Suppliers & vendor performance
Your suppliers' lead times power your reorder timing, and the Scorecard shows you — with data, not gut feel — which vendors actually deliver.
Adding suppliers
Orders → Suppliers → New Supplier. Add the name, order email, phone, and a default lead time. The order email is where POs go; the rest prints on documents.
Lead times — the number that matters most
Lead time is how many days a vendor takes from order to delivery. It's the single biggest input to when Skucast tells you to reorder: a long lead time means Skucast orders earlier (you have more days to cover) and a short one means it can wait.
- Set a default lead time per supplier as a starting point.
- Skucast also learns the real lead time from your received POs over time and uses that.
The Vendor Reliability Scorecard
Orders → Vendor Scorecard ranks your suppliers on real PO history (last 180 days). For each vendor you get:
| Metric | Means |
|---|---|
| Reliability score (0–100) | A blended grade — mostly on-time delivery + fill rate, with a nudge for volume. |
| On-time % | How often deliveries landed on or before the expected date. |
| Fill rate | How much of what you ordered actually shipped (received ÷ ordered). |
| Avg lead time | The real average days from sent to received. |
| Open value | Dollars currently committed to this vendor on open POs. |
Use it to consolidate spend on the vendors who deliver — and to have a data-backed conversation with the ones who don't.
Why a vendor shows "insufficient data"
A vendor needs a few received POs in the window before Skucast will score it — one or two orders isn't enough to be fair. Until then it shows insufficient data rather than a misleading score. Keep ordering and receiving through Skucast and the score fills in.