Keep material
deliveries on track.
Akisto automates supplier coordination, follows up on purchase orders, detects delays early, and keeps production moving — at a scale no team can staff.
Delivery reliability hinges on manually chasing POs — and even skilled buyers miss things that turn into avoidable delays.
An issued PO is the start of a long chase
On paper a placed PO looks like a committed delivery. In reality it kicks off weeks of follow-up to make sure it actually lands before production starts.
Teams juggle hundreds, as priorities pull them away
Buyers spend 50–70% of their day coordinating POs, even as a sudden shortage, a price spike, or a report upstairs steals attention.
Even the best teams miss things, too late to recover
Delays surface days or weeks after the order stalls, often right as production is meant to start — with little time left to recover.
Delayed orders leak revenue and exact an expensive, exhausting firefighting tax.
Avoidable delays don't just hit OTIF — they bury margin in rush freight, drain leadership time, and quietly bleed sales during peak demand.
Larger teams as volume grows
- Keeping orders on track demands more buyers and planners as portfolios scale.
- Strategic work — negotiations, contracting, alternate sourcing — gets crowded out by the daily chase.
Rush freight, overtime, rebuilt schedules
- Delays caught late trigger spot premiums and rebuilt schedules around one part.
- Managers and ops leaders get pulled in, losing days rescuing a single order.
Stockouts and missed peak seasons
- A late material quietly becomes a stockout where cover runs thinnest.
- Missed deliveries during peak season are the most expensive — demand is gone forever.
Akisto runs the whole chase, your team keeps the judgment calls.
An AI supplier coordinator that works like your best buyer — knowing when to nudge, when to escalate, and when to call. Never drops the chase. Never misses a detail.
End to end on every PO
Owns the chase from confirmation to delivery, down to each line item.
Proactive outreach
Reaches out ahead of every milestone — not after a date slips.
Tailored emails
Matches tone, content, and urgency to each PO — not templates suppliers ignore.
Live phone calls
Calls when emails stall — a real two-way conversation in a strikingly human voice.
No detail missed
Captures status, dates, delay reasons, and tracking from every reply and call.
Early warning
Flags risks and delays the moment they surface, in time for buyers to act.
Hundreds of open POs worked in parallel, each with the same attention as the last.
Meets your team and suppliers in the tools and channels they already use.
Akisto works every stage of the order, from issue to delivery.
At every check-in, a follow-up loop runs until Akisto gets an answer — or escalates to your buyer.
Akisto pulls every open line from your ERP or spreadsheets.
Confirms PO was received, details are correct, the date is achievable.
Checks in as ship-by approaches; re-confirms readiness, catches slips early.
Verifies the order actually shipped on the promised date; captures tracking.
Follows the shipment where tracking is available, flagging slippage en route.
Confirms receipt against your warehouse or ERP posting, then closes the line.
The same loop runs until Akisto gets an answer — or escalates to your buyer.
Tailored ask. Cadence-driven nudges. Live call if emails stall. Replies captured, classified, and flagged the moment risk surfaces.
- AI assistant reaches outTailored ask for what the stage needs.
- Sends email remindersFollows up on your cadence, same thread.
- Calls if emails stallReal two-way conversation in the supplier's language.
- Captures & classifiesOn time · At risk · Delayed — with reasons & tracking.
- Escalates to buyerFull thread, clear ask, in time to act.
POs needing intervention, surfaced. Everything else, quiet.
Buyer to VP — procurement, supply chain, and manufacturing — all on one live status.
Careful by default. A person sets the rules. Every action is on the record.
Reliable by design
- Never invents an answer — codified rules assign every status.
- Flags doubt to your buyer, never logs it as fact.
- Validated through pilots on real supplier purchase orders.
Manages suppliers on your terms
- Speaks in your voice, on your cadence. You set the tone and schedule.
- Hands judgment calls to your buyer with the full thread and a clear ask.
- Yields the moment you step in — pause or take over any order, any time.
Your data is only yours
- Never trains anyone's AI — enterprise terms contractually bar it.
- Never pooled — each customer's data sits in its own isolated store.
- SOC 2 certification in progress; controls in place today.
Every action on the record
- Every email and every call, captured against the order.
- Full history — chases, replies, updates — in one place.
- Captured live, so the record is what was actually said.
Same team. Same suppliers. Hours back, fewer fires, more on-time deliveries.
All figures are pilot targets — stated as relative change because every operation's baseline differs. Measured and verified during your pilot.
PO follow-up is where Akisto starts. The same engine goes much further.
Works a delay until it is recovered or escalated
- Exhausts every route to save a slipping order — expediting, resequencing, upgrading freight, or sourcing from a pre-approved alternate.
- Builds the institutional knowledge a veteran buyer carries — learning suppliers, reliability, constraints, and adapting cadence.
From follow-up to full procurement co-pilot
- Creates and issues POs against approved demand.
- Reconciles invoices against the PO and coordinates the fix.
- Co-pilots material planning — clears routine calls, brings up higher-order decisions.
- Scores and lifts supplier performance with a live reliability score.
Questions, answered.
Run a pilot on a slice of your POs.
See the difference in weeks.
Tell us about your operation and we'll come back within a business day to scope a pilot against your own baseline.