he MOQ and Buying columns in Drop Control help you plan production for a drop. MOQ shows whether your production orders meet the supplier's minimum order quantity. Buying shows which SKUs you decided to buy, which you skipped, and which you will decide on later.
MOQ
The MOQ column compares the pieces on the drop's production orders with the minimum order quantity of the product's primary supplier. Green means the MOQ is reached, and red means it is not.
| You see | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 180 / 200 | 180 pieces are on the production order, and the MOQ is 200. |
| Reached / Not reached | The row has more than one production order. Hover to see the numbers per production order. |
| Mixed | The SKUs in the row have different results, for example one color reached and another not. Expand the row to see which. |
| Warning icon | Some SKUs have no MOQ set for the primary supplier. |
| Dash | The product has no MOQ. |
How MOQ is counted
- Only production orders attached to the drop and placed with the product's primary supplier count. Draft production orders count too, so you can check the MOQ before you put the order into production.
- The MOQ is checked per production order, because it is a commitment toward the supplier on each order. Two production orders of 100 pieces do not meet an MOQ of 200.
- If the MOQ applies per color (or another attribute), each color is checked separately. The numbers then show on the color rows.
Setting the MOQ
- Open the product and go to Production → Suppliers.
- On the supplier, enter the MOQ.
- Under MOQ applies per, choose Entire product or an attribute such as color.
- Optionally, set a different MOQ per attribute value in the overrides.
- Save the supplier.
Buying decisions
When you put a production order into production, every SKU of its products on the drop gets a buying decision. The Buying column shows the result.
| Decision | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Ordered | The SKU has a quantity on a production order that is in production. |
| Planned | The SKU has a quantity on a draft production order. It becomes Ordered when the order is put into production. |
| Not buying | The SKU's product is on a production order in production, but the SKU has no quantity. This is the default for SKUs you leave out. |
| Buy later | The SKU was left out of the production order on purpose, and it will be decided on a later production order. |
| Undecided | No production order has decided the SKU yet. |
| Mixed | The SKUs in the row have different decisions. |
Product rows show a count per decision, for example 3 Ordered and 1 Not buying. Expand the product to see each color and SKU.
Why the decision matters
On a drop using Unlimited until PO, then only sell ahead PO or Unlimited until PO, then stock + sell ahead PO, the buying decision controls whether a SKU can still be sold:
- Ordered and Not buying end unlimited selling. The SKU can only be sold up to what the production order sells ahead (plus stock in the "+ stock" mode). A Not buying SKU has nothing coming, so in practice it stops selling.
- Buy later keeps the SKU unlimited until the next production order decides it.
On drops using the other modes, buying decisions do not change what can be sold. They are only a planning overview.
Deferring a SKU to a later production order
Use Buy later when you skip a SKU on this production order but want to keep selling it and buy it on the next one. For example, a color might not reach the MOQ yet.
- In the Products table, find the color or SKU showing Not buying.
- Click Not buying. It changes to Buy later. Click it again to switch back.
- Click Save now.
To defer many colors at once:
- Tick the checkboxes on the product or color rows.
- Click Bulk actions.
- Click Defer buying decision to next PO. The menu shows how many of the selected colors are Not buying. Only those are changed.
- Click Save now.
You can set Buy later on a draft production order too. The hint Applies when the PO is put into production shows that it takes effect once the order is in production.
Important: Only Not buying and Buy later can be changed here. Ordered follows the production order: to change it, edit the quantity on the production order. If you remove the quantity, the SKU goes back to Not buying, even if it was Buy later before.
Example: a pre-order drop
- The drop uses Unlimited until PO, then only sell ahead PO. Customers pre-order freely, and every SKU shows Undecided.
- You create a production order from the drop's orders. Its SKUs show Planned.
- Colors that don't reach the supplier's MOQ show red in the MOQ column. You decide to leave one color out and set it to Buy later.
- You put the production order into production. Bought SKUs become Ordered and are capped at the pieces the order sells ahead. Other SKUs you left out become Not buying and stop selling.
- The deferred color stays unlimited until your next production order.