What this page is for
This page sets two things for one variant at one store: whether the store sells it at all (ranging), and the two stock levels that matter there: the reorder level, which raises a low-stock alert, and the base stock, the least the store should hold. You reach it from a variant's row menu on Store availability.
If no settings have ever been saved for a variant at a store, it is sold there with no thresholds by default; this page only matters once you need to say otherwise.
Only people whose role can manage the catalogue see this page.
Fields
Sold at this store
Whether this store sells the variant. When off, the till refuses to sell it here, whatever its catalogue status elsewhere.
Example: off, for a store that does not stock a slow-moving line the others do.
Reorder level
The stock level that raises a low-stock alert at this store. Leave it blank to keep whatever is set now, and leave both thresholds blank to run with no alert at all for this variant here.
Example: 10 kg
Base stock
The least this store should hold of the variant. At the end of the day, Load from base stock on a draft purchase request adds a line for every variant below its base stock, asking for the difference. Leave it blank and the variant is never loaded that way.
Example: 30 kg
How to…
How to stop a store selling a variant
Open Ranging and thresholds from the variant's row menu on Availability, turn off Sold at this store, and press Save store settings.
How to set low-stock thresholds
Type Reorder level and Base stock, and press Save store settings. A blank box keeps the value already set; it does not clear it.
How to remove the settings and go back to the default
On Store availability, use Clear store settings from the row menu. The variant returns to the default: sold at this store, with no thresholds.
Worked examples
Butchery that also roasts meat
Mama Njeri's Butchery has a shop counter and a grill as two stores. Beef (steak cut) — Per kg is sold at the shop. At the grill, which only cooks nyama choma from the beef rather than selling it raw, the manager opens Ranging and thresholds, turns off Sold at this store, and saves, so the grill till never offers raw beef.
Supermarket
Tumaini Supermarket sets Jogoo Maize Meal — 2 kg packet to Reorder level 50 and Base stock 200 at its busiest branch, so the manager is alerted well before the shelf runs out, and each evening a purchase request loaded from base stock asks for whatever brings the shelf back to 200.