Ingredient Buying Automation

[just_jun2]

After you have a recipe you want to keep using. Is there a way to automate ingredient buying or deliveries from stores?

[PunishedBastich]

At the current time, no.

[roboticaust]

On the roadmap, so hopefully with the next update. Would be nice to have with the new property since it's absolutely massive

[TheFonz]

I read through the road map and don't see this. Which one is it? It would be nice to set and forget deliveries by location or at least to save orders to reuse over and over.

[restarter]

damn that would be awesome.
I would love a handler to go to the store for me once per day.
"here take the van"

[Orbnotacus]

"ReSchedule" mod.
Anytime an employee takes the last thing off a shelf, the shelf is automatically restocked with 100 of that item.
At the end of the day, you get a text on your phone with a total breakdown of everything you "restocked", the cost, and broken down by each property.

[Sasori 赤砂]

Improving in-game deliveries PLS
We should be able to specify an object for the shelves, so that during deliveries we don't have to manually transfer objects from the truck to the shelves.
If you implement the ability to determine that a shelf is only for "bananas," for example, then deliveries should be delivered directly to the available empty spaces on the shelves, and if there's no more space, then the objects will remain in the delivery truck.

You've made it so that a mix recipe can handle up to 8 mixes. Can you imagine the hard work that would entail without the feature I'm proposing? Seriously...

In my case, each mix object has a reserve of 5 shelves (more than the maximum per truck), so I have to call more than 16 deliveries to refill the mix factory (8 mixes). This means a 5-minute delay each time and a maximum of 320 items per truck.
It's a logistics nightmare.
And this solution should drastically make it more fun and less repetitive.
Similarly, you should make deliveries faster,
(even if it means paying more for fast delivery).

[roboticaust]

Originally posted by TheFonz:

I read through the road map and don't see this. Which one is it? It would be nice to set and forget deliveries by location or at least to save orders to reuse over and over.

Under the "Monthly Update Ideas" column and scroll down near the end. "Hireable drivers/logistics workers". If you click it you get additional info.

Drivers that you can hire to

• Move product from properties to dealers
  
• Move items between properties
  
• Move cash from dealers to businesses

This doesn't exactly list automating purchasing, but I seem to recall reading something on the discord about improving the loading bay system to go with it.