Oracle Inventory is the repository of all products sold through the Oracle iStore Customer Application. In the Site Administration Application, site administrators can view products, perform limited maintenance on products, assign products to site sections, and assign content to products.

In the  Customer Application, users can view the product data and any related media, as well as search for products within the default category set and product organization.

Products are limited to a single organization and a single default Inventory category set defined in two profile options

• IBE: Category Set
• IBE: Item Validation Organization
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Certain Oracle Inventory flags need to be set for Oracle iStore to best utilize product data from Oracle Inventory tables.

By default, Oracle iStore ships with the capability to maintain a flexible product catalog. As a part of maintaining the product database, this includes the ability in the Site Administration Application to:

• View item details, such as name, number, and description
• Change item description information
• Set the Web Status Inventory flag, which is identical functionally to the Published/Unpublished iStore flag
• Assign price lists that contain the products to sites in the Sites, Pricing menu
• Search for products

iStore Integrations for Product Deployment
You can also integrate Oracle iStore with:

Oracle Marketing to provide expanded product management capabilities, including:
• Product creation and maintenance using configurable product templates
• Assigning products to organizations
• Assigning products to Inventory categories
After you integrate Oracle iStore with Oracle Marketing, this additional functionality is available in the Site Administration Application. Oracle iStore-Oracle Marketing  integration is described in the chapter, Integrating Oracle iStore with Oracle Marketing,

Oracle Bills of Material to set up configurable items, model bundles, and items with standard warranties for sale in your sites.

Oracle Configurator to enable, in the Oracle iStore Customer Application, customer-configured products, guided selling, solution-based modeling, and limited shopping cart validations.

Oracle Inventory and Oracle Service Contracts to allow serviceable items with attached services (for example, extended warranties) to be sold through the sites.

ATP Functionality to allow customers to check item availability in the Customer Application. Oracle iStore ships with the ability to check the Oracle Inventory ATP columns; the flag is enabled during site creation. You also can integrate with Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning for global ATP. For more information, see the following sections within this chapter: "Providing Regular Available to Promise (ATP)" and "Setting up Global Available to Promise (ATP)".