July's updates introduce new ways to track deliveries and product waste, make inventory items easier to find, and improve the reliability of ordering and integration workflows.

Some enhancements will be immediately visible to your team, while others improve performance, data accuracy, and security behind the scenes.

✨ Insights Plan Early Access: Writeback, Delivery Tracking and Waste Reporting

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We’re excited to offer an early look at new features being developed as part of Inventory Ally’s upcoming Insights plan:

• Delivery Tracking
• Waste Reporting
• PIMS Writeback
• Lot and Expiration (batch) Tracking

These mobile features are currently being tested with a small group of ezyVet hospitals. Their feedback will help us refine the experience before expanding availability to more hospitals using ezyVet, Vetspire, and Digitail.

Mobile Delivery Tracking

Delivery Tracking helps teams document received products, including:

• Quantities received
• Quantity discrepancies
• Lot numbers
• Expiration dates

For participating hospitals, Inventory Ally can write this delivery information back to ezyVet. This reduces duplicate data entry and helps keep information aligned between Inventory Ally and the hospital’s PIMS.

Mobile Waste Reporting

Waste Reporting makes it easier to record discarded, damaged, or expired inventory from a mobile device.

This will give hospitals better visibility into inventory loss and help teams identify opportunities to reduce waste. The ability to write waste information back to the PIMS is also coming soon.

New Writeback History

Participating hospitals can now review a history of the information Inventory Ally has sent to their PIMS.

This provides greater visibility into writeback activity and makes it easier to investigate discrepancies.

Improved Lot and Expiration Date Tracking

Inventory Ally can now identify items marked for batch tracking in ezyVet. This helps teams know which products require lot numbers and expiration dates when receiving inventory and will automatically configure this setting in Inventory Ally to match ezyVet batch tracking settings.

🔌 Integrations

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Easier IDEXX Cornerstone Enrollment

Hospitals using IDEXX Cornerstone through the SyncVet integration can now complete the required Cornerstone enrollment form from Inventory Ally.

This simplifies the enrollment process and helps hospitals complete their integration setup more efficiently.

More Reliable Vendor Catalog Updates

We improved automated product catalog updates for:

• Midwest Veterinary Supply
• Covetrus
• MWI Animal Health

These changes help keep vendor product information in Inventory Ally complete and up to date.

🔎 Easier Inventory Searches

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Find Merged Items by Any Product Name

Search can now find a merged inventory item using the name of any product included in the merge.

For example, if your team searches for the previous name of an item, Inventory Ally can still direct them to the current merged item.

Search Want Lists Using Item Aliases

Your team can now search for inventory items by alias when adding products to a Want List.

This makes items easier to find when your hospital uses familiar shorthand or an internal name instead of the product’s standard name.

Item Aliases on Printed Count Sheets

Printed count sheets now display item aliases when they are available.

This helps team members identify products more quickly by using the names they already recognize during inventory counts.

⚡ Performance and Reliability

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Several behind-the-scenes improvements were made to increase platform reliability and prevent delays when processing larger amounts of information.

Faster Inventory Item Images

Inventory item images have been optimized to load faster on desktop and mobile devices.

This makes it quicker to use images to identify products during counting, ordering, receiving, and other inventory workflows.

More Reliable Order and Price Updates

We improved nightly vendor order imports and price updates to reduce processing delays and timeouts.

More reliable price updates may also help prevent items from appearing in an Other cart when current vendor pricing is not yet available.

Improved Covetrus Data Loading

Covetrus e-commerce information now loads more reliably, particularly for hospitals with larger order histories.

More Complete Vendor Order Imports

We corrected issues that could occasionally cause orders from MWI, Midwest, or Covetrus to be skipped during an import.

We also improved the progress information displayed while vendor data is being processed.

🛠️ Additional Improvements

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This release also includes several targeted fixes:

• Resolved an expired-session issue that could repeatedly display Error Loading Inventories. Anyone with an existing stalled session may need to sign in one more time.
• Improved error handling when sending items to WDDC cart.
• Corrected an issue that could prevent some NectarVet transactions from reaching Inventory Ally. Affected missing transactions have been reloaded.
• Fixed inventory history charts that did not refresh after an order was deleted by user.

🔐 Security

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We strengthened access controls throughout Inventory Ally. These behind-the-scenes improvements help ensure users can access only the appropriate hospital information and support the platform’s long-term security and reliability.

✅ What This Means for Your Hospital

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• An early look at Delivery Tracking and Waste Reporting in the upcoming Insights plan
• Less duplicate data entry between Inventory Ally and supported PIMS platforms
• Better visibility into writeback activity
• Easier searches using merged product names and item aliases
• More recognizable item names on printed count sheets
• Faster-loading inventory item images
• More reliable vendor order, catalog, and price updates
• Improved platform reliability and security

If you have questions about these updates or want to learn more about the upcoming Insights plan, the Inventory Ally team is here to support you.