Check stock without learning where stock lives
Stock questions are the highest-frequency, lowest-risk thing anyone asks an ERP. They are also the fastest way to prove a conversational interface earns its place — read-only, no approvals needed, live from day one.
What is the stock balance for part 74821 across all warehouses?
74821 — Bearing, deep groove 6205. 214 on hand across three sites, 168 available after reservations.
- Safety stock at site 100 is 60 — you are above it
- PO 88604 adds 40 more on 12 August
| Site | Warehouse | On hand | Reserved | Available |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | MAIN | 120 | 46 | 74 |
| 100 | WORKSHOP | 18 | 0 | 18 |
| 200 | MAIN | 76 | 0 | 76 |
Show that as a pie chart by site
Rendered from the same query result — no export, no BI licence, no stale extract.
What can NgageChat do with IFS inventory?
NgageChat answers IFS Cloud inventory questions in plain language: on-hand balance by part, site, warehouse, location or lot; available-to-promise; movement history; and shortages against demand. It queries your live IFS environment through the OData REST API, so the number it gives you is the number in IFS at that moment.
Last reviewed 3 August 2026 · NgageChat by EX10
What you can ask it
- On-hand balance by part, site, warehouse, bay or lot
- Available quantity net of reservations
- Inventory transactions and movement history
- Parts below safety stock or reorder point
- Where a serial or lot number currently sits
What it can change in IFS
- Record inventory movements and transfers
- Update part master attributes your permissions allow
- Create and update inventory part records
- Attach documents to part or inventory records
Every write is shown to you as a complete summary and only executes after you approve it — then runs under your own IFS login, inside your own IFS permissions.
Try it like this
Things people actually type
Why it matters
The friction this removes
None of this is a failure of the ERP. It is the cost of a very large system being used occasionally by people who were trained on it once.
"Just check the system for me"
Stores staff field the same lookup twenty times a day for people who have IFS access and never learned the screen.
Two numbers, one truth
On hand and available are different, and the people asking rarely know which one they need. A conversation can clarify; a report cannot.
Counting what you already own
Purchases get raised for parts sitting in another site’s warehouse because nobody looked across sites.
IFS objects this typically touches
InventoryPartInStockHandlingInventoryPartHandlingInventoryTransactionHistoryPartHandling Exact projections depend on your configuration and IFS release — NgageChat resolves them from its index of the IFS Cloud data model, with your custom fields read live from your environment.
FAQ
Questions about inventory & stock
Is inventory a good first use case for conversational AI on IFS?
Does NgageChat need a copy of our inventory data?
Can it show stock as a chart?
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