Supply Chain Software Development

Statistical forecasting models built from your sales history and seasonality patterns, calculated per SKU and per location. We use gradient boosting models -- LightGBM for tabular demand data and Prophet for time-series decomposition with trend, seasonality, and holiday regressors -- targeting a Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) below 15% on 13-week forward rolling forecasts. Safety stock levels are calculated per SKU using lead time variability data so buffer quantities reflect actual supplier performance, not a fixed number of days. Reorder point automation triggers purchase requisitions when on-hand plus on-order stock drops below the dynamically calculated threshold for each item. Out-of-stock risk alerts flag SKUs projected to stockout before the next scheduled receipt, giving your planners time to expedite or substitute. Overstock alerts identify slow-moving inventory before it ties up working capital across multiple periods. S&OP integration connects the forecast output to your ERP planning module -- SAP IBP or Oracle SCM Cloud -- so the supply plan reflects updated demand signals rather than the last month's frozen plan. Scenario planning lets your team model the inventory impact of a demand spike, a supplier delay, or a promotional campaign before committing to purchase orders.

PO creation and multi-level approval workflow before orders are sent to suppliers. For organisations trading with suppliers via EDI, we build ANSI X12 EDI 850 (Purchase Order) and EDI 855 (Purchase Order Acknowledgement) transaction handling so POs are transmitted and acknowledgements received electronically without manual re-keying. Supplier assignment and contracted pricing are applied automatically at PO creation from your ERP supplier master and pricing tables. PO acknowledgement tracking shows which suppliers have confirmed, which have acknowledged with a changed date, and which have not responded within your agreed confirmation window -- automated reminders go out when a supplier has not acknowledged within 48 hours. Delivery date commitment management flags when a supplier revises a committed date so your planning team can adjust the supply plan before the delay reaches the warehouse floor. Partial delivery handling reconciles multi-shipment receipts against the original PO. Three-way invoice matching compares the purchase order, the goods received note (GRN), and the supplier invoice -- quantity, price, and INCOTERMS 2020 delivery terms -- and flags discrepancies for accounts payable review before payment is authorised. INCOTERMS 2020 compliance tracking records agreed delivery terms (EXW, FOB, CIF, DAP, DDP) per line item and reports on supplier adherence.

A supplier-facing web portal where your suppliers log in to acknowledge POs, update delivery dates, upload shipping documents, submit invoices, and share tracking information for in-transit shipments. Supplier risk scoring uses Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) Supplier Intelligence API data -- financial stability ratings, PAYDEX scores, and operational risk flags -- so your procurement team has an objective risk signal for each supplier alongside their delivery performance history in the portal. Suppliers with a high-risk score or deteriorating on-time delivery trend are flagged for sourcing review. Nearshoring and reshoring cost modelling is supported by a supplier comparison tool that calculates total landed cost per unit including freight, duties, and lead time buffer stock requirements, so your procurement leadership can model the cost impact of shifting a category to a closer supplier. Quality documentation upload handles certificates of conformance, material test reports, and RoHS declarations. The portal reduces email and phone coordination that consumes procurement team time on every active PO, and gives you a documented audit trail of every supplier commitment and delivery status update. Disruption simulation using Monte Carlo methods models lead time variability across your top 20 supplier-SKU combinations, showing the probability distribution of late deliveries under different demand scenarios.

Real-time inventory by SKU across all warehouses, distribution centres, and in-transit stock in one view, updated from GS1 EPCIS events -- ObjectEvent (item-level observation), AggregationEvent (packing and unpacking), and TransactionEvent (order fulfilment and receipt) -- so inventory positions reflect actual physical movements rather than batch-updated ERP postings. GS1 EPCIS provides a standardised event vocabulary that works across different WMS platforms and logistics partners without custom integration per location. Inventory reservation for confirmed customer orders so committed stock is not available for reallocation to later orders. Stock transfer management between locations uses a transfer order workflow with dispatch confirmation at origin and receiving confirmation at destination, keeping in-transit stock visible as its own inventory state. Inventory valuation runs by FIFO or weighted average cost per SKU, with the chosen method flowing through to your ERP for financial reporting. Low stock alerts by location and by SKU surface before customer orders are affected, with reorder recommendations calculated from the demand forecast and current supplier lead times. The single inventory view your operations team needs when stock is spread across multiple locations and your ERP shows only warehouse-level totals without in-transit visibility.

End-to-end shipment tracking from supplier despatch to warehouse receipt, consolidated from carrier tracking APIs, GS1 EPCIS event streams, and supplier portal updates into a single shipment timeline per purchase order. GS1 EPCIS ObjectEvents and TransactionEvents provide the structured data backbone -- each scan event at origin, in-transit hub, and destination is recorded with EPC-level detail, timestamp, read point, and business step, giving you a verifiable chain of custody per shipment. Exception alerts surface automatically for shipments delayed at origin, in transit, or held at customs, without requiring someone to check each carrier's tracking portal. ETA prediction uses carrier historical performance data and current-leg transit time to update expected arrival dates dynamically as the shipment moves. When a shipment is flagged as high-risk due to customs hold or carrier delay, the system recommends the next available action: expedite an alternative shipment, substitute from a secondary warehouse, or notify the customer with an updated date. Customer-facing order status is served from the same data without your team generating manual update emails. The dashboard that tells your operations team what is on time, what is at risk, and what needs a decision today.

Integration with SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, or your custom ERP for inventory balances, purchase orders, goods receipts, and financial data. For SAP environments, we integrate via SAP IBP APIs for supply planning data and SAP S/4HANA REST APIs or IDocs for transactional data. For Oracle, we use Oracle SCM Cloud REST APIs covering purchasing, inventory, and manufacturing. WMS integration pulls pick, pack, and despatch events back into the supply chain layer so fulfilment activity updates the visibility dashboard in near real time. Bi-directional sync means the supply chain platform reads from your system of record and writes confirmed events back -- PO receipts, inventory adjustments, and supplier invoice approvals post to your ERP rather than creating a second source of truth that diverges over time. Integration approach is chosen based on your ERP's API capability: REST API, SOAP web services, JDBC direct database connection, or file-based EDI via AS2 or SFTP where API access is restricted. For legacy ERP environments with no API, we build a message broker layer using Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ to process high-volume transactional events without overloading the ERP. Integration scope and data mapping are documented during discovery before development begins.