A reorder point is not a minimum stock level
The most common inventory mistake we see is treating a fixed minimum as if it were a reorder point. They answer different questions, and only one of them accounts for how long your supplier takes.
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Notes on inventory, automation and building focused software
What we are learning while building the products — mostly about the gap between what forecasting software promises and what actually happens in a warehouse.
Stockouts poison your forecast
A product that was unavailable for three weeks shows zero demand for three weeks. Every naive forecast reads that as low demand and orders less — which causes the next stockout.
Why five products instead of one platform
Every tool that starts focused eventually gets asked to become a platform. Here is why we are not going to, and what that costs us.
Dead stock is the silent one
Stockouts get noticed because someone complains. Dead stock just sits there earning nothing, and nothing in your reporting is designed to surface it.
Built from the same thinking
SimplifyStock turns the ideas in these posts into a reorder list you can act on in a minute a day.