Plan stock and draft purchase orders with NHY demand forecasting

The operating problem

Running out of a popular dish or product on a busy weekend costs sales and frustrates customers. Ordering too much ties up cash in stock that may spoil or sit unused. NHY demand forecasting looks at recent completed and ready orders to suggest how much of each high-volume item you are likely to need over the next two weeks, then helps you turn those suggestions into a draft purchase order you can review.

A realistic example: Priya runs a small café and a retail shelf of packaged snacks. On her Professional plan she refreshes forecasts once a week. The system looks at the last 28 days of sales, focuses on her top 500 SKUs, and shows that filter coffee beans are projected to sell 42 units in the next 14 days while she has 18 on hand. The recommended reorder is 30 units. She creates a draft purchase order for her supplier, checks the quantities and prices, then approves the draft. Nothing is ordered automatically.

Illustration of the forecast results. Recommended reorder quantities appear only for items the model expects to need more of; zero means current stock covers the horizon.

How owners use it

Confirm your plan includes demand forecasting (Professional or higher). Free and Basic plans do not include it.
Refresh the forecast. The system uses the last 28 days of completed and ready orders by default (you can request 1–180 days look-back and 1–90 days horizon). It selects the top-selling SKUs up to your plan’s limit and calculates a recommended reorder quantity against current stock on hand.
Review the latest results. Each SKU shows forecast quantity for the horizon, daily baseline, stock on hand, recommended reorder, and a confidence note. Only completed and ready orders are counted so cancelled tickets do not inflate demand.
Create a purchase-order draft from the items that need reordering. You may limit the draft to specific SKUs and optionally attach a supplier. The draft is numbered and saved as Draft; nothing is sent to a supplier yet.
Open the draft, check quantities and unit prices (taken from your product records when available), then approve it. Approval is a deliberate owner action. You can later use the approved draft as the basis for placing the actual order with your supplier outside NHY.

Refresh cadence is enforced: Professional plans may refresh weekly; Enterprise and Enterprise Plus may refresh daily. The first refresh is always allowed. Monthly SKU quota (one unit per SKU forecasted) resets on the first of the month.

Benefits and limits

Owners see which high-volume items are likely to need replenishment before they run out, based on their own recent sales rather than generic averages. Draft purchase orders keep the final decision with the owner; NHY never places an order on its own.

Available on Professional (up to 500 SKUs, weekly refresh), Enterprise and Enterprise Plus (unlimited SKUs, daily refresh). Not included on Free or Basic.
Monthly SKU quota is consumed at refresh time. Professional: 500 SKUs per month. Higher tiers: unlimited. Quotas reset on the first of the calendar month.
Only completed and ready orders contribute to history. Cancelled orders are excluded.
If your store has more SKUs with sales than the plan allows, the top sellers by quantity are forecast and a note explains the truncation.
Purchase-order drafts require a prior forecast run. Approving a draft does not place an order; it records owner approval for the quantities.

Plan	Demand forecasting
Free	Not included
Basic	Not included
Professional	500 SKUs; weekly refresh
Enterprise	Unlimited SKUs; daily refresh
Enterprise Plus	Unlimited SKUs; daily refresh

Questions owners ask

Does NHY place the purchase order for me?

No. The system creates a draft with recommended quantities. You review and approve the draft. Placing the order with your supplier remains your action.

What sales history is used?

Only items from orders marked Completed or Ready. Cancelled orders are ignored so they do not increase the forecast.

When can I refresh again?

Professional plans: once every seven days. Enterprise and Enterprise Plus: once every day. The first refresh on a plan is always allowed. The system tells you the next eligible time if you try earlier.

Open NHY and review your demand forecasts