Setting shelf minimums and targets

Minimum answers “when”, target answers “how much”

The minimum is a trigger. It should reflect how long a gap you can live with between the shelf running low and someone getting to it — which is a function of how often you walk the floor, not how fast the product sells.

The target is what you refill up to. Set it by what looks right on the shelf and what fits, then let capacity bound it.

A starting point that is easy to correct

Set the target to a full facing. Set the minimum to roughly a third of it, or to one day of sales for anything fast-moving. Then leave it alone for two weeks.

The useful signal afterwards is the repeat shelf-out report: products that hit empty more than once. Those minimums are too low, and that list is far more reliable than any calculation done up front.

Bulk-setting without losing the exceptions

Set levels from your sales: the app reads the last few weeks of POS orders at the store and suggests a minimum and target for every product that sells, with the working shown. You tick the ones to apply. Shelves you have already tuned start unticked, because the twenty lines you have thought carefully about are usually the twenty that matter most.

Common questions

Can targets be suggested from sales history?

Yes. Choose how many days of sales to look at and how many days of stock a shelf should hold, and each product that sold gets a suggested minimum and target with the calculation shown. Nothing is applied until you tick it. A suggestion you cannot inspect is one you cannot argue with when it looks wrong.

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