Reorder and Minimum Stock Quantities
On the Maintain Inventory Items screen, you can enter reorder quantities and minimum stock quantities for your stock and assembly inventory items.
The reorder quantity is the minimum amount of the inventory item that should be ordered at one time. This information appears on the Inventory Reorder Worksheet.
The minimum stock quantity is the minimum quantity of the item that you should have. When you have less than this amount, more product should be ordered. This information appears on the Inventory Reorder Worksheet and on the Inventory Status report.
Note: Both of these quantities are used when purchase orders are automatically created (Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher).
You can set up an alert to be notified when an item's quantity on hand goes below the minimum stock amount.
How do I set up this alert?
- Go to Tasks>Action Items.
- Click the Alert button.
- On the first empty row, check the Email checkbox if you want to email the alert.
- In the Apply To field, select Inventory Item.
- Select the range of inventory items you want to receive alerts for in the From and To fields.
- Select Quantity on Hand Below Minimum Stock in the Type field.
- If you selected to email this alert, enter the email information at the bottom of the screen.
- Click OK.. Alerts appear on the Alerts tab of the Action Items screen. If you selected to email an alert, you'll click the Email button on the Action Items screen to generate the emails.