Reorder Level

The reorder level for an item is the quantity remaining at which ordering more becomes urgent — broadly, average daily consumption multiplied by supplier lead time, plus a buffer for variability. Below it, the pharmacy is relying on the supplier being on time. It is set per item, because a fast-moving antibiotic and a rarely used emergency drug behave nothing alike.

Why it matters in a hospital

A single reorder level applied across a formulary of several hundred lines guarantees being wrong in both directions — overstocked on slow movers whose money is tied up and whose expiry approaches, and stocked out on the fast movers people actually need. Stockouts in a hospital pharmacy do not simply defer a sale; they send a prescription outside, which costs the margin and, more importantly, breaks the record of what the patient actually took.

How Trisvio handles it

Trisvio tracks stock by batch and reports low stock against the level set per drug, so the reorder signal comes from the item's own threshold rather than one number applied to everything.