Build your supply chain management app.

How to build your supply chain management app

1. 1

   Describe the job

   Connect demand requests, supplier orders and shipment exceptions through receipt.

2. 2

   Review the first version

   Choose how the supply planner records the demand request and how the purchasing coordinator reviews the next step.

3. 3

   Refine the views

   Ask First to adjust the fields and views for the people who will use the app.

4. 4

   Test before sharing

   Walk through the process with a sample record and check who owns the next action.

What to include in your supply chain management app

• Keep the demand request in context

  Keep demand request, supplier order, shipment milestone, receipt, exception and owner together so the next person can understand the request or record.

• When the next step needs a decision

  A supplier confirms shipment for only part of a requested quantity. Preserve the remaining obligation across purchasing and receiving instead of closing the demand.

• Keep owner visible

  Give the unresolved supply exception a clear owner before closing the handoff.

• Choose what each person needs

  Give the supply planner a working view and the purchasing coordinator a review view. Keep demand request and supplier order attached to the decision as the work moves between them.