Why did we order this? PO memory and combining orders

Why this quantity, at order time

Every purchase order line remembers the numbers Skuvelo used to recommend it — open a purchase order under Purchasing and look for Why this quantity, at order time. For each line it shows the figures that drove the recommendation side by side with today's position for that same SKU, and highlights anything that has since changed. A line entered by hand rather than from a Planning recommendation says so instead of showing figures.

This is a record, not a live view: it's what was true when the order was created, so you can tell whether an order that now looks too big (or too small) was wrong at the time or has simply been overtaken by what's happened since.

Combine into one order

When two or more open orders to the same supplier fall within that supplier's consolidation window of each other, Skuvelo offers to combine them into one. This is only ever a suggestion — it changes no quantity and no recommendation on its own.

You'll see the offer as a card naming the orders and how many days apart their delivery dates fall. Where combining meets the supplier's minimum order quantity on a line that falls short on its own, the card says so by SKU; where Skuvelo has no price-break or freight data for that supplier, it says plainly that there's no saving data for the supplier, and that combining still sends one order instead of several.

Click Combine into one order, confirm, and Skuvelo creates one new draft with the lines added together and cancels the originals — each original is left linked to the new order it was folded into, so nothing about where the lines went is lost.

The consolidation window is per supplier: open the supplier's page to see or change Offer to combine orders due within, in days (the default is 7).

Only draft and awaiting-approval orders can be combined. Once an order is approved, it's excluded from every consolidation offer — combining always starts from orders nothing has committed to a supplier yet.