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# Smart Purchase Orders
Supply’d’s Smart Purchase Orders feature helps you order smarter and faster by using real-time data to calculate exactly what you need. It looks at things like current stock levels, past sales, and upcoming production to suggest accurate order quantities - saving you time, reducing over-ordering, and keeping your inventory in check.
## Creating a Smart Purchase Order
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#### Go to the Purchases Page
Select **Purchases** from the main menu.
The **Purchase** tab lists all the purchase orders you have placed with suppliers in Supply'd.
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#### Select
Click the 3 dots in the top right and select **Smart Purchase** from the menu.
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**Smart Purchase Orders** can also be created from the **Suppliers** page. As above, click on the 3 dots in the top right and select **Smart Purchase**.
Alternatively, if you would like to create a **Smart Purchase Order** for a particular Supplier:
1. Select **Suppliers** from the main menu.
2. Select the supplier.
3. Click on the 3 dots in the top right and select **Smart Purchase** from the menu.
4. Follow the directions below.
👉 Refer to the [Managing Suppliers](/supplyd-erp/suppliers/managing-suppliers.md) document for full details.
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The **Smart Purchase Order** form will appear.
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#### Complete the Form
Complete the fields as follows:
**Suppliers**
The suppliers you would like to make the Smart Purchase Order for. Clicking on, typing in, the field will bring up a list of your suppliers to select from.
**Location**
The location you would like to place the order for. Select from your list of [Locations](/supplyd-erp/settings/locations.md) in the drop-down menu.
**Method**
The method you would like to use for the Smart Purchase Order.
* **Suggested:** Utilise the smart suggestions for the order. Uses forecasted sales, minimum stock hold, stock on order, and current stock levels to keep you always in stock.
* **Minimum Stock Hold:** Order to meet the minimum stock hold only. Ignores forecasted sales, will look at current stock level, stock on order then will top up to the minimum stock hold set for the product.
* **Refill Sold:** Reorder the amount sold since the last order from this supplier was received.
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For forecasting to work accurately, orders need to be consistently coming through Supply’d for a period of time - ideally at least two weeks.
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It is best to set minimum stock levels under [Product Settings](/supplyd-erp/settings/product-settings.md) (global level), but they can also be overridden at the individual product inventory level ( [Managing Inventory](/supplyd-erp/inventory/managing-inventory.md#minimum-stock-hold)) if needed.
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**Warehouse refill**
When stock is available at a set refill warehouse, what is the action you would like to be done for that stock.
* **Create Transfer:** Will create a transfer order for the stock required.
* **Don't Transfer:** Consider the stock as available to not over order, but don't create a transfer order.
* **Ignore:** Ignore any stock available at refill locations.
**Ignore Untracked**
Whether or not to ignore inventory that is untracked at this location. Select **Yes** or **No** from the drop-down menu.
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#### Click Create
Click .
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Supply’d will automatically generate purchase orders for the suppliers you select, based on your current inventory levels, sales data, and upcoming production needs.
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#### Review the Order
Simply review the details and click !
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👉 For more details about placing and managing purchase orders, see the [Placing a Purchase Order](/supplyd-erp/purchase-orders/placing-a-purchase-order.md) and [Managing Purchase Orders](/supplyd-erp/purchase-orders/managing-purchase-orders.md) docs.
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