Manufacturing

Catch the supplier slip before the line feels it.

Vic chases purchase orders, confirms supplier dates, books outbound shipping and answers customer order status, inside your ERP, so planners and buyers stop living in their inbox.

The old way

The plan depends on a hundred emails agreeing

Supplier confirmations, expedites, dock schedules, carrier bookings, customer status calls. Purchasing, planning and shipping each chase their own slice, and the line finds out last.

The new way

Pick a use case.

Watch Vic run the work, start to finish.

Purchasing

POs sent. Dates confirmed.

Vic raises POs from approved requests, chases every supplier for a confirmed date and posts it back to your ERP.

  • Raises POs from approved requisitions
  • Chases confirmations by email, portal and phone
  • Posts confirmed dates to your ERP
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Vic23 POs sent this morning. 19 confirmed the same day; 4 quiet.
VicFollowed up the 4. Apex Fasteners confirmed Feb 8, six days late. Flagged for line 3.
po-confirmations_0112.csvCSV · 23 POs · 1 slip flagged
19 confirmed1 slip to review
Expedites

Slips caught. Alternates ready.

When a date moves, Vic checks what it breaks, asks the supplier for options and sources an alternate.

  • Checks every slip against the schedule
  • Requests expedite or partial-shipment options
  • Quotes alternate suppliers
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VicApex's Feb 8 date breaks line 3's Feb 2 run. They can ship 400 of 1,000 by Feb 1.
VicMidwest Fastener quoted: full quantity, 2-day lead, 6% higher. Two options for your call.
expedite-options_PO-44120.pdfPDF · 2 options · schedule impact shown
Needs your decisionLine 3 covered either way
Production support

Line asks. Office answers.

Vic takes requests from the floor, finds the answer in your systems and routes what needs a person to the right person.

  • Answers material, drawing and status questions
  • Matches receipts to POs and drafts shortage claims
  • Routes decisions with context attached
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VicLine 3 asked if the bolts for WO 8821 are in. Receiving shows 960 of 1,000.
VicTold the line, opened a short-receipt claim on PO #44097, reminder set for Thursday's balance.
short-receipt_PO-44097.pdfPDF · claim drafted · buyer to approve
Line answeredClaim drafted
Shipping

Orders packed. Trucks booked.

Vic books carriers against ready orders and dock schedules, drafts the BOL and tells the customer when it leaves.

  • Books carriers to the dock schedule
  • Drafts BOLs and shipping documents
  • Sends ship notices to the customer
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VicNorthwind's order is packed: 6 pallets, must leave today for Friday. Dock 2 has 14:00.
VicCarrier booked for 14:00, BOL drafted, ship notice queued for scan-out.
bol_ORD-7731.pdfPDF · dock 2 · 14:00 pickup
Carrier bookedShip notice queued
Order status

Every customer told before they call.

Vic answers "where is my order" from production and shipping data and sends updates when a date changes.

  • Answers status from your ERP and MES
  • Sends proactive date changes
  • Logs every touch to the order
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VicNorthwind asked about order 7731. Packed, ships 14:00, Friday delivery.
VicReplied with the ship date, logged it, follow-up set for delivery confirmation.
status-replies_0112.csvCSV · 17 replies · 2 date changes sent
Customer updatedLogged to ERP
The result

One live view across every PO, dock and order

Vic watches open POs, supplier dates, receiving and customer orders, flags what is slipping, and works the routine ones to done.

Questions

What plant leaders ask first

Yes. Vic connects to your ERP, MES, supplier portals, carrier systems and email through existing integrations and works inside them: reading POs, receipts and production status, writing confirmations, claims and shipments, and logging every action back where your team expects to find it. There's no new portal to adopt and no data migration.

Rules and macros fire an alert and then wait for a person to act. Vic completes the task: it chases the supplier, sources the alternate, books the carrier, drafts the claim, and only escalates the calls that need judgment, with the full context attached. It's a teammate that does the work, not another notification in the queue.

You define the guardrails: what Vic handles on its own, what it must escalate, and who it routes to. Anything past those limits, like a price variance above a threshold or a source change, goes to the right person on your team with the history and a recommendation. Once you decide, Vic carries out the action and updates the record.

Most teams connect their systems and start shadowing within the first couple of weeks, then expand coverage as trust builds. You stay in approval mode for as long as you want. Vic takes more of the routine queue only as you sign off on the patterns.

Put Vic on the plant floor's inbox.

Bring last month's open POs. See the slips Vic would have caught.

Your systems stay put. Your people sign off. Running in days.