- 10× less
- cost per PO line
- Week 1
- onboarding
- Zero
- supplier portals
Turn your supplier email into a live PO record
Buyers burn 30–50% of the week keeping the inbox, the spreadsheet tracker and the ERP in sync. One missed reply risks material delays — costing you premium freight, supplier rush fees, and missed revenue.
Cronwell chases the replies and keeps the ERP current, so what’s left for the buyer is the decision. The arithmetic, per line:
of annual revenue lost to supply-chain disruption.
Where these numbers come from
- Buyers report 30–50% of the week on this work; the arithmetic here counts 30.
- Time per PO line: APQC, and observed at EMS plants.
- Fully-loaded buyer labor, $45/hr: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Sphera Supply Chain Risk Report, May 2026 — survey of 200 COOs and CFOs. 3–4% is what 44.5% of organizations report; 2.4% is the average across all respondents. Expedite spend runs 3% of total logistics cost at top performers and 10% at bottom performers (APQC Open Standards Benchmarking).
“The true status is rarely fully populated in the system. It lives in email, follow-ups, exceptions, and daily customer/supplier communications.”
An AI agent can finally automate this
Morning Dana. We have the 800 pcs of 6120-B booked in. Tooling is backed up, so 2 Apr is not going to happen. Realistically the 16th. Bar stock also went up, so $7.85 a piece now, not $7.40. Let me know.
- Line
- 6120-B · 800 pcs
- Promised
- 2 Apr → 16 Apr
- Unit price
- $7.40 → $7.85
Track, act, and report
Your ERP stays the system of record — Cronwell keeps it current.
Also on mobileConfirming line 01 — shipping 16 Mar.
Sourcing and invoices need the same record
Overpriced parts stop hiding
Paid price per part and per supplier makes the opportunity visible. We run the sourcing event.
A PO record you can trust
Built from supplier emails. Closed-loop with your ERP.
Invoices audit against the record
Mismatches run 1–2% of spend industry-wide.
You can’t source against — or audit against — data you don’t trust.
“We were totally blown away. Our first toe in the water.”
“We connected the mailboxes and the record was already there. There was nothing for our suppliers to sign up for.”
“My buyers didn’t have to learn anything new. It works where they already work.”
- “Will our IT team hate this?”
- No rip-and-replace: inbox access is granted via OAuth, you are live in week 1, and we integrate with the ERP you already run. Security is SOC 2 Type II with an isolated instance per customer, hosted in the US or on your own infrastructure.
- “How do we know it works here?”
- We baseline from buyers’ own inbox history, review it for correctness with your team, then co-build the grounded ROI and business case during the pilot.
- “What if it doesn’t?”
- The pilot is 4–6 weeks, 100% creditable toward the subscription.
See what your site could get back
Bring your open-PO line count; we’ll size the savings and map the pilot in 30 minutes.