Tire stock is a size-and-brand matrix
A tire shop's real catalog is not a handful of tire models — it is every size and load-rating variant of every model it carries, each with its own demand pattern and its own risk of running out. A popular model in a common size might turn over weekly, while the same model in an uncommon size can sit for months, and treating them as one aggregated "tire" SKU hides that difference completely.
Reorder points set per specific size-and-model combination, not per general tire line, are what actually let a shop know which combinations are worth stocking deep and which are better ordered on demand.
Seasonal swings break a static reorder point
Winter and summer tire demand shifts sharply by season in markets where that split matters, and a reorder point calculated once from average annual demand will be wrong for most of the year — too low heading into peak season, too high the rest of the time. Revisiting reorder points ahead of each seasonal shift, rather than leaving them static year-round, keeps the buffer sized for the demand actually coming, not the annual average.
Why real-time accuracy matters for quoting
A customer calling to check whether a specific size is in stock needs an answer that reflects what is actually on the rack right now, not what was there at the last manual count. A shop that quotes availability from a stale count and then cannot fulfill it loses both the immediate sale and the customer's confidence in calling ahead next time.
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