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Vendor and Purchase Planner
Forty-eight purchase-order log pages, eight vendor day-book pages ruled Vendor, Contact, Terms, Rating, and twelve for notes.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 80
- Leaves
- 40
- Sheets
- 20
- Signatures
- 4 × 20pp
- Spine
- 4.58 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 9.17 mm · 26.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 18
Forty-eight pages make up the purchase-order log, and they are most of this book on purpose. Every order gets a line: what was ordered, from whom, when it was due, when it actually arrived. A supplier who is late four times out of five is a fact worth having in writing rather than a feeling you carry around.
Eight day-book pages sit at the front, ruled into four columns: vendor, contact, terms, rating. This is where a supplier earns or loses the next order, in writing rather than in memory, so a decision made in January is not forgotten by the time June's order needs placing.
Twelve lined pages hold the rest: a credit note that took three calls to get issued, a delivery sent to the wrong site, a contact who left and was never properly replaced. None of it changes the order log. It only explains it, for whoever reads the log after you.
What is inside
- Po-log
- 48pp
- One line per order: what, from whom, due date, arrival date.
- Daybook
- 8pp
- Four columns fixed per vendor: contact, terms, rating.
- Notes
- 12pp
- For the credit note, the wrong delivery, the contact who left.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Workshop Job PlannerAlso in Plain Lab
- Asset and Maintenance PlannerAlso in Plain Lab
- Quotation and Tender PlannerAlso in Plain Lab
- Debt Payoff PlannerAlso in Plain Lab
Questions
What are the four day-book columns?
Vendor, Contact, Terms, Rating.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 80 pages, 4.58 mm across the spine.
Is it dated?
No. Start it with the next order you place.
Does it total spend by vendor automatically?
No. Each line is a single order; adding them up for one vendor is arithmetic you do yourself.
What ruling are the notes pages?
Lined, 9.17 mm pitch, eighteen lines to an A5 page.
Almost all the better order of shop fronts are now glazed with it.
