Complex Lots

what is a complex lot? a complex lot is a single lot (same part, color, and condition) that exists in multiple physical locations in your inventory, but displays as one lot to your customers on your storefronts instead of forcing you to merge everything into one drawer or container onebrick allows you to store the same lot across multiple drawers, bins, or zones keep accurate quantity counts per location sell it as one unified listing to the customer making purchasing easier for them this gives you flexibility in how you physically organize your inventory without affecting the customer experience complex lots help to reduce the amount of time putting away parts when consolidating, and minimize the time sync of needing to do reassignment when the additional parts you are adding do not fit into the already existing container consolidated store vs non consolidated stores understanding how your store handles lots is important while this is generally the store owner's preference, there are benefits to each method of store organization consolidated store in a consolidated store, all quantities of the same part are combined into a single lot listing, generally requiring the store owner to place all quantities of that part in the same location this keeps the inventory neat and causes the picker to only pick from one location when fulfilling a part for a customer however, putting parts away in a consolidated store generally takes more time since the store owner must go to a specific location to put the part away, and then may need to reassign the location when the parts take up more room than is available the benefits to this are that the customers only see one listing on the storefronts making browsing a store much more simple non consolidated store in a non consolidated store, any quanity of the same part can be spread across multiple locations and generally are across multiple lots on the platform this allows store owners to put parts anywehre there is room and reduces the time needed for reassignment and keeping the inventory neat the downside to this method is that customers may see many listings of the same part in a store making browsing more difficult and confusing it may also make it harder to know the quanitity they are purchasing of a lot and may cause some buyers to navigate away from that store the benefits are that adding parts becomes significantly easier and quicker without the need to constantly reassign locations to keep parts fitting in the same container together complex lots in onebrick onebrick allows for the best of both words a non consolidated back end for ease of adding, and a consolidated front end for a better customer experience all stores are set up using complex lots and will combine any items into one unified lot on the platforms the part is then easily searchable in onebrick and will be displayed as one lot in which there are multiple locations with different quanitties this keeps your invetnory organized on the back end and gives your customers and easy to navigate purchase experience on your storefront users within onebrick can choose to consolidate their items when they add them, or they can leave them as is and let them create new locations when picking, the picksheet will show each location to go to for a specific lot