Keep lead times true

Every recommendation's order-by date comes from the supplier's lead time. When received purchase orders show a supplier takes a different number of days than the lead time on file, Skuvelo offers to use the observed number.

The offer appears on the item's page and, as a list, on the supplier's page in Suppliers, when all of these hold:

• at least 5 receipts from that supplier for the item, so one late shipment is not treated as a trend;
• the typical (median) observed lead time differs from the lead time on file by 3 days or more;
• the link has no planning lead-time override, because Planning uses the override instead of the lead time on file.

Choose Use observed lead time (N days) to set the link's lead time to N. Recommendations for that item recalculate straight away, and the change is audited with the old and new value.

Undo puts the previous lead time back. It stays on the item and supplier pages, even after a reload, until someone edits that supplier link. It needs an owner, admin, planner or purchasing role.

To set many lead times at once, import a supplier price list with a lead_time_days column.