Warehouse Management System
Inventory Planner Integration
Zynk's Inventory Planner integration takes the purchase orders your buyers create in Inventory Planner and sends them to the accounting, ERP or warehouse system that has to act on them. As stock is received, status and received quantities are written back, so planners, the warehouse and finance all work from the same view of what is on order.
Capabilities may differ depending on the product.
Benefits
Why businesses connect Inventory Planner
Purchase orders that reach finance
Purchase orders opened in Inventory Planner export to Sage 200, Sage 50, Xero or Business Central against the right supplier, with lines and quantities intact. Buyers stop rekeying the same order into a second system before it can be sent.
Received quantities fed back
When goods arrive and the receipt is booked in your ERP or warehouse system, Zynk updates the purchase order in Inventory Planner with the received quantity on each line and a new status, so open orders show what is genuinely still on the way.
Recommendations that count real stock on order
Inventory Planner weighs forecast demand against current stock plus units on order from open and partially received purchase orders. Keeping those orders current stops a shortfall being bought twice because an old PO still looks open.
The warehouse knows what is coming
Sending Inventory Planner purchase orders to a warehouse platform such as Peoplevox gives the goods-in team advance notice of each delivery, so receiving can be planned around expected volumes.
Fits the way your team buys
Orders match by Inventory Planner ID or your own reference, and lines by SKU or barcode, so existing numbering does not need to change. Supplier codes, locations and tax are mapped to the conventions your back office already uses.
Capabilities
What you can do with Inventory Planner
Every task the Zynk Inventory Planner connector can run, grouped by the direction data moves.
Export out of Inventory Planner
Data Zynk reads out of Inventory Planner
1 task
- Purchase orders → out of Inventory Planner
Actions in Inventory Planner
Tasks Zynk can automate in Inventory Planner
1 task
- Update purchase orders → in Inventory Planner
Need something that isn't listed?
Most Inventory Planner projects include at least one custom step. Our team builds it for you.
The problem
Why integrate Inventory Planner?
Inventory Planner works out what to buy and when. The order itself still has to be raised in the system that pays suppliers and receives stock, and that is often done by retyping it. When goods land, Inventory Planner also needs to hear about it, or the next forecast treats stock already on the shelf as still on order.
Without integration
- Purchase orders retyped from Inventory Planner into the accounts system
- POs left open in Inventory Planner long after the goods arrived
- Warehouse teams finding out about a delivery when it turns up
- Supplier references that differ between planning and finance
With Zynk
- Purchase orders export to your ERP or accounts automatically
- Status and received quantities update in Inventory Planner
- Purchase orders reach the warehouse system ahead of delivery
- Orders match on a shared reference, so both describe the same PO
How it works
How the Inventory Planner integration works
Step 1: Connect Inventory Planner
Zynk connects to your Inventory Planner account through its API and to the system that will hold the purchase orders, whether that is Sage, Business Central, Xero or a warehouse platform.
Step 2: Map suppliers and items
Inventory Planner vendors are matched to supplier accounts, SKUs to stock codes and warehouses to locations, so every exported order lands against the right supplier and stock item.
Step 3: Choose the triggers
Decide which purchase orders export, for example only those moved from draft to open, and which receipts or status changes in your ERP or warehouse should be sent back to Inventory Planner.
Step 4: Run through the day
Each workflow runs on a timetable you set. Every order is sent once, failures are logged with the reason, and corrected orders can be resent without creating duplicates.
Integrations
What can you connect to Inventory Planner?
Inventory Planner and Sage 200
Raise Sage 200 purchase orders from the orders your buyers open in Inventory Planner, then send status and received quantities back once Sage 200 records the delivery.
Inventory Planner and Peoplevox
Give Peoplevox each incoming purchase order in advance, then update Inventory Planner with what the warehouse actually booked in at goods-in.
Inventory Planner and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Create Business Central purchase orders from Inventory Planner and return receipt details, so planners can see which lines are still outstanding with each vendor.
View the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central integration →
Inventory Planner and Sage 50 UK
Send Inventory Planner orders to Sage 50 as purchase orders, a good fit for smaller teams that buy from and pay suppliers in the same desktop accounts.
Inventory Planner and Xero
Post Inventory Planner purchase orders to Xero, so finance can see committed spend before supplier bills arrive and check each bill against what was ordered.
Inventory Planner integration FAQs
What can Zynk automate in Inventory Planner?
Can Inventory Planner send purchase orders to Sage 200 or Sage 50?
Does Zynk send sales history into Inventory Planner?
Can Zynk update received quantities in Inventory Planner?
Is there an Inventory Planner API for purchase orders?
Can Inventory Planner connect to a warehouse management system?
How often does the Inventory Planner integration run?
See what Zynk can automate for your Inventory Planner setup
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