Parts that will run out mid-job, caught weeks ahead.
Shortage Watcher
Every night at 4, it works through your open work orders and their parts lists against stock and inbound orders, 60 days forward, and drafts an expedite purchase order — or names alternates — for every part that comes up short. Purchasing reviews every draft.
Like every Infinary agent, it drafts — a person on your team approves before anything is posted.
What it does
The Shortage Watcher projects component demand 60 days out: every open and planned work order, exploded through its bill of materials to required parts and dates, compared against current stock plus inbound purchase orders. Every component that goes negative inside the horizon is a line-stop risk and gets a drafted recovery action — an expedite purchase order where the item has a clear supplier, otherwise a to-do naming possible alternates from the item master. Every projected shortage shows its arithmetic and cites the work orders, parts lists, and stock figures behind it. A component it cannot read is treated as a potential risk, never as available.
- Status
- Live
- Runs
- Every morning at 4 a.m.
- Cost per run
- Up to $3
- Review
- Creates drafts only — you approve before anything is posted.Pauses for your sign-off before it writes anything.
- What it reads
- your existing reports, your records, live totals and history
The Problem Today
"Lines stop over five-dollar parts. The casing and the boards got ordered; the gasket with the three-week lead time didn't — and the miss surfaces the morning production needs it."
How Infinary Handles It
Every part of every scheduled job is checked against reality every night, weeks ahead. The gap becomes a drafted order with its arithmetic attached while normal shipping can still solve it.
What a run looks like
What a run looks like
Say a 500-unit production run is scheduled and the buyer covered the casings and boards — but a specialized gasket with a three-week lead time slipped through. Eighteen days out, the nightly run projects the gasket hitting zero on day four of production and drafts the expedite order, flagging a certified alternate supplier from the item master.
Purchasing opens the draft in the morning, checks the arithmetic against the cited work orders, and places the order with time to spare. The line runs because a person acted early — on a warning that did the math.
Shortage Watcher
How It Works
Step
By Step
Read
It reads open work orders, their parts lists, current stock, and inbound purchase orders.
Analyze
It projects each component's balance 60 days forward and flags everything that goes negative.
Draft
It drafts an expedite purchase order — or names alternates — for each shortage, arithmetic shown.
You approve
Purchasing reviews each draft and decides what, and from whom, to order.
What Changes
What You Get
All open work orders are re-checked against stock and inbound orders each night, 60 days out.
Every projected shortage cites the work orders, parts lists, and stock counts behind it.
A part it cannot read is flagged as a risk — never counted as available.
