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Supplier Lead Time Visibility
Buyers lack reliable, proactive visibility into supplier lead times, delays, and order status, causing downstream planning and fulfillment failures.
In their words
Pick one narrow process where the lack of visibility already costs the company money: quotations getting delayed, purchase follow-ups missed, stock mismatches.
I wanted to know which suppliers were consistently missing production dates, whether a delayed shipment was going to create a stockout
The real value would be connecting external risk to my internal data.
Everything is late or backordered all the time. I never even saw paperwork to start working on an order until well after the promised date.
Sales orders at all-time high, people getting sent home there is so little work
they want most of it paid before production starts
A single honest update, "there's a delay because of X", would have changed everything.
He also asked for the purchase order as proof that we actually purchased the materials.
How hard is to make sure we have the materials before assigning a bunch of planagrams?
My supplier is a small workshop, great for day to day volume, but completely overwhelmed right now.
I can't procure raw materials on time anymore, which is directly hurting my sales and my relationship with distributors.
I finally narrowed it down to two suppliers. But the prices we had agreed on earlier changed again after things dragged on.
Procurement and supply chain teams
Where they talk
- r/SupplyChainLogistics
- r/supplychain
- r/dropshipping
- r/manufacturing
- r/procurement
- r/smallbusiness
- r/printondemand
- r/sysadmin
Tools they use today
- Excel
- SAP
- Zendrop
- Alibaba
- AliExpress
- DSers
- Shopify
Why those fall short
- master data never updated; no owner for reviewing actual lead-time performance
- Excel has no context, only Date | Supplier | Process | Status
- no updates unless chased; no reliable tracking of vendor promises
- small workshop overwhelmed, lead times doubled
- coating vendors run their own schedules and ignore rush requests
Map of ideas
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