The Mapping
How the mapping works
The method behind the findings report — how we listen, what the map captures, and who owns what along the way.
How We Map
Stories, not questionnaires
Each owner walks us through real cases from last week — what actually happens, and what it costs. A few we hear almost everywhere:
The unconfirmed PO
A PO goes out. Two weeks pass — no confirmation. The buyer chases, or planning assumes the date is real.
The buried Excel confirmation
A supplier confirms 20 line changes in an Excel attachment. Someone re-types every line into the ERP.
The morning rebuild
Every cycle, a planner rebuilds the priority Excel by hand. By afternoon it is already stale.
The stale delivery date
A supplier confirms a 3-week slip by email. Nobody updates the ERP — planning promises on the old date.
The 'on-time' that isn't
The ERP says on-time. The supplier flagged a slip two days ago — nobody connected the two.
The PDF that doesn’t match
Two prices and a quantity off versus the ERP — caught by eye, while the shipment is already moving.
The allocation conflict
Two builds need the same part. Who wins gets decided manually — project by project, week after week.
The MRP email marathon
MRP spits out recommendations; buyers compose supplier emails one by one, by hand.
The missed priority email
The priority list goes out by email. One team opens it late and works on the wrong parts for two days.
The forwarder without an API
Tracking arrives as a PDF. Someone retypes it — into a tracking sheet, then into the ERP.
The config change that ripples
One customer changes a configuration. It ripples down the BOM tree — and a wrong build ships.
The tender spike
A big tender lands and demand jumps overnight. Purchasing finds out when stock is already short.
The big-new-order question
"This new order — what does it do to us?" Assembling the answer takes days. The decision waits.
The unconfirmed PO
A PO goes out. Two weeks pass — no confirmation. The buyer chases, or planning assumes the date is real.
The buried Excel confirmation
A supplier confirms 20 line changes in an Excel attachment. Someone re-types every line into the ERP.
The morning rebuild
Every cycle, a planner rebuilds the priority Excel by hand. By afternoon it is already stale.
The stale delivery date
A supplier confirms a 3-week slip by email. Nobody updates the ERP — planning promises on the old date.
The 'on-time' that isn't
The ERP says on-time. The supplier flagged a slip two days ago — nobody connected the two.
The PDF that doesn’t match
Two prices and a quantity off versus the ERP — caught by eye, while the shipment is already moving.
The allocation conflict
Two builds need the same part. Who wins gets decided manually — project by project, week after week.
The MRP email marathon
MRP spits out recommendations; buyers compose supplier emails one by one, by hand.
The missed priority email
The priority list goes out by email. One team opens it late and works on the wrong parts for two days.
The forwarder without an API
Tracking arrives as a PDF. Someone retypes it — into a tracking sheet, then into the ERP.
The config change that ripples
One customer changes a configuration. It ripples down the BOM tree — and a wrong build ships.
The tender spike
A big tender lands and demand jumps overnight. Purchasing finds out when stock is already short.
The big-new-order question
"This new order — what does it do to us?" Assembling the answer takes days. The decision waits.
Examples, not a menu — the mapping surfaces yours. If one of these sounds like last week — that recognition is exactly how the mapping starts.
What The Map Captures
Two things most process maps miss
Every change gets an owner
For every trigger — a slipped date, a price change, a mismatch — the map answers four questions. Execution breaks in the handoffs; the map makes them explicit.
date slips · price rises · quantities mismatch
When Alora runs, every trigger is routed to these four answers automatically.
Data connects in parallel to action
We don't run a data project first and act later. From day one, two tracks run side by side — and each one feeds the other.
Your team acts on prioritized changes from the first week — chasing what matters, ignoring what doesn’t.
Underneath, parts, BOMs, suppliers, and orders connect into one grounded picture — as a byproduct of the work.
Every action makes the data better. Better data makes the next action faster.
Who Sits With Your Team
Led by people who owned execution
The mapping isn't run by analysts with a questionnaire. It's led by operators who spent 20+ years inside complex hardware supply chains. We've sat on your side of the table — we recognize the patterns, ask the right questions, and know what a workstream costs before the spreadsheet proves it.
From Alora-led to yours — by design
Alora-led
We drive the sessions, the analysis, and the findings report.
Co-led
Your team works the workstream; we tune, measure, and support.
Yours
The map, the numbers, and the working workstream are yours. Expansion is your call.
The output is a findings report your team can stand behind internally: what breaks, what it costs, and where AI should start.
Talk to us
A focused conversation about execution — we'll walk through how the mapping works and where AI would start in your operation.