Call-off changes seen before the material is ordered
Customers change their EDI call-offs every week. Arc alerts purchasing and the CFO before the planning run, not in the warehouse.
days of inventory
after two quartersof purchase orders
stopped or rescheduledcall-off changes
above 20% of the quantityChallenge
Customers send their call-offs by EDI straight into the ERP. Every new version overwrites the last one, and material planning runs on the latest quantity.
When an OEM cuts a call-off by 30%, the material has usually been ordered already. When it raises one, the parts are missing at shipping. Only three to four months could be planned reliably.
Solution with Arc
Arc keeps every call-off version and compares it with the previous one, by customer, part and week. Every change is valued at material cost and linked to the open purchase orders.
Before every planning run, purchasing, production planning and the CFO get all changes above 15% or €10k, with the purchase orders they affect.
Result
One change in six moved the quantity by more than 20%. Within two quarters €2.6m of purchase orders were stopped or rescheduled.
Inventory fell from 82 to 74 days and express freight halved. Call-offs are now compared for every customer, not just the ten largest.
How it runs with Arc
Your ERP has the data.
Arc does the work.
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Company details anonymised. Figures illustrative for a supplier with about €150m in revenue.