The loop only closes at the dock
Stock arrives, you check it in, and you stand the card back on its shelf where it becomes the next reorder signal. Skip that step and the rest of the loop leaves open ends.
A reorder nobody checks in leaves the card out of circulation.
The next signal cannot fire from a card that never came back.
How it works
- 1
Delivery lands
Match it to the open order.
- 2
Click receive
The item clears the queue.
- 3
Restock
Follow the card's location and stand it out front again.
Feature breakdown
Checking in returns the card to circulation
When the delivery arrives, mark the items received. The card comes off the open order and goes back to its shelf position as the next reorder signal.
- The loop closes where it started.
- Yesterday's scans, today's deliveries.
The card says where the stock goes
Location and sub-location print on the card, so whoever carries it back does not have to know the shop. Set the stock behind it and stand the card out front again.
- The location travels with the card.
- Nobody has to remember the layout.
- Location
- Bay 4
- Sub-location
- Rack C
It makes your reorder points true
Receiving turns a lead-time guess into a measurement. Once you record arrivals, the gap between ordering and receiving is a number rather than an estimate.
- Real lead times, not assumed ones.
- The reorder point converges.
Why it matters
- For the person at the dock
- The card tells them where it goes, so putting stock away stops requiring institutional knowledge.
- For the Purchasing Manager
- He can see what has landed without asking. Whoever set the reorder point finds out whether it was right.
- For operations
- Receiving is the step that makes replenishment a cycle instead of a series of one-off orders. Without it, every reorder waits for a human to notice again.
- Strategically
- Three useful features become one working loop, and receiving produces the data the rest of the loop needs to get more accurate over time.
- Risk of leaving it alone
- Cards stay out of circulation, and the shop drifts back toward someone noticing.