Sage
Distribution & Wholesale
Distribution Company: Real-Time Inventory Across Sage 100 and Shopify
Multi-channel distributor
Oversells
Eliminated
Inventory sync latency
< 30 seconds
Lost revenue recovered
~$140K/quarter
Customer complaints
Down 72%
Challenge
Oversells and stockouts cost the company ~$140K/quarter due to delayed inventory updates between Sage 100 and the e-commerce front end.
Solution
- Custom Sage 100 SDK middleware with event-driven inventory updates
- Shopify webhook listeners for orders and fulfillment events
- Per-warehouse allocation logic with reserved-quantity handling
- Daily reconciliation reports surfaced as Slack alerts to the ops team
Technologies
Sage 100 SDK
Shopify API
Node.js
RabbitMQ