Restock the shop floor

Brick-and-mortar stores and makers with their own shop set a shop floor minimum (the fewest units that still look stocked) and a shelf capacity on each item at each store. Skuvelo then builds a weekly restock list: move that store's own sales plus the shop floor minimum, never past what the shelf can hold, from the warehouse onto the shop floor.

Open Plan → Restock list to see it.

What you type

• Shop floor minimum: how many units must sit on the shelf for it to look stocked. You type this, so a new store gets a restock list on day one with no sales history.
• Shelf capacity: the most the shelf can hold. Restock never exceeds it.

Set both on Plan → Restock list. They belong to a store, not a warehouse.

The restock list

Each store's list is that store's own sales rate plus its shop floor minimum, minus what is already on the floor (after shrink) and anything already on the way. Each store reads like Move 24 to Main St, with a Move to store button. That drafts the move for you, and from there it works like any other stock move between locations.

The central buy

The warehouse buy is the sum of every store's restock need plus the warehouse buffer. Extra stock stays at the warehouse and is pushed late, so several stores sharing a warehouse do not each hold their own buffer. Inbound already heading to a store is not counted twice. The central buy covers the stores and the warehouse buffer only; your regular purchase recommendations still cover online and wholesale demand.

Shrink

Posted cycle counts at a store teach Skuvelo how much that store loses. The restock list nets that off the on-hand it trusts, and says so in plain words: "this store loses about 2% a month to shrink".