Lean Order Flow
Supplier purchase orders stopped waiting for a delivery plan.
- 1.5 h → 1.5 sto release a supplier PO
- −38%PO cancellations, annualised
- +111%PO value per vendor
The problem
A buyer’s purchase order could not reach the supplier until someone created a delivery request. Delivery groups, delivery requests and partner mappings sat between the buyer and the supplier, each a place to fail.
A purchase order is a commercial commitment and stays stable. Deliveries are execution: split, rescheduled, rerouted. Tying one to the other made the stable document wait for the unstable one.
What the evidence said
I checked whether the extra machinery earned its keep. Across six months, about 94% of dispatches had a single supplier for that product and location.
Those dispatches carried about ₹1,464 Cr of ₹1,793 Cr invoiced. The complex path existed for the exception.
- 100 dispatches
- 94 had a single supplier
What I decided
Generate the supplier PO straight from the buyer PO and its mapping. Plan deliveries in the same flow when known, or later when they are.
I rejected patching the delivery-first chain. The new flow handled multiple sellers, quantity splits, partial delivery plans, missing mappings, later changes and cancellations, with regression across PO, shipment and invoice.
The result
Supplier PO release went from about 1.5 hours to 1.5 seconds. Cancellations fell 38% annualised, POs per vendor fell 41% and PO value per vendor rose 111%.
Operations could now plan staggered deliveries after the supplier already had the order.
Same linear scale. The after bar is 0.03% of the before bar, drawn 2px wide so you can find it.
What I took from it
Separating commercial intent from execution removed a whole class of incidents, not just a delay.
Figures are from Bizongo appraisals, product records and my resume, for the period shown.