Supplier Follow-Up
AI keeps after your suppliers for confirmations and ship dates, keeps your system up to date and tells you which jobs are at risk while there's still time to act.
Where it goes wrong
A supplier moves a date in an email, and nobody changes the plan. The shop finds out when the material isn't there, and the customer finds out last.
Sample job
Job 4408, 60 of Part CPromised for Nov 6
PlannedWhat happenedLate
The plate was ordered for Oct 27. The supplier never said yes to that date, and the plan counted on it anyway.
The supplier wrote that the plate would come Nov 3, but the email went to one person and the plan never changed.
On Oct 28 the saw was set up and the plate wasn't there, so cutting, milling and coating all slid a week.
The job shipped Nov 13, a week past the promise, and the customer found out when it didn't show up.
How AI handles it
AI does the chasing, and a person makes the calls.
When a PO goes out, AI asks the supplier for a ship date in writing and keeps asking until it has one.
AI reads every reply from your suppliers. When a date moves, it checks the job waiting on that order and tells you if the job will be late.
When an order will make a job late, AI looks for a way around it, like taking part of the order now, and writes the ask. You read it and send it.
Case study
[Shop name], [what they make], [city and state]
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Questions
No. We build on the system you already have. AI reads your open POs from it and your suppliers' replies from your email, and your team keeps working where they always have.
See AI for Your ERPOnly the kinds of emails you pick, like a reminder to confirm a ship date. Anything bigger, like asking a supplier to split an order, waits for someone on your team to read it and send it.
Yes. If your drawings or customer files are under an NDA, we sign one before we see anything, and we only see what you choose to show us. For defense work, the AI can run on a computer in your building.
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Who runs your project
I'm Christian Hostetler, the founder. I'll learn how your shop really works, build your system around it, and stay with you after it goes live.
in revenue I've driven across all the clients I've managed and consulted for over the last five years
We'll look at your current systems and show you what a custom system could look like for your business.
A shop or a plant that makes parts, products or equipment.
We'll look it over before we talk, so the call is about your shop.
You'll get a text with the link and a reminder before we talk.
Outside the US, start with your country code, like +44.
We'll go through your current systems and show you what a custom system could look like.
We build custom systems for manufacturers, so if you're not running a shop or a plant this wouldn't do much for you. If that changes, come back.