Plan · Replenishment

Every store, topped up on what it actually sells.

Each morning Stokk rebuilds the top-up for every store from the warehouse: what that store sells, what’s on its shelf and what’s already on the way. The store manager checks it and sends it straight to the warehouse pick queue.

Replenishment/Harbour St
Harbour St · Thursday delivery
214 lines from the warehouse · 36 to send
Confirm and send to the warehouse
ItemOn shelfSend
Fig Leaf Candle 220 g012
Stoneware Mug, Fjord Blue318
Rosemary & Mint Hand Wash66
Linen Napkin, Sand (4)110
Hurricane Lantern 30 cm20
Fig. 1 Harbour St’s top-up for Thursday: empty shelves first, every line with a reason.
Runs on top of
  • Oracle NetSuite
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
  • Shopify
  • DK
01Before Stokk

One store runs out while another drowns in it.

Stock gets split by habit or by a national average that’s wrong everywhere at once. The busy store runs dry, the quiet one fills its back room, and the warehouse finds out on Friday.

How it usually goesWith Stokk
  • Every store gets the same shareEach store sized on its own sales
  • Store managers write the order by handA draft every morning, checked and sent
  • Seasonal stock sent when stores ask for itThe range pushed out before the season starts
  • A fresh order while stock sits in another storeMove it between stores when the warehouse is out
  • Items a store never sells keep turning upClose an item at one store and it stops
02What it does

Every flow of stock between your warehouse and your stores.

Top-ups, seasonal pushes and moves between stores, each sized from the same sales and stock.

  1. 01

    Per-store sizing

    Each store’s top-up comes from its own sales, its shelf minimums and its lead time from the warehouse, rounded to the pack.
  2. 02

    Rebuilt every morning

    The draft is rebuilt from last night’s stock and sales, counting what’s already on the way, so it’s never stale.
  3. 03

    A reason on every line

    Click a line for the forecast, lead time, buffer and demand pattern behind it. Change an item’s service level and the buffer follows.
  4. 04

    Push to stores

    Split a seasonal range or a new line across the stores by what each sold of it last season, corrected for days they were empty.
  5. 05

    Moves between stores

    When the warehouse can’t cover a gap, Stokk suggests moving stock from a store that sells it slowly to one that sells it fast.
  6. 06

    Open and close per store

    Close an item at a store and it’s never sent there again. Seasonal items can be closed off-season and pushed when it starts.
  7. 07

    Built for a tablet

    Store managers confirm the sheet on an iPad with arrow-key navigation, or export it to a spreadsheet.
  8. 08

    Store-direct suppliers

    When a supplier delivers straight to a store, that store orders against its own sales without counting on the warehouse.
03On screen

Before the season, and when the warehouse is empty.

The two moments a weekly top-up can’t handle on its own.

Purchasing/Push to stores/Christmas range

Split by what each store sold of the range last season. Change a number and the rest re-flows.

ItemHSOTRSMSNGES
Advent Candle Set24181218612
Gift Wrap, Winter Berry403020301020
Wool Blanket, Heather664422
Fig. 2 Push to stores: the Christmas range split across six stores. Change a number and the rest re-flows.
Store ops/Rebalancing
Northgate
14
sells 0.6 a week
Move 8 →
Harbour St
0
sells 2.1 a week

Hurricane Lantern 30 cm. The warehouse has none, so a store that sells it slowly can cover a store that sells it fast.

Fig. 3 Rebalancing: the warehouse is out, so a slow store covers a fast one.
04What changes

The right stock in the right store, without the Friday phone calls.

Fewer
empty shelves in busy stores
Each store is sized on what it sells, not on an average.
Less
dead stock in quiet ones
Items a store doesn’t sell stop being sent there.
Minutes
for a store’s weekly order
The manager checks a draft instead of writing one.

What the way of working changes, stated directionally rather than as audited figures. Results vary with category mix, lead times and the quality of the data in your ERP.

What people ask about Replenishment.

Who confirms each store’s order?
The store manager, for their own store. Every order records who sent it, and module access is set per role.
How does it round quantities?
Up to whole packs, respecting each store’s shelf minimum. A store never gets less than the minimum you set for an item it sells.
We have a warehouse and stores that also hold back stock.
Each location is a store or a warehouse, with its own lead time and order days. We map your setup with you during onboarding.
Does it work if stores order some suppliers directly?
Yes. A store can order a supplier directly, sized against its own sales without counting on warehouse stock.
08:00, any morning

Every store stocked for its own customers.

Half an hour on a working sample: a store’s morning top-up, a seasonal push and a move between stores. If Stokk isn’t right for your shop, we’ll say so on the call.