Supplier Lead-Time Variances View

The Suppliers tab shows details related to the items with variances, statistics on the lead-time performance such as Minimum and Maximum range, Variance days, and Variance percentage. It also shows the historical average lead time along with the suggested lead time recommendation.

You can adjust the supplier lead-time and copy it to the simulation set.

Use the advanced search and filter options in the search menu to filter the data based on the text and on the numeric attributes.

Table View

The following table describes some columns in the Supplier Lead-Time table:

Column Header	Description
Item	The item being supplied.
Supplier	The supplier of the item.
Supplier Site	The location of the supplier.
Supplier Lead Time	The actual lead-time of this purchase order. Supplier lead-time can be affected by three factors: procurement, manufacturing, and shipping. Ideally, supplier actual lead time must be same as or below the historic lead time.
Historical Lead Time	The Historical Lead Time in days. It's calculated as: Variance Days + Supplier Lead Time maintained in the ASL For example, if the average Variance Days is 3 days and the Supplier Lead Time is 2 days, the Historical Lead Time is 5 days.
Minimum Range	The minimum lead time observed for the historical period.
Maximum Range	The maximum lead time observed for the historical period.
Variance Days	The variances reported considering if the shipment was delivered by means of Buyer-managed Transportation (BMT) in your purchase order history. For items that have the BMT as Yes and consider the Order to Ship cycles the lead time variance (Variance Days) is calculated as: Ship Date – Requested Ship Date or Promised Ship Date For regular Buy orders that consider the Order to Receipt cycles for the lead time calculations, the lead time variance is calculated as: Ship Date – Requested Dock Date or Promised Delivery Date Note: The calculated variance can be a positive or a negative value. Positive variance means delayed shipments and negative variance means shipments that were received earlier than planned.
Variance Percentage	The difference between supplier lead time and historical lead time shown in percentage.
Suggested Lead Time	The recommended lead-time suggested for the item, supplier, supplier-site combination based on the historical lead time.
Adjusted Lead Time	The field to enter a revised supplier lead time. You can save it to a selected simulation set.