What Locate covers
| Feature | Page |
|---|---|
| Warehouse Graphical Dashboard | Headline view of suppliers, SKU counts, and PO state |
| Purchase Orders | Create, send, edit, and track POs to suppliers |
| Suppliers Management | Add, block, unblock, and audit supplier records |
| Goods Received | Mark POs received, partial-receive, flag damaged stock |
| Accounts Payable | Track outstanding supplier invoices and record payments |
| Warehouse and Stock Locations | Configure warehouses, aisles, shelves, bin locations, SKU placement |
| Stock Movement Log | Audit trail of every quantity change for every SKU |
The Warehouse Graphical Dashboard
Path: Home, Locate, Warehouse Graphical Dashboard. The dashboard is the headline view that opens by default. Two side-by-side panels:| Panel | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Supplier SKU Count | Each supplier with the count of unique SKUs sourced from them |
| Purchase Order Status Created Today | Each supplier with the count of POs raised today |
- Supplier concentration check. A single supplier dominating Supplier SKU Count is a concentration risk. Diversify the supplier base if any one row is more than 30 percent of the total.
- Daily PO sanity check. A working day with zero POs raised against any supplier is a process miss; a day with abnormally many POs is worth a manager review to confirm volumes and prices.
- Buying-team workload distribution. Cross-reference with the user audit on each PO to see which buyer is raising what.
How merchants use the Locate module
Three patterns we see daily:- The PO loop, supplier review, raise PO, supplier acknowledges, goods receive, invoice match. This is the day-to-day cycle that keeps stock flowing in. See Purchase Orders and Suppliers.
- The stock-location loop, warehouse setup, aisle/shelf/bin definition, SKU-to-bin mapping, stocktake reconciliation. The fixed-asset side of the warehouse. See Stock Locations.
- The audit loop, every quantity change is logged, queryable by SKU, traceable back to the user or system action that caused it. See Stock Movement Log.
Cross-link to the rest of the AI OS
| Need | Where to go |
|---|---|
| Live inventory KPI per channel | Nerve Centre, the connector card |
| ”Why is my stockout rate creeping up this month?” | Vortex Mind, Daily Revenue Leakage diagnostics on inventory leakage |
| ”How many units of SKU DK001B are at warehouse 2 right now?” | Ask Viq, plain-English query |
| ”Open a fix for the late supplier delivery from Supplier 9” | Actions Kanban, route from the PO record |
Cross-link to other CloudHub services
| Service | Why it matters here |
|---|---|
| Optimise [Inventory] | Optimise reads stock counts that Locate writes. The single source of truth runs through Locate. |
| Deliver [Orders] | Deliver picks orders against the bin locations that Locate defines. |
| Analyse [Reports] | Inventory Age, Products, and Fast Selling Products reports all draw from Locate’s stock data. |
| Configure [Setup] | Optimise Profiles, Order Stages, and User Permissions configure how Locate behaves in your workspace. |
Common questions
Do I need to use Locate if I am FBA-only? If 100 percent of your orders ship from Amazon FBA warehouses, Locate is optional, since the warehousing is Amazon’s side. You still benefit from Suppliers Management and Accounts Payable for the buying-side relationships, even if the goods land at FBA. Most multichannel sellers run a mix of FBA, self-fulfilled, and 3PL stock, and Locate is the only console that unifies all three. Can I run multiple warehouses? Yes. Add as many warehouses as you need under Warehouse and Stock Locations, then assign orders to a warehouse via the workflow. The Order Stages report and Customer Services console show the assigned warehouse per order. Where does CloudHub keep the source of truth for stock? CloudHub holds the unified stock count in the Common Inventory. Each marketplace and webstore syncs from the Common Inventory according to the configured Optimise Profiles. Goods received on a PO update the Common Inventory; sales on any channel decrement it. Is the Stock Movement Log audit-grade? The log records every quantity change with a user, source, and timestamp. It is the operational audit trail, and it is the basis on which the Inventory Age report and the year-end stock provision are calculated. Finance teams use it to support the end-of-year stocktake reconciliation.Next steps
- Open Purchase Orders and Suppliers for the buying-side workflow.
- Configure Stock Locations before going live with a new warehouse.
- Review the Stock Movement Log for any quantity audit question.