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Reorder point

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In e-commerce, reorder point means: The stock level at which a new purchase order should be placed, so that new stock arrives before the current stock runs out.

In Turkish: yeniden sipariş noktası, sipariş verme noktası

How it is used

Used by inventory planners and in stock management tools, which can send an alert when an item reaches its reorder point. A simple version is average daily sales multiplied by the supplier's lead time, plus safety stock.

Example sentences

  1. The reorder point for this SKU is 120 units, and we're at 135.

  2. We set the reorder point too low, and the product sold out before the new stock arrived.

Common collocations

  • reach the reorder point
  • set a reorder point
  • reorder alert
  • reorder quantity
  • safety stockExtra units kept on top of expected demand to avoid running out if sales are higher than forecast or a delivery from a supplier is late.
  • stock levelThe number of units of a product that a seller currently has available, usually tracked per SKU and per warehouse.
  • inventoryAll the products a business has available to sell, and the records that show how many of each item are in stock and where.
  • out of stockNot available to buy at the moment because the seller has no units left; the opposite is in stock.
  • backorderAn order for a product that is temporarily out of stock, accepted by the store and shipped when new stock arrives.

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