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      How do reorder points work?

      Calculate how many items to keep in your inventory pipeline

      What is the purpose of the report?

      Joe Example sells textbooks to college students on Amazon for the fall semester only. His business is seasonal from May to August. It takes 8 - 10 weeks for Amazon to receive your goods and stock the shelves. How does he keep the shelves fully stocked? 

      How is the formula calculated?

      Here are the numbers:

      1. Safety stock: If there is a 1 week delay in the pipeline, how many items would we sell in a week?
      2. Velocity: What time of year is it and how well would this product sell?
      3. Number in stock: How many items do we have in stock?

      Consider this data:

      Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
      5.91 5.01 5.03 5.29 5.97 5.89 5.5 5.5 5.5

      Lead time is 3 months

      Service level is .9

      Here is the formula:

      Name   Formula Comments
      Lead Time Demand 16.5 Sum of Jan, Feb, Mar Summing the forecasts
      Standard Deviation .41724 Standard Deviation Jul - Dec Deviation in past sales
      Service Factor 1.281552 Inverse of Standard Deviation  
      Lead Time Factor 1.732051 Square root of lead time Square Root of lead-time to forecast ratio
      Safety Stock .926152 Standard Dev * Service Factor * Lead Time Factor  
      Reorder Point 17.42615 Lead Time Demand + Safety Stock Lead time demand + safety stock

       

      What does the report look like?

      The reorder point changes, based on seasonality. In Connex, you can choose a date range and a product to calculate your re-order point. Here is how it works:

      1. Connex Inventory will download your sales by item and inventory valuation reports.
      2. Connex will determine the average sold daily, known as your velocity, based on the date and the sales report.
      3. Your re-order point is calculated using the lead time and safety stock.
      4. Connex will calculate the average sold per month. 

      Connex creates this report:

      How do the formulas work?

      Field Formula
      Name N/A
      Sku N/A
      Reorder Point For each month, when does the quantity on hand less than or equal to the days to receive inventory times 30 days?
      Avg. Sold Monthly Look at orders from the last 90 days and get average per month and day.
      Days and Month Supply Quantity on hand / number of units sold average per month.
      Average Cost Pulled from QuickBooks inventory valuation report.