Six workflows. One shared picture of the plant behind all of them.
Polymr sits between the systems you already run and the day-to-day work your team does on top of them. These six workflows cover the chores that take up most of an operations team’s week. Pick one to dive into, or read the overall shape first. The same document parser, the same item master, the same vendor history, and the same approval step sit underneath all six.
One console. Six workflow families, six row groups.
The console below is the screen every Polymr user opens at the start of the day. Six workflow families grouped as rows, each showing how many runs are open, how long the oldest one has been waiting, how much operator time Polymr recovered today, and how the family is tracking against SLA. No kanban, no swim lanes. One question is answered in the first glance: where is Polymr carrying weight today, and where is it about to fall behind.
Operator console · workflow families
Live · 6 families · 11 operators on shift · last refresh 09:42
| Family | Open | Age | SLA | Lead signal | Op |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demand, plan, inventory | 9 | 8 m | 92% | MR-2026.W22 · trigger ASN-7711 | JR |
| Quote, engineering, RFQ | 7 | 22 m | 88% | DWG-PMR-4031-v6 · cut-list ready | MC |
| Supplier quotes, purchasing | 6 | 14 m | 94% | RFQ-4821 · award pending V-218 / V-244 | AP |
| Receiving and delays | 12 | 18 m | 71% | PO-84179 · + 9d slip · recovery drafted | AP |
| Engineering revisions | 8 | 36 m | 82% | CN-1187 · 5 PO / 3 WO / 2 SO walked | MC |
| Margin and bottlenecks | 5 | 2h 04m | 100% | Mix-line Wed binding · reroute Cure-1 | SM |
- Receiving and delaysSLA 71%, oldest exception 38m, 3 high-risk recoveries waiting on buyer.
- Engineering revisionsCN-1187 chain 2 of 4; line-lead sign blocking downstream replan.
- Quote, engineering, RFQDWG-PMR-4031-v6 cut-list parsed; engineer sign needed to fan to V-218 / V-301.
Six workflows we run end to end. Pick where it hurts most.
Each card opens a page with a worked example, supporting sections, an anonymised customer case, and a focused FAQ. The mockups differ because the work differs. No two pages share the same primary screen.
Demand, plan, inventory
Re-explode demand against live BOM the moment a slip, sales order, or revision lands. Shortage actions land in the planning workbench within minutes.
Quote, engineering, RFQ
A drawing pair becomes a typed BOM proposal the engineer reviews next to the source PDF. Approved rows fan out as per-vendor RFQ packets the same hour.
Supplier quotes, purchasing
Every quote is normalised to landed cost, weighed against vendor history, and ranked the same way every time. Buyers see exactly the scoring the system used.
| V-218 | $4.20 | pick |
| V-201 | $4.55 | |
| V-244 | $3.98 |
Receiving and delays
The ASN slip is caught the minute it arrives. A recovery action: split, expedite, alt-vendor, lands in the buyer queue before the line stops.
Engineering revisions
A revision diffs row by row, fans out impact to every open PO and WO that touched the changed parts, drafts cancel/amend/new actions the same day.
Margin and bottlenecks
Margin and capacity attributed directly off the operational ledger the other five workflows write to. Yesterday’s PO is on today’s scorecard.
Source. Intake. Reasoning. Approval. Write-back.
Every workflow walks through the same five layers. Signals come in from email, CAD, PDF, vendor portals, ERP events, and shop- floor scans. The intake step reads them and links every field back to the exact spot in the source document. The reasoning step runs against the live item master and vendor history. A person on your team approves anything that writes back to your systems. The write-back goes in both directions, and uses safe retries (no duplicate records) on every channel.