What is a commerce operations platform?

A commerce operations platform runs the back office behind selling: catalog, inventory, orders, purchasing, warehouse, retail trading, and planning, on one data model. It differs from a storefront, which takes the order, and from an accounting system, which records the result. It is where the operational record lives between the two.

The test is whether the order, the stock position, and the purchase order are the same records, with nothing syncing between them. Where they are synced, reconciliation is a permanent job.

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