Change a lead time. Watch forty order dates move.
Suppliers are records, not a column in a spreadsheet: who they are, who you talk to, and the terms that govern ordering. The terms are not documentation — they are the inputs the reorder math runs on.
Terms that actually drive the dates
Lead time, minimum order quantity, container quantity. Your co-man slips from six weeks to nine and every order date that depends on them recalculates, instead of being wrong in a spreadsheet until someone notices.
The contact lives with the terms
Who you email about a delayed run is on the same record as the lead time that got delayed. It is not in one person’s phone.
One place, not one per supplier
Every supplier read from the same screen rather than reconstructed from a folder of POs and an email thread.
What the agent does with suppliers
Every night
Supplier terms are what the agent’s overnight math runs on, so a lead-time change shows up as re-ranked order dates in the next morning’s list.
What it can’t do
It cannot contact a supplier, send an order, or change a supplier’s terms. It cannot send anything outside Planster at all.
Nine weeks, not six
A co-manufacturer quietly moved from six-week to nine-week runs. In a spreadsheet that is one cell nobody updated and four SKUs that arrive three weeks late. Changed on the supplier record, every order date that depended on it moves the same afternoon.
How it fits together
Every capability runs on the same demand forecast, so each one makes the others more useful.
Put your terms where the math is
Load your suppliers and see what your real lead times do to this month’s orders.