Suggested, Staged & Placed Orders
The Simple Version
Think of the plan as a shopping list on the fridge.
Suggested — Mo looks at what is in the fridge and what the family will eat this month, and writes "2 cartons of milk" on the list in pencil. It is a helpful idea. Nobody has agreed to it. If you check the fridge again tomorrow and things have changed, Mo erases it and writes a new number.
Staged — You read the list, nod, and circle it in pen (or cross out the 2 and write 3). Now it is your item. Mo will not erase it, even when it rewrites the rest of the list. But you have not gone to the shop yet.
Placed — You write the shopping order and hand it to whoever is going to the shop. In Moselle, that means a real purchase order now exists, with a supplier, a warehouse, and a delivery date. The order is in the system — but it has not left the building until someone actually sends it.
That is the whole lifecycle: idea → decision → paperwork.
Time Required: 3 minutes to read Difficulty: Beginner
Why Is There a Staged Step at All?
Because a supply plan never stands still. Between the day you build it and the day you send purchase orders, things change:
The forecast is updated and demand moves
New purchase orders land, or an existing one is delayed
An inventory count comes in different from what the plan assumed
A supplier changes a lead time, or you redraw a route on the Supply Chain map
Each of those is a reason to click Rebuild, and a rebuild throws away every suggested order and proposes a fresh set from the new numbers. That is exactly what you want from Moselle's suggestions — but it would be a disaster for your own work. If the number you spent an hour agreeing with your supplier were just another suggestion, the next rebuild would erase it.
Staged is the layer that protects your decisions from that reset. When you stage an order:
It is carried forward into every new version, exactly as you left it
You can rebuild as often as you like without redoing your work
It counts as firm supply when Moselle re-plans
The next build plans around your order — it will not suggest the same units again, and downstream warehouses see that stock as coming
It is still editable and has no purchase order yet
You have decided, but you have not committed. You can change the quantity, move it, or archive it right up until you place.
It is labelled as yours
Anyone opening the plan can tell Moselle's ideas (dotted outline) from the team's decisions (solid blue) at a glance
Without a Staged step you would be stuck between two bad options: never rebuild, and plan against a stale forecast, or rebuild and lose your edits. Staging is what lets you keep the plan current and keep your decisions.
Side by Side
Suggested
Staged
Placed
Who made it
Moselle
You (accepted, edited, or created by hand)
You, by clicking Place
What it is
A proposal
A decision inside Moselle
A purchase order in Moselle
Survives a rebuild?
No — regenerated from scratch
Yes — carried into the new version
Yes
Can you edit it?
Yes — editing it stages it
Yes
No — edit the purchase order instead
Counts as supply in the plan?
Only as a proposal
Yes, as firm supply
Yes — the purchase order takes over projecting it
Has the supplier heard about it?
No
No
No — not until you send the PO
Looks like in the grid
Dotted blue outline badge
Solid blue badge
Plain number, no badge
Order card header
Light blue, with Stage it →
Solid blue, with Place it →
Green, read-only; the PO appears on the Orders page
How Do I Move an Order from Suggested to Staged?
Any of these stages an order. Staged orders "become yours and survive rebuilds", as the confirmation puts it.
Click the Stage pill
Hover a suggested cell in Monthly Breakdown
Every suggested order landing in that month for that SKU (and warehouse, if on a warehouse row)
Click Stage it →
The header of a suggested order card (hover a Planned or Planned landing cell, or a SKU Board chip)
That one order
Stage all (N)
The slot card, when several suggestions share the slot
All suggestions in that slot
Tick orders, then Stage
The planned-orders panel (list icon on a SKU or warehouse row)
Every suggested order you ticked, across any months
Edit the quantity or dates
The order card
Changing a number or date stages the order automatically — you changed it, so it is now your decision
Add order / Add transfer
The slot card, on an empty month
New orders you create are born staged
What Is the Best Way to Stage Orders?
Staging is cheap and reversible, so the goal is to stage deliberately rather than either ignoring it or staging everything blindly.
Stage inside your lead-time window, leave the far horizon suggested
An order you must place in the next one or two months is a real decision — stage it. An order six months out is a forecast of a forecast; leave it Suggested so it keeps adapting as demand firms up. A good default is to stage everything due within your longest lead time plus one review cycle.
Type the number you actually want
If Moselle's quantity is not the one you will order, do not stage it and fix it later. Edit the quantity in the card — editing stages the order automatically, at your number, in one step. It rounds up to the supplier's MOQ and order multiple as you type, and the card names the rule that changed it.
Stage month by month, or SKU by SKU
The Stage pill on a month's cell accepts that month's suggestions for that SKU in one click — a good pace for reviewing. To review a SKU across the whole horizon instead, click the list icon on its row: the planned-orders panel shows every order for that SKU, and you can tick the ones you agree with and Stage them together.
A weekly rhythm that works: rebuild → review Urgent → stage the next one to two months → place what is due → rebuild again.
Staging locks a number in. A staged order will not shrink if the forecast drops, because it is your decision, not Moselle's. Every few cycles, filter Order status → Staged and check that your commitments still make sense against the current Ending balance and days of cover.
Can I Change an Order's Dates?
Yes. Every suggested or staged order card lets you edit its order-by and landing dates (for a transfer, its ship and landing dates). The dates are yours: Moselle does not recalculate one from the other, because the lead times on record are not always current and you know your supplier best. Instead, the card reminds you when your dates disagree with the documented lead time — red when there is not enough time for the goods to arrive, amber when you are ordering earlier than needed, and grey when no lead time is documented for that source.
Editing a date stages a suggested order, just like editing its quantity. When you place the order, the order-by date you set becomes the purchase order's order date.
How Do I Move an Order from Staged to Placed?
Click Place it → in the header of a staged order card, or Place all (N) to place every staged order in the slot. Moselle:
Groups the orders into purchase orders — one per supplier, receiving warehouse, and arrival date
Rounds each line to the supplier's case pack and MOQ
Creates the purchase orders and links each planned order to the PO it became
Moves the quantity from the staged chip to the committed chip on the SKU Board
The purchase orders appear on your Orders page like any other, ready to review and send.
Placing records an order. It never sends one. Nothing reaches the vendor, no email goes anywhere, and the supplier has not heard. Sending is a separate step you take from the Orders page — see Review your Order and Push an Order to Your OMS. Do not assume a supplier knows about an order because it says Placed.
If you ask Mo to place a suggested order directly, Moselle treats it as accepted and placed in one step.
Place orders in bulk with Mo
Clicking Place cell by cell is fine for a handful of orders. For a whole month — or a whole quarter — ask Mo from the plan page instead. Mo works on the plan you have open, so you never have to tell it which plan you mean.
Example prompts:
"Place all my September and October orders"
"Place every staged order for the East Coast warehouse"
"Place all staged orders from Acme Supply Co landing in Q4"
"Place everything that is due in the next two weeks"
Before anything is created, Mo shows you a confirmation card listing exactly the purchase orders it is about to create — supplier, warehouse, delivery date, and every line with its rounded quantity. Nothing is placed until you approve the card. The card is generated from the same rules as the Place button, so what you approve is what you get.
After placing, rebuild the plan
Once you have placed orders, click Rebuild in the plan's actions menu (the gear icon in the plan header). The rebuild takes a fresh look at the plan with your new purchase orders counted as committed supply, and you will see the suggested orders for those months disappear — the gap they were proposing to fill is now covered by real POs.
Until you rebuild, the numbers on screen still reflect the version you were working in, so you may see both the placed quantity and a stale suggestion side by side. That is expected; the rebuild clears it.
Place → Rebuild → Review. That loop is the rhythm of working a supply plan: commit what you have decided, let Moselle re-plan around it, then look at what is still suggested.
Why won't an order place?
Placing needs to know who to send the order to, and that comes from your Supply Chain map, not from the order. Placing is also all-or-nothing: if any order in a batch fails a check, none of them are placed. The reason appears as a message in the grid (or in Mo's reply) naming the order:
…names no supplier, so there is nobody to send the order to
The purchase connection feeding this warehouse has no supplier on it
Open the connection on the Supply Chain canvas and choose one in its Supplier field
…is made at a site with no supplier linked to it
The production connection points at a factory, but no supplier record is linked to that facility
Select the supplier's card on the canvas, click Edit, and finish its facility setup so the card reads Inventory tracked at [factory]
…is made in-house
The item is produced at your own site. There is no vendor, so it never becomes a purchase order.
Nothing to fix — an in-house run stays in the plan as a production order
…its supply source has been removed, so it has no vendor
The connection this order was planned on has since been deleted from the map
Archive the order and rebuild, or redraw the connection and rebuild
Order … is placed / archived / delivered and cannot be placed
Only suggested and staged orders can be placed
Nothing to do
Order … was not found on the plan's current version
The plan was rebuilt since you loaded the page
Refresh and try again
The plan was rebuilt since you read it — re-read the orders and confirm again
Same cause, seen when placing through Mo
Ask Mo again; it will re-read the current version
A build is already running for this plan
You placed while a rebuild was in progress
Wait for the Building badge to clear
Supply plan has no built version yet
The plan has never completed a build
Wait for the first build, or rebuild if it failed
Supply plan is archived
The plan has been archived from the Plans list
Restore or recreate the plan
What Does Archive Do?
Archive is the only way to remove a suggested or staged order from the plan. Click the trash icon on an order card and confirm, or tick several orders in the planned-orders panel and click Archive. An archived order leaves the projection immediately and stays behind on the next rebuild. You can still see archived orders in the planned-orders panel by switching on Include archived.
Placed orders cannot be archived from the plan. Cancel or edit the purchase order itself on the Orders page.
What About Transfers?
Transfers between your own warehouses follow the same first two steps: Moselle suggests them, and you stage the ones you agree with. Because a transfer has no vendor — nobody invoices you for moving your own stock — it does not produce a purchase order in the same way a purchase does. Stage transfers to lock them into the plan, then execute the move in your warehouse system.
What Is "Delivered"?
When a placed order's goods are received into inventory, the planned order is marked Delivered. It no longer counts as on-order — your on-hand stock now owns those units — so the plan does not double-count them.
Frequently Asked Questions
I edited a suggested quantity and it turned solid blue. Did I do something wrong?
Answer: No. Editing a suggestion — its quantity or its dates — stages it automatically. You changed the number, so it is your decision now, and Moselle will keep it through rebuilds instead of overwriting it.
Will rebuilding the plan delete my work?
Answer: No. Every staged and placed order is carried into the new version exactly as you left it. Only Moselle's own suggested orders are regenerated.
Should I stage every suggestion?
Answer: No. Stage what you have reviewed and agree with, and what falls inside your lead-time window. Leave far-out months suggested so they keep tracking the forecast. Staging everything turns a living plan into a fixed one.
What happens to a staged order if the forecast drops?
Answer: Nothing — it stays exactly as you staged it, because it is your decision. Check your staged orders periodically against the current Ending balance; reduce or archive any that no longer make sense.
If I stage everything, do I still need to place?
Answer: Yes. Staging is a decision inside Moselle. Placing is what creates the purchase order. Until you place, there is nothing on your Orders page.
Did my supplier receive the order when I placed it?
Answer: No. Placing creates the purchase order in Moselle. You send it from the Orders page — by email, export, or push to your order management system — the same way as any other PO.
Can I un-stage an order?
Answer: Not back to suggested. Archive it instead, or edit its quantity to what you actually want.
Can Mo place orders for me?
Answer: Yes. From the plan page, ask Mo in plain language — "place all my September and October orders", for example. Mo shows a confirmation card of the purchase orders it will create and waits for your approval before creating anything.
Why do I still see suggested orders for a month I just placed?
Answer: The plan has not been rebuilt yet. Click Rebuild in the actions menu (the gear icon). Once the new version is ready, the suggestions those purchase orders replaced disappear, because their demand is now covered by committed supply.
How many purchase orders will placing create?
Answer: One per supplier, receiving warehouse, and arrival date. Ten staged orders from the same supplier landing at the same warehouse on the same day become one PO; if two of them land on a different day, they become a second PO.
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