The Morning Brief

The Morning Brief is your daily, supplier-by-supplier ordering plan, produced by the per-SKU deep dive. It's built so you can clear the easy decisions fast and spend your time only on the few that need judgment. Open it at /purchasing/brief.

The triage bar

The row at the top is your whole morning at a glance: how many orders to place, total spend, how much STOKK saved you by not over-ordering, how many lines need your eye, and how many suppliers are on plan with nothing to do.

What's on a card

Each card is one supplier, ranked with the most urgent first.

• Urgency — a pill at the top: Order today (something runs out before the next delivery), This week (order this cycle, nothing stocks out yet), or On plan (nothing to do — these collapse to a single line at the bottom).
• Spend & saved— what the order costs in the supplier's currency, the number of lines, and “STOKK saved €X” — how much over-ordering STOKK trimmed.
• Why now — the one-line trigger, e.g. “5 fast movers run out before the next delivery.”
• The story— a sentence or two: what you're buying and what STOKK skipped (usually stock the stores already hold).

Needs you

The handful of lines worth a glance — a discontinued-looking SKU the STOKK would otherwise reorder, or a big restock STOKK held back. Each is a short note with a View → link to that item in the order. These are suggestions, not buttons that change anything on their own.

What was trimmed

“N more lines trimmed” expands a table of every SKU whose quantity STOKK changed — the product, the order (the original quantity struck through → STOKK's quantity), how many weeks of store cover it already has, and a one-line reason. This is where you see why a line was cut: the stores already cover it.

Free-freight & minimum orders

When an order lands just under a supplier's free-freight threshold or minimum order value, STOKK may top it up with healthy sellers to clear it — and shows a green note on the card saying what it added (for example, “Topped up €120 to clear free freight”). It won't pad slow or dead stock just to hit a number. Set these thresholds in the supplier's Structured Config.

Add to SIF

If the deep dive spotted a durable fact about a supplier, it shows up as a STOKK noticed… note with an Add to SIFbutton. Accepting one appends it to the supplier's SIF so future briefs use it.

The deep dive also weighs each product's SKU file— per-SKU facts like a bad batch or a supplier stockout that distorted the sales history, or “this SKU replaces that one”. If a quantity looks wrong because the history is misleading, write the reason into the SKU file and the next brief will size with it.

Acting on a card

• Review & order— opens the PO composer with STOKK's quantities pre-filled, alongside live stock and sales for each line, so you can sanity-check before submitting. Stokk never sends a PO without you opening it first.
• Dismiss — clears the card for today without ordering; the action is recorded so the brief stays auditable.

If you already have a draft PO open for this supplier, the composer keeps your work-in-progress instead of overwriting it.