Purchase advice in the fulfilment portal
Tell Picqer how many of each product you want to keep in stock, and let Picqer handle all the calculations through purchase advice.
Purchase advice tells you exactly how many items to reorder per product and lets you turn that advice into a purchase order with a single click.
You can find purchase advice under Purchasing > Purchase advice.
When do you receive purchase advice?
Each product can be set to one of two strategies:
- Only order for backorders: advice only appears when customers are waiting for the product. With 3 open backorders, for example, the portal advises purchasing 3 units and no more.
Keep in stock works differently: set an order level and an Replenish to target. Once free stock drops below the order level, the product appears in purchase advice. The portal advises purchasing just enough to reach your Replenish to target.
You can set the strategy on the product page, or directly from purchase advice using the detail button on a product line.
Aligning order quantities with your supplier
Alongside the strategy, you can also set a minimum order quantity. Minimum amount to order defines the smallest number of units you purchase at a time. If the calculated quantity falls below this minimum, the portal uses the minimum instead.
Order in quantities of tells the portal that your supplier only ships in fixed quantities, for example boxes of 6. The portal always rounds the required quantity up to the nearest multiple. Leave the field blank if there is no restriction.
Example
Suppose:
- Free stock: 7 units
- Order level: 10 units
- Increase stock to: 20 units
- Minimum amount to order: 5 units
- Order in quantities of: 6 units
Since free stock (7) is below the order level (10), purchase advice is triggered. The target is 20, so 20 − 7 = 13 units are needed. Any open purchase orders are deducted from this. Since 13 exceeds the minimum order quantity of 5, the minimum does not apply.
The supplier only ships in multiples of 6. Two boxes (12 units) would bring stock to 7 + 12 = 19, just short of 20. Three boxes (18 units) would bring stock to 25, which is enough. The purchase advice is 18 units.
