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Inventory planning · checked 11 November 2026
Set each SKU's reorder point on peak daily sales times lead time plus safety stock, pilot new SKUs small, and clear slow stock within 90 days.
Safety stock is maximum daily sales times maximum lead time, minus average daily sales times average lead time, and Indian D2C brands commonly hold 2 to 4 weeks of it on hero SKUs. With no sales history, start a new SKU on a pilot batch of 200 to 500 units. Below about 50 SKUs, a spreadsheet with seasonality built in does most of what AI forecasting tools do.
The steps 5 answers
- My bestseller keeps going out of stock during sales, how do I fix my reorder timing? D2C
- How do I use AI to forecast demand so I stop either running out of stock or sitting on dead inventory? D2C
- How much safety stock should I actually be holding on my hero SKU? D2C
- How do I forecast demand for a brand-new SKU with zero sales history? D2C
- How do I stop drowning in dead and slow-moving SKUs? D2C
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