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Procurement planning
Know what to buy — and the last safe day to buy it.
Turn the approved production plan into ingredient and packaging recommendations that account for recipes, available stock, incoming orders and each supplier’s delivery and ordering rules.
Questions answered
Replace last month’s order plus a safety guess.
Purchasing starts from the same production plan as the factory and ends with recommendations a buyer can act on.
Which materials will the plan consume?
Turn every planned product into the ingredients and packaging its recipe requires, including expected production loss.
What do we genuinely need to order?
Count what is already in stock and what suppliers are already sending, then buy only the remaining gap.
When must the order be placed?
Work backwards from the day production needs it, using the time each supplier takes to deliver.
Will the supplier accept that quantity?
Round recommendations into the supplier’s minimum and pack sizes instead of returning impossible decimals.
Purchasing clarity
One material plan across every finished product.
Shared ingredients are planned once across the whole factory, so two products can never claim the same bag of flour or incoming delivery.
01 · Calculate
Turn every production batch into materials.
Use the real recipes and pack quantities behind the approved production plan.
02 · Check
Order only what the factory does not already have.
Count current stock and confirmed deliveries once across the whole plan, including materials shared by several products.
03 · Order
Create a recommendation a buyer can act on.
Allow for delivery time and supplier pack sizes, then publish what to buy, from whom and the last safe order date.
The purchasing plan
From production batches to purchase recommendations.
Materials are planned from what the factory will make, not a disconnected average of last month’s orders.
Work out total material demand
Apply recipes, packaging and expected loss to every planned product quantity.
Use what is available
Count stock and confirmed deliveries without double-counting materials shared by several products.
Allow for supplier delivery
Turn the date production needs it into the last safe date to place the order.
Create a valid order
Respect minimum and pack quantities, then publish it for buyer review.
The key relationship
Purchasing changes when production changes.
A forecast override, production constraint or changed service target can alter which lots are planned. Foreluma recalculates the material plan from that same approved answer.
Less excessAvoid buying ingredients before the production plan needs them.
Fewer surprisesExpose missing material before the line asks for it.
One numberKeep production and purchasing on the same weekly quantities.
Use your own recipes
See next week’s material orders calculated.
Bring your production plan, recipes, stock and supplier rules. We will show what to buy, how much and when.