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Latest Guides What a reorder point actually is Most stores set a minimum by feel and then wonder why it is always wrong in October. There is a number behind it, and it is made of three things you already know. June Ottoway Sep 16, 2026 · 6 min read
Sep 2, 2026 Operations The four numbers a hardware store should watch Turns, fill rate, dead stock, and the one nobody tracks: how often somebody asked for something you should have had. 7 min read Read it
Aug 19, 2026 Seasons Your October order should go out in September The first cold week is the one week a year you cannot be out of anything. By the time sales tell you it started, the order is already ten days late. 5 min read Read it
Aug 5, 2026 Company How we keep a 61,000-item catalog clean Sixty-one thousand hardware SKUs, four distributors who each name things differently, and one rule that settles every argument. 4 min read Read it
Jul 22, 2026 Guides Counting an aisle before the doors open A full physical count once a year tells you what was true in January. Twenty minutes a morning tells you what is true today. 5 min read Read it

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