💰 Setting the Minimum Order Value (MOV)
Suppliers often have strict financial rules that you must meet before they will process, pack, and ship a purchase order. In Optiply, you can configure the Minimum Order Value (MOV) to ensure your purchasing workflow automatically complies with these vendor requirements.
By setting this value, you tell the algorithm the absolute smallest monetary amount a supplier requires you to spend in a single order.
⚙️ 1. How to Configure the Minimum Order Value
Setting up your MOV is a quick adjustment within your individual supplier settings.
Step-by-step guide:
Navigate to the Suppliers page from your main menu.
Click on the specific Supplier Name to open their settings.
Scroll down to the Supplier Information.
Under the Order Information section, locate the Minimum order value field.
Enter the exact monetary value required by the supplier (e.g., 500).
Click Save to lock in your changes.
🧠 2. How Optiply Uses This Value
Once configured, Optiply's algorithm factors this monetary threshold into its purchasing advice.
Standard Purchasing: Optiply will aggregate your required inventory needs. It ensures that when you generate a purchase order for this specific supplier, you are aware of the financial baseline you need to hit before sending the PO to the vendor.
Emergency Orders (Avoid Lost Sales): The MOV also plays a critical role in Optiply's automated emergency features. If you have the Avoid lost sales feature enabled, Optiply will actively monitor products that are about to run out of stock.
How it works: The system will only automatically schedule an emergency order if the purchase value of that required emergency stock is strictly higher than the amount set in your Minimum order value (plus your fixed order costs). This prevents the system from triggering a tiny, unfulfillable emergency order!
❓ 3. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What is the difference between Minimum Order Value (MOV) and Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ)?
MOV (Value): This is a monetary requirement applied to the entire purchase order for a supplier (e.g., the total cart value must be at least €500).
MOQ (Quantity): This is a unit requirement applied to a specific individual product (e.g., you must order at least 50 units of the blue t-shirt).
What happens if my purchase advice doesn't reach the Minimum Order Value?
If the algorithm calculates that you only need €300 worth of stock, but your MOV is €500, you will likely need to manually "fill up" the rest of the order to hit the threshold. You can do this by looking ahead and manually adding fast-moving 'A' category items or bulky 'C' category items to the draft order until you cross the supplier's financial finish line.