The right reorder point gives replenishment time to arrive Most warehouses I've seen reorder one of two ways: someone notices the shelf is getting thin and fires off a PO, or they run out completely and spend a Tuesday morning calling three suppliers to find out who can ship today. Neither of those is a system. Both of them are exhausting. Here's the thing about your fuel light. It doesn't come on when you're on empty. It comes on when you have roughly 50 miles left — enough

Scaling food supply chains starts with control and visibility Most food businesses don't fail because the product stops selling. They fail because the operation behind the product can't keep up. You go from 40 SKUs to 140, you add a third co-packer, you start shipping to a regional grocery chain — and suddenly the inventory process that worked fine in year one is costing you money every single week. The first thing that breaks is visibility. Not in some abstract sense — liter