All plansBuying
Buying is the buying team’s page in the console, in three tabs. It replaces the Buying, Purchase orders, Suppliers and Portal links pages of the old Supply chain suite; the calendar, stock, picklist builder, analytics and weekly digest stay there, one click from your account menu.
Purchase orders
A purchase order here is the operations copy of what you asked a supplier for — product, how many, and when you were promised it. No prices; that stays in your accounts system. Raise one with New order, or straight from the What to order tab. Click an order to send it: Copy as text for a phone call or a chat, Email the supplier when their address is on the contact card. Then mark it sent, running late (with a reason and a new date), or cancelled.
The order and the delivery are one thing
An order gets onto the dock one of four ways, and they all end in the same place. Book the delivery on the order puts an approved slot on Live bookings. Link a booking on the board ties it to one that is already there. A schedule you import with the PO number in a column links itself. And the supplier, on their own portal, sees their open orders and asks for a slot against one — the request arrives on your board already carrying the PO number. However it got there, the delivery’s expected lines are filled in from the order, so the checker at goods in reconciles the goods against what was bought, not a blank sheet; if the supplier then declares the load with batches and dates, their declaration replaces the seeded lines and keeps the order’s reference. The lorry signing in at the gate marks the order landed by itself. The Delivery column on the order list says where each one is — not booked, slot requested, booked, on site, delivered — and the tiles at the top are read from the dock, not from memory.
The supplier confirms before anything is booked
Every open order sits on the supplier’s portal with its lines. They confirm the quantity they will actually send per line, a promised date and a note. On your side the order shows Confirmed by … for Tue 15 Sep, each line shows Ordered, Confirmed and — once the bench has checked the lorry — Received, and the header carries the fill rate. A supplier who confirms short is a short you know about days before the lorry, not at the gate.
What to order
Usage is measured from what pickers actually took in the last 28 days, so a product with no movement says no usage yet rather than inventing a forecast. Days of stock is what is on the floor divided by that rate; the suggested order covers the next 28 days less what is already on the floor and less what is already on an open purchase order. Order it opens a new order with that line filled in.
Suppliers
One row per supplier: OTIF over the last 30 days (arrived within ten minutes of the slot and nothing short), a grade from A to D, how many of their bookings they raised themselves through their portal link, lateness, shorts, fill rate (cases ordered against cases scanned in on landed orders), how often they confirm orders on the portal, open orders and the last delivery. Click a row to open the supplier’s card, where their email and portal link live.