Identify what the supplier means by a price break
An all-units schedule applies one quoted price to every unit in the order. For example, EUR 120 per thousand below 10,000 units, EUR 110 per thousand from 10,000, and EUR 90 per thousand from 25,000. A progressive schedule charges different portions at different prices. Those are different contracts: Nalyquo quantity price breaks implement the all-units method only.
Use the same specification, currency and price basis for every break within one supplier quotation. Record thresholds in finished units for finished-packaging comparisons. If the price is per thousand, the threshold is still a number of finished items, not a number of thousands. Case and label-roll prices also need their explicit contents. Changing the selected basis reinterprets the entered break prices; review the schedule after making that change.
Choose the price after MOQ, losses and commercial pack rounding
The buyer needs 10,000 usable boxes, with no planned loss. Supplier A has an MOQ of 12,000. At EUR 110 per thousand from 10,000 units, the qualifying purchased quantity is 12,000 and material costs 12,000 × 110 ÷ 1,000 = EUR 1,320. Add EUR 180 freight, EUR 300 first-order tooling and zero confirmed other charges: first-order cash requirement is EUR 1,800; repeat-order cost is EUR 1,500.
With cases of 500 and a need of 9,900 usable units, the purchase rounds to 10,000 and reaches the same 10,000-unit break. A price per thousand is only a denominator: it does not cause physical rounding in thousand-unit increments. Loss is a separate entered assumption. For 9,900 usable units and 2% expected loss, the unrounded need is about 10,102.041; whole units or actual case sizes then determine the purchased quantity.
A lower price can require more cash
Under the illustrative schedule, ordering 25,000 instead of 12,000 lowers material price from EUR 0.110 to EUR 0.090 per item. Material spending nevertheless rises from EUR 1,320 to EUR 2,250. If freight and tooling were genuinely unchanged, the first order would rise from EUR 1,800 to EUR 2,730: EUR 930 more cash, with 15,000 surplus items instead of 2,000 for the original 10,000-item need.
Nalyquo selects the break qualifying at the calculated order. It does not automatically increase an order to reach a later break or claim an optimal purchasing quantity. To assess a larger batch, save the original comparison and create a separate scenario. Retain the original consumption need in your notes, and assess storage, obsolescence and financing outside the calculator. Ask for revised freight and fees: unchanged fixed charges in this example are an assumption, not a supplier promise.
For film, select a break for one shipment
Film schedules use the same unit as the supplier price. If a supplier quotes EUR/kg and the shipment is entered in square metres, the order quantity must first be converted to kilograms using the supplied GSM. Annual consumption does not activate a discount for each smaller shipment. Missing conversion inputs keep the price-break calculation unavailable.
Illustrative film with GSM 100 has 0.1 kg per square metre. A shipment of 10,000 m² is 1,000 kg. With a base price of EUR 3.20/kg and an all-units break of EUR 3.00/kg from 1,000 kg, its material subtotal is EUR 3,000. Freight of EUR 250 and tooling of EUR 600 give a first-shipment total of EUR 3,850. A shipment of 9,000 m² is only 900 kg and uses the base price, even if annual demand is 90,000 kg. GSM 100 is an example input, not a typical value asserted for any particular material.
Check the boundaries before exporting
Enter the base price and each supplier-confirmed minimum and price. Thresholds may be entered in any order; the largest qualifying minimum wins. Duplicate minimum quantities, incomplete breaks, negative prices and invalid quantities prevent a completed comparison. An explicit zero price is accepted; an empty field is unknown.
Review the applied price and qualifying minimum in the comparison table. Save a draft or completed comparison to retain the schedule locally. CSV, copied results and print output retain the comparison scope. Before sharing, check specification differences, currency, whether the quote applies to this order quantity, and which freight, duties and tooling charges have actually been confirmed.
Common questions
Does the lowest unit price always mean the lowest order total?
No. A lower price at a higher threshold can require more purchased units and more cash. Compare totals and surplus for the intended order.
Do price breaks use annual demand?
Finished-item breaks use calculated purchased units. Film breaks use one entered shipment converted to the quoted price basis. Annual film demand does not combine separate shipments into a discounted order.
Does Nalyquo handle progressive discount bands?
No. Quantity price breaks currently use all-units pricing: one qualifying price applies to the whole order.