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Supplier management
One record per supplier: what they supply, at what terms, with which certificates, and how they have actually performed on delivery, quality and price. Onboarding, evaluation and risk in one place.
02Operations & finance · SCM
Supply chain management software development.
Supply chain software plans and tracks everything between a supplier's dock and a customer's door.
We build it to order, around the way you work, or extend and connect the one you already have.
01What it is
In plain words.
Supply chain software plans and tracks everything between a supplier's dock and a customer's door.
A supply chain fails quietly. A supplier slips by a week, a forecast is a little high, a truck is half empty, and each is small until they meet in one bad month of stock-outs on one shelf and write-offs on another.
Supply chain management software makes those movements visible early enough to act: who supplies what and how reliably, what will be needed and when, where goods are now, and what a change at one end does to the other.
02What it includes
Every part, explained.
7 parts. Each can be built by itself; together they are one system.
02
Procurement
Sourcing, quotations, contracts and purchase orders, with prices compared across suppliers and sites so the same item is not bought at three prices.
03
Demand forecasting
Expected demand by item, place and period, built from history, seasonality, promotions and orders in hand, with a stated error so planners know how far to trust it.
04
Logistics management
Shipments, carriers, routes, freight costs and proof of delivery, inbound and outbound, with tracking that tells the customer and the planner the same thing.
05
Supply chain planning
Turning the forecast into decisions: what to buy, make and move, how much safety stock to hold where, and what to do when a supplier or a lane fails.
06
Supply chain analytics
Service level, stock turns, days of cover, supplier performance and cost to serve, by product and by customer, from one set of data.
07
AI-based supply chain optimisation
Built to forecast better than a moving average, to recommend order quantities and stock positions, and to flag the supplier or lane that is starting to drift, with the reasoning shown so a planner can agree or overrule.
Buy, extend or build?
Buy if you run a standard distribution model and a product fits it. Build when your network is unusual, when planning must draw on ERP data that packaged tools cannot use well, or when you need one view across several ERPs after acquisitions.
Where intelligence fits
Forecasting and optimisation are where models genuinely beat rules of thumb, provided the data underneath is clean. We check that first, because a forecast built on duplicate items and missing history is confidently wrong. Recommendations are advice to a planner, not automatic orders, unless you decide otherwise.
03What it works with
Never on an island.
A system is worth most when it shares its records with the ones beside it.
- Enterprise resource planningAn ERP is the one system that records what a company owns, owes, buys, makes and sells, so every department works from the same numbers.
- Warehouse management systemA warehouse management system knows where every item in the building is, and tells people the best way to put it away, pick it and send it.
- Order management systemAn order management system takes every order from every channel and sees it through to delivery, and back again if it is returned.
- Business intelligenceBusiness intelligence turns what a company's systems record into charts and figures its people can read and act on.
- Data analytics and decision systemsAnalytics explains what happened and estimates what will; a decision system puts that estimate in front of the person deciding, at the moment they decide.
Part of a family
Operations, supply and finance: From purchase order to delivered order to closed books, in one flow.
04How we build it
Five steps, in the open.
- 01
Listen
You describe the work and where it hurts. We look at the systems and the data you have now.
- 02
Specify
A written specification: what the system does, what it does not, what it connects to and how we will know it works. A clear quote before any work starts.
- 03
Build in stages
A working piece at each stage, on real data, so you steer early. The part that matters most comes first.
- 04
Move the data
Existing records mapped, cleaned of duplicates and reconciled against the old system before anything is switched off.
- 05
Hand over
Training, documentation and the keys. Your team can run it, and we keep it working for as long as you want us to.
One set of records underneath
Customers, products, suppliers, people and stock are each defined once. A second system joins the first; it does not start a competing copy.
Runs where you decide
Your own servers, a private cloud or a cloud account that belongs to you. Customer, employee and financial data stays on infrastructure you control.
Yours to keep
You own the code, the data, the configuration and the documentation. There is no licence fee to us and nothing stopping another team from taking it on.
05Questions
Before you ask.
Questions about SCM
What is the difference between SCM and ERP?
An ERP records transactions: the order, the receipt, the invoice. Supply chain software plans and optimises across them: what should be ordered, from whom, to arrive where. They share data and do different jobs.
How good can a demand forecast be?
It depends on the product and the history, and no honest supplier can say before seeing your data. We measure forecast error on your own past periods and show it, item group by item group.
Can it give one view across several sites or ERPs?
Yes. Bringing stock, orders and suppliers from several systems into one consistent view is a common reason to build.
Guides
Plain-language guides on the problems this work solves.
- CRM, ERP, HRMS, CDP, PIM, WMS and the rest: thirty business systems explained in plain wordsBusiness systems · 8 min
- Custom software or off-the-shelf: how to decide whether to build, buy or extendBuild or buy · 3 min
- Custom CRM or off-the-shelf CRM: which does your sales team need?CRM · 3 min
- When does a company need a custom ERP?ERP · 3 min
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