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Stock Status

Digital Resale Support Service

Stock status is known to be a key piece of information used as pat of the buying process. Sandvik
Coromant can deliver near-real time stock levels about all its standard products from each of its global
warehouses.

Delivering this information for presenting on your website is achieved by an API (Application Protocol
Interface). This is a connection between a computer system allowing the automated sharing of data.

There are two technical solutions to provide you with price and availablity information:
1. where data is ‘pushed’ by us to a shared location for the full product assortment. Hourly updates
on changes of the stock with a daily complete update of what has changed during last 24 hours.
Your system retrieves the data from that location which populates your web page stock status.
2. where data is ‘called up’ on a product by product basis using a ‘web service request’

On your website’s product page, stock levels are best represented using a simple visual indicator (like a
traffic light) instead of a number.

Full technical specifications for your web developer are available on request.

Advantages
-automated solution to deliver product stock information – low maintenance
-simple to implement
-up to date
-stock information will increase likelihood of sales conversion
-fewer stock information calls to your branch from your website visitors

Request Process
a) Complete the ‘Stock Status Request Form’
b) Sandvik Corormant responds with the necessary technical integration information
c) Your web developer includes a stock availability indicator within your product web page

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