Reorder proposals

Prerequisites

• Admin or Manager role.
• Sales history in the measured window — without it the proposal has no consumption to

work from and falls back to the hand-set minimum.

• A supplier on the article. An article without one is listed as No supplier set and

cannot become an order line.

Step by step

The Proposals tab answers one question per article: how much is missing until the stock covers the time until the next delivery.

1. Open Purchasing → Proposals.
2. Set the Consumption window — the number of past days the daily average is measured

over. A short window follows the season, a long one smooths it.

1. Read the row: Available, On order, Per day, Target, Proposal.

The line under the tab says how the cover is made up: lead time plus buffer days.

1. Tick the lines you want. The summary counts the selected lines and the suppliers behind

them.

1. Press Create draft orders. One draft per supplier is created; nothing is ordered and

nothing is booked.

1. Open each draft from the Purchase tab, check prices and quantities, and submit it.

Common problems

• A line proposes more than is missing. The proposal is rounded up to whole cartons,

and raised to the supplier's minimum order quantity if that is higher. See How a proposal is calculated.

• The same article is proposed again the next day. Quantity already ordered counts as

On order and is subtracted. If it keeps coming back, the open purchase document is for another warehouse.

• Nothing to reorder. Either stock covers the period, or nothing sold in the window and

no minimum is set.