sostocked

SoStocked is a highly sophisticated inventory management, forecasting, and tracking software built by Amazon sellers, for Amazon sellers. Founded by Chelsea Cohen, who experienced the severe headaches of managing inventory with inadequate spreadsheets and cookie-cutter software, SoStocked was designed to address the real-world, nuanced challenges of selling on Amazon. It tackles the top 10 inventory pains, including over-ordering, under-ordering, ordering late, transferring late, tracking purchase orders, juggling spreadsheets, managing bundles, and avoiding costly warehouse recounts.

The platform moves beyond simple data tracking to offer a fully customizable forecasting engine. It understands that an Amazon business is dynamic, influenced by factors like FBA logistics, 3PL warehouses, wholesale channels, product bundling, Pan-European sales, seasonality, stock-outs, and marketing efforts. SoStocked was created to be smarter than a manual spreadsheet but more flexible than a rigid algorithm, giving sellers precise control over their inventory and cash flow.

How to use sostocked

Using SoStocked involves a systematic approach to gain full control over your inventory:

1. Connect Your Accounts: Start by integrating your Amazon Seller Central account to pull in your sales and inventory data automatically.
2. Configure Your Supply Chain: Input details about your suppliers, including lead times for production and shipping. Add your 3PL warehouses and their transfer times.
3. Customize Your Forecasts: Utilize the 'Adjusted Velocity' feature to clean up your sales data. Exclude periods of stockouts or anomalous sales spikes to create a reliable baseline.
4. Set Inventory Buffers: Establish buffer stock (safety stock) in days or units to get reorder alerts before you're critically low, not when you hit zero. Use Min/Max Restocking to maintain optimal stock levels at FBA and your warehouse.
5. Incorporate Marketing Plans: Use 'Forecast Modeling' to add future marketing activities like Lightning Deals, seasonal promotions, or planned sales growth. This ensures your inventory levels can support your marketing pushes.
6. Monitor and Manage: Leverage the KPI Dashboards to get a clear, visual overview of your inventory status, inbound shipments, and potential stockouts. The Inventory Timeline helps you visualize patterns over time.
7. Streamline Ordering: Create and send Purchase Orders (POs) directly to your suppliers from within the software, and track their progress from production to arrival.

Core Features of sostocked

• Adjusted Velocity: Cleans historical sales data by removing stockouts and sales spikes for more accurate forecasting.
• Simultaneous Forecasting: Generates separate, simultaneous forecasts for warehouse transfers and supplier orders.
• Forecast Modeling: Allows you to layer marketing plans, seasonality, and growth trends onto your sales forecasts.
• Buffer Stock & Min/Max Restocking: Prevents stockouts with intelligent safety stock settings and inventory level optimization.
• Inventory Timeline: A visual tool to see your inventory levels, sales velocity, and stockouts over time.
• Purchase Order (PO) System: Create, manage, and track purchase orders within the platform.
• KPI Dashboards: Customizable dashboards providing a high-level view of all critical inventory metrics.
• Bundle Management: Accurately tracks inventory for product bundles by accounting for the components of each kit.
• IPI Restock Limits Management: Helps you manage your inventory within Amazon's restock limits to maintain a healthy IPI score.

Use Cases for sostocked

SoStocked is ideal for various types of Amazon sellers:

• Scaling Businesses: Sellers who have outgrown spreadsheets and need a robust, automated system to manage growing complexity.
• Multi-Marketplace Sellers: Brands selling across multiple Amazon regions (e.g., North America, Pan-EU) who need to manage inventory in different locations.
• Sellers with Complex Supply Chains: Businesses using a combination of FBA, 3PL warehouses, and direct-from-supplier shipping.
• Brands with Seasonal Products: Accurately forecast demand for holidays or seasonal peaks to maximize sales and avoid overstocking in the off-season.
• Marketing-Heavy Brands: Align inventory planning with marketing calendars to ensure products are in stock for promotions, product launches, and ad campaigns.

Advantages of sostocked

The primary advantage of SoStocked is its seller-centric, highly customizable approach. Unlike rigid systems, it gives you the tools to model your unique business reality. It prevents costly errors like over-ordering due to unadjusted sales spikes or under-ordering because of past stockouts. By integrating marketing plans into forecasting ('Sync to Scale' philosophy), it turns inventory management into a strategic growth driver, not just an operational task. This leads to better cash flow, higher profitability, and less stress.

Pricing and Plans

SoStocked offers a variety of subscription plans tailored to the size of your Amazon business, primarily based on your monthly order volume. The tiered plans are designed to scale with your growth, starting from packages for smaller sellers and extending to enterprise-level solutions for large-scale operations. Each plan provides access to the full suite of features, with differences in the number of SKUs, marketplaces, and user seats supported. Potential customers are encouraged to book a demo to get a personalized consultation and find the plan that best fits their needs.