Independent inventory planning for growing commerce brands

FAQ

Clear ownership, predictable capacity.

The service automates planning work while preserving management control.
Is this forecasting software?

No. You are buying a recurring planning function. Reorder Desk prepares the plan; your team approves purchases.

What is a managed SKU?

An independently replenished SKU that receives a forecast, inventory-position calculation, reorder decision, risk classification, and accuracy tracking each cycle.

Does Reorder Desk place purchase orders?

Not without explicit approval. Supplier negotiation, final PO approval, logistics, and inventory accounting remain with your team.

What data is required?

At minimum: dated SKU sales, on-hand and allocated inventory, unit costs, supplier lead times, safety stock, MOQs, and case packs.

Which businesses are supported?

Growing Shopify brands with physical, independently replenished products and repeatable demand. Common fits include beauty, personal care, home fragrance, pet products, household goods, stationery, craft supplies, and everyday accessories.

Can promotions be included?

Yes. Planned date ranges and expected uplift are applied to the affected forecast weeks and documented in the plan.

What happens when data is unreliable?

The cycle produces a management exception instead of silently inventing a value. Source-data accuracy remains the customer’s responsibility.

How is the forecast actually chosen — is this a generic algorithm?

No single method is assumed to fit every SKU. Up to 24 candidate forecasting methods from the demand-planning literature — including Croston's method and its variants for intermittent demand, exponential smoothing, and the Theta method that won the M3 forecasting competition — are backtested against each SKU's own held-out history with a rolling-origin design across multiple horizons. A challenger only replaces the simple baseline when a Diebold-Mariano significance test, Bonferroni-corrected for the number of methods compared, confirms the improvement is real rather than backtest noise. WAPE and bias are reported by SKU every cycle, and seasonal-naive models only join the pool once a SKU has enough history (52+ weeks for monthly/quarterly cycles, 104+ for annual) to test for seasonality honestly.

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