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The Reorder Stock function is a quick way to reorder products from your vendors. You can use this to quickly examine the stock levels of your products and then create purchase orders to reorder them if necessary.

To use this, click Reorder Stock from the Homepage or else click the inFlow Menu button, go to Inventory menu and click Reorder Stock. This will bring up the Reorder Stock dialog.

Reorder Stock Columns

Item - The item name or item code for the product to be restocked.

Description - This is a text description of the product or service being ordered. This field will be shown, only if Show Product Description is set in the Settings. This will default to the description from the product information, but can be changed here.

Quantity Available + on Order - The total for the Quantity Available (the total you have in stock minus the quantity reserved by an unfulfilled customer order) and the quantity you have already reordered. This cannot be modified here.

Reorder Point - The number of units of this product in stock which will trigger the need for a reorder. This is copied from the Product Information.

Reorder Quantity - The number of units of the product that will be reordered when the quantity falls to or below the Reorder point. This is defaulted from the Product Information but can be changed here.

Vendor - The vendor from which you would normally reorder this product. This is defaulted to the Preferred Vendor from the Product Information, but may be changed here.

Add Products Suggested

When you start select the reorder function it will automatically come up with a list of suggested products that you might like to reorder based on your presets.  You may choose to add or subtract entries in this window manually or adjust the items found here by selecting one of the two filtering options:

Qty Available + on Order less than Reorder Point - Add items where the total of the Quantity Available (the total you have in stock minus the quantity reserved by an unfulfilled customer order) + the Quantity On Order is less than your reorder point for that item.

Also suggest Out-of-Stock Products - Add any products for which you may already be out of stock.  You may choose not to use this option if you sell products which are seasonal and for which you will not be putting in an order due to availability etc.

Reordering

Once the table has been filled with some entries, you can click the Reorder button to generate Purchase Orders to reorder stock.

One purchase order will be generated for each vendor containing all the items to be reordered from that vendor. For all items that do not have a vendor specified, another purchase order will be generated, with the vendor left unspecified.

The quantity that will be reordered will be determined by the value in the Reorder Quantity column.