The Inventory Mission Control is a powerful feature designed to give you full visibility and control over your inventory. With its intuitive interface and actionable data, it empowers you to make informed, data-driven decisions.
Why Inventory Mission Control is Essential
Enhanced Visibility: Gain complete insight into your inventory, allowing you to monitor key metrics and assess inventory performance with ease.
Data-Driven Decisions: Utilize historical data and trend analysis to make smarter inventory management choices.
Efficiency: Streamline the management and review of inventory updates, saving time and minimizing errors with an intuitive interface.
How It's Organized
Inventory Mission Control is divided into three tabs: Overview, Inventory Performance, and Inventory Operations Health. Each tab is designed for a different level of analysis — from a quick daily pulse check to deep historical trend work.
Tab 1: Overview
The Overview tab gives you an at-a-glance picture of your inventory health. It includes three sections: Alerts, Inventory Snapshot, and Inventory Brief.
Alerts
Alerts in Recurrency guide you to the actions that need your attention across your entire company.
Order Point/Order Quantity Updates: Click "Review" to go to the Planning tab, filtered by items marked as "Needs Review." This ensures you focus on high-priority needs, where you can review and adjust replenishment values.
Min/Max Replenishment Updates: Click "Review" to access the Planning tab, filtered by items marked as "Needs Review." Review and adjust min/max values as needed.
Purchase Orders Ready to Purchase: Click "Review" to go to the Purchase Targets tab in the Purchasing module, filtered by "Ready" status. Finalize POs ready for purchase.
Daily Workflow Reviews: The most time-sensitive, high-priority items for your team to review each day.
💡 Note: Daily Workflow requires rule to be set up for your team. Contact your Customer Success Manager to learn more.
Expiring Exclusions: Any items manually excluded from your Planning page, which are due to expire in the next 7 days.
Inventory Snapshot
The Inventory Snapshot shows how your inventory composition has shifted over time, with data available starting April 2026. The stacked area chart breaks down your total inventory into three categories:
Normal Stock — Inventory within expected levels
Dead Stock — Inventory that has not been sold or purchased in the last 12 months (or as determined by your team's settings).
Overstock — Inventory exceeding max replenishment levels
You can toggle the view between dollars and units depending on how you prefer to analyze your inventory. Clicking into the chart to drill down is not yet supported — this is a planned future improvement.
Inventory Brief
The Inventory Brief highlights five key business trends, each comparing the last 12 months to the prior 12 months. This section is designed to surface the signals that most often require immediate attention: customers pulling back, items gaining or losing momentum, dead stock accumulating, and suppliers slowing down.
Every section in the Inventory Brief is clickable — click the total to open a filtered detail view of the underlying records. From any detail view, individual item IDs are also clickable and will take you directly to that item's Inventory page, where you can see purchasing history, customer activity, and more. Each section is also exportable as a CSV for further analysis.
The Inventory Brief Includes:
Churning Customers: Customers whose purchases over the last 12 months are less than 75% of the prior year. These are accounts that are showing signs of disengagement — early visibility lets you act before they're fully gone.
Items with Declining Sales: Items that have sold less than 90% of prior-year volume. These products may need attention, reallocation, or a conversation with the relevant sales team.
Items with Increasing Sales: Items that have sold more than 110% of prior-year volume. These are your fast movers — worth reviewing to make sure replenishment settings are keeping up with demand.
Increasing Dead Stock: Items whose average deadstock value over the last 12 months is more than 110% of the prior year. These are products increasingly tying up capital without turning, and may need markdowns, reallocation, or supplier conversations.
Increasing Supplier Lead Times: Suppliers whose average lead time over the last 12 months exceeds 105% of the prior year's average. Creeping lead times can quietly erode your ability to fulfill on time — this section makes that trend visible before it becomes a problem.
Tab 2: Inventory Performance
The Inventory Performance tab is where you go for deeper analysis — historical trends, inventory composition, turns, fill rate, GMROI, and more. It includes the core reporting features from the original Inventory Mission Control experience.
Inventory History
Inventory History provides a chronological view of your inventory data, categorized by month and excluding the ongoing month. Access up to 18 months of historical data and explore it in various ways to gain deeper insights.
Inventory History provides a chronological view of your inventory data, categorized by month and excluding the ongoing month. Access up to 18 months of historical data and explore it in various ways to gain deeper insights.
Recurrency gives you the ability to review different charts:
Inventory History: Shows how your total inventory value has changed over time, based on item transaction costs. Monthly values are averaged from the start and end of each month to reflect how long inventory was held.
Sales History: Total quantity or value of items invoiced each month, based on recorded sales transactions.
Backorder History: Tracks backordered quantities over time, calculated using historical average cost to show the value of unfulfilled orders.
Annualized Turns: Calculated each month by dividing cost of goods sold by average inventory and then annualized.
Annualized GMROI: Measures monthly Gross Margin Return on Investment (GMROI), calculated from gross margin and average inventory value, then annualized to show return on inventory investment over a year.
Fill Rate: Percentage of orders shipped complete and on time each month, excluding cancellations. An order is on time if shipped within the configured grace period of the requested date.
Days of Inventory: Shows total days of inventory value over time, with color-coded indicators to help you quickly assess whether your inventory coverage is healthy.
Inventory Aging: Provides a breakdown of your current inventory value grouped by how long items have been held in stock. This helps identify slow-moving or aging inventory before it becomes a larger problem.
💡 Note: This chart was previously located in the Inventory Operations Health report and has been moved here so it's available alongside your other historical inventory reporting.
To learn more about the specific charts in Inventory History Explorer and their data sources, visit this article.
Drill-in Capabilities
Clicking into the chart opens a detail table that can be grouped by ABC Class, Location, Product Group, or Supplier — giving you the flexibility to understand where your days of inventory coverage is strong or at risk.
Clicking "Explore" on any chart allows you to dive into detailed information and switch your focus seamlessly. For instance, from the "Backorder History" chart, you can easily switch to views like "Inventory Turns" or "GMROI." The Inventory History Explorer offers:
Versatile Data Views: Easily switch between views such as Inventory History, GMROI, Turns, and Sales History. Group data by location, demand pattern, predictability, and more. Choose to view data in dollars or units.
Customizable Filters: Narrow your view by demand pattern, demand predictability, primary supplier, location, and other criteria.
Downloadable Data: Download the filtered data with selected columns for further analysis.
The chart below displays data according to your selected criteria. For example, "Inventory History" grouped by location shows inventory value by location, with trend lines organized to highlight inventory increases or decreases at each location.
For deeper analysis, scroll down to review data based on your chosen parameters, and gives you additional analysis options. You can compare data over different time frames (e.g., last 3 months vs. previous 3 months, or last 6 months vs. previous 6 months), and choose to display deltas as percentages or dollar amounts.
Note that columns shown will change depending on the view selected. For instance, Inventory History displays inventory, sales, and turns, while Fill Rate shows fill rate, backorders, and inventory. This ensures you have the right information for any analysis. You can also sort by any column, including deltas, to focus on specific insights.
By leveraging these features, Inventory History enables you to make data-driven decisions, optimize inventory management, and gain comprehensive visibility into your inventory trends.
Inventory Status
The Inventory Status Expllorer gives you real-time insight into your current inventory, with underlying data updated every 3–5 minutes. This section includes two charts:
Status: A breakdown of total net stock, showing normal stock, overstock (items exceeding max levels), and deadstock (unsold or unpurchased inventory for the last 12 months).
Inventory Breakdown: A breakdown of inventory by stage, including on-hand, allocated, backordered, and more.
Click "Explore" on either chart to access the Inventory Status Explorer, which lets you customize your view, apply filters, and download the data. The Explorer also includes a general filter to quickly narrow your view to backordered items only, or show all items — making it easy to zero in on fulfillment issues without manually setting additional filters.
The Inventory Status Explorer shows both high-level metrics that update as you apply filters, and item-location pairs based on your criteria for granular analysis.
Tab 3: Inventory Operations Health
The Inventory Operations Health tab provides actionable insights into how Recurrency impacts key inventory metrics on a short term cadence. A faster reporting cycle helps users monitor inventory health, understand trends, and make informed decisions in near real-time.
To learn more about Inventory Operations, visit this article.