Give each vendor a profile (Packing Day → Vendor Orders): email or text, and which items are theirs. After each deadline, weekly vendors automatically receive exactly what your customers ordered, plus your buffers.
Slow suppliers – the jar place, the monthly butcher – get a rhythm instead: every 2 or 4 weeks, ordered by usage (what actually sold since last time, minus what’s on hand, plus standing quantities), rounded up to full cases, sent as a proper purchase order. Tick auto-receive and the delivered quantities add themselves to your inventory after the lag you set – back-in-stock notices fire on their own.
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