From dollars at stake to a cash plan

Today shows the money at stake — stock that is at risk, orders waiting on you. This guide takes that figure the rest of the way: to a plan for when cash goes out on reorders, when it comes back in from sales, and whether you need to line up financing first.

1. Start from what is at stake

Open Today. The inventory at risk and the orders waiting on you are the amounts you are deciding about. Pick the supplier, family or items behind them.

Select the amount at stake to see what it is made of. By SKU lists each item at risk and the sales it would lose before a new order can arrive. By channel splits each item's amount across the channels that sold it, in proportion to the units each one sold of that item over the last 28 days. Items with no sales in those 28 days are listed together as No sales in the last 28 days rather than guessed at. Both lists add up to the figure to the cent, and each ends with its total. To share the open breakdown, add ?atStake=open to the Today link.

Each channel's share of sales on Today reads reconciled at a time, in your workspace's time zone, when that channel's last sync landed and its connection is healthy. It reads provisional when the connection needs attention, so the share may be missing orders, and adds the age of the last sync when that sync is more than a day old.

2. Put what you know into the plan

Open Plan and type your own numbers over Skuvelo's where you know better, each saved with a short why — Understanding planning and replenishment walks through the grid. Planning uses your numbers as soon as you save. Lead time, target cover and the other ordering settings are not part of the plan: set them on the item and on its supplier link.

To try a guess — faster growth, say — use the grid's grow-by-a-percent tool, which previews the new figures before you apply them. Applying changes only your draft. The cash curve in step 4 shows it once you save, and saving makes it the plan that replenishment works from. To back out, clear what it wrote: clearing hands the forecast back to Skuvelo's own number.

3. See the orders it recommends

Plan → Replenishment recommends each item's order quantity and order-by date from your plan, and a draft order you release carries them.

4. Read the cash curve in Finance

Finance shows cash week by week over the horizon you choose:

• Sales in is the cash from units the plan says you sell, after channel fees and the payout delay Skuvelo measures from your own orders. A week you are out of stock sells nothing, so it brings nothing in.
• Purchase orders out is each reorder's cost in the week the plan releases it — when stock falls to its reorder point — at the supplier's price, the same price the draft order will carry. It is not the whole horizon's spend at once.
• Money still owed on orders you've shipped and supplier orders you've already raised is included.

A week whose balance goes below zero says Needs $X financing. Skuvelo never shrinks an order to fit your cash — it shows you the gap and the week it opens, so you can decide how to fund it.

This is a gross margin and cash view, not a profit and loss statement: it leaves out rent, payroll, tax and other operating costs.

Who can do what: anyone on the team can view the plan. Changing it needs a role that can create purchase orders.