Branch transfer vs new purchase order
Compares moving stock from another branch with buying from the vendor, including stockout days and excess from minimums.
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- Your own numbers, worked out as often as you like
- The full transfer decision sheet you can print or save to My work
- 4 cited sources, linked, with the checks to make
- Every other tool for the same role, in the same plan
- A plain-words read of your result (a fuller AI read with the Bifrost AI add-on)
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Example result · fictional numbers
What you get: transfer decision sheet
Worked out by this tool from its default inputs. Its role plan lets you run your own numbers, print the sheet and save it.
Transfer all at $250.00; source branch can spare the units
- Transfer total cost
- $250 (lost margin $0)
- New PO total cost
- $706 (lost margin $330, 100 excess units)
- Better option
- Transfer
- Difference
- $456
Source branch check
- Source on hand
- 450 units, 37.5 days of cover
- Needed to reach its own next delivery
- 84 units (7.0 days at 12.0 a day) plus 60 units safety stock
- Units it can spare
- 306 units
- Cover left after sending all
- 20.8 days against a 7.0-day lead time
- Verdict
- Pass: can spare 306 units, more than the 200 units needed
Also on the sheet
- Cost of each option · 6 lines, starting with “Transfer all”
- Lines to key in · 4 lines, starting with “Transfer order”
The plain-words read of this example
The receiving branch needs 200 units and runs out in 3.0 days. The source branch can spare 306 units after keeping 60 units safety stock and 7.0 days of demand to its next delivery, so a full transfer is safe. Costs are $250.00 to transfer, $705.87 for a new PO and $550.02 for a bridge transfer of 60 units plus a PO. The best open option is transfer all at $250.00. Confirm both branches' counts and the vendor's lead time before you key the orders.
4 cited sources
- ESD.260J Logistics Systems, lecture 11: inventory management with probabilistic demand and safety stock (MIT OpenCourseWare)
- H.15 Selected Interest Rates (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)
- Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update (weekly on-highway prices) (US Energy Information Administration)
- National Motor Freight Classification (NMFC) (National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA))
Plus 5 step-by-step checks, a print layout and a link that reopens it with your numbers.