Supplier Kept Score
How often a supplier or contractor delivers by the date it committed to, from purchase orders, delivery notes and public contract records.
The problem
Procurement teams choose suppliers on price and promises. The delivery record that matters most, whether this supplier's dates hold, lives in scattered emails, spreadsheets and the memory of whoever placed the last order.
Why it is ignored
Each buyer keeps its own experience private, and suppliers have no neutral way to prove a good record. Public contracts publish award dates and promised completion, but rarely whether completion was on time.
What we record
- The commitment: item or work, quantity, promised date
- Delivery evidence: delivery note, acceptance, inspection
- Days early or late, and the share delivered
- A supplier's on-time rate, by buyer (private) and from public contracts (public)
Sources and evidence
- The buyer's own purchase orders and goods-received records (private, grade A for that buyer)
- Public procurement portals: awards, contract dates and completion certificates (grade A)
- The supplier's own confirmations (grade B)
Every source is graded by fixed rules, linked, dated and fingerprinted, exactly as on the company record.
How outcomes are decided
Private records stay private to the buyer. A public Supplier Kept Score uses only public contract records, with the same evidence and dispute rules as the company record.
Who it helps
Procurement and supply-chain teams
Choose suppliers on their record and set realistic dates.
Good suppliers
A verified on-time record is a sales asset you can show any buyer.
Lenders and trade-finance providers
Finance receivables against a delivery history.
Public bodies
Contractor performance at award time, from evidence.
Join the pilot
We are looking for two procurement teams to pilot it on their own supplier list, free for 90 days.