Operations service 02
Data-backed replenishment
RAID brings together current stock, sales velocity, inventory turnover, replenishment cycles, supplier lead times and consumption across different Bundles. It lists the products that need restocking, groups them by supplier and suggests quantities. AI replenishment presets learn your replenishment habits from the past 6 months and recommend a replenishment baseline and multiplier. After your team checks and confirms, RAID generates Excel purchase order files; the merchant gives the final confirmation on order quantities.
- Purchase orders by supplier
- Excel
- Learn from 6 months of replenishment habits
- AI presets
- Who it's for
- Teams with 100+ SKUs, different Bundles and multiple suppliers
- Data handled
- Stock, sales velocity, turnover, replenishment cycles, supplier lead times and Bundle consumption
- Confirmation
- Your team checks and confirms purchasing; the merchant confirms final order quantities
- Management layer
- 05 Replenishment and supplier workflow
Challenge
Replenishment runs on manually compiled Excel sheets, while one product can have different Bundles, store stock and suppliers.
Replenishment and channel strategy often rely on manual compilation and individual experience, which is hard to replicate or replace. A replenishment suggestion that is only a single total cannot reflect differences in Bundle consumption, store stock and suppliers. A useful suggestion is broken down by sales velocity, stock, turnover, replenishment cycle and supplier, so it can produce a purchase order you can check.
Approach
The system lists the products that need restocking, groups them by supplier and then suggests quantities.
The calculation uses recent sales velocity (7 / 14 / 30-day averages), current stock, delivery lead time and safety stock. Lead time in days and safety stock can be set separately for each product. Suggestions adjust over time to your replenishment history and become more accurate the more you use them.
Process
- 01
Compile
Bring together stock, sales velocity, turnover, replenishment cycles, supplier lead times and Bundle consumption to find the products that need restocking.
- 02
Group
Group the products that need restocking by supplier.
- 03
Suggest
Suggest a quantity for each product based on sales and stock.
- 04
Team check
Your team checks and confirms purchasing; the merchant confirms final order quantities.
- 05
Create purchase orders
Generate Excel purchase order files by supplier.
RAID AI · AI replenishment presets
AI recommends a baseline and multiplier from your last 6 months of replenishment habits.
AI analyses the merchant's replenishment records from the last 6 months, recommends a replenishment baseline and multiplier, and shows a confidence score. New stores without enough history start on industry defaults; as you restock more often, the system learns automatically.
- Learns from your replenishment habits over the past 6 months
- Recommends a replenishment baseline and multiplier, with a confidence score
- New stores without enough history start on industry defaults
- Learns automatically as you restock more often
Needs at least 6 orders placed in the last 6 months. AI suggestions can be edited before you place an order, and the merchant confirms order quantities.
Results and limits
What RAID does
- Lists the products that need restocking and groups them by supplier
- Suggests quantities based on sales velocity, stock and replenishment cycle
- AI recommends a replenishment baseline and multiplier, with a confidence score
- Generates Excel purchase orders you can check
- Adjusts suggestions over time to your replenishment history
What RAID doesn't do
- Does not place orders with suppliers fully automatically
- Does not decide final order quantities for the merchant
- Does not make automatic suggestions for new products with no sales history; you can set expected average daily sales manually
- Suggestions depend on merchant and third-party data being complete, timely and accurate
Further reading
ReplenishmentAbout 3 min read
Why shouldn't a replenishment suggestion be a single total?
InventoryAbout 2 min read
One batch, different Bundles: how should the stock be allocated?
AIAbout 3 min read
What does RAID's AI do, and what doesn't it do?
WorkflowsAbout 3 min read
Why do price changes, restocks and listings need human confirmation?
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- Operations service 01Cross-platform price managementAI gives each SKU a suggested price, and Hot Keys handle bulk price changes across platforms.
- Operations service 03One-click BBD syncUpload your warehouse stock sheet, match products to HKTVmall SKUs by Barcode and see which BBDs need updating.
- Operations service 04Create once, list across platformsOrganise product data once. AI writes titles, descriptions and English versions in batches, and you can review them before listing.
- Operations service 05Channel performance and competitorsCompare performance across stores and platforms in one place. AI matches the competitors you choose and estimates the impact of their price cuts.