correlated-supplier-slip

What problem does it solve? When two or more independent suppliers slip confirmations on the same commodity within days, each ticket looks routine in isolation, but together they signal an industry-wide squeeze. Teams either overreact by forward-buying on coincidence (burning working capital) or underreact by treating a real squeeze as isolated reschedules and paying expedite premiums later. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Correlation validation: Confirms same commodity, independent suppliers, a timing cluster, and independent market corroboration before treating slips as a squeeze. - Category exposure sizing: Rolls up every open PO on the commodity through the BOM to all affected builds and SKUs, and computes the exposure week. - Priced options with a human gate: Prices forward-buy, dual-source, re-time, and hold-and-monitor paths, then stages revised POs in SAP for category manager and head of sourcing approval. - Use Case: Two suppliers slip panel commodity POs from week 8 to week 11 while the index climbs 12%; the skill sizes a 3,700-unit net exposure and stages a 6-week forward-buy plus soft-build re-timing for approval. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to evaluate whether two recent supplier confirmation slips on the same commodity are a market squeeze and what response to stage.