How the register works for a distributor
- Open purchase order lines come from your ERP export, with the manufacturer's promise date.
- The required date comes from your customer's order or the contractor's schedule, instead of your own schedule.
- Manufacturer acknowledgments and emails are read for date changes, and each date cites the sentence it came from.
- Customer update drafts are prepared for your inside sales rep to edit and send.
What stays with your team
Your people keep every message to manufacturers and customers, every allocation and substitution decision, and every date in your ERP. The desk has read-only access and no send function.
Questions
We already load acknowledgments into the ERP. What is missing?
An acknowledgment is one date at one moment, and later changes arrive in email. The register compares the ERP date with the manufacturer's latest written date and your customer's required date on each line.
Does it log in to manufacturer portals?
No. Dates are read from the exports and emails you forward. A date that exists only in a portal stays with your team to check.
Sources
- Terrapin Construction Group, Switchgear, Transformer, and Generator Lead Times in 2026, terrapincg.com/news/switchgear-transformer-generator-lead-times-2026, read 2026-09-25
Updated . Lead times are public planning ranges, not quotes; your vendor's written date governs.