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Pack sizes and minimum orders

Set a supplier's case size, pack name and minimum order, and how they round reorder suggestions and new PO lines.

A pack size and a minimum order shape how much gets ordered, not when. Reorder points and max levels decide when - see Set reorder points and stock levels.

Set them on the product

In the product page's Supplier ordering section you can set, per variant: Supplier SKU (their part number for the item), Pack size (how many units the supplier ships together), Minimum order, and a Pack name ("case", "box" - one short word of up to 12 characters; a longer name saved earlier reads as "pack" in the order's hints). These shape quantities rather than thresholds: reorder suggestions lift to the minimum and then round up to whole packs, and the PO editor shows the breakdown - "3 cases of 4" - with a caution on quantities that break the pack or sit under the minimum. Quantities everywhere stay in single units - packs are context, never a forced rounding. A new line on a purchase order starts at the case quantity when the item has one (or the minimum, rounded up to whole packs), so a product that ships six to a box lands as 6 - and you can type any number over it.

Set them from a purchase order

You can also set all three without leaving a purchase order: in the PO editor, click the pack note under a line's quantity (or Set case size on a line that has none) and enter the pack size, pack name and minimum order right there. It saves to that PO's supplier for the product, so future orders and reorder suggestions use it too.

More than one supplier

Buy the item from more than one distributor? Each of them can carry their own part number, case size and minimum in the same section, under Other suppliers for this item - see Buy the same item from more than one supplier. The values at the top of the section are the fallback, used for any supplier without a row of their own.

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