Supplier Scorecard

Track Supplier Reliability Before It Costs You

Your reorder points are only as good as your lead times. And your lead times are only as good as your supplier's ability to deliver on schedule.

A supplier lead time usually gets set once, often the day the vendor is onboarded, and then nobody revisits it. The supplier says 30 days, you enter 30 days, and your entire replenishment engine plans around that number.

But what if the real lead time is 45 days?

Every SKU from that supplier now has a reorder point that's 15 days too late. You think you have two more weeks of coverage. You don't. Whatever safety stock you hold absorbs part of the gap, and you are out of stock for the rest of those 15 days.

The Scale of the Problem

A single supplier often feeds dozens or hundreds of SKUs. When that supplier's real lead time drifts from their stated lead time, the impact multiplies across your entire catalog.

Take a hypothetical seller with 200 SKUs from one vendor, configured at 25 days, whose deliveries have actually averaged 40. That's 200 SKUs with wrong reorder points. Every one of them carries safety stock calculated against a number that stopped being true months ago. Nobody notices.

It tends to surface as a stockout on a fast seller, because the fast sellers burn through the missing days first. That is the SKU where you can least afford to be wrong.

What ReplenishRadar Tracks

Delivery performance. For every supplier, we compare when POs were expected to arrive versus when they actually arrived, per order as well as on average. You can see whether a supplier is consistently late, occasionally late, or getting worse over time.

Risk badges. Suppliers who consistently miss their lead times get flagged. When you're creating a PO, you can see at a glance whether this vendor tends to deliver on time or whether you should add buffer days.

Lead time drift. If a supplier's actual delivery times are trending away from their configured lead time, we surface that. A supplier who delivered in 30 days six months ago but averages 38 days now is a problem you want to catch before it causes a stockout.

Cascade warnings. When you update a supplier's lead time in ReplenishRadar, we show you what changes downstream. If you adjust a lead time from 30 to 40 days, we tell you how many SKUs are affected, how their reorder points shift, and whether any of them are now at risk of stocking out before the next order arrives.

Why This Beats Gut Feel

Most sellers have a general sense of which suppliers are reliable. But "general sense" doesn't catch gradual drift. A supplier who was great two years ago might be slipping, and you won't notice until the stockout hits.

Numbers cut through gut feel. Say you can see that Supplier A delivers within 3 days of their stated lead time 90% of the time, and Supplier B is late by more than a week on 40% of orders. Your ordering decisions change. You add buffer to Supplier B. You might start looking for a backup vendor. You definitely stop planning as if they're going to deliver on the date they promised.

How It Fits Into Your Workflow

Supplier scorecards feed directly into ReplenishRadar's replenishment engine. When we generate PO suggestions, we factor in actual supplier performance alongside the configured lead time. When we calculate safety stock, we account for delivery variability.

You don't have to manually adjust lead times every time a supplier is late. The scorecard tracks it, and the planning engine uses that data.

Availability

Plan	What You Get
Standard ($119 $99/mo)	Basic supplier tracking, delivery vs. expected comparison
Growth ($249 $199/mo)	Full scorecard, risk badges, lead time drift detection
Scale ($499/mo)	Full scorecard + cascade impact warnings
Enterprise	Full suite + custom scoring criteria

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Related Features

• Purchase Orders - PO suggestions that account for real supplier performance
• Demand Forecasting - Forecasts paired with accurate lead times
• Catalog Triage - Surface and fix supplier data issues

Learn More

• Reorder Point Calculator - How lead times affect when you reorder
• Safety Stock Calculation Guide - Why supplier variability matters for safety stock
• Inventory Forecasting 101 - End-to-end forecasting methodology

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