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Overview
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Ordering is when the retailer expresses to the vendor, their interest
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in purchasing some of their product for resale to their customers.
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The retailer promises to pay for the product, so the vendor should
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ship it to them ASAP.
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If the retailer has things "dialed in" then ordering may be fully or
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partially automatic, aka. "suggested ordering" where the purchase
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order is auto-generated based on current inventory levels.
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Rattail does not (yet?) offer any tools for suggested ordering. It
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does though offer tools for the more classic scenario, where the buyer
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"manually" assembles the purchase order.
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It does this using a batch. The buyer creates a new Ordering batch
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for the given vendor, and then adds items to it.
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Adding items may be done in a few ways. These are discussed in
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:doc:`additems`.
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One way or another the batch is populated, then ultimately executed.
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Read more about that in :doc:`execution`.
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We also share some thoughts here, on :doc:`convertpo`.
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