Replenishment

Replenishment moves stock from bulk storage to the bin a picker actually walks to. A rule makes it happen before anyone notices, instead of after a short pick.

Inventory → Replenishment lists your rules.

Select Create Rule:

Source and destination have to be different bins — Fiftify will not let a rule move stock to where it already is.

Fiftify checks active rules and, for each one, looks at what is available in the destination bin. When that falls to the trigger quantity or below, it creates a replenish task to move stock from the source bin.

Three conditions stop a task being created, all of them deliberate:

• The destination is still above the trigger.
• A replenish task for this product and bin is already open — no stacking up duplicates for the same empty shelf.
• The source bin has nothing in it. Fiftify will not raise work that cannot be done.

If the source has less than the replenish quantity, the task moves what is there rather than refusing.

Trigger Qty is a question about time, not quantity: how many units does the pick face need to hold to survive from the moment the task is created to the moment someone works it? Set it to what you sell in that window, plus a margin. Too low and the picker beats the replenisher to the bin; too high and you are shuttling stock around all day.

Replenish Qty should fill the pick face without overflowing it. A bin that holds 60 and triggers at 15 wants around 45 — not 60, or the top-up will not fit.

Base Qty records the level the pick face is meant to hold. It is what the other two numbers are reasoned from, and it is shown on the rule so the next person can see the intent rather than guess it.

The task appears in the warehouse’s task queues like any other, showing the product, the source bin, the destination bin, and the quantity. A worker takes it, moves the stock, and completes it — after which the units are counted in the pick face.

Replenishment does not change how much stock you own. It changes where it is.

Not every product needs one. They pay for themselves where:

• The pick face is small and the product moves fast. That combination is the entire reason short picks happen.
• Bulk and pick face are far apart. A scheduled move beats an urgent walk.
• The product is in many orders a day. One short pick blocks several orders at once.

A slow mover with everything in one bin needs no rule. Adding one just creates a task nobody needs to do.

Clear Active and the rule stops being checked; it stays on the list. Useful for seasonal products, and for a pick face that has been moved while you re-point the rule at the new bin.

• Stock by bin — why a product sits in several bins.
• Short picks and other problems — what happens when the pick face runs out anyway.