Drive Improvement
Supply chain costs are reduced continuously across freight, inventory and procurement effort, improving margin without compromising delivery.
Free tools
- Safety stock formula and calculation for purchased partsSafety stock formula, Z table and a free calculator that turns a supplier's quoted lead-time range into a buffer and reorder point. Worked example included.
- Economic order quantity (EOQ) formula and calculator for purchased partsThe EOQ formula with a worked example, and a free calculator that fits your order quantity to the supplier's MOQ, pack size and price breaks.
- MRP calculator with a worked MRP example, week by weekFree MRP calculator: enter your build plan, open POs, lead time and MOQ, and see net requirements, planned orders and why each PO lands when it does.
- Open PO tracker and open purchase order reportPaste your open purchase order lines and see which are late, unacknowledged or slipping, and which run out of stock first. Free CSV template included.
- Supplier scorecard template that fills itself from your POsA free supplier scorecard template in Excel, and an online version that scores each supplier from your PO dates: on time, in full and lead-time spread.
- Average supplier on-time delivery: benchmark, formula and calculatorThe median supplier delivers 90% of orders on time. Measure your suppliers' on-time rate to request and to promise, and see how late the late lines run, free.