While you deliver
Procurement Schedule Checker
Know the last day each long-lead item can be ordered, and which ones have already passed it, before the schedule finds out for you.
Open your procurement log or long-lead item list: what is needed, when it is needed on site, and the supplier’s lead time. It is read inside your browser; nothing is uploaded.
Procurement log
Drop a spreadsheet here
One row per long-lead item: the date it is needed on site and the supplier's lead time, with its status, and the order and delivery dates once it has them. Review cycles, shipping and processing times per item are used when given.
The order date nobody wrote down
A 40-week generator needed on site in March had to be ordered the previous May, and before that its submittal had to go round the review twice. The need date is usually in the schedule; the order-by date usually is not, and it passes quietly. This works each item back from the day it is needed to the last day it can be ordered and the last day its review can start.
What is found
Items past their order date, with how late they now arrive if ordered today. Items whose order date is still ahead but whose review cycles no longer fit in front of it. Ordered items promised after they are needed. Then this week’s orders, the reviews to start in the next two weeks, and how long everything else can wait.
Two calendars
Supplier lead times and shipping run on calendar days, because factories and freight do not stop for your holidays. Reviews, purchase order approval and any buffer you keep before the need date run on your working calendar, with its public holidays.
What this does not do
It takes the need dates and lead times it is given; it does not check them against the schedule or the supplier. It does not place or approve orders, and it does not decide what to expedite. To see what a late delivery does to the finish date, put the new date into the Critical Path Calculator.