Should I use Automated Suggested Reordering?
Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of using automated suggested reordering for your business.
Written by Ian Oldrey
Updated at January 15th, 2024
The Merchanter suggested reordering is a powerful feature set that enables the system to keep an eye of the trading patterns and stock levels of the products in the business, and speed the production of purchase orders to maintain the optimum stock levels.
Take this short quiz to see if you would benefit from using automated suggested reordering:
Do you have stock controlled products?
Do you hold stock for potential customer demand, or purchase in after a customer has placed an order with you?
Would you rather manage bespoke purchase orders or manage the minimum, target and maximum stock levels against your products?
Automated suggested reordering will not be the best option for you, but using the low/negative stock KPIs and building orders from the Products tab in a supplier record may be a more suitable choice.
Congratulations - Automated Suggested Reordering is a great choice for your operations.
It is unlikely that automated suggested reordering will be the best option for you. It is more likely you will want to use Stock Source to build purchase orders from sales order.
If you do not stock control your products (specials, services, etc.) then automated suggested reordering will not be useful for your operations.
Learn how to set up suggested reordering and run day-to-day with the other articles on this topic