Guide
Two warehouses: rebalance before you buy
When a SKU is stocked or sold from more than one warehouse, 3PL or Amazon, the buy plan shows each one's own numbers, can recommend using stock you already own before buying more, and raises the order when one of them cannot borrow stock.
If you stock or sell a SKU out of more than one location, Skuvelo's buy plan doesn't just tell you the total to order — it also breaks down what's happening at each location on its own, and can recommend using stock you already own at one before it asks you to buy more.
When you'll see this
Open a SKU's row on Plan → Replenishment. If that SKU is stocked or has shipped from two or more locations, you'll see a By warehouse block under the plan. A location here is a warehouse, a 3PL that holds or ships this SKU, or Amazon. A shop floor does not appear in this block. If you only have one location, or a SKU only ever comes from one of them, nothing changes — you won't see this section at all.
What the By warehouse block shows
For each location, you'll see:
- Available — units you can use right now at that location.
- Inbound — units already on the way there.
- Reorder point — this location's own reorder point. When every location can be restocked in the same time, that is its share of the SKU's reorder point. When one location takes longer, its reorder point covers the longer wait.
- Buy — how much of the order this location would receive.
Every location is timed with the SKU's supplier lead time. Amazon also adds the days you set for stock to reach Amazon. A SKU with no supplier linked uses a 21-day lead time until you link one.
How the split is worked out
Skuvelo looks at the last 13 weeks of units shipped from each location and gives each one a share proportional to what it actually sold. When lead times match, a location that shipped 70% of the demand gets 70% of the reorder point. The buy also considers where stock is already available. If a location hasn't shipped anything in that window — brand new, or a slow mover — the split falls back to an even share across the locations that are in use, and you'll see it labeled Estimated split so you know it isn't based on sales history.
When every location can share stock, this does not change the total order quantity. It only decides how that same total is divided.
Amazon cannot borrow from your warehouse, and neither can any location your other locations cannot restock. Each of those keeps its own buffer. When an order is due, it is larger by that buffer, and the block says why — for example that Amazon can't borrow from your warehouse, so it needs its own buffer.
The recommended order goes where stock is needed, using recent sales and available stock. The extra buffer is placed on the locations that cannot share.
Rebalance first, buy second
A location is "short" when its available stock plus inbound falls below its own reorder point. A location has "spare" stock when what's on the shelf right now is above its own reorder point — inbound stock never counts as spare, because it isn't there yet.
When one location is short and another has spare stock, the plan's top line is the rebalance, not the buy: "Move N from B to A." Skuvelo shows that move when it knows your margin and moving the stock costs less than the sales you would otherwise miss. If it does not know the margin, it withholds the move suggestion. Only after that does it show "Then buy M". Next to a move you'll see "Avoids $X of additional buying for N units, before moving costs" — the value of the supplier order you would otherwise place. The move's cost is shown separately. N is never more than the sales the move saves before a supplier order could arrive, less what you would still miss while the stock is on its way.
When the cost of the move was assumed, the block says so and links to Settings → Planning defaults, where you can set your own. Until you do, Skuvelo assumes 2 per unit plus 150 per shipment, in your workspace currency, and about a week in transit between your own locations and a 3PL, and 3 per unit to send stock back from Amazon or Walmart. Those removal rates are not verified. Holding stock during the trip is counted at 25% a year unless you have set your own cost of holding stock.
Acting on the suggestion
- Create transfer pre-fills one for you with the suggested quantity. See Moving stock between locations for what happens after that.
- Releasing the buy works the same as always, with one difference: a buy split across warehouses becomes one draft per warehouse instead of a single order. See Creating and managing purchase orders for how drafts are grouped.
Where each order lands
Each purchase order shows its Receiving warehouse: on the PO list, on the order itself, and on the new-order form. It starts as the supplier's default ship-to warehouse (or your first warehouse), and you can change it when you create or revise the order. Received stock posts there.
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