- Setting a lead time for a supplier who is never on time
A supplier who quotes 21 days and delivers in 31 should be entered as 31. How to log real arrivals, use the worst realistic one, and revise after each delivery.
- How many days of warning do you actually need before stock runs out?
Your reorder alert needs to fire at supplier lead time plus the days it takes you to place the order and shelve the delivery.
- A fixed low-stock number vs a calculated reorder point
A fixed low-stock number fires too late on fast sellers and too early on slow ones. How sales velocity and lead time change the alert, with the arithmetic.
- How much a stockout on a hero SKU really costs: a worked example
A line-by-line costing of one stockout on a SKU selling 3 units a day: lost gross margin, the emergency reorder premium, and the inputs that move the total.
- Shopify Flow low stock alerts: what the free route does, and where it stops
Shopify Flow can email you when stock drops below a number you type. Here is the exact three-step build, and the two things Flow cannot do about it.
- What merchants moved to after Shopify's own forecasting app went away
Shopify retired its own forecasting app. Here is where merchants actually went: spreadsheets, Flow workflows, planning suites and narrow reorder alerts.
- Shopify inventory and reorder apps, honestly compared
Inventory Planner, Prediko, Assisty, Merchbees and Cogsy compared, plus where a lightweight reorder alert app like Restoc stops.
- How to calculate reorder point for a Shopify store
Reorder point = average daily sales x lead time + safety stock. Where each number lives in the Shopify admin, and how to pick a 7, 14 or 30 day window.