Smart reorder provides replenishment suggestions to optimize your inventory and stock levels.
These suggestions can help you:
Keep optimal stock levels, avoiding overstocking or stockouts.
Have your top-performing products in stock and available to your customers.
Free up warehouse space and save the cost of storing products that aren't selling.
Save time and streamline your purchasing by creating purchase orders in bulk.
This is a Cin7 ForesightAI tool and requires an add-on to your subscription.
ForesightAI requires at least 6 months of sales history in Cin7 Core.
Products must have a Supplier. Smart reorder will not provide suggestions for products without a supplier.
Use Smart reorder to see which of your items should be purchased from suppliers, transferred from other locations, or assembled from components to meet forecasted customer demand.
In Cin7 Core, select Purchase → Smart reorder in the menu.
Smart reorder can show suggested replenishment quantities for:
Transfer: Move products between different locations in your organization to balance your stock levels across stores.
Assembly: Assemble items together to meet your sales demand forecast.
You can also choose the Period or location(s) that Smart Reorder should plan replenishment for.
When you open Smart Reorder, you will see today's purchase order suggestions. You can view all of the suggested SKUs, their recommended Reorder Quantity, and ForesightAI insights.
ForesightAI provides recommendations that are optimized for your inventory management. While we do not recommend changing these proposed quantities, you can manually adjust the Reorder quantity. Before adjusting the quantity, you should review the Product insights, Totals, Product status, and the Product segments to make an informed decision.
Smart reorder provides a total for its suggestions and sub-totals for your Winner, Chasers, and Losers. This helps you plan your budget and target your replenishment accordingly.
The totals and sub-totals depend on your Reorder type.
| \nReorder type\n | \n\nTotal calculation\n | \n
|---|---|
| Purchase | \nAll suggested purchase order costs. | \n
| Transfer | \nNumber of all suggested SKUs to transfer. | \n
| Assembly | \nNumber of all suggested SKUs to assemble. | \n
You can quickly identify the trends affecting your products with the Product Status column.
Winners are your most profitable products and should always be in stock.
Out of stock or low stock items which need to be reordered to meet your sales forecast.
Rising stars are trending products with increased customer demand and should also be ordered.
Track your Winners, Chasers, and Losers in Smart Reorder in the Product segment column. This lets you prioritize your Winner products first.
Use the Product segment filter to review suggestions for only your Winner products (or review any Chaser or Loser suggestions). This filter will also affect your Totals.
You can review your historical sales for each SKU when deciding on the appropriate replenishment with Smart Reorder. The Past sales column shows the amount sold (for each SKU) during your chosen period. You can change this time period in the Past sale period to show the sales quantity in the last 30, 90, 180, or 365 days.
There are even more ForesightAI insights available when you expand a suggestion.
You can review the upcoming sales demand for the next 6 months with the Sales forecast graph and key replenishment factors.
Stock expectation
The date that this product will arrive in your warehouse if ordered today and the date your Reorder quantity will last to, based on your sales demand.
Lead time
The amount of time between placing the order with your supplier and when it arrives in your warehouse.
MOQ
The minimum order quantity required by a supplier for this product.
Quantity per packing
The quantity your supplier sends this product packaged in. For example, a carton of this product always contains 12 units. Smart reorder will increase your Reorder quantity by factors of this amount (e.g. 12, 24, 36, 48).
Expiration days
The maximum amount of time this SKU can stay in your warehouse, for example 14 days for milk.
You can refine or set these options in the ForesightAI settings.
Create new purchase orders from the list of suggested purchases. Smart reorder can suggest when you should purchase the order, what products, quantity, and location needs these products.
Select the Period or enter a custom date range.
Select Purchase as the reorder type.
Select All suppliers to view all available suppliers, or limit the suggestions to a single supplier at a time. If a single supplier is selected, you will have the option to add reordered products to existing unauthorized purchase orders with that supplier.
From the Locations list, select either All locations to view all products requiring reorder at all of your locations, or limit the suggestions to a single location.
Optionally, to group orders together, enable Merge suggestions. This will group products together in a single purchase order for the same supplier. For example, Smart Reorder would suggest 5 apples to be ordered on Monday and another 3 apples on Wednesday. These two suggestions will merge into one recommendation to order 8 apples on Monday.
Click Generate suggestions to see recommended orders.
Check the box next to an SKU to mark it for reorder.
Click Reorder to create authorized purchase orders. You can view these in the Reordered products summary.
Create new transfers from other locations in your organization. Smart reorder can suggest what products need to be moved between your locations to meet forecasted sales demand.
Select the Period or enter a custom date range.
Select Transfer as the reorder type.
Select a location to order from or select All locations.
From the Destination location list, select either All locations to view all products requiring reorder, or limit the suggestions to a single location.
Enable Merge suggestions to group orders together if required.
Click Generate suggestions to see recommended orders.
Check the box next to an SKU to mark it for reorder.
Create new assembly orders for assembled products, including their components, and any nested assemblies. This does not include production orders.
Select the Period or enter a custom date range.
Select Assembly as the reorder type.
From the Locations list, select either All locations to view all products requiring reorder, or limit the suggestions to a single location.
Check the box next to an SKU to mark it for reorder.
You can get even more out of your Smart reorder suggestions by exporting these into a .csv file. This will allow you to review these suggestions in a spreadsheet or import into other software.
Generate your suggestions for either purchase orders, transfers, or assemblies.
Select Export.
This will download a .csv file in your browser.
Smart reorder uses ForesightAI's sales forecast to generate reorder suggestions.
You can view the underlying forecast by opening the Sales forecast, which shows your sales history, predicted demand, projected inventory, and safety stock. You can also make manual forecast adjustments.
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