory is displayed — exact quantities, ranges (50+, 100+), or in-stock/out-of-stock. Different visibility rules for different dealer tiers.
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Testing & Validation
Validate ATP accuracy against your ERP. Test with real order scenarios to verify that displayed availability matches what can actually ship.
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Dealer Rollout
Launch inventory visibility with dealer training. Monitor accuracy and gather feedback on display format and usefulness.
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FAQ
Questions that usually decide the scope.
Straight answers to what manufacturing leaders ask before committing budget to this work.
The required cadence depends on transaction volume, allocation behavior, source-system capability, customer promise risk, and what the portal does when data becomes stale. We make freshness visible and test the selected pattern against real order scenarios.