Table · reads company

Suppliers

Vendors and terms.

Rows and columns, sortable and filterable.

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Two suppliers drifting at once. Written down, that is a pattern rather than bad luck.

SupplierSuppliesLead timeTermsReliability

Guji CooperativeGreen coffee5 weeks50% up frontAlways on time

Atelier BoisReclaimed oak6 weeks30 daysWas 3 weeks, slipping

Pack NordBoxes, labels4 days30 daysReliable

Céramique RivePour-overs3 weeksOn deliveryTwo late in a row

What it does

Behaviours, not fields. Choosing between two modules is choosing between these.

Lead time and payment terms sit together, because together they decide when an order has to be placed rather than when you would like to place it.

Reliability is recorded as it is observed, so "was three weeks, slipping" is a note rather than a memory.

Two suppliers drifting at once reads as a pattern on one screen and as bad luck in anybody head.

Feeds Inventory: a reorder point is only correct if the lead time behind it is.

How it works

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Suppliers are recorded with lead time and terms together, because together they set the order date.
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Reliability is a note written when something slips, with the date.
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Two suppliers drifting at once reads as a pattern on one screen and as bad luck in anybody head.
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Lead time feeds Inventory, since a reorder point is only correct if the lead time behind it is.

Best for

Comparing many records across many fields.

Not the right choice for

A phone. A table is the first thing that stops working narrow.

What a row holds

Every field, and what the agent listens for to fill it — which is the difference between a page you type into and one that fills itself.

Field	Type	Filled from
Supplierrequired	text	The business you buy from, named the way the team refers to them.
Suppliesrequired	text	What you buy from them.
Lead timerequired	text	How long they take. With terms, this decides when an order must be placed.
Terms	text	Payment terms, which is the other half of the timing.
Reliability	text	Observed behaviour, recorded as it happens rather than remembered.

What it does not do

A module chosen for something it cannot do costs more than one that was never offered.

Reliability is prose, so nothing scores or ranks it.
No purchase orders or supplier invoicing.
One lead time per supplier, so a slow item and a fast one from the same source cannot differ.
No contract or certification tracking; that is Documents.

Before it works

What you have to provide, if anything.

Record the lead time honestly, including when it changes.
Pair with Inventory, which depends on it, and Deliveries for what is in transit.

In practice

A workshop dependent on reclaimed oak and one ceramics supplier.

“The oak is six weeks now, not three.”

What was said to the agent

What the agent built

The lead time updated and the reliability note changed to record the drift, with the date it was noticed.

What changed

The next quote carried a realistic date. Two months later the same supplier slipped again, and the written record was the difference between renegotiating and hunting for a second source.

Better with

These do a different job on the same data. An agent can have all of them.

InventoryLive

Stock runs out, reordering takes time, and selling something you do not have is a real cost.

CompaniesLive

You sell to organisations, several people at each, and the relationship belongs to the company not the person.

DeliveriesLive

Goods travel to customers and "where is my order" is a question the agent should answer without a person.

Who uses this page

Event agency

Qualifies briefs, prices the obvious, and keeps every run-of-show and supplier straight.

Caterer

Quotes the obvious, captures dietary requirements, and never loses a headcount.

Restaurant

Answers the menu, the allergens and the opening hours — in every language your guests speak.

Manufacturer or B2B supplier

Answers spec, MOQ and lead-time questions from your own catalogue, at any hour.

Questions

What data does the Suppliers page use?

It reads company records the agent has collected. Vendors and terms. Nothing has to be imported first — the page appears once there is something to show.

Do I have to build or configure it?

No. You describe what you need in a sentence and the agent chooses the view and fills it. Custom pages exist for the cases no built-in view covers, and those are reviewed before they go live.

When is a table the wrong choice?

A phone. A table is the first thing that stops working narrow. It is best for: comparing many records across many fields.

Does it stay up to date?

Yes. The page is a view over the data rather than a copy of it, so anything the agent learns afterwards shows up without a rebuild or a re-import.

Ask for it in a sentence

You do not configure this page. You tell your agent what you need and it builds it from what it has already collected.

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