• What is repleno?
    • Who repleno is for
    • Who repleno is not for
    • What counts as overhead and what does not
    • You have completed the introduction!
    • Consumption vs. Order
    • Batch Orders and Dispatch Times
    • Minimum Stock and Automation
    • One System for All Suppliers
    • Why repleno Is Not a Kanban System
    • Admin
    • Employee
    • From Withdrawal to Order
    • Order Transmission to Suppliers
    • Delivery and Stock
    • What to clarify before you start
    • Design your own labels
    • Item Management
    • Supplier Management
    • Booking Process
    • Procurement
    • Transparency and Analytics
    • Projects
    • Bill of Materials
    • Sites and Transfers
    • Create Labels
    • What digital inventory means in repleno
    • Legal and organizational classification
    • Why Orders Are Not in Real Time
    • What repleno deliberately does not cover
    • Data Security
    • Backups and Updates
    • Offline Usage
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  1. Documentation
  2. Core Concepts
  3. Consumption vs. Order

Consumption vs. Order

Understand why repleno separates consumption, demand, and ordering—so you replenish before stock runs out.


In repleno, a withdrawal is just a withdrawal. It records consumption, not an order.

Why this separation matters

In the usual workflow, orders are placed when someone notices that stock is running low. In practice, this happens too late or not at all.

repleno separates the two steps: a withdrawal updates the stock level in the system. The system then checks against defined rules whether a demand exists. It is not the withdrawal that triggers demand, but the current stock level in combination with the configured reorder point.

The system does not forget.

What follows from this

  1. Team members record material movements.
  2. repleno updates the stock level.
  3. The system checks whether stock thresholds trigger a demand.
  4. Only then is the demand reported or translated into an order.

A stock correction triggers the same replenishment check as a withdrawal. If the corrected stock exceeds the maximum stock, a notice appears.

Updated: May 27, 2026

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