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The purchase order template that broke our whole process in Cleveland
For like 2 years I ran our inventory restocking off a PO template I built in Excel. It had columns for item, vendor, quantity, and price. Then last month a new vendor sent back our PO with a note saying 'need the lead time field filled or we can't schedule.' I had no idea what they meant. Turns out vendors were manually guessing delivery windows every single order and it was causing these constant stockout headaches. Nobody ever told me lead time was the missing piece. I asked around and every other ops person I know has it on their PO from day one. Has anyone else found a basic field like that just silently missing from their workflow for way too long?
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caseys3027d ago
Lead time isn't always on the PO though, usually it's in the vendor agreement.
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