Inbound Tracker

The Inbound Tracker is the dashboard for everything you're expecting to receive. Open Purchase Orders, their schedule dates, and the Purchase Receipts already posted against them — all in one place.

It's the morning-coffee view for your warehouse manager, your receiving team, and (when things are tight) your purchasing manager.

What it shows

The dashboard surfaces:

POs scheduled for delivery this week / next week / this month — sorted by schedule date.
POs overdue — PRs not yet posted past the schedule date, with how many days late.
Recent PRs — what's landed in the last few days, with item totals.
Suppliers with multiple open POs — useful for batching follow-ups.

Filter by supplier, by item, by date range, by warehouse.

When to use it

Morning prep at the warehouse. What's arriving today, what needs dock space, what staff to position where.
Mid-day check on overdues. Anything late gets a call to the supplier.
Pre-release planning. Cross-reference incoming POs against the Production Bridge to know which Batches will be unblocked when a specific PR lands.

A working example

8am. The Inbound Tracker shows:

Today: YKK zipper delivery (PO-487), fabric from MillCorp (PO-501), trim from a small accessories supplier.
Overdue: PO-462 (fabric, 3 days late, supplier slow), PO-475 (trim, 1 day late, in transit per supplier email).
This week ahead: five POs scheduled across Wednesday-Friday.

The warehouse manager:

Allocates the receiving bay for the three deliveries expected today.
Calls the supplier on PO-462 — they confirm it's on a truck due tomorrow.
Flags PO-475 to the purchasing manager — accepting the 1-day delay.
Notes the Wednesday-Friday volume; coordinates extra receiving staff for Thursday (highest volume).

Done in 15 minutes. Day starts organized.

Image: The Inbound Tracker showing PO deliveries this week with overdues flagged at the top.

What to do next

For the cross-cutting operational dashboard plus supplier-side metrics, see Logistics Overview and Supplier Readiness.