Supplier performance reporting

A system for reporting supplier on time performance comprising:

• at least one computer;
• first executable code for storing purchase order data in a data base;
• and
• second executable code for generating on time performance reports from the purchase order data, the on time performance reports including a number of orders delivered on time by a first supplier with respect to each of a plurality of start point/end point pairs.

A method for reporting supplier on time performance comprising:

• storing in a database summarized purchase order data from a plurality of buyers, the summarized purchase order data comprising a plurality of records, each record in the plurality of records including a supplier, a buyer, a one of a plurality of start point/end point pairs for measuring on time delivery, a number of orders placed, and a number of orders delivered on time;
• for a first subset of the plurality of records, each record in the first subset including a first of the plurality of start point/end point pairs and a first supplier, summing together the number of orders placed included in each record of the first subset to obtain a first total number of orders placed with the first supplier for which the first start point/end point pair is used to measure on time delivery;
• for the first subset of the plurality of records, summing together the number of orders delivered on time to obtain a number of the first total number of orders that were delivered on time;
• for a second subset of the plurality of records, each record of the second subset including a second of the plurality of start point/end point pairs and the first supplier, summing together the number of orders placed included in each record of the second subset to obtain a second total number of orders placed with the first supplier for which the second start point/end point pair is used to measure on time delivery;
• for the second subset of the plurality of records, summing together the number of orders delivered on time to obtain a number of the second total number of orders that were delivered on time;
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• reporting to the plurality of buyers the first total number of orders, the number of the first total number of orders that were delivered on time, the second total number of orders, and the number of the second total number of orders that were delivered on time.

A system for reporting supplier on time performance comprising:

• at least one computer;
• first executable code for storing in a database summarized purchase order data from a plurality of buyers, the summarized purchase order data comprising a plurality of records, each record including a supplier, a buyer, a one of a plurality of start point/end point pairs for measuring on time delivery, a number of orders placed, and a number of orders delivered on time;
• second executable code for, with respect to a first subset of the plurality of records, each record in the first subset including a first of the plurality of start point/end point pairs and a first supplier, summing together the number of orders placed included in each record of the first subset to obtain a first total number of orders placed with the first supplier for which the first start point/end point pair is used to measure on time delivery;
• third executable code for, with respect to the first subset of the plurality of records, summing together the number of orders delivered on time to obtain a number of the first total number of orders that were delivered on time;
• fourth executable code for, with respect to a second subset of the plurality of records, each record of the second subset including a second of the plurality of start point/end point pairs and the first supplier, summing together the number of orders placed included in each record of the second subset to obtain a second total number of orders placed with the first supplier for which the second start point/end point pair is used to measure on time delivery;
• fifth executable code for, with respect to the second subset of the plurality of records, summing together the number of orders delivered on time to obtain a number of the second total number of orders that were delivered on time;
• and
• sixth executable code for assembling a report, the report including the first total number of orders, the number of the first total number of orders that were delivered on time, the second total number of orders, and the number of the second total number of orders that were delivered on time;
• wherein the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth executable code is in an electronically readable medium accessible to the at least one computer.

In a system for reporting supplier performance, the system including reporting of order rejections, a method of reporting a reason for order rejections comprising:

• collecting from a first customer predictive data elements about at least one of a plurality of orders made by the first customer to a first supplier, the predictive data elements being predictive of whether a rejection of items in the at least one of the plurality of orders was customer caused or supplier caused;
• making a prediction based on the predictive data elements about whether the rejection of items in the at least one of the plurality of orders was customer caused or supplier caused;
• and
• reporting the rejection as either supplier caused or customer caused based on the prediction.

A system for reporting supplier performance comprising:

• at least one computer;
• first executable code for storing data collected from a first customer including predictive data elements about items in at least one of a plurality of orders made by the first customer to a first supplier, the predictive data elements being predictive of whether a rejection of items in the at least one of the plurality of orders was customer caused or supplier caused;
• second executable code for making a prediction based on the predictive data elements whether the rejection was customer caused or supplier caused;
• and
• third executable code for assembling a report including indication of the rejection as either supplier caused or customer caused based on the prediction;
• wherein the first, second, and third executable code is in an electronically readable medium accessible to the at least one computer.

A system for reporting supplier performance comprising:

• means for collecting from a first customer predictive data elements about at least one of a plurality of orders made by the first customer to a first supplier, the predictive data elements being predictive of whether a rejection of items in the at least one of the plurality of orders was customer caused or supplier caused;
• means for making a prediction based on the predictive data elements about whether the rejection of items in the at least one of the plurality of orders was customer caused or supplier caused;
• and
• means for reporting the rejection as either supplier caused or customer caused based on the prediction.