For manufacturers, distributors & ops-of-one

Stop stocking out.Stop sitting on dead cash.

Seven Claude skills for the make-and-move side of a small business — reorder & stockout auditing, purchase orders, three-way receiving match, production scheduling, supplier scorecards, quality reports, and fulfillment comms.

Including a runnable inventory auditor that reads your stock list and tells you exactly what to reorder and what’s about to run out — on the standard reorder-point math, not a guess.

Get the Pack — $89one-time · runs on a CSV from your ERP · 30-day refund
Seven skills · One ops desk
Inventory Reorder Auditor
Runnable · reorder list
Purchase Order Writer
Clean POs & RFQs
Receiving Discrepancy Checker
Pay for what arrived
Production Schedule Planner
Schedule you can run
Supplier Scorecard Builder
Honest vendor grade
Nonconformance Report Writer
Proper NCR / CAPA
Fulfillment Exception Communicator
Honest delay comms
Works alongside
QuickBooks · NetSuite · Fishbowl · Cin7 · Excel · Sheets · or your own ERP
01.The Problem

The two most expensive inventory mistakes, every week.

Run out of a fast-moving part and you lose the sale or stall the line. Sit on a pile of the wrong stock and you’ve frozen cash and filled space you’re paying for. Most small manufacturers and distributors are doing both at once — because the stock list lives in a spreadsheet nobody has time to work through SKU by SKU, and the ERP flags “low” but doesn’t tell you what to actually do.

This pack does the working-through for you — on the real reorder-point math — and writes the documents around it: the PO, the receiving match, the supplier grade, the quality report, the customer email. The judgment and the paperwork of running operations, minus the hours.

The stockout

A fast-mover hits zero with nothing inbound. The sale walks, or the line stops — and you find out after it's already cost you, because nothing was watching the reorder point SKU by SKU.

Dead cash

The opposite leak, just as expensive: stock that isn't moving and overstock past your max — cash and shelf space frozen in inventory that should have been slowed, paused, or liquidated.

The spreadsheet

The data exists — in a sheet or a light ERP nobody has time to work line by line. 'Low stock' alerts tell you there's a problem; they don't tell you what to reorder, how much, or what's quietly tying up your money.

02.What This Is — And Isn't

Clear about the lane. No inflated promises.

What this is
  • Seven complete SKILL.md files, production-grade, with NEVER/ALWAYS guardrails and worked examples.
  • A real, runnable inventory-reorder-auditor.py — stdlib, ACTION REQUIRED/ALL CLEAR, exit codes, flexible CSV columns.
  • A standard-formulas primer (reorder point, safety stock, EOQ, days of cover) with sources.
  • Per-skill references: three-way match, PO/RFQ elements, scheduling concepts, supplier metrics, NCR/CAPA structure, exception playbook.
  • An AGENTS.md companion for standing ops discipline — consistent units, standard math, match-before-pay.
  • A README covering Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, and Copilot installation.
What this isn't
  • Not an ERP or WMS — it does the judgment and writing around your data, it doesn't store your data.
  • No invented numbers — it won't fabricate a demand forecast, a price, a lead time, or a supplier score.
  • No mixed units — the auditor and skills enforce daily usage against lead time in days.
  • No promised dates it can't back — fulfillment comms tie every date to real lead-time data.
  • No SaaS, no monthly fee, no telemetry — your inventory and supplier data never leave your environment.
  • Not a demand-forecasting engine — it applies the numbers you give it and flags what crosses the line.
03.The Seven Skills

Seven skills across the operation.

Buy it, receive it, make it, stock it, ship it — a skill for each recurring job, every one single-purpose and composable with the others. Tight skills beat one bloated mega-skill.

Runnable · reorder list
Inventory Reorder Auditor
inventory-reorder-auditor
Triggers

“what do I reorder,” “stockout risk,” “audit my inventory”

Ships a real, runnable script. Reads your inventory CSV and tells you what to reorder now and what's about to stock out — on the standard reorder-point formula. Flags REORDER, STOCKOUT-RISK, OVERSTOCK, and DEAD-STOCK. Returns ACTION REQUIRED / ALL CLEAR and exits non-zero so it gates a weekly check.

Clean POs & RFQs
Purchase Order Writer
purchase-order-writer
Triggers

“write a PO,” “RFQ,” “order from supplier”

Drafts complete, unambiguous purchase orders and supplier RFQs — every line's quantity and agreed price, delivery date, terms, and the basis for the order. Never puts an unconfirmed price or invented part number on a PO.

Pay for what arrived
Receiving Discrepancy Checker
receiving-discrepancy-checker
Triggers

“three-way match,” “check this delivery,” “invoice vs PO”

Runs the three-way match — PO vs packing slip vs invoice — and flags shorts, overages, damage, and price mismatches before you pay. Holds payment on any discrepancy; you pay for what arrived, at the agreed price.

Schedule you can run
Production Schedule Planner
production-schedule-planner
Triggers

“schedule production,” “sequence work orders,” “can we hit this date”

Sequences work orders against real capacity and due dates, including setup time and material readiness. Surfaces every job that can't make its date — instead of promising a schedule the floor can't run.

Honest vendor grade
Supplier Scorecard Builder
supplier-scorecard-builder
Triggers

“grade my supplier,” “vendor scorecard,” “on-time rate”

Grades vendors on measured performance — on-time delivery, fill rate, defect rate — with the sample size shown. Gives an honest verdict and a concrete action; won't flatter a supplier that's a supply risk.

Proper NCR / CAPA
Nonconformance Report Writer
nonconformance-report-writer
Triggers

“quality issue,” “nonconformance,” “CAPA,” “8D”

Documents a quality issue as observed-vs-spec, with containment, corrective action (owner + due date), and verification — NCR / CAPA / 8D style. States facts, not blame; marks root cause provisional until evidence supports it.

Honest delay comms
Fulfillment Exception Communicator
fulfillment-exception-communicator
Triggers

“backorder email,” “delay notice,” “short shipment”

Drafts customer and carrier comms for backorders, short shipments, delays, and damage — facts first, realistic remedy, real options. Never promises a recovery date the lead-time data can't back.

04.The Auditor in Action

The auditor actually runs. Here’s real output.

This is the included inventory-reorder-auditor.py run against the six-SKU sample stock list that ships in the pack — not a screenshot of a promise. It found the one about to stock out, the one that hit its reorder point, the overstock, and the dead stock, and it exited non-zero so it can gate a weekly check.

inventory-reorder-auditor/scripts/inventory-reorder-auditor.py
stdlib · no install
$ python scripts/inventory-reorder-auditor.py inventory-sample.csv

 ACTION REQUIRED   SKUs: 6  | reorder 1  stockout-risk 1  overstock 1  dead-stock 1  ok 2
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ACT NOW (reorder / stockout risk) (2)
  • [STOCKOUT-RISK] BOLT-12: Stockout risk: on hand (8) is at/below safety
    stock (20); ~0.8 days of cover is less than the 5-day lead time, with
    nothing on order. Expedite or reorder immediately.
  • [REORDER] WIDGET-A: At/below reorder point (50 computed): available 40
    (on hand 40 + on order 0). Place a replenishment order.
    Suggested order up to max: ~160 units.

REVIEW (overstock, dead stock, data gaps) (2)
  • [OVERSTOCK] GASKET-X: Over the max stock level (300) by ~200 units —
    excess cash and space tied up. Slow or pause replenishment.
  • [DEAD-STOCK] LEGACY-PART: 75 units on hand but zero usage —
    cash frozen in non-moving stock. Review for liquidation/write-off.

Verdict: ACTION REQUIRED. Handle the reorder / stockout items above.
$ echo $?
1

Reads a CSV exported from Excel, Sheets, or your ERP, matches your column names flexibly, and separates act-now items from review items. JSON mode for tooling; --strict makes overstock and dead stock block too.

05.The Standard

Three rules every number in this pack is held to.

The pack is built on the standard inventory math — done right — and on the same honesty spine that runs through the whole RedHub catalog: tools that show their basis, refuse to fabricate, and tell you the truth even when it’s inconvenient.

Real math, never a guess

Every reorder point comes from the standard formula — average daily usage × lead time + safety stock — applied to the numbers you supply, not a vibe. The pack won't fabricate a demand forecast, a price, a lead time, or a supplier score it can't ground. Where a number is missing, it says so and tells you which column to add, rather than inventing one.

Consistent units, or it won't compute

Daily usage and lead time must share a time unit — usage per day, lead time in days. Mixing weekly usage with a lead time in days silently produces a wrong reorder point, and it's the single most common inventory-math error. The auditor and the skills enforce the match instead of quietly returning a number that's off by a factor of seven.

Read-only — it flags, you decide

The auditor reads your data and never changes it, and never places an order. It returns ACTION REQUIRED with the specific reason — 'this SKU stocks out in under a day, nothing inbound' — or ALL CLEAR, and stops there. No silent automation buying stock on your behalf; the judgment call stays yours, with the evidence in front of you.

06.The Lifecycle

One pack across the whole make-and-move cycle.

Buy it, receive it, make it, stock it, ship it — a skill for each stage, all sharing one honest posture. The skills hand off to each other so the whole operation runs to a single standard.

BuyPurchase Order Writer · Supplier Scorecard Builder

Source it right and order it clean — with the grade to know who's reliable.

ReceiveReceiving Discrepancy Checker

Match PO vs packing slip vs invoice before you pay for what didn't arrive.

MakeProduction Schedule Planner · Nonconformance Report Writer

Schedule to real capacity, and document quality issues so they don't recur.

StockInventory Reorder Auditor

Know what to reorder and what's about to stock out — on real numbers.

ShipFulfillment Exception Communicator

When something slips, tell the customer honestly without over-promising.

08.Common Questions

The questions ops teams actually ask before deploying.

Seven Claude skills covering the full make-and-move surface of a manufacturing or distribution business: an inventory reorder & stockout auditor (with a runnable script), a purchase-order & RFQ writer, a receiving discrepancy checker (the three-way match), a production schedule planner, a supplier scorecard builder, a nonconformance (quality) report writer, and a fulfillment exception communicator. Each is a SKILL.md with guardrails and worked examples, and the inventory skill ships a real Python script. There's also a standard-formulas primer and an AGENTS.md companion.

7 skills · 1 runnable auditor · $89

Run the auditor on your own stock list.

Export your inventory to a CSV and run the reorder auditor. If it comes back ALL CLEAR, you’ve confirmed your stock is healthy. If it catches a SKU about to stock out — or dead stock quietly tying up cash — the pack just paid for itself. Installs in Claude Code, Pro, Codex, and Cursor. Thirty-day refund either way.

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