Product Information Management
Create All the Products, Then Enrich Them
A catalog launch that verifies each product before creating it never ships. Keep "does it exist" apart from "can I trust it", from an 84-minute onboarding call.
SKU.io Blog
E-commerce operations, inventory management, and multi-channel selling insights.
Inventory Management
Live Does Not Mean Anyone Is Using It
A purchase order nobody receives just stays open. Why a system can be live and hold nothing, and the one thing I check before calling an onboarding done.
Inventory Management
Moving Off the Inventory Spreadsheet Without Losing Count
The cleanest inventory spreadsheet still holds one person's memory. Where sheets break, and the order I'd move a brand off one without losing count.
Inventory Management
Same SKU, Different Parts: What Did Each Unit Cost?
The recipe said 13 sheets a unit and the floor used 12 and a half. How SKU.io costs what was used, and what it can't do yet for rebuilt goods.
Inventory Management
Where Should a Bundle Turn Into Its Parts?
In SKU.io a bundle becomes its components on the sales order, before the warehouse sees it. One onboarding where I signed off on a setup that skipped that.
Inventory Management
The FBA Inbound Order That Can't Exist Yet
Amazon wants box counts before it names a warehouse. A 3PL wants an order before it will touch stock. The usual workaround breaks something else.
Inventory Management
What an Oversell Costs, Worked Out From One Call
A thousand units oversold on a channel, an $8 second shipment on a $10 margin, and a TikTok shop at risk. One operator's numbers from a recorded call, worked through.
Inventory Management
Your Recipe Is in Grams. Your Vanilla Comes in Fluid Ounces.
A buyer's recipes are in grams and his vanilla comes in fluid ounces. What I got wrong on the call, and how density now bridges the two in SKU.io.
Inventory Management
The Order Nobody Was Supposed to Change
When an order changes after it has gone to the 3PL, SKU.io pulls it back instead of patching it. One brand we onboarded puts it at about a dozen a business day.
Inventory Management
When Does a Unit's Cost Stop Changing?
The invoice for January's stock arrives in February, $10 a unit higher. SKU.io books it in February by default. I restate my own books. Here is why.
Inventory Management
The One-Minute Test for Whether a Vendor's AI Is Real
An embedded chat assistant is the floor, not the ceiling. Open the browser console next to the product and see what an outside agent could actually do.
SKU.io Is Now an Approved Walmart Marketplace Solution Provider
Walmart Marketplace has approved SKU.io as a Solution Provider. Here is what that means for sellers, what the integration does, and how to connect.