Purchase advice in the fulfilment portal
Purchase advice in the fulfilment portal calculates how many units to reorder per product. It takes into account your stock, open backorders and the settings you choose per product. Tell Picqer how many of each product you want to keep in stock, and turn the advice into a purchase order with a single click.
You can find purchase advice in the fulfilment portal under Purchasing > Purchase advice.
Purchasing strategy
For each product you choose the purchasing strategy you want. The strategy determines when a product appears in purchase advice:
- Only order for backorders: advice only appears when customers are waiting for the product. With 3 open backorders, we advice exactly 3 units, no more.
- Keep in stock: set an order level and a replenish to target. Once free stock drops below the order level, the product appears in purchase advice. Picqer then advises exactly enough to bring stock back up to your replenish to target.
You set the purchasing strategy on the product page, or directly from purchase advice by expanding a product line.
Supplier settings
Alongside the purchasing strategy, Picqer's purchase advice also takes your supplier's requirements into account.
- Minimum amount to order: the smallest number of units you purchase at a time. If the calculated quantity is lower, Picqer uses this minimum as the advice.
- Order in quantities of: fill this in if your supplier only ships in fixed quantities, for example boxes of 6. The advice always rounds the required quantity up to the nearest multiple. Leave the field blank if there is no restriction.
Example
Suppose you sell a product with these settings:
- Free stock: 7 units
- Order level: 10 units
- Replenish to: 20 units
- Minimum amount to order: 5 units
- Order in quantities of: 6 units
Free stock (7) is below the order level (10), so purchase advice is triggered. You want to replenish to 20, so you need 20 − 7 = 13 units. Any open purchase orders are deducted from this. Since 13 is above the minimum order quantity of 5, the minimum doesn't apply.
Your supplier only ships in multiples of 6. Two boxes (12 units) bring stock to 19, just short. Three boxes (18 units) bring stock to 25, which is enough. The purchase advice is therefore 18 units.
