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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.

Tip: if a reorder recommendation looks too aggressive or too lazy, the supplier's lead time is usually the lever — fix it there and the math corrects itself.

The Vendor Reliability Scorecard

Orders → Vendor Scorecard ranks your suppliers on real PO history (last 180 days). For each vendor you get:

MetricMeans
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 rateHow much of what you ordered actually shipped (received ÷ ordered).
Avg lead timeThe real average days from sent to received.
Open valueDollars 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.

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