Low stock thresholds, reorder points, high-risk order handling and fraud analysis, with the routing decisions that make alerts get acted on.
12 articles in this topic.
Most stores price a product from the supplier invoice, the one number that is never the real cost. What else belongs in it, and what it does to your margin.
Inventory turnover is a cash question wearing a stock costume. What the ratio measures, why the figure alone means nothing, and the comparison that does.
Sell-through rate is the scorecard for a buying decision. Why the percentage alone cannot tell you whether you bought well, and the one detail that can.
An alert everybody ignores is worse than no alert, because it looks like coverage. How to tell whether yours have crossed that line, and how to fix it.
A fixed number for every product is why your alerts get ignored. Here is a threshold rule that adapts to how fast things actually sell.
A flagged order is a decision, not an emergency. A procedure that gets you to hold, verify or fulfil without guessing and without insulting a real customer.
Assume the sale has already gone wrong and work backwards. Forty-five minutes before a promotion that prevents the failure everyone repeats.
Most alert fatigue is an audience problem rather than a threshold problem. Route by who can act, not by who might be interested.
What the indicators mean, which ones deserve weight, and why the location signals produce most of the false positives you are cancelling on.
Every vague delay message creates support work. What to say, when to say it, and the one number customers actually want.
Four numbers turn reordering from a judgement call into arithmetic. Most stores already have three of them.
A flat threshold across the catalogue guarantees you get alerted too late on fast movers and constantly on slow ones. Set it by velocity instead.
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