Lead-time drift goes unnoticed
Stockouts
Suppliers slowly slip from 14 days to 16 to 19. By the time it shows up in the monthly review, you've already had your first stockout. Continuous lead-time watch catches the trend before the symptom.
Solutions / Supply Chain
The supply chain shifts. Your plan should too.
Lead-time drift, demand swings, freight disruptions. The agents watch all of it continuously and adjust your replenishment, your rebalancing, and your supplier follow-ups in real time.
Supply-chain agents in private beta · GA Q4 2026
lead time watch
last 14 days · 124 active suppliers
| Supplier | Promised | Actual | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steelcore | 14d | 16d | +2d |
| NorthernKit | 21d | 19d | −2d |
| MetroSource | 30d | 37d | +7d · alert |
| BlueCrate | 10d | 11d | +1d |
| BrightHaul | 18d | 23d | +5d · alert |
What this replaces
Planning runs nightly. Disruptions happen at 11am.
Three structural problems with batch planning.
Disruptions happen between planning cycles
Premium freight
A port closes Tuesday morning. The agent knows. It looks at every open PO routing through that port, surfaces the affected shipments, and proposes the rebalancing options with cost and timing pre-calculated.
Inventory sits unevenly across plants
Working capital
Three plants short, two plants long, nobody moves anything because the rebalancing math is annoying. Agents do the math and propose the moves. Your planners approve.
What runs once you connect.
01
Continuous lead-time watch
Every supplier, every SKU, against actuals. Alerts fire on the drift, ahead of the stockout.
02
Demand sensing
Your order book plus external signal: weather, freight indices, promotion calendar.
03
Disruption playbooks
When a route, port, or supplier goes down, the agent runs the playbook for that scenario and surfaces options.
04
Inventory rebalancing
Cross-plant moves with the freight cost and the timing trade-off already calculated.
Works with
Plays nicely with what you already have.
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