Most manufacturers carry more stock than they need: planning settings no one has revisited, orders that land weeks early, and supplier terms that force big buys. Cartograph finds that cash and helps you release it.
Safety stock, reorder points, and lot sizes are set once and rarely revisited, so stock builds up long after demand has changed.
An order that arrives weeks before you need it is paid for, and on your books, the whole time it waits.
Long lead times and order minimums make you buy more, and earlier, than you need.
Cartograph compares each part’s planning settings with how the part is actually used, and flags the ones that keep more stock than you need.
When an order will arrive well before its part is needed, Cartograph flags it, and Scout Agent asks the supplier to push the delivery out or reduce it.
Cartograph keeps each supplier’s lead times current, and shows where long lead times and order minimums make you hold extra stock, so you know which conversations are worth having.
$1,200,000
Estimated value in your first year
ROI depends on your business’s specifics. The Cartograph team can help you quantify the impact.
An illustration, not a customer benchmark. Inventory: 10% less, at a 20% yearly carrying cost.
Connect your ERP and inbox. Cartograph sets itself up from your orders, parts, and suppliers, with nothing to migrate.
Cartograph checks every open order and part, and flags what needs attention, with the reason and what's at stake.
Scout Agent does the follow-up within the permissions you set. You approve anything significant, and every step is logged.
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Set each action Scout Agent can take, separately for tasks Scout leads and tasks Scout assists.
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CallingNora Whitfield · East Coast Castings
Call summaryLock in Thursday’s release and the courier for PO 24103.
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Why you’re asked This contact has been reached a lot recently.
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Even when Scout Agent leads, an email or call waits for your team when it matches an approval rule or the contact has been reached a lot recently.
Scout Agent leads
Scout Agent resolves this task end-to-end on its own, including interacting with external parties. Scout Agent pulls you in for escalations or when your approval is required.
Scout Agent assists
Scout Agent assists with the resolution, including researching, planning, and drafting communications. You approve all key actions, and can suggest alternatives.
Just me
Scout Agent will not run on this task.
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Each task type sets whether Scout Agent leads or assists, and your team can change the role on any task, down to Just me.
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Decline a draft with a reason, and Scout Agent uses it to find a different way through.
Decide whether to accept, hold invoice timing or refuse an early shipment, set a PO window, and know when a reschedule-out still saves cash.
Read lessonCatch a stale ERP lead time before it releases orders late, and release long-lead items before the rest of the BOM.
Read lessonKeep need date, PO due date and promise date in separate fields, plan against the confirmed date, and score suppliers on their first promise.
Read lessonKnow before the line starts whether a build is clear. Check on-hand status, shelf life against the build date, kitting timing, and what makes a CTB wrong.
Read lessonCartograph compares each open order's date with the next date its part is needed, using the demand on your records. By default, a readiness signal opens a task on Mondays when an order will land 14 or more days before that need. Your team sets when each readiness signal opens a task, and which orders it skips. Cartograph doesn't predict demand. It works from the schedule you already have.
Scout Agent follows your playbook for delaying or reducing an order. The starter playbook works out the new date, and any quantity to reduce, for each line, then asks the supplier by email to push the delivery out. A move of under about a week, or a line that was rescheduled recently, is held with the reason on the task.
The supplier's reason stays on the task, and the line stays as it is. If the supplier asks for a fee to move it, Scout Agent agrees to nothing and passes it to your team.
Yes. Once the new date is approved, it's updated on the order in your ERP. You choose which fields Cartograph may update, and every update is logged.
An out-of-date lead time on file places orders too early or too late. A “Verify a supplier’s lead times” task asks each supplier to confirm current lead times, starting with the parts that most need it, so the dates you plan against are current.
Readiness signals regularly open a “Review a supplier’s open orders” task, and Scout Agent sends each supplier the full list of open lines to confirm or correct in one email, so a date that drifted doesn't stay on your books.
We'll look at your open orders and planning settings with you, and show where the cash is.
