Your First Replenishment Plan

At least one sales channel connected (for demand), inventory synced (3PL or an imported snapshot), and vendors assigned to your products.

Open Planning → Lead Times. There are three tabs: • Manufacturing — how long each vendor takes to produce. • Inbound Shipping — transit time per route (vendor → destination). • Warehouse Transfers — time between your own locations. Once you have PO history, Ventorie shows what lead times have actually been ("~28d from 6 POs") so you can correct estimates with real data. Accurate lead times are the single most important planning input.

On Replenishment → Planning, the settings bar controls the plan: • Buffer days — safety stock, in days of demand beyond lead time. • Reorder freq — how often you place vendor orders; suggested quantities cover this window. • Expiry buffer, Gap warning buffer, Redistribution buffer, FBA max coverage — finer controls with hover explanations. Defaults are sensible; you can refine later.

Replenishment → Action Items is your to-do list. Each card is a recommendation with an urgency label that says when to act: • Order now — the reorder window is already open or overdue. • Order this week — it opens within 7 days. • Order soon — 7–14 days out. • Scheduled — more than 14 days out. Redistribute cards ("Redistribute now", etc.) mean a location needs stock moved to it rather than bought. Usually another of your warehouses has surplus, and the card names the donor location and the quantity to send — move stock instead of buying more. Sometimes no location can spare it yet: the card still shows, because the shortfall is real, but it points you at a vendor order into the network (or expediting an inbound) and a transfer once that lands.

On the Planning tab, a banner counts products needing reorder within the next N days (click the number to change the window). Click Create Draft POs, review the checkbox list and suggested quantities (bumped to each product's MOQ), and confirm — Ventorie creates one draft PO per vendor. Review and submit them on the Purchase Orders page.