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Metrics type: Supporting Metrics • Category: Ecommerce Platform

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At a glance

Items where on-hand inventory is below the configured Reorder Point (or Safety Stock Quantity). Forward-looking purchasing queue.

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Calculation

Calculated automatically from your Microsoft Dynamics 365 data. See the At a glance summary above for what the metric tracks and the worked example below for a typical reading.

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Worked example

US distributor on BC, snapshot 14 Apr 26. LAPTOP-A14 stockout in 8 days, no PO in flight. Urgent purchasing action needed.

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Sibling cards merchants should reference together

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Reconciling against the vendor’s own dashboard

Where to look in Business Central:
Reports > Inventory > Item Availability by Location Requisition Worksheet for auto-generated POs
Why may differ: Cross-connector reconciliation: Pair with OOS with SO Demand for the demand-validated subset.

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Known limitations / merchant FAQs

Items without Reorder Point? Excluded by default. Configure to include via Safety Stock if Reorder Point absent. Multi-Location: which Location’s Reorder Point? Card uses Item-level Reorder Point. Stockkeeping Unit (SKU)-level Reorder Points (per-Location) supported via field map. Velocity calculation: how is “expected stockout” computed? 30-day average sales velocity divided into current on-hand. Drop-Ship lines excluded.

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Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre

Low Stock Alerts is one of hundreds of KPI pulses Vortex IQ tracks across Microsoft Dynamics 365 and 70+ other ecommerce connectors. Nerve Centre runs the detection layer; Vortex Mind investigates the cause when something moves; Ask Viq lets you interrogate any number in plain English. Start for free or book a demo to see this metric running on your own data.