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One accurate inventory number, everywhere you sell. Pipe17 syncs stock across every sales channel, fulfillment partner, and back-office system in real time, so you stop overselling without holding inventory back.
The Problem
Multichannel inventory management breaks the same way whether you run three channels or thirty: every system keeps its own count, and syncs run late or fail quietly. Overselling and stockouts are one failure, not two: decisions made on a number that was already wrong.
Example: SKU 8471-M
as each system sees it right now
Selling channels
Storefront
402 availableMarketplace
302 availableEDI retailer
188 availableWarehouses
East warehouse
236 on handWest 3PL
190 on handAll five numbers are deciding orders right now, and at most one of them is right.
The Solution
Pipe17 updates inventory as events happen, not on a nightly batch.
Each of those events lands in one inventory ledger, so every channel and system reads from a single source of truth. Pipe17 can be that source of truth, holding the master count across your channels, or it can keep your ERP in that role, feeding it every sales and fulfillment event in real time.
Going live with Pipe17 allowed us to reduce operational expenses by more than $4M on an annualized basis from our operation and technology platform while providing us speed and flexibility as we scale our business.
Read how Aterian took $4M of annual cost out of order operations with Pipe17
Real-time numbers only help if they cover everywhere your inventory lives. Pipe17 brings every location into one picture:
Inventory silos are how B2B and DTC units end up hoarding stock against each other. With every location in one network, B2B and DTC sell from the same real count, and order routing fills each order from wherever the stock actually sits.
When a SKU runs low, the worst outcome is going dark on the channel that earns your best margin. Inventory Buffers are channel-by-channel holds on your remaining units, set on rules you choose. You decide where low stock stops selling and where it keeps selling, without the blanket safety padding that pulls sellable inventory off every channel at once.
Every inventory quantity in Pipe17 carries its states: On Hand, Committed, Available, and available-to-promise (ATP), with the full event history behind them.
So when a channel shows 1,200 available and the warehouse counts 4,000 on hand, nothing is broken, and the ledger proves it. Of the 4,000, 2,000 sit committed to open orders and 800 are held by buffers, which leaves 1,200 free to sell. The number is right, and anyone who asks can see exactly why.
For warehouses and 3PLs that report only on-hand counts, Virtual Commit reserves stock against the orders a source system has not reported, so Available still reflects what is truly free to sell.
Automation keeps the counts moving, but some moments call for hands on the numbers. Every manual change lands in the same ledger history as every automated action, so stepping in never breaks the audit trail. Pipe17 keeps the common moves simple:
Availability that ignores inbound inventory always runs conservative. Pipe17 tracks inbound inventory across purchase orders, transfer orders, and advance ship notices (ASNs), and records receipts against them. Dedicated inbound quantity states keep availability counting supply on the way, not just stock on the shelf. Your replenishment decisions run on real numbers: what is selling where, what is already on the way, and what actually arrived.
Pipe17 keeps the operational picture in sync; your ERP stays the buying system of record.
An inventory sync that silently stops is how overselling starts. Exception Resolution watches inventory and product syncs continuously and alerts the right team when something stalls. And the same no-code Automation Engine that runs your orders can react to inventory events automatically.
Inventory Visibility stays accurate because the orders, fulfillments, and returns that change inventory already flow through Pipe17. Every capability below runs on the same platform and data model.
Enterprise brands and global 3PLs run their order operations on Pipe17.
Inventory visibility is knowing how much stock you have, where it is, and what state it is in, across every channel and location, accurately enough to act on. In practice that means real-time inventory tracking, with Pipe17 keeping the systems that change inventory and the channels that sell it on the same number.
Pipe17 prevents overselling by updating availability on every channel as soon as inventory changes anywhere, instead of waiting for batch syncs. Committed and available quantities are tracked separately, Inventory Buffers hold back low stock on the channels you choose, and Exception Resolution flags a failed sync before it costs you orders.
Pipe17 prevents the stockouts that come from bad inventory data by keeping every channel selling on the same real-time count instead of padded, siloed, or stale numbers. Real-time sync frees stock trapped on quiet channels, Inventory Buffers replace blanket safety padding with targeted holds, and inbound-aware availability counts supply already on the way.
AI shopping agents act on the inventory availability number you publish, with no human judgment between the data and the purchase decision. A stale count becomes an order that fails, or a product the agent stops recommending. Pipe17 keeps agentic surfaces on the same real-time count as every other channel; the five tiers of agentic commerce maps where this is heading.
Pipe17 can serve as your single inventory source of truth, or it can keep your ERP in that role by feeding it every sales and fulfillment event in real time. The natural split is where finance already lives; either way, every channel reads the same accurate number.
The system you designate as the inventory source of truth for that location wins, and Pipe17 keeps every other connected system reconciled to it. Every count in Pipe17 carries the system that reported it, so a disagreement is visible with its source attached instead of silently averaged, and scheduled reconciliation corrects drift between syncs.
Pipe17 tracks inbound supply across purchase orders, transfer orders, and advance ship notices (ASNs), records receipts against them, and reflects what is on the way in dedicated inbound quantity states. That keeps availability and replenishment reporting grounded in what is arriving, not only what is on the shelf.
Inventory management software runs buying and stocking decisions; inventory visibility keeps every channel and system reading the same accurate, real-time number. Pipe17 provides inventory visibility as part of the Order Operations Platform, handling inventory management for ecommerce channels and locations while working with the ERP or inventory system you already run.
