Set up Min/Max Thresholds
Min/Max thresholds are the reorder points that power the Min/Max Replenishment plan type and the Balance Stock recommendation engine. You set them per (variant, location) — the same product can have different thresholds at different stores. You can enter them by hand, bulk-edit by selection, or auto-populate from sales velocity to get a starting baseline.
Option 1: Set thresholds for a location
RecommendedGo to Configurations → Purchase Thresholds.
Pick the location you're configuring using the dropdown at the top of the page.
Find a variant using search or the filter chips (vendor, product type, status, tags, collections).
Enter a Minimum and Target value in the row's input fields. Target must be greater than Minimum.
Repeat for each variant you want to manage at that location.
Click Save to commit changes (a save bar appears at the top once you have unsaved edits).
Switch to the next location using the dropdown and repeat — thresholds are per-location, so each location needs its own setup.
Option 2: Bulk-edit several variants at once
Tick the checkboxes for the variants you want to configure with the same values.
In the bulk action bar, enter a single Min and Target.
Apply to all selected rows.
Review the pending edits, tweak any individual row that needs a different value, and Save.
Option 3: Auto-populate from velocity (baseline)
Click 'Auto-populate from velocity' in the page header.
Pick a Lookback Period (7–90 days, default 30) — how far back to measure sales.
Set Min Days-of-Cover (e.g., 14 days of stock for the minimum threshold).
Set Target Days-of-Cover (e.g., 45 days of stock for the target). Target days must exceed Min days.
Confirm. Alfred multiplies each variant's daily velocity by the day counts and loads suggested values as pending edits. Variants with no sales in the lookback period are skipped.
Review the calculated values, override anything that looks off (especially seasonal or promotional outliers), and Save.
Pro Tips
- 💡Use auto-populate as a starting baseline for your active catalog, then bulk-edit categories that share patterns and refine high-priority variants by hand.
- 💡Configure thresholds at every location where a variant is stocked. Balance Stock recommendations need thresholds on both ends of a potential transfer.
- 💡Revisit thresholds quarterly. Velocity-derived values get stale as demand shifts — the snapshot doesn't auto-update.
- 💡Keep a meaningful gap between min and target. A narrow band (e.g., min 10 / target 12) produces noisy, frequent reorder triggers; a wider band (min 10 / target 30) gives a stable cycle.