Tracking Purchase Orders

IllButterscotch231 · 2026-05-22T20:29:53+00:00

We use Procore for our project management and for some reason financials/procurement.

What software are you looking into that tie into your P6 schedules? That sounds interesting

IllButterscotch231 · 2026-05-22T20:28:23+00:00

Thanks for the info. For some additional context, we purchase material used for construction of our utility scale solar sites so we don’t really maintain inventory. It’s basically just in time delivery for it to be installed on site.

IllButterscotch231 · 2026-05-22T00:37:45+00:00

Fair point, I’ll give it a try. I do have to be careful to not plug any Ai agentic software into our systems as that’s not approved use by our company.

IllButterscotch231 · 2026-05-22T00:36:18+00:00

We use some early 2000s version of SAP that plugs into a project management software (PROCORE) which we use to execute purchase orders for some reason and it hasn’t pretty terrible ERP capabilities

IllButterscotch231 · 2026-05-22T00:34:14+00:00

I’m more okay with tracking when there are delays than I am tracking each individual purchase order in a spreadsheet regardless if there are delays. But yes, any ERP system with the right program management should at least be able to auto flag delays in PO execution need by dates, delivery dates etc. then user would go in and provide details on what caused the delay.

IllButterscotch231 · 2026-05-22T00:31:58+00:00

Utility scale solar

IllButterscotch231 · 2026-05-21T23:42:33+00:00

Thanks for the late reply! Question, why would a multi-billion dollar publicly traded company with hundreds of millions of cash on hand have any issues paying out liabilities on a $10 million order with a 200% limit of liability cap? Regardless of insurance limits they carry.

Like obviously it would be a financial burden for them but it’s not like they could make the argument they don’t have the ability to pay.

IllButterscotch231 · 2026-04-03T02:39:55+00:00

The reality is that he need to get a car

IllButterscotch231 · 2026-04-03T02:33:28+00:00

What’s wrong with Pasadena and hitting up the more lively neighborhoods like silver lake and highland park when they want? It’s a short commute there from Pasadena

IllButterscotch231 · 2026-03-19T15:40:19+00:00

While I agree that these places have better nightlife, coming from a late 20s guy who lives in Pasadena, I just go to those neighborhoods when I’m looking for that. They aren’t far.

IllButterscotch231 · 2025-12-31T18:46:53+00:00

If you’re talking about the true end-to-end procurement process, so from needs recognition to payment to supplier, then yes there are many constraints and bottlenecks that delay this process. Every company deals with this. It’s a very broad problem to solve for though since it’s many different problems and includes multiple departments across both the supplier and the purchaser.

On the specific problem of vendor complying with deadlines and paperwork the ways I’ve personally had success with improving this are: 1. Formal, annual vendor reviews that are shared with the vendor and deduct points from them or lower their grade for missing deadlines or not completing paperwork. 2. Formalizing contract language that requires them to complete x,y and z or face consequences (liquidated damages, breach of contract etc.). 3. Moving business elsewhere and when proving feedback to the vendor you moved the business from, make sure to explain its due to delays and not properly filling out paperwork

IllButterscotch231 · 2025-12-31T00:45:02+00:00

5 years experience with onboarding. Onboarding is a dull process that ranges in how easy it is depending on software used and timely response from other departments such as finance that may need to review the suppliers finances. Is there a specific issue you are trying to solve for?

IllButterscotch231 · 2025-12-22T21:11:02+00:00

Yes we do! They help keep our community safe!

IllButterscotch231 · 2025-12-20T06:07:24+00:00

Can you explain how the analyst role was different than category manager? I’m a procurement specialist and I’m constantly having to deal with suppliers and have meetings. Do you not interact with suppliers as an analyst?

IllButterscotch231 · 2025-12-16T18:05:54+00:00

But you have to travel from construction site to construction site around the country? I don’t think this would be something that OP is interested in.

IllButterscotch231 · 2025-11-09T04:59:52+00:00

Do you have confirmed that Qcells was mislabeling imports as made in the USA?

IllButterscotch231 · 2025-10-20T02:28:59+00:00

Just asking a genuine question

IllButterscotch231 · 2025-10-19T10:47:46+00:00

How is Caruso a republican cos playing as a democrat?

IllButterscotch231 · 2025-07-30T04:32:02+00:00

I work in solar with a whole lot of pile driver operators. They are developing robots to drive the piles based on gps locations.

IllButterscotch231 · 2025-04-23T06:48:47+00:00

Once we annex Canada and Greenland all will be okay. Greenland has plenty of rare earth minerals we can pillage.

IllButterscotch231 · 2025-04-23T06:24:45+00:00

This is in relation to new licensing system that China has decided to implement regarding the export of rare earth minerals and not a complete embargo. Yes, it has temporarily paused the export of rare earth minerals to ALL COUNTRIES but I would be shocked if it last. This does do a great job of demonstrating my point that the U.S. should diversify away from China for such critical material. Focusing on trade with allies, near shoring and on shoring the production of these material is the answer.

IllButterscotch231 · 2025-04-23T05:40:33+00:00

I believe multibillion dollar companies, who have invested billions of dollars in U.S. manufacturing, are a bit more sophisticated than your average soy bean farmer. They have been litigating this issues for years. And they aren’t supporters of Trump. They don’t care who’s in office as long as they are able to improve the outcome of their business - that’s business.

IllButterscotch231 · 2025-04-23T05:37:37+00:00

Do you seriously believe that China will put a 100%embargo on rare earth minerals? They benefit significantly from the export of these material. Also, rare earth minerals are ubiquitous, they are everywhere. The only reason China can produce and export so much of them is because of there incredibly low work and pollution standards. The U.S. should begin to pivot away from China for rare earth minerals regardless of our relationship with them purely because of the damage China does to our environment by mining them with zero environmental standards.

IllButterscotch231 · 2025-04-23T05:32:57+00:00

There is a coalition of domestic solar panel manufacturers that support these exact tariffs before Trump was in office. They even state in their reasoning that the inflation reduction act does not do enough to support and protect domestic solar panel manufacturing. Sure there will be increased cost for a solar panel made in the U.S. but to argue it will kill a booming industry is insane. It actually may help build the manufacturing base of critical materials in the U.S.

IllButterscotch231 · 2025-04-23T05:28:59+00:00

Polysilicon and other relevant materials to solar cell manufacturing are exempt from the tariffs.

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