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    <title>Case packs, MOQs, and pack sizes: order the way suppliers actually sell</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Suppliers sell in cases and minimums, not the 33 loose units your math suggested. How to order the way suppliers actually sell without breaking your planning.</description>
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    <title>How to stop stocking out of your best sellers</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Best sellers stock out for predictable reasons — static alerts, invisible lead times, slow reactions. A playbook for keeping your top products in stock.</description>
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    <title>Receiving inventory: stop losing stock between the truck and the shelf</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Receiving is where inventory accuracy is won or lost. How to receive against POs, handle short shipments and partials, and keep costs current.</description>
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    <title>Shopify's built-in inventory tools: what they cover and where you'll outgrow them</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Shopify basics</category>
    <description>What Shopify's built-in inventory tools cover, and the planning jobs they leave to you — forecasting, reorder points, and knowing how much to buy.</description>
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    <title>How to create purchase orders for your Shopify store (without spreadsheets)</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Purchasing</category>
    <description>A practical purchase-order workflow for Shopify merchants — from reorder suggestion to sent PO to received stock — without spreadsheets or email archaeology.</description>
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    <title>Multi-location stock transfers on Shopify (now that Stocky's are gone)</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Operations</category>
    <description>How to move stock between Shopify locations without losing track of it — statuses, receiving, short shipments, and when to transfer instead of reorder.</description>
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    <title>Safety stock: how much buffer does your store actually need?</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Reordering</category>
    <description>Safety stock protects you from demand spikes and late deliveries. How to size the buffer in days of demand, when to raise or lower it, and what it costs.</description>
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    <title>Sales velocity: the number behind every good reorder decision</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Forecasting</category>
    <description>Sales velocity — how fast each product sells — drives every good reorder decision. How to measure it, why plain averages mislead, and how to put it to work.</description>
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    <title>Stocky is shutting down August 31, 2026: a migration checklist for Shopify merchants</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Stocky migration</category>
    <description>Stocky shuts down August 31, 2026. What still works, what data you can (and can't) export, and a step-by-step plan to move your Shopify store off it.</description>
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    <title>How to export your Stocky data before the shutdown (and what you can't export)</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Stocky migration</category>
    <description>What you can export from Stocky before the Aug 31, 2026 shutdown, what you can't (supplier data), and how to save everything that matters.</description>
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    <title>Best Stocky alternatives for Shopify (2026), honestly compared</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Stocky migration</category>
    <description>An honest comparison of Stocky replacements for Shopify — including where each one fits, where ours doesn't, and how to choose before the Aug 31, 2026 shutdown.</description>
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    <title>How to calculate reorder points for your Shopify store (with a worked example)</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>The reorder point formula (daily sales × lead time + safety stock), a worked example, and how to automate it across every variant in your Shopify store.</description>
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    <title>Shopify inventory forecasting: a practical guide for small merchants</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Forecasting</category>
    <description>How to forecast inventory for a Shopify store — sales velocity, days of stock, seasonality, and turning forecasts into actual purchase orders.</description>
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    <title>Inventory planning for apparel brands on Shopify: size curves, variants, and reorders</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Industry playbooks</category>
    <description>Why apparel inventory is a variant problem — size curves, broken runs, case packs, long lead times — and how to plan reorders at the size/color level.</description>
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