Supply chain tracking

Shows where goods sit across every tier and supplier, with the date at risk named while there is still time to change the plan.

No ready-made setup for this job yet.

Describe the job in a sentence, the way you would brief a colleague: when it should happen, what to check, and what to hand you. That sentence is the automation.

The job, and what good looks like.

Each tier reports position against its own order and its own calendar, so the consolidated picture has to be assembled by phone and email before anyone can see that a part will be late. This workflow collects milestones from every tier, from the goods receipt through the subassembly to the finished item, and holds them against a single plan date rather than several. A milestone that slips, or simply stops moving, is reported as at risk against the shipment that depends on it and ranked by what it puts at risk: a customer order, a build slot, a promotion date. A gap is treated as a fact rather than as good news, so a tier that has not reported is shown as unknown instead of assumed on time. The weekly view lists the items putting the most revenue and the most customer promises at risk, with the action already taken against each. What a human still decides is the plan date itself, whether a slip is worth expediting or absorbing, and which customer hears about it first.

When it is handled

  • Every tier reporting against one date
  • Late components found before the build
  • Customer dates corrected before they slip
  • One status view instead of supplier email

Works with tools like

  • project44
  • FourKites
  • Descartes
  • Logiwa
  • NetSuite

You stay in charge.
At every step.

It checks and drafts. Your team decides what is ordered and sent.

  • No order placed on its own

    Requisitions and supplier notes wait for a buyer to approve and send.

  • Undo what you don't want

    Every step is recorded, and a file it changed can be put back.

  • Only the systems you connect

    Each automation reaches only the folders and apps you give it.

Before you download.

Where does it run?
On your Mac or Windows computer, in the background. It keeps working after you close its window, and only reaches the folders and apps you connect for each automation.
How does it connect to our CRM and other tools?
Through each app's own connection where it offers one, signed in once by you, or by using the app in a browser the way you would. Each automation gets only the connections you give it, and the tools a page names are examples you can swap for your own.
Does it run when my computer is asleep?
It keeps your computer awake while a job runs and just before a scheduled one. While the computer is closed or off, nothing runs; when it wakes, it checks the inbox, calendar and other sources it watches for anything that arrived meanwhile.
How does my team use it?
Each person who runs automations installs the app. Keep a project in a shared folder, such as Google Drive or a network drive, and teammates can open it and follow every run, while one person owns it and runs it.
Do I need anyone technical to set it up?
No. Download the app, add an automation in plain words, and connect only what that job needs. Nothing runs until you switch it on.

Already have tools for this? Here is the difference.

Your ERP's alerts and rules

Flagging thresholds inside the ERP.

They can't read a supplier's email or a scanned delivery note, or draft the next step.

Flowchart automation tools

Moving data between apps at high volume.

Real-world exceptions multiply branches until the flow is harder to follow than the work.

AI chat assistants

Explaining a document when you paste it in.

Deliveries keep arriving while nobody is asking, and the procedure lives in a chat.

AUTOMATE.md

Your routine, written in plain words. It runs on its own, follows your rules, handles the exceptions a flowchart can't, and asks you when it matters. The file stays yours, whichever AI model runs it.

Start with one job.
Make it your own.

macOS — coming soon
  1. 1

    Get the app

    It runs on your computer, next to your files.

  2. 2

    Add the automation

    Paste the instructions into the app, or save them as a file next to your work.

  3. 3

    Try it, then turn it on

    Run it once and check the result. It only runs on its own once you switch it on.