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Okko Oulasvirta
Retail & Commerce

Supplier Performance Manager

See which suppliers are actually reliable — on lead time, fill rate and quality — and act on the ones that are costing you sales.

The decision it supports

Which supplier issues are hurting availability and margin, and what should we do about them?

What changes

Better availability from the same supplier base, evidence for supplier conversations, and fewer surprises in replenishment.

Data domains

  • Suppliers
  • Inventory and availability
  • Orders and fulfilment
  • Products and range
  • Finance and margin

Interactive preview

Supplier Performance Manager is described here as an opportunity rather than shown as a working demonstration. The interactive build for this industry is Inventory Exception Manager — it uses the same primitives, the same governed data model and the same decision-to-action pattern this application would.

We build one flagship per industry properly rather than four shallow ones. The pattern transfers.

The workflow

  1. 01Supplier lead times, fill rates and quality issues are consolidated
  2. 02Each supplier is scored against its terms and its peers
  3. 03The availability and margin impact of underperformance is quantified
  4. 04Options — reorder, resource, renegotiate — are compared
  5. 05The buyer chooses an action
  6. 06The decision is issued to purchasing and tracked

Platform capabilities most relevant here

  • OneLake

    One governed copy of enterprise data that analytics, AI and applications can all build on.

  • Curated business entities

    Agree once what an order, an asset or a customer means — then reuse it everywhere.

  • Data science and ML

    Predict what is likely to happen next so people can act before it does.

  • Fabric Apps

    Build the application where the governed data already lives, instead of copying it out.

  • Application state

    Remember decisions, assignments and approvals — the things a report cannot hold.

  • Enterprise APIs

    Turn a decision into a change in the system that actually runs the process.

Not every application needs every capability. This is the subset that this decision actually depends on.

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