What your long-lead orders look like today
The real tracker isn't in your system
The fixture log and ship tracker live in a spreadsheet, built on years of know-how nobody else has.
The PO is one lump-sum line
You place it early to lock pricing, long before submittals tell you what's actually in it.
Releases happen outside the system
You tell the vendor to ship by phone or email, while the PO still shows one line.
Ship schedules get re-keyed
Every week, the supplier's PDF or spreadsheet gets typed back in by hand.
Remaining quantities go stale
Everything's been received, but the order still says more is coming. Somebody has to catch it.
Change orders get tracked by hand
One directive can mean a long list of plus-and-minus changes, with no clean record of what changed. And every change starts the cycle over.
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