4.3 The Procurement cockpit at a glance

The Procurement cockpit is the first item in Procurement Management; the pattern is Chapter 2's (2.4). Its findings banner watches the health of your buying: supplier lead times creeping up, purchase price variance spiking — what you are invoiced drifting from what you received — and goods received but not yet invoiced growing old. Four tiles: Supplier spend, Open PO value (what is still to come in on open orders), Received value (what receipts have actually brought in), and Average lead days (how long suppliers take, order to receipt). The charts are a spend trend and spend by segment — supplier, category, branch — and the grid beneath them is the Purchase Orders list, filtered by whatever you click above it.