The Right Way To Plan Your Inventory #ecommerce

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]If you stock out and you don't have product to sell, you're going to make zero dollars, which means that once you get to a point where you start running out of inventory and you're growing past what you already have in stock, you need to seriously figure it out. You need to look at the numbers and the data. Look at how much inventory you're projecting to need throughout the rest of the year.

[00:00:14]Pre-plan for it. Pre-submit the purchase orders. Put the money aside and make sure that you have enough, but not too much because if you tie up too much inventory in cash, you are going to felt yourself and you won't be able to afford all your marketing expenses and all your overhead. So, you have to do it like this. You a little bit more and a little bit more at a time in a kind of stair steps up. some point you have to be thinking about inventory cuz if you keep stocking out, Amazon's going to punish you. Your customers aren't going to come back and restarting your ads cost a ton of money in learning budgets. And so, eventually it's a problem that has to be solved. So, you might as well solve it now and get really good at it because I can guarantee you you're not going to get to multiple millions a year unless you know how to manage your inventory properly and forecast your demand.

[00:00:50]Demand planning is what it's called.