“We kept placing emergency orders, 70,000 pairs arriving in three weeks because we were always reacting instead of planning ahead.”

At 27 SKUs, a spreadsheet is a perfectly good inventory tool. At 80+, with a single Istanbul supplier that requires a 1,000-unit MOQ and no option for small top-up orders, it isn't. Every wrong call compounds. Every missed signal costs a full batch.

SOLIT had tried a previous tool at €800–900 per month. The problem was the mismatch: they were placing 3–4 purchase orders a year. A tool built for daily ordering doesn't fit a business that buys quarterly, and at €200–300 per PO just for the software, the maths didn't work.

The result was a pattern familiar to any fast-growing brand: reactive ordering instead of planned purchasing. Bestsellers stocked out, emergency batches got air-freighted in, and every fix made the next forecast harder.

“Every wrong call compounds. Every missed signal costs a full batch.”

In June and July 2025, their peak summer season, SOLIT ran out of their bestselling sock styles. The orders weren't there in time because the forecast wasn't there at all. That was the moment the spreadsheet stopped being good enough.

Olaf posted on LinkedIn looking for a Shopify inventory automation that actually fit how SOLIT bought. Thijs from Rewize came across the post and reached out. SOLIT went live on Rewize in July 2025.

Reactive purchasing was replaced with a planned monthly cadence. SOLIT now places one structured purchase order roughly every 22 days, each covering ~29 SKUs and ~49,000 units, planned from real demand data instead of feel.

• Planned monthly PO cadence — one order every ~22 days
• 29 SKUs and ~49,000 units per PO, sized from actual demand
• Replaced a €800–900/mo daily-ordering tool that didn't match SOLIT's quarterly buying
• Works around the Istanbul supplier's 1,000-unit MOQ instead of fighting it
• Planned purchasing replaces emergency air-freight batches