How the agent reached this recommendation
Tervel's agent read the live procurement data, worked the problem end to end, and prepared one call for you.
- 1Flagged PO-4471 at risk
- 2Emailed RefracTech chasing acknowledgment
- 3Parsed RefracTech reply
- 4Sourced qualified alternates
Re-source to Thermalloy s.r.o.
Thermalloy s.r.o. · 96% on-time
- Arrives
- 8 days early
- New order
- PO-4472 · $67,200
- vs original
- +$8,200
Cancels PO-4471. Both execute on your approval below.
Why it can't wait
FSF-02 · FSF-02 Refractory Reline — Campaign 7
The parts land 6 days after the line must already be down — and every day of that gap costs $1.1M/day.
The agent's full trail
Every step, with the emails it sent and parsed
Cross-checked PO-4471 against the FSF-02 reline calendar. RefracTech quoted an 18-day lead from acknowledgment, but the PO has been unacknowledged for 9 days. Earliest realistic arrival lands 6 days after the reline deadline — a gap on the primary smelting line ($1.1M/day).
Sent a priority follow-up to orders@refractech.de requesting acknowledgment and a firm dispatch date for the 4 × RLP-3400 liner plates on PO-4471.
RefracTech replied citing a production backlog and roughly a two-week delay. Parsed new delivery is ~32 days out — 11 days past the reline deadline. The original order can no longer protect the window.
Queried the qualified vendor list for RLP-3400-equivalent liner plates. Two viable alternates: Thermalloy s.r.o. (12-day lead, 96% reliability) and Kermas Refractories Ltd (20-day lead). Ranked options and prepared a replacement PO to Thermalloy for approval.
Recommendation ready: re-source to Thermalloy (Option A). PO-4472 is drafted and the PO-4471 cancellation is prepared. Both execute on approval — delivery in 13 days, 8 days before the reline.
The decision
Three sourced options, ranked
Preferred vendor, 96% on-time reliability. Delivery in 13 days gives an 8-day buffer before the reline deadline. +$8,200 over the original PO is trivial against $1.1M/day of primary-line downtime risk.