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Reorder up to Maximum Inventory Level, not fixed Reorder Quantity

started a topic over 8 years ago

It doesn't seem useful in our business for Reorder Quantity to be a fixed number. Instead, the quantity on a PO should calculated to be whatever is necessary to get inventory up to a "Maximum Inventory Level". If Stock Level is less than Minimum Before Reorder, then purchase Maximum Inventory Level minus Stock Level.


For example for a product:

Minimum before reorder is 50

Maximum Inventory Level is 100

Available is 30


Low Stock Reorder should create a PO for a quantity of 70.


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  • DEAR,


    That would be great if you would paste the upcoming algorythm you are going to implement here so that we can comment on why it works or not for us. If you implement things and there is something missing then you only come back to this feature years later it won't help.


    How about sharing it or have selected BETA tester before implementation?


    This is a core feature who deserve attention to details.


    Regards,

    François



  • Hi DEAR team,

    Are there any updates on this functionality?
    Thanks!

  • This was requested ages ago and would be SO HELPFULL


    With all the other functions added and the increase in costs, it surely this really simple change is long overdue ??

  • Honestly, the cost increase and lacking this functionality has caused us to bail on DEAR and go elsewhere. 

  • We are also looking to leave DEAR soon - if we find a package with half the functionality ( the practical half that most of us seem to use ) we could get this normal stock re ordering functionailty and probably save some money as well !

  • Where might you head to David Goode?

  • Fully agree on combining backorder requirements with low stock reordering. Otherwise you have to manually combine these every time!

  •  People investigating this bug should look at the new MRP tool in the Inventory menu.

    It is the Tesla Model S of reordering.


    You can

    a) include draft documents if you want, to avoid creating duplicates

    b) when creating supply documents, it can go directly to authorised documents, to save time

    c) it creates POs, assemblies, production orders and even stock transfers

    d) you are not limited to demand based on sales orders: you can upload a CSV of forecast demand

    *** (e) *** you can choose to "Procure up to stock level", that is, up to your target stock level;

    f) it will explode through BOMs.


     

    and like the steak knives on TV, there's more. It is a huge leap from the two reorder functions.

  • Honestly, this is a very basic feature that Dear should have. It would be very helpful if this could be implemented.

  • Went to look at MRP tool. Looks so complicated. It is an advanced thing for business that has people dedicated to order full time.


    It would be so simple to have :


    Target quantity : 100
    Order by batch of : 20


    Would trigger a re-order of 60 when stock reach 40

    Would trigger a re-order of 100 when stock reach 0


    It's still 2 variables only, can reuse the re-order module, it's just much more useful and efficient.


    Please DEAR re-consider.


    Thanks!

  • You also need to add pack quantities, MOQ's and Min Values to set the correct order parameters for the correct creation of an order. 

  • Upvote for this idea!

  •  This is how it should be!  I want to be able to hand this over to someone who can simply just re-order what the report says and not have to make decisions over what quantity to order.

  • Brand new to DEAR Systems here, I've been impressed by its set of features and useability, but there is two fundamental problems we have which almost turned us away.


    1. This issue.


    We have some expensive units we must keep 5 in stock at all times, if we sell one, order 1, if we sell 5 order 5. This system is suggesting we buy 5 units when we've sold 1, we can't afford to have 10!


    Let us order up to minimum stock.


    2. Case quantity reordering


    The "Product Availability" screen will tell you how many units can be assembed using the "Additional Units of Measure" feature. Even the tool tip in places will tell you. But when it comes to "Smart" reordering, it just shows 0.


    For Example: We sell paint brushes, we buy a box and sell them as individual. Every month we go to re-order and it says we have 0 boxes in stock and suggest we order the "Fixed Amount (see problem 1). We're so close to one click re-ordering, it looks amazing, but we just can't use it!


    How are people working around this?

  • Having a MAX re-ordering is a smart way to go.  It should however be as SETTINGS option - reorder qty OR order to max

    This is issue has been around for awhile and for us to max our stock levels we need MAX option

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