Reorder suggestions
A reorder suggestion answers two questions per variant: how many and when. The “how many” lives in the Actual Reorder Quantity column. The “when” lives in the Reorder Date column. This page explains how each number is calculated, what it means, and how to act on it.
On this page
Section titled “On this page”- What the suggestion means
- The Reorder Forecast, end to end
- All the inputs
- What the colors mean
- Back orders and lost sales
- How to act on it
- Edge cases worth knowing
- See also
What the suggestion means
Section titled “What the suggestion means”Two-bullet TL;DR before the math:
- Actual Reorder Quantity is Logistified’s answer to: if I place a PO today, how many units do I need to stay safe through one more lead-time cycle until this stock arrives? It’s the recommended order quantity after MOQ, pack size, and economic order quantity adjustments. When economic order quantity beats the raw demand-based number, you see a green “EOQ” pill in the cell.
- Reorder Date is the calendar day your on-hand inventory is projected to drop to the reorder pointReorder pointThe inventory level at which you should reorder. Calculated as the demand you expect during your lead time plus a safety stock cushion. When on-hand drops to this level, it's time to send a PO. Read more → . Acting earlier is safe; acting later risks running out.
When you create a PO from the Forecast page, the quantity starts from the displayed Actual Reorder Quantity. If the cell shows an EOQ uplift, that uplift is included in the suggested PO quantity.
The Reorder Forecast, end to end
Section titled “The Reorder Forecast, end to end”Think of it as running your inventory forward in time on autopilot. Starting from today’s on-hand, Logistified walks one day at a time across the forecast horizon — depleting stock by the forecast model’s daily demand and crediting incoming POs and TOs on their expected arrival dates. The reorder columns fall out of that simulation; they aren’t a separate arithmetic chain.
Here’s the sequence in plain terms:
- The forecast model produces a daily demand vector — one number per future day across the horizon.
- Starting from today’s on-hand, the simulation walks each future day in turn.
- Every day, on-hand drops by that day’s predicted demand.
- On dates where an open PO or TO is expected to land, the simulation credits the incoming quantity to on-hand.
- Safety stock (auto from service level and demand variability, plus the optional force-majeure factor and — if you’ve enabled it — a supplier-reliability buffer) defines the floor below which the simulation considers you at risk.
- The first day the simulated on-hand crosses the lead-time-demand + safety-stock threshold is the reorder point crossing — that day’s date becomes Reorder Date.
- The Actual Reorder Quantity is sized so that, if you fire the PO today, the simulation lands you safely above the floor at the end of the next lead-time cycle when the stock arrives.
- MOQ and pack size adjust the raw simulated quantity (round up to MOQ, round up to a pack-size multiple). EOQ may bump it up further when ordering more is cost-efficient (then you see the green EOQ pill).
- Pending back orders, when applicable, are added on top.
Worked example
Section titled “Worked example”Say you sell 2 units per day of a widget. Your supplier needs 30 days to ship. You’ve set safety stock to auto (95% service level → about 10 units for this variant). You currently have 100 units on hand and nothing incoming.
Simulating forward from today at 2 units/day:
- Day 0: 100 on hand.
- Day 15: 70 on hand. This crosses the reorder threshold (lead-time demand 60 + safety stock 10 = 70). Reorder Date = today + 15 days.
- Day 30: 40 on hand. If you do nothing, you’re still above zero but inside the danger zone.
So how many to order today? The simulation answers: enough to cover the next lead-time cycle from the moment the stock arrives. If you fire the PO today, it shows up in 30 days. On that day you’ll be at 40 on hand. Add the next 30 days of demand (60 units) plus safety stock (10) — you need on-hand to land near 70 at delivery. That means an order of about 30 units.
MOQ kicks in: your supplier’s minimum is 50, pack size 10. Round up: Actual Reorder Quantity = 50, with the MOQ progress bar showing emerald (your demand comfortably covers the minimum).
All the inputs
Section titled “All the inputs”| Input | Where set | Default | If blank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forecast model | Variant detail page, or view settings | Auto | Auto picks |
| History period | View settings | Auto (optimal per variant) | Auto picks |
| Lead time | Supplier ↔ variant link | 7 days at the supplier link; longer fallback for the Default supplier | Default applies |
| Safety stock | View settings (forecast settings panel) | Auto — 95% service level | Auto applies |
| MOQ | Supplier ↔ variant link | 1 | Defaults to 1 |
| Pack size | Supplier ↔ variant link | 1 | Defaults to 1 |
| Force majeure factor | View settings | Off | Off |
| Incoming quantity | Open POs + TOs | Sum of pending | 0 |
| Supplier reliability | Per supplier (manually set) | Off — must be enabled in the view’s reorder settings, then set on the supplier | Treated as 100% if unset |
| Holding cost | Per variant (Settings → Products) | 0 | EOQ not used |
| Ordering cost | Per supplier | 0 | EOQ not used |
What the colors mean
Section titled “What the colors mean”| Element | Color | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Reorder Date | Red | Overdue. You should have reordered already. |
| Reorder Date | Warning yellow | Due today, or within 7 days. |
| Reorder Date | Muted | Due in weeks or months. |
| MOQ progress bar | Red | Demand fills less than 70% of the supplier’s MOQ. |
| MOQ progress bar | Orange | Demand fills 70–99% of MOQ. |
| MOQ progress bar | Emerald | Demand fully covers MOQ. |
| ”EOQ” pill | Green | EOQ was bigger than the raw quantity; Logistified rounded up to the economic order size. |
Back orders and lost sales
Section titled “Back orders and lost sales”The Actual Reorder Quantity cell’s sub-line gives context based on your variant’s inventory policy:
- “X Back Orders” — when the policy is Continue selling when out of stock. The X customer orders that came in while you were out get rolled into the next reorder. Their units are added to Actual Reorder Quantity.
- “X Lost Sales due to missed ROP” — when the policy is Deny. Missed demand was lost — no back orders kept. Informational; counts toward stock-out reporting.
How to act on it
Section titled “How to act on it”Three paths, in order of frequency:
- From a single row. Click “Create PO” on the row’s action menu. A dialog opens prefilled with the suggested quantity.
- Bulk from the toolbar. Select rows, then “Create PO from selected.” The dialog starts with the suggested quantities and asks you to choose one supplier or split by supplier.
- Add to existing PO. When you have a draft PO open, “Add to existing PO” appends the selected lines.
Edge cases worth knowing
Section titled “Edge cases worth knowing”- The reorder date can show ”—” / no recent sales — a placeholder you can interpret as “no signal.”
- Variants with only the Default supplierDefault supplierA built-in supplier entry that represents "no supplier assigned." Logistified attaches it to every variant by default; you replace it when you set a real primary supplier. Read more → attached still get a suggestion, but it uses fallback values. Assign a real supplier first.
- A pack size of 0 is treated as 1 (a safety net for operator errors).
- A negative “days until reorder” is clamped to 0 — meaning “reorder now.”
- The force majeure factor stacks on top of the auto-computed safety stock; it doesn’t replace it.
See also
Section titled “See also”- Forecast view table — every column documented.
- Forecast models — what produces the daily-demand number.
- Variant constants — what they do (and don’t) affect here.
- Guides → Configure reorder parameters — setting up the inputs.
- Guides → Set up your first forecast — the beginner walkthrough.