No visibility between procurement and inventory. A duplicate order cost $18,000 because stock allocated to a paused project was invisible to the buyer.
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Business Problem
A project manager submitted a purchase order for 200 units of cable tray at $90 per unit. Procurement processed it. The order shipped. Two weeks later, the warehouse manager mentioned that 140 units of the same cable tray had been sitting in a warehouse 12 km from the project site, allocated to a project that had been paused three months earlier. The $18,000 duplicate order was discovered after delivery. This was not an isolated event: duplicate and over-orders were a monthly occurrence because procurement had no visibility into warehouse stock, and warehouse had no visibility into project allocation status.
Current Challenges
How the Platform Solves It
The centralized material master enforces classification, validation, and de-duplication: the same item can only exist under one code with version-controlled specifications. Multi-level Bills of Material (BoM) are tied to project packages with traceability to suppliers and pricing. Before a PO is issued, the buyer sees real-time stock across all warehouses including allocation status (available, allocated to active project, allocated to paused project). MRP forecasting uses project schedules and consumption history to predict demand before stock runs low. Vendor contract management tracks every contract through its lifecycle (created → negotiation → signed → expired) with milestone alerts for renewals. Warehouse inventory tracks stock levels, valuation, and expiry with automated reorder alerts and discrepancy detection.
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