Supply Chain
Stock cover with a basis
How long stock lasts and why: balance, open orders and planning parameters from the business system, not a spreadsheet from last Friday.
How you work it in Colleag
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Ask: how long will stock of this article last?
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The colleague reads balance, open orders, incoming deliveries and the planning parameters, including planned annual volume.
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Review the answer: days of cover and which basis the figure rests on.
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Save as a dashboard for the critical articles.
A worked example
“How long will stock of PCB 230010 last, and when do we need to order?”
The cover in days with the basis reported: planned annual volume or actual consumption, incoming deliveries with dates, and the reorder point against the balance. The answer says which basis applies instead of mixing them silently.
Screenshot from Colleag. The example uses invented figures.
The material
- Balance and warehouses in the business system
- Open purchase and customer orders
- The planning parameters on the article card
You approve
Everything the colleague produces is a proposal with sources. Nothing is published, sent or saved to the archive without a human approving it, and every figure traces to its material.
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