What to make and buy
See everything that will fall short, order it in a click, and let reorder rules and sales orders do it for you.
What to make & buy shows everything that is short now, or soon. It looks at open orders and sales orders against what is in stock and on its way.
Short now, or soon
Each line shows On hand, Coming, Needed and Will be. To order:
- Check the Order quantity.
- Choose How: Make, Buy or Job work. Buying and job work ask for the vendor.
- Click Order.
Making creates a manufacturing order. Buying creates a purchase order. Job work creates a subcontract order.
How we get each item
On Items & stock, open an item to set:
- How we get it - We make it, We buy it or A job worker makes it
- Lead time (days)
- Keep at least (safety stock)
- Batches last (days)
- Vendor
- Make to order - a sales order makes its own manufacturing order
Sales demand
The Sales demand tab lists open sales orders from your other Ellibo apps: what is left to deliver, what is short, the due date and what is being made. Click Make to start an order for what is short. It says when the order will be ready, and warns if that is after the due date.
Make to order
With Professional and above, mark an item Make to order. New sales orders then make their own manufacturing orders by themselves, as long as New sales orders make orders for make-to-order items is on in settings. Look for new sales orders on the Sales demand page checks right away.
Reorder rules
With Professional and above, click Reorder rule to keep an item between a Minimum and a Maximum, In multiples of a pack size if you like.
Acts can be When I press Order, or By itself, every hour. Run automatic rules runs them now. Automatic rules also need Automatic reorder rules run by themselves to be on in settings.
Purchases
Purchases lists your purchase orders. They are in your books, and bills from them bring goods into stock the way your business already does it in Inventory and Accounting.
GST on purchases works as it does on your other bills.