Restock Bins

Overview

Maintain a smooth flow of operations and use storage effectively by moving stock to primary bins, especially in high-traffic areas of your warehouse. If there isn’t enough inventory in your primary bins, you can create a Restock List to replenish your primary areas with quantity from non-primary bins. Well-stocked primary bins eliminate the need for employees to spend hours searching for items or make last-minute arrangements to fulfill orders.

Use the Skustack App to create, update, and manage Restock Lists, and the Skustack Admin portal to review replenishment requirements, generate restocking reports, create Restock Lists from replenishment suggestions, and oversee restocking activities.

App

Restock Bins Module

The Restock bin module is located within Skustack's Bin tab and allows you to easily search for existing Restock Lists or create new ones, monitor their progress, and more.

Search Restock Lists

You can search for Restock Lists in one of two ways:

• ID – Search by a specific Restock List ID.

• All – Search for all Restock Lists. You can filter by:

  • Status - Defaults to all. You can choose from one of the available statuses:

    • All

    • Open

    • Completed

    • Closed

    • Canceled

    • Void

  • Type - Select Restock list type:

    • Order Replenish

    • Pick Planning

  • Mode - Select the required workflow:

    • Pick

    • Put away

Create Restock Lists

To create a Restock List:

1. Navigate to Bin > Restock bin and tap the + icon.

2. Select the Type of the Restock List:

   • Order replenish - An overall replenishment of all bins based on the shipped orders.

   • Pick planning - Use to replenish bins before picking. This helps ensure that there is enough quantity in your primary bins to pick.

3. If you are creating a Pick planing Restock List, enter the Picklist ID for which you are picking.
   

4. Tap Create.

5. A new Restock List will be generated.
   

Manage Restock Lists

To pick inventory for a Restock List:

1. Navigate to Bin > Restock bin and find the required Restock list.

2. The system will prompt you to choose an Interim Bin. You can always change the Interim Bin manually by tapping the list's three-dot menu.

3. Tap the product's menu to reveal shortcuts to :

   1. Bins - Displays all bins in which the item’s units are stored.

   2. Info - Directs you to the product's details.

4. Scan a Product ID/UPC barcode, or tap it on the screen. The product will open.

5. Start picking units for the product by either scanning the barcode of the product or manually entering Pick Qty.

6. If you are scanning units, use the green + next to the scan field to indicate whether products are to be added or removed from the Restock List.

7. Enter the bin from which you are picking or select the suggested bin. The suggested bin may appear next to the Bin field. This suggestion is based on the following factors:

   1. The bin is sellable. Although unsellable bins are excluded from the suggestions list, you can still manually enter an unsellable bin name if needed.

   2. The bin type is Normal or Temp.

   3. Primary bins will always be suggested first.

   4. The bin with the most or least quantity will be suggested based on the client setting PickList Bin suggestion sort qty by ASC Order.

8. Tap Pick.

9. The picked quantity will display next to the pick quantity.
   

10. Once you're done picking, tap the Checkbox icon to switch to Put Away mode. This process is similar to picking, but you select the bin into which you are putting the products away instead.
    

    
    

Admin

Restock Lists

Skustack enables you to efficiently search and manage existing Restock Lists, monitor their progress, create new lists, and more. This section will guide you through the management of Restock Lists and Predictive Bin Restocking in the Skustack Admin portal.

Search Restock Lists

The Restock Lists are located within Skustack’s Bins section.Utilize the available filters to search for the desired Restock Lists.

1. Configure your Default filters to ensure the results display exactly what you need.

2. Click Search. Each filter you apply gets highlighted. If a filter is gray or not displayed at all, it’s not active.

3. To manage the columns in the grid, click the three dots icon on the top right and select Customize Columns. You can:

   1. Reorder columns by dragging them up or down in the list;

   2. Hide columns by clicking the Trash icons;

   3. Add columns by clicking Add column.

4. To arrange the data in a different order, use the Sort by menu.

5. To save your filtering and sorting options, click Save view, enter a Name, and click Save.

Create Restock Lists

The Skustack Admin empowers you to upload multiple Restock Lists via a file import. To achieve this:

1. Navigate to Bins > Restock Lists > Manage Restock Lists.

2. Click on the Action icon in the bottom right corner and select Download Template to export a sample sheet.
   
   

   Another alternative is to choose the action Import Restock List and to click on Download Template in the following popup.

   
   

3. The downloaded template will contain the following columns:

   1. ProductID

   2. RestockQty

   3. WarehouseName

   4. PickFromBin

   5. PutawayToBin

   6. AllowInsufficientQty

4. Populate the file as required, save it, and return to the Admin portal.

5. From the Action menu, select Import Restock List.

6. Click or drag the file to the specified location and click Import.
   
   

   
   

7. If the file import is processed correctly, you’ll see a Success message on your screen.
   
   

   
   

Manage Restock Lists

You can manage your Restock Lists individually, or in bulk.

Individually

You can adjust an individual Restock List in the following ways:

1. Navigate to Bins > Restock Lists > Manage Restock Lists.

2. Open the desired Restock List.

3. Click Edit.

4. Check the needed product and adjust its quantity.
   
   

   
   

5. Once done, click Save.

In Bulk

To manage multiple Lists simultaneously:

1. Navigate to Bins > Restock Lists > Manage Restock Lists.

2. Select the desired Restock Lists and click on the Action menu.

3. Choose the appropriate Action:

   1. Close Restock List - With this action, you can close a Restock List, regardless of its status.

   2. Re-Open Restock List - This action enables you to reopen a closed Restock List.

Predictive Bin Restocking

The Predictive Bin Restocking feature in the Skustack Admin portal estimates the restock quantity for each product by analyzing the quantity sold or added to unshipped orders within a specified time frame in a specific warehouse. This predictive data isn't just about restocking; it's a valuable resource for creating targeted Restock Lists and identifying potentially overstocked products, providing insightful inventory management strategies.

Key Terms and Definitions

TERM	DESCRIPTION
Days OF Order	Days of past product sales, from which you are basing the prediction. This generates the Sales Velocity.
Days TO Order	Days estimate, for which you would expect the same Sales Velocity. This estimate will be multiplied by the Sales Velocity to generate a Suggested Restock Qty.
Sales Velocity	Rate of sales per specified period of time. It equates to Product Qty Sold divided by Days OF Order.
Suggested Restock Qty	Predicted product quantity to restock.

Product’s Suggested Restock Qty is based on the following calculation: Sales Velocity multiplied by Days To Order, minus any product quantity in the primary bin and any qty on an open Restock List.

Search for Products To Restock

The Predictive Bin Restocking feature is located within Skustack’s Bins > Restock Lists.Utilize the available filters to search for the desired Products to Restock.

1. Configure your Default filters to ensure the results display exactly what you need. The mandatory filters are Warehouse, Days OF Order and Days TO Order. Other available filters are:

   1. Needs Restocking

   2. Restock Qty Range

   3. Restock By Case

   4. Channel (not default)

   5. Company (not default)

   6. Product Group (not default)

   7. Region (not default)

   8. Product ID (not default)

2. Click Search. Each filter you apply gets highlighted. If a filter is gray or not displayed at all, it’s not active.

3. To manage the columns in the grid, click the three dots icon on the top right and select Customize Columns. You can:

   1. Reorder columns by dragging them up or down in the list;

   2. Hide columns by clicking the Trash icons;

   3. Add columns by clicking Add column.

4. To arrange the data in a different order, use the Sort by menu.

5. To save your filtering and sorting options, click Save view, enter a Name, and click Save.

Manage Suggested Restocking

Once you have a product's Suggested Restock Qty, you can manually amend the number, if needed.

You have the option to add the Suggested Restock Qty to a Restock List:

1. Navigate to the Bins > Restock List > Predictive Bin Restocking.

2. Search for the needed product to restock and check it.

3. From the Actions menu, choose Add to Restock List.
   
   

   
   

4. A Success message will validate the creation of your new Restock List.
   
   

   
   

Min/Max Bin Restocking

The Min/Max Bin Restocking workflow identifies products that should be replenished based on configured inventory thresholds. As inventory is picked, quantities in Primary locations decrease over time. Skustack compares the quantity available in Primary locations against each product's configured Primary Bin Min Qty and Primary Bin Max Qty values and flags products that require replenishment. Flagged products can be reviewed, filtered, and added directly to Restock Lists.

Products Primary Bin Thresholds

To use Min/Max Bin Restocking, you must configure the following fields on the product's Details page:

• Primary Bin Min Qty - Defines the minimum desired product quantity in Primary locations. When inventory falls at or below this level, the product becomes eligible for restocking.

• Primary Bin Max Qty - Defines the maximum desired quantity in Primary locations. This value is used when determining replenishment quantities and putaway destination recommendations.

Configured Primary Bin Min/Max quantity thresholds apply across all warehouses. Together, these values define the desired inventory range for Primary locations and are used by Min/Max Bin Restocking to identify replenishment needs and calculate suggested restock quantities.

Min/Max Bin Restocking Suggestions

A product appears on the Min/Max Bin Restocking page when the quantity available in Primary locations falls at or below the configured Primary Bin Min Qty. The Suggested Restock Qty is calculated as the difference between the configured Primary Bin Max Qty and the quantity currently available in Primary locations, and represents the quantity needed to restore inventory toward the desired target level.

To review products requiring replenishment:

1. Navigate to Bins > Restock Lists > Min/Max Restocking.

2. Configure the Default and Custom filters to make sure that the restocking results display exactly what you need:

   • Warehouse - Required filter. Displays replenishment suggestions for the selected warehouse only.

   • Product ID

   • Brand

   • Product Group

   • Active/Replenishable products

   • Products with reserve inventory available

3. Click Search. Frequently used filter combinations can be saved as reusable Saved Searches.

The page displays the quantity currently available in Primary and Overstock locations together with the suggested replenishment quantity, helping you determine whether sufficient inventory is available and which products should be included in the next restocking run.

To download the results, select their checkboxes, open the Actions menu, and click Export To Excel.

Create Restock Lists from Suggestions

After reviewing the suggested replenishment quantities and available reserve inventory, you can create a Restock List directly from the Min/Max Bin Restocking results:

1. On the Min/Max Bin Restocking page, select one or more products.

2. Open the Actions menu, click Add To Restock List, and choose one of the following options:

   • New Restock List - Creates a new list containing the selected products.

   • Existing Restock List - Adds the selected products to an existing Restock List.

When a product is added to a Restock List, its Suggested Restock Qty is reset to 0 to prevent duplicate replenishment requests. Once the product has been replenished to the desired inventory level, it is removed from the Min/Max Bin Restocking suggestions.

Related Settings

When adding an item to a Restock List, it will generate a suggested bin to restock. This bin is generated based on the below Client Settings.

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