Use case
Procurement and supply chain
Connect buyers to approved vendor, last replacement history, and engineering decisions that explain why a substitute was rejected.
Urgent question
Which vendor supplied the last replacement assembly?
Current failure mode
Purchasing systems hold POs and vendors; engineering holds rejection rationales; operations holds urgency. Wrong substitute recreates old failures.
Source systems involved
- Purchase orders
- Vendor records
- Engineering decisions
- Approved part specifications
What Continuum resolves
Continuum resolves authority across the sources above: which revision is approved, which exception applies, which expert knowledge is verified, and which human owns the next decision.
Product walkthrough
- Cheaper alternate purchased after engineering rejection was forgotten
- Last successful vendor unknown to new buyer
- Commercial detail requested without authorization
Representative questions
- Which vendor supplied the last replacement assembly?
- Why was the earlier component specification rejected?
- Is this vendor approved for this part family?
Authority and revision requirements
- Approved vendor status
- Decision memory for rejected alts
- Part applicability
Evidence and human boundary
- PO records
- Vendor master
- Engineering decision memos
- Purchasing commitments and commercial terms remain human-owned
Expected qualitative value
Fewer repeat specification mistakes; faster recovery of last-known-good supply path.
Product status
Synthetic purchasing/decision demo. ERP connectors planned with design partners.