For purchasing and supply chainShipping January 2027
A purchase order is a commitment somebody else made. Novari sends it, gets it confirmed line by line, watches the ship date behind it, and tells you when that date moves while there is still time to do something about it. Your buyers stop calling to ask and spend the day on the orders that are actually in trouble.
What you find out too late
The purchase order left your system, which your ERP records accurately and is the reason the field exists. What it does not record is whether anyone read it, whether the quantity survived contact with the plant, or whether the ship date you are building a production schedule against is the one your supplier actually intends to hit. You find out on the morning the material does not arrive, and by then the choices are an air freight bill or a short line.
Nobody is hiding it from you. US manufacturing runs 239,265 firms, roughly three-quarters of them under twenty employees, and wholesale trade another 277,932. A company that size has no portal for you to check and no EDI connection to tell you the date moved. The commitment lives in an email thread, which is where Novari works.
US Census Bureau, Statistics of US Businesses, 2022.
What it unlocks
When your supplier arranges the inbound truck and adds it to your invoice, you are paying their carrier at their rate with their margin inside it, and the line that would tell you so does not exist on the document. Once Novari holds the confirmed order it also holds the ship date, the origin, and the quantity, which happens to be the complete input set for tendering that load yourself. The same loop that gets the confirmation back can put the load on your carrier, at your rate, under your visibility.
What the uncertainty costs
Every buffer week on a purchased item is inventory sitting on your floor, and the size of that buffer is set by how far a ship date can move before anyone tells you. Cut the notice from the morning of arrival back to the day your supplier changed the date, and the buffer has less work to do.
The arithmetic is not complicated. One week of cover on a line you buy two million dollars of a year is roughly $38,000 of inventory, and at a 22 percent carrying cost that is about $8,400 a year held against a date nobody confirmed. Run it on your own lines and your own carrying rate. The input the calculation is missing is a confirmed date, and that is the thing Novari goes and gets.
Where it plugs in
The purchase order is already in your ERP and Novari does not ask you to move it. Harnesses are built and running for QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, Dynamics 365 Business Central, Acumatica, and Sage Intacct, so the order, the vendor, the SKUs, and the promised date come across without anyone rekeying them. The confirmation and the matched invoice go back the same way.
Your ERP keeps being the system of record. It stops at the edge of your company, which is exactly where your supplier is standing, and that is the part Novari picks up.
Novari Purchasing
Novari Purchasing is Novari Core repurposed for purchasing. The same loop the freight products already run from order to cash, pointed at supply vendors instead of carriers, which is why the date is January 2027 and not a year out.
The order goes out with the SKUs, the quantities, and the date you need, pulled straight from your ERP. Your supplier gets an email, the way they do now.
Back comes a commitment on quantity and ship date, line by line. A supplier who confirms 400 against your 500 on one SKU has said something specific, and it arrives as a number your planner can act on.
Novari holds that ship date and goes back to check the product will actually be ready. When the answer changes, purchasing hears it in time to move an order, pull a substitute, or warn the plant.
The supplier invoice gets checked against what they committed to and what you actually received. Your AP clerk works the exceptions instead of the stack.
Add-on
Appointment control for inbound. One receiving door and many origins, with the window set against your hours and your crew rather than around whichever carrier called first. It is the same appointment desk the shipper products run outbound, turned around. Requires a Novari subscription.
Early access
You get Novari Purchasing ahead of the general release, in the order people joined the list.
Held for a defined window after the January release. We publish the window before you have to decide anything.
Thirty minutes on which commitment you would hand over first, which ERP you run, and which suppliers give you the most trouble. That is how the January release gets prioritized.