The slip lands at 09:14. The recovery is on the buyer queue at 09:17.
Receiving is the workflow where the seconds matter most. An inbound ASN that quietly slips nine days does not announce itself; by the time the buyer notices, the line has already starved. Polymr watches the inbound stream continuously, calculates the downstream impact the moment a slip lands, and surfaces a recovery action (split the PO, expedite from an alternate vendor, replan the WO, or accept the slip and reorder) before the next coffee break.
Every slip lands as an exception with the full downstream impact attached.
The exception queue is what the buyer opens at the start of the shift. Each row shows the affected PO, the delay in days, what is at risk downstream (work orders affected, customer commitments at risk), and a suggested recovery. The impact is calculated the moment the ASN slip is parsed, not after the line stops.
Exception queue · delay attribution
6 open · sorted by downstream impact · refreshed 09:42
| PO | Vendor / item | Slip | WOs | SOs | Recovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PO-84179 | V-218 · PMR-CN-44 · 440 ea | + 9d | WO-1124, WO-1126 | SO-22418 · 320 ea | expedite via V-244 (lead 7d) |
| PO-84198 | V-218 · PMR-4406 · 180 ea | + 4d | WO-1131 | - | replan WO-1131 to W23 |
| PO-84142 | V-201 · PMR-BR-08 · 320 ea | + 2d | WO-1124 | - | accept · cover from safety stock |
| PO-84094 | V-218 · PMR-4406 · 120 ea | + 6d | WO-1126 | SO-22441 · 80 ea | split · 60 ea from V-244 air |
| PO-84028 | V-301 · HW-B8-A325 | + 1d | - | - | no action · within float |
| PO-83992 | V-244 · PMR-SR-FK · 240 ea | + 11d | WO-1131, WO-1134 | SO-22418, SO-22456 | alt-vendor V-218 · trial 50% |
Recovery is three options, costed, on the same row.
When the buyer opens an exception, the recovery panel shows the three options Polymr considered, each costed against the slip. Split to an alternate vendor, expedite via faster freight, or replan the downstream WO. Each option shows the cost, how much lead time it recovers, and a note on the risk. The buyer picks one; the audit row records which was chosen and which were declined.
PO-84179 · recovery options
Slip 9 days · attributed to V-218 capacity · 2 WOs at risk
- Cost
- + $ 92 / unit
- Lead
- recover 7 of 9 days
- Risk
- V-244 OTD 88% · 4 prior POs
- Cost
- + $ 1,440 freight
- Lead
- recover 5 of 9 days
- Risk
- no quality risk · incumbent
- Cost
- + $ 480 idle WC
- Lead
- absorb · 0 days recovered
- Risk
- SO-22418 commit slips 5d
The MPS view shows what a three-minute detection actually saves.
Before-and-after of one item’s MPS view across the slip event. The plan as of 09:13 on the left, the plan after the ASN slip on the right, with the recovery option folded in. The recalculation fires once; the planner and the buyer see the same numbers.
| W22 | 280 | Planned |
| W23 | 320 | Planned |
| W24 | 240 | Planned |
| W22 | 120 | Short -160 |
| W23 | 0 | Short -320 |
| W24 | 600 | Recovery +360 |
A takt-driven plant where a single slip cost a shift.
Anonymised engagement with a high-volume supplier. One missed slip would cascade into a full shift lost; the recovery loop pulled detection ahead of impact, and the lost-shift count dropped to near zero within the first six weeks of running.
- Situation
- Two stamping-and-assembly plants ran a 38-second takt against forecasted weekly volumes. Daily planner output drove material releases, work-centre assignments, and overtime calls for both sites.
- What was breaking
- A single inbound resin slip on PMR-4031 cascaded into a 9-day backlog across four downstream WOs before anyone caught it. Planners burned the first two hours of every shift reconciling on-hand against MES-reported scrap before they trusted the morning queue.
- Demand → planning → purchasing
- Delay recovery
- Margin and bottleneck analysis
Where receiving connects to the rest of Polymr.
The slip caught here is the red cell that never showed up in the planner’s queue, and the alternate-vendor recovery runs through the purchasing comparison. Industry context sets the cost of a missed shift.
Demand, plan, inventory
The slip caught here is the red cell that did not appear over there. Receiving is the upstream signal that keeps the planner’s queue honest.
Supplier quotes, purchasing
When the recovery is an alt-vendor RFQ, the matrix in the purchasing workflow decides who gets the consolation packet.
High-volume manufacturing
The industry view: takt-driven plants where a missed slip costs an entire shift.