Services · Ordering

Optimize interactions with suppliers.

The purchase order is where lead time, cost and stock-outs are decided, before anything ships. We look at how orders are raised, what the supplier is actually held to, and what the reorder rule is doing when nobody is watching it.

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Where it goes wrong

  • Orders raised by habit or by hand, on a cadence nobody has revisited since the volumes changed.
  • Supplier terms that are agreed once and never checked against what arrives, when it arrives, and what it costs to receive it.
  • Lead times treated as fixed when they are negotiable, and safety stock sized to the worst month of the last three years.
  • Minimum order quantities negotiated at SKU level, which leads to overbuying.

What we do

  • Map the order-to-receipt flow for your top suppliers and find where time and cost are added without anyone deciding it.
  • Set order rules that hold: quantities, cadence and triggers written down and tied to the demand signal, not to a person.
  • Renegotiate the terms that matter, from the shipper’s side, with the receiving data in hand.

How an engagement runs

Understand first. Then build.

  1. Step 1

    We look at how it runs today

    Your processes, your data, your contracts, as they are. Not a template.

  2. Step 2

    We build the fix with the people who will run it

    Rule-based, so it holds when the person who set it up is away.

  3. Step 3

    We hand over the plan and support the rollout

    For the period we agree up front, then your team runs it.

Thirty minutes on your operation.

Bring the process that is costing you the most time or money. We will tell you what we would look at first, and whether it is something we do.

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