EDI 846 (Inventory Inquiry / Advice)
An EDI document that communicates product inventory availability between partners.
Also known as: 846, inventory advice
What is EDI 846 (Inventory Inquiry / Advice)?
The EDI 846 communicates inventory availability — a supplier advising a buyer, marketplace, or dropship partner of on-hand quantities, or a buyer inquiring about stock. It is central to dropship and marketplace programs, where the selling partner needs near-real-time availability to avoid overselling. The value of an 846 depends entirely on how fresh and accurate the underlying inventory number is.
How Endless handles it
Because inventory lives on one source of truth in Endless, outbound 846s reflect real, current availability across every channel — not a stale nightly export.
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