The Problem
Your plans run on data your suppliers produce, not you.
The data behind every order comes from third parties, and you have no say in how they produce it. What your team can't catch by hand flows downstream into planning, where one wrong lead time or quantity quietly bends the whole model.
The source is out of your hands. Suppliers decide how the data is produced, and you inherit whatever they send.
Manual checks miss most of it. Your team catches the obvious errors and the rest slips through unnoticed.
Planning pays the price. One wrong lead time or quantity quietly skews every order built on top of it.
Dataplane Approach
From errors you patch to errors the supplier fixes.
Model the standard
Define what valid supplier data looks like: the entities, terms, and constraints every feed has to satisfy.
model · define · constrainValidate at the door
Check every inbound feed against that standard so errors are caught before they reach planning.
ingest · validate · flagEscalate to the source
Route each error back to the supplier automatically so the data gets fixed where it originates.
route · notify · resolveOutcomes
Where You Feel It
When errors get fixed at the source, everything downstream runs cleaner.
Fewer hours spent fixing supplier data by hand.
Errors get routed and corrected at the source without your team touching them.
Plans built on inputs you can actually trust.
The data gets cleaner at the source over time.