With the purchase suggestion, BigSeller will auto generate the stock quantity to be prepared according to the sales volume, inventory and other data for users to stock up in advance, and generate purchase orders.
There are two types of purchase suggestion:
① In Stock: Auto generate the stock qty to be prepared according to the sales volume, inventory and other data for users to stock up in advance;
② No Stock: For orders that have already been maped and have insufficient inventory, the system will automatically generate no-stock suggestions, making it convenient to directly generate purchase orders
1. Calculation method
When (Purchase Days + Safety Days) * Forecasted Daily Sales > (Available Stock + Stock On the Way), then generate purchase suggestion.Suggested Quantity = ( Purchase Frequency + Purchase Days + Safety Days ) * Forecasted Daily Sales + Out of Stock Quantity - ( Quantity On the Way + Available)
💡NOTES
1. System will auto calculate the purchase quantity on 00:00 every day based on the purchase frequency. If you need a real-time calculations, you can manually click on [Calculate] on the purchase suggestion page;
2. The purchase suggestion would not be generated if there is no purchase day and safety day for the merchant SKU 👉 How to set purchase days and safety days?
3. If the sales status is "stop-selling", no purchase suggestion would be generated.
2. Operation Steps
2.1 Set Restock Strategy
The restock strategy must be set before you use the purchase suggestion feature.
- Purchase Frequency: how often you purchase;
- Default Purchase Days: default estimated time taken from purchase creation to purchase receiving;
- Default Safety Days: default buffer time to prevent purchased products from not arriving on time;
- Forecasted Daily Sales: according to the sales data in the past period of time to forecast the future sales situation, and calculate the purchase suggestion;
- Sales Coefficient: for example: When the sales on a promotion day is about twice than usual, you can set the Sales Coefficient on this day to 0.5 to make the final average sales more reasonable.
2.2 Generate Purchase Order
After the purchase suggestion is generated, you can generate purchase orders individually or in batches with just one click.
Click "Generate Purchase Order", It will auto enter the Purchase Order page, you can edit purchase order info > click "Save"
After Saving, the purchase order will move to [Purchase] > [Draft], more details about purchase order 👉 Introduction to Purchase Feature
3. FAQs
1. If I add a purchase order for SKU A manually, will the purchase suggestion of this SKU auto disappear?If the purchase order is in draft list, the purchase suggestion of this merchant SKU still exist. If the purchase order has moved to [on the way] list with sufficient purchase qty, he relevant purchase suggestions will be automatically deleted.
2. If there is a merchant SKU that does not need to be purchased temporarily, you can mark it as "Not Purchase Now" first
