Inventory · The reorder rules · Element

The reorder point

The level at which a replenishment order is placed.

The part

What it is

Expected demand over the lead time plus safety stock. Simple arithmetic that fails when the lead time used is the quoted one rather than the measured one.

Order quantity is a separate decision, driven by ordering cost, holding cost and minimum order constraints.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.