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- Function: Procurement and suppliers
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28 capabilities, showing 1 to 24
Business insurance renewal review
Before the business insurance renews, the owner gets one pack: every policy with insurer, limits, deductibles, premium and dates; renewal terms beside expiring ones, every change marked; what changed in the business; claims; and questions for the broker. The broker and the owner decide all cover.
Carrier performance review
The shipping lead gets a lane-by-lane comparison of carriers from the delivery export and the freight charges: on-time delivery, damage, tracking gaps and cost, each with the shipments behind it. A person decides whether to raise issues or change carrier.
Category sourcing plan
For the buyer or operations lead who owns one spend category, such as packaging or IT hardware: its spend and suppliers on one page, where it sits on a supply-risk and spend matrix, the value levers the evidence supports, and a dated sourcing plan. A person chooses the approach.
Component end-of-life exposure brief
When a supplier announces a component constraint or end-of-life date, the sourcing lead gets one brief: where the part is used, stock and demand set against the stated dates, and questions about replacements, with unverified availability kept apart from approved supply.
Contractor safety prequalification
For a named job, the operations, facilities or site manager gets a safety questionnaire scaled to the risk of the work, then a record of the contractor's answers scored only on the evidence supplied, with every gap, the conditions that close it and a review date. A competent person decides.
Employee onboarding plan
Every new colleague starts with a first week and a first 90 days planned to the standard of your best manager: what to read, who to meet, what to practice and what productive means at day 30, 60 and 90.
Estimate basis pack
An estimator pricing a job from drawings, takeoffs and supplier quotes gets one worksheet: every figure with its quantity source, rate source and date beside it, each exclusion listed and every gap already written as a scope question. The estimator verifies; the bid lead decides the figure.
Hiring pipeline status report
Each week your people lead or founder sees every open role on one page: applications at each stage, days open against the target, roles running late, pass-through between stages, which sources lead to interviews, and every blocker with its owner. It counts; it never assesses a candidate.
Inbound receiving exception trace
When what arrived does not match the advance shipment notice, the receiving supervisor or inventory controller gets the notice, the packing list and the scans side by side by item and lot, with missing references and questions to investigate. Nothing is adjusted and nobody is contacted.
Interview plan and scorecard
Before the first interview, the hiring manager and every interviewer share one plan: the criteria the role needs, the same questions in the same order for every candidate, and a blank scorecard each person fills in alone. It rates no one. People make every decision about a candidate.
Interview process review after a hiring round
After a hiring round closes, the recruiting lead gets a review of the interview process: questions that gave no usable evidence, competencies nobody covered, inconsistent rubric use, and revisions to approve before the next search. It reviews the process only; no candidate is assessed.
Job description
A hiring manager’s rough notes become a job description the right people want to answer: why the role exists, the work itself, and only the must-haves that are real. Your approved pay and employer wording go in untouched, and nothing is posted until the hiring manager and the people lead approve it.
Job posting and sourcing plan
For one approved role, the hiring manager gets a plan for where to post and where to look: every channel on the company's own list ordered by the signal it should give for that kind of role, a week-by-week schedule inside the budget, and what to count on each channel. Nothing is posted or paid until a person approves.
Menu input cost change review
When supplier prices change, the chef and food-and-beverage manager get one worksheet: each price movement tied to the quantities in the supplied recipes, the cost per portion of every affected dish before and after, and questions for the chef. It sets no menu price.
Order size comparison
When a supplier offers a bigger discounted order, the inventory planner gets each quantity costed the same way: yearly cost, cash tied up, months of cover and storage fit. The planner chooses the quantity; nothing is ordered.
Pilot build readiness brief
Before a prototype or pilot build, the build lead gets one brief: part shortages, revision conflicts and open actions set against the team’s own build checklist, with allocated parts kept apart from received ones. People confirm; nothing is released.
Reference check question plan
After the interviews, the recruiter gets short reference calls aimed only at what the panel still could not establish, put to the referees the candidate named and agreed to, with a note sheet for each call that keeps the referee's own words. It gives no view on the candidate.
RFQ clarification list
A buyer sending drawings and specifications out for quotation gets one list of missing details, conflicting revisions and ambiguous tolerances, and a record of each supplier's answers. The buyer approves every message; the engineer settles every technical question.
Supplier bill review and payment-run preparation
Before each payment run, the person who approves it gets one sheet: every supplier bill checked against its purchase order and what was received, duplicates and changed bank details stopped, credits shown, and a proposed run with its total. Nothing is paid until a person approves.
Supplier delivery date check
The purchasing or operations person gets one comparison from the open purchase orders and the supplier replies: promised and revised dates side by side, the orders each change puts at risk, and the follow-ups still unanswered. No supplier is contacted.
Supplier issue notice
When a supplier bills for more than was ordered or received, or falls short of an agreed delivery or quality target, the buyer gets a formal notice ready for approval: each problem set against the record, the evidence listed, what the supplier must do and the date to reply by. A person approves and sends it.
Supplier performance scorecard
Once a quarter, the buyer or operations lead scores each key supplier from the business's own order and receiving exports: on-time delivery, fill rate, defects and returns, price against agreed terms and order confirmations, with the trend, the evidence behind every score and the points to raise. A person decides.
Supplier quality response check
A quality or purchasing person who has raised a defect with a supplier gets the supplier's reply set against the finding: what is answered, what is not, the evidence still to ask for, the actions proposed and what has yet to be verified. The person decides whether the answer is accepted.
Supplier risk alert brief
When something happens to a supplier you depend on, the buyer gets a dated brief the same day: what happened and who reported it when, what you buy from them, how many days of stock you hold against how long another source would take, how exposed you are, and actions with owners and dates.