PN-48271
Critical Shortage- Requirement
- Sep 18
- Supplier ETA
- Oct 4
- Inventory coverage
- 42%
Recommended action
Expedite 180 units
HighWhat this is
An AI planner for the supply chain you already run.
Vector sits on top of SAP, ERP, Excel, and supplier data. It watches every part, finds shortages and risks, and tells planners what to do today. It does not replace your systems.
Built for supply chain leaders at hardware and manufacturing companies who have a real materials plan — and not a huge planning team.
Your next step is the pilot request. No ERP migration. Start with data you already have.
Sample output — this is the view a pilot produces from your planning data
app.vector.supply / command-center
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Planning workspace
Supply Chain Command Center
Horizon: 21 days · Plant: AUS-01
Parts monitored
8,421
Critical shortages
17
Supplier risks
31
PO actions recommended
46
Potential excess inventory
$284K
Needs Attention Today
3 of 23 exceptionsSupplier ACME Components
Delivery Risk- On-time performance
- 78%
- Average slip
- 6.4 days
- Open orders at risk
- 11
Recommended action
Request updated commitments
PN-29481
Excess Inventory- On-hand
- 1,840
- Weeks of cover
- 26
- Next demand
- Nov 2
Recommended action
Push out PO-9912
HighWhat it does
One AI planner watching every part.
After you request a pilot, this is the work the planner does on your data: shortages, POs, supplier risk, inventory, daily priorities, and questions in plain language. It is software, not a consulting engagement.
Shortage Detection
Continuously identify upcoming material shortages before they affect production.
PO Management
Find orders that should be expedited, pushed out, cancelled, or reviewed.
Supplier Risk
Monitor supplier performance, missed commitments, lead-time drift, and recurring delivery issues.
Inventory Optimization
Identify excess inventory, duplicate coverage, unnecessary purchases, and working-capital opportunities.
Daily Prioritization
Turn thousands of ERP records into a short, ranked list of actions your team actually needs to take.
Ask Your Supply Chain
Ask natural-language questions across parts, suppliers, POs, and coverage — without another report build.
- “What could stop next month’s build?”
- “Which suppliers are creating the most risk?”
- “What should my planners focus on today?”
- “Where are we overbuying?”
How it works
Built on top of your existing stack.
There is no rip-and-replace implementation. The platform works across the tools and processes companies already use. Pilots typically start with normal exports. APIs, database access, or approved browser and system automation can be added once the planning layer is proven on your data.
Existing systems
SAP / ERPExcel / CSVSupplier portalsPlanning systemsEmail / operational data
AI Supply Chain Layer
Vector normalizes planning data, applies your business rules, and continuously reasons over parts, POs, suppliers, and inventory — without replacing SAP, ERP, Excel, or supplier portals.
Data normalizationBusiness rulesPlanning logicAI reasoningContinuous monitoring
Actions
Shortage alertsPO recommendationsSupplier follow-upsInventory actionsPlanner task queueApproved system actions
Sample output
From thousands of records to the 23 things that matter.
The planner does not dump another MRP exception list. It ranks shortages, supplier slips, excess, and duplicate coverage so a materials manager can work the queue.
Prioritized action queue
23 open · sorted by risk
| Priority | Part | Issue | Required | Current ETA | Exposure | Recommended action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Critical | PN-10382 | Shortage | Sep 12 | Sep 27 | 15 days | Expedite 240 units |
| High | PN-48291 | Supplier slip | Sep 20 | Sep 29 | 9 days | Request commitment |
| Medium | PN-29481 | Excess inventory | — | — | $42,700 | Push out next PO |
| Medium | PN-57213 | Duplicate coverage | Oct 04 | Sep 18 | $18,300 | Review / cancel PO |
| High | PN-81104 | Lead-time drift | Sep 24 | Oct 06 | 12 days | Split order / dual source |
| Medium | PN-22690 | Min-buy overage | Oct 11 | Oct 08 | $9,420 | Negotiate quantity break |
Human control
Automation without giving up control.
Companies define what the AI is allowed to do. Recommendations are auditable. The product does not take unsupervised actions during a pilot, and later automation stays inside explicit policies.
01
Recommend
AI identifies the problem and recommends an action, with the source data and rule behind it.
02
Approve
A planner reviews the evidence and approves, dismisses, or investigates before anything moves.
03
Automate
Low-risk actions can later execute inside existing tools, only within policies the company defines.
Recommendation · PN-48271
Every recommendation includes the underlying data, reasoning, and business rule so planners can understand why an action was suggested.
Requirement on Sep 18 is uncovered. Supplier ETA is Oct 4. Inventory coverage is 42%. Recommended action: expedite 180 units. Confidence: high.
- On-hand
- 84
- Open PO
- 200 due Oct 4
- Gross requirement
- 264 on Sep 18
- Coverage
- 42%
- Planning rule
- Shortage if coverage < 100% inside 21-day horizon
Planner decision
No change is written back to ERP until a planner approves it, or a later policy allows a bounded automatic action.
Capacity
Give every planner dramatically more capacity.
Traditional planners spend much of their day searching through systems, reconciling spreadsheets, reviewing PO lines, chasing commitments, and determining which exceptions actually matter.
The AI planner handles the monitoring and first-pass analysis so humans can focus on decisions, supplier relationships, and true exceptions. It is a capacity layer — not a claim that the product replaces a planning team.
Thousands
of parts continuously monitored
Minutes
to identify daily priorities
24/7
continuous exception monitoring
Product capabilities — not customer-reported results
What to do next
The only action on this page is to request a pilot.
You do not need to migrate ERP, buy software, or connect systems on day one. Request a pilot, send a normal export, and we show you what the AI finds in your supply chain.
01
Request a pilot
Use the form on this page. Tell us your role, systems, part count, and the planning problem you want examined first.
02
Send a normal export
POs, inventory, demand, supplier data, BOMs, and related planning files you already produce. We also capture your rules: horizons, buffers, and approval limits.
03
Review the action queue
We return a ranked list of shortages, supplier risks, inventory issues, and recommended actions — on your data, not a generic demo.
No ERP replacement. Start with the data you already have.
Ideal customers
Built for supply chains that have outgrown manual planning.
Vector is designed for small-to-mid-sized hardware and manufacturing companies — roughly 20–300 employees — with a real supply chain and a lean planning team. Typical buyers include Head of Supply Chain, Director of Supply Chain, COO, VP Operations, Materials Manager, and Procurement Manager.
Hardware startups
Useful when the BOM is still moving and planning lives across spreadsheets, contract manufacturers, and a thin ERP setup.
Manufacturers
Built for plants that already run MRP, but still rely on people to catch the exceptions that actually stop a line.
Robotics companies
Long-lead actuators, controllers, and custom machined parts create shortage risk that is hard to watch manually.
Automotive suppliers
Program changes, call-offs, and strict delivery windows leave little room for late visibility.
Electronics companies
High part counts, allocation, and second-source decisions benefit from a ranked view instead of another spreadsheet.
Industrial equipment
Configure-to-order and spare-parts demand make coverage and excess harder to see in a standard ERP screen.
High-mix / low-volume
When every job is different, planners need a short list of true exceptions rather than another MRP exception dump.
Particularly useful where there are:
- many part numbers
- frequent engineering or demand changes
- long supplier lead times
- multiple suppliers
- significant manual planning work
Security
Built to be reviewed by operations and IT together.
A VP of Supply Chain should be able to bring IT into the conversation without a surprise. During pilots, you provide the data. Deeper system access is only used when you approve it.
Your workspace, your data
Pilot data is used to configure and run your planning workspace. It is not a public training set, and it is not used to market results you did not authorize.
Named access
Access can be limited to the people you designate — typically supply chain, procurement, and operations leaders on the pilot.
Auditable recommendations
Every suggested action keeps the underlying records, the business rule, and the reasoning so a planner can reconstruct why it appeared.
No implied certifications
We do not claim SOC 2, ISO, or ERP-vendor certification here. Security reviews, data-handling terms, and connection method are scoped with each pilot.
Your planners shouldn’t have to manually watch every part.
If this looks useful on your data, request a pilot. That is the next step — send an export, then review a ranked action queue with us.