A reorder point is not a minimum stock level
Treating a fixed minimum as a reorder point is the commonest inventory mistake we see. Only one of the two accounts for supplier lead time.
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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 unavailable for three weeks shows zero demand. Naive forecasts read that as low demand and order 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.