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Moving off Stocky: a practical migration checklist

What to export, what to set up first, and how to run your first buying cycle in a new system without losing purchase history or supplier details.

· 6 min read

Purchasing

Raw-material planning from bills of materials: a guide for makers

How brands that make their own products turn sales forecasts into raw-material and packaging orders using bills of materials, batch sizes, scrap allowances and lead times.

· 7 min read

Purchasing

Open-to-buy: how to buy inventory to a budget when cash is tight

What open-to-buy is, how to calculate it, and how to decide which purchase orders to fund first when your reorder suggestions cost more than you can spend.

· 6 min read

Purchasing

MOQs, case packs and order rounding without overbuying

How to apply minimum order quantities, case packs and order-value minimums to reorder suggestions, when to round up or down, and how to top up an order without buying stock you don't need.

· 6 min read

Purchasing

Supplier lead times: why variability matters more than the average

How to measure real supplier lead times from your purchase orders, and why two suppliers with the same average lead time can need very different amounts of safety stock.

· 6 min read

Purchasing

Purchase orders for Shopify brands: an end-to-end guide

How to run purchase orders properly, from working out what to buy to drafting, sending, receiving partial deliveries, checking invoices and learning real lead times.

· 6 min read