Purchase order to receipt cycle analytics
An importer measured where time was lost between placing an order and having goods on the shelf, stage by stage.
- Cycle measured
- Per stage
- PO to shelf
- Cycle time
- -9 days
- after fixes
- Stalled orders
- Flagged
- in real time
- Handoffs tracked
- 5
- across systems
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The challenge
The order-to-receipt cycle crossed procurement, the forwarder, customs, and the warehouse, and no single system measured the handoffs, so delays were only felt, never located.
What we built
We stitched milestones from the ERP, the forwarder, and customs into one timeline and measured the duration of every stage against its target.
- A stage-by-stage cycle time from PO to shelf.
- Bottleneck analysis by lane, supplier, and customs path.
- Aging alerts on orders stalled at any stage.
Outcomes
- Delays are located at the stage that causes them.
- Chronic bottlenecks at customs or a lane are addressed with data.
- Planning uses real cycle times instead of optimistic defaults.
Where the data came from
Data is drawn from the systems the operation already runs on and delivered in the client’s own tenant.
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