Troops are highly encouraged to place a strong Starting Inventory Order(SIO) to ensure success for their troop in meeting their goals.

Did your troop discuss and answer the following questions?

• Are the Girl Scouts in your troop planning to sell the same, more, or fewer cookies than last year?
• If you are not the troop leader, what are the troop’s goals? Is the troop planning something big that they are earning funds for (trips, travel, events, camp, etc.)?

Before you fill out this eform and submit it in eBudde, we highly encourage you to have a planning discussion with your troop regarding setting goals. Try this goal setting worksheet to help with the discussion and get answers for the following questions:

• Are the Girl Scouts in your troop planning to sell the same, more, or fewer cookies than last year?


• If you are not the troop leader, what are the troop’s goals? Is the troop planning something big that they are earning funds for (trips, travel, events, camp, etc.)?

From this point forward, you will see data in CASES (each case has 12 packages). When you enter your
SIO into eBudde, you will be entering it in cases. However, we have included the equivalent number of packages for the Grand Total and the Per Girl totals for reference.

We recommend that a troop’s SIO be a percentage of the total goal – ranging from 75% to 95% of the total. As you determine your percentage, keep in mind what you feel comfortable taking on up front to support the Girl Scouts’ sales and the first weekend of boothing.

Choose a percentage to see the variety mix and total number of cases that would result from the percentage you choose. When entering your SIO into eBudde you can adjust the variety totals as you wish; these totals are based on GSGLA’s overall per variety percentages.