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January 29, 2026

5 Features of Effective Inventory Dashboards

Five essential inventory dashboard features — real-time monitoring, multi-location tracking, KPI reporting, automated alerts, and demand forecasting to reduce stockouts.

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January 29, 2026

Custom Middleware for Shopify Inventory Integration

Guide to building custom middleware to sync Shopify inventory with ERPs, WMS and marketplaces using GraphQL, webhooks, queuing, and robust error handling.

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January 28, 2026

Shopify Inventory Not Updating: Causes and Fixes

Troubleshoot Shopify inventory sync issues: enable tracking, standardize SKUs, reconnect apps, fix CSVs and use real-time tools to prevent overselling.

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January 27, 2026

How to Transfer Stock Between Locations in Shopify

Step-by-step guide to creating and managing Shopify Transfers to move stock between locations, track shipments, and keep inventory accurate.

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January 27, 2026

Inventory Carrying Costs: What They Are and How to Reduce Them

Understand inventory carrying costs, learn how to calculate them, and use forecasting, reorder points, and automation to cut holding expenses.

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January 25, 2026

Scaling Supplier Relationships for Shopify Brands

Improve Shopify supply chains with scorecards, segmentation, SLAs, KPIs and automation to reduce stockouts, cut costs, and scale reliably.

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February 3, 2026

How AI Improves Multi-Location Inventory Sync

AI forecasting and real-time automation sync stock across multiple Shopify locations to reduce stockouts, errors, and carrying costs.

The True Cost of Overstocked Inventory

How excess inventory ties up cash, raises storage and fulfillment costs, increases waste, and how AI forecasting and automated replenishment can prevent losses.

Top Challenges in Multi-Location Inventory

Explore multi-location inventory issues—overselling, sync delays, split shipments, bundle errors—and how AI-driven tools improve forecasting and real-time sync.

RFID in Shopify Inventory Management

RFID boosts Shopify inventory accuracy to >95%, speeds counts and fulfillment, reduces shrinkage, and integrates with POS and forecasting across channels.

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