Keep every PO aligned with reality
Your ERP holds the plan. SourceDay keeps it aligned with what suppliers can actually deliver — with an established global supplier network, ERP expertise, and controlled automation to make it work at scale.
Your plan is only accurate until something changes
Dates, quantities, and pricing change. Confirmations sit in inboxes. SourceDay brings those handoffs into one controlled workflow. Suppliers confirm or request changes. Buyers review exceptions. Approved updates flow back to the ERP. Everyone works from the same data.
WHAT YOU SEE EVERY WEEK
THE DOWNSTREAM COST
Parts arrive late or early
with no warning
Excess inventory tied up in the
wrong materials
Supplier date changes live in
emails, not systems
Expedites and downtime when the right parts still don’t show up
Planners buffer stock because
they distrust the data
Planning teams stuck
reacting instead of planning
SourceDay goes deeper where manufacturers and distributors need control
Purpose-built for direct-material execution
Broad procurement platforms manage all kinds of spend. SourceDay is designed for the operational work required for direct-material PO management. So your parts are always in the right place at the right time.
Meet suppliers where they already work
SourceDay gives suppliers flexible ways to engage, including the SourceDay portal, interactive email, hybrid EDI, API, flat file, and intelligent document processing (IDP). Cloud Software, AI-assisted workflows, and human experts support activation, training, and ongoing adoption.
Proven ERP integrations for complex environments
SourceDay brings experience from hundreds of ERP integrations, including complex, customized, and homegrown environments. As the only vendor with certified integrations and deep partnerships with Epicor, Infor, Netsuite and Accumatica SourceDay is the best partner to minimize implementation risk, and keep approved changes flowing back to the systems your teams already trust.
AI that finds and resolves supply risk without losing control
SourceDay applies AI and automation to detect and act on PO, item, and supplier risks, rather than just parsing supplier responses. Buyers define the rules, thresholds, and approval workflows that determine where automation can act and which exceptions require human review.
Every action remains visible and traceable. Buyers can see what changed, why it changed, which rule was applied, and when human intervention occurred. Audit trails preserve the complete history of buyer and supplier responses, approvals, and ERP updates.
More visibility beyond individual PO’s
SourceDay helps teams go deeper into the operational signals that affect production, inventory, and supplier performance.
- Supplier performance
- Item-level insights
- Inbound shipment control
- Direct data access
The largest global network of direct material suppliers
40k+
Established network of global suppliers
120k+
Active supplier entities across all major manufacturing and distribution categories
100+
Suppliers with >50 customers on the SourceDay network
Backed by people who know how to make it work
Successful supplier collaboration takes more than software. SourceDay combines technology with dedicated implementation expertise, supplier activation support, buyer and supplier training, and ongoing guidance.
From complex ERP environments to hybrid EDI and supplier change management, product, engineering, and customer teams stay engaged through rollout and scale.
Experience, data and automation at scale
$20B+
Annual direct spend analyzed
100M+
PO updates managed each year
72K+
Successfully automated decisions
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Reliable PO data changes what the business can do
BraunAbility
Automotive mobility leader boosts on-time delivery by 30%, cuts inventory 22%, and eliminates procurement chaos with SourceDay
Ag Leader
Agriculture technology company boosted on-time delivery to 99%, cut inventory 32%, and saved millions using SourceDay with Epicor ERP.
Sportsman Boats
Learn how Sportsman Boats used SourceDay to reduce safety stock by 66% and achieved zero downtime from missing parts while their business was growing 40%.
Chatsworth Products
How Chatsworth Products Reduced Work in Process with Real-Time Information
JBT AeroTech
JBT AeroTech saves $800K and boosts on-time delivery by fixing supplier communication with SourceDay
Questions Manufacturers & Distributors Ask When Evaluating SourceDay
SourceDay is a purchase order management platform for manufacturers and distributors. It connects a company’s ERP with its suppliers so purchase orders stay confirmed, current, and controlled as delivery dates, quantities, pricing, and other commitments change. The goal is to give procurement and supply chain teams more predictable supplier execution without replacing the ERP.
An ERP records the plan, but supplier commitments often change after a purchase order is issued. New dates arrive by email. Quantities change. Pricing gets revised. Some updates make it back into the ERP and others do not. SourceDay manages that execution layer between the ERP and suppliers, capturing confirmations and changes and keeping the ERP aligned with current supplier commitments.
SourceDay is designed for the problems that appear after a purchase order is sent: unacknowledged POs, late parts, incorrect commit dates, pricing discrepancies, supplier changes buried in email, and ERP data that no longer reflects what the supplier has actually committed to. Bringing those changes into a controlled workflow helps teams identify issues earlier and reduce production, inventory, and margin surprises.
SourceDay creates a structured process for suppliers to acknowledge orders, confirm dates, respond to changes, and keep commitments current. Buyers can see which orders need attention instead of manually chasing every supplier. Supplier scorecards and audit trails add accountability over time, while current PO data gives planning and operations a more reliable view of inbound supply.
More reliable supplier commitments can reduce the need to protect production with excess buffer inventory. The impact depends on each operation, but SourceDay customers have demonstrated the connection. Sportsman Boats, for example, reduced safety stock by 66% while reporting zero production downtime from missing parts. The underlying objective is better confidence in when material will actually arrive.
SourceDay is designed around supplier optionality rather than requiring every supplier to work the same way. Suppliers can interact through approaches that fit their workflow, including email-based collaboration and the SourceDay platform. This reduces adoption friction while still giving the buyer a structured record of acknowledgments, changes, and commitments.
SourceDay is designed to reduce rollout risk through ERP integration, a defined adoption process, supplier support, and flexible ways for suppliers to participate. A practical starting point is to connect SourceDay to the ERP and stabilize open purchase orders first: capture current commitments, acknowledgments, and changes. Teams can expand automation once that visibility is reliable.
Start with the operational problem, not the feature list. Compare how each option handles open POs after they are issued, ERP synchronization, supplier acknowledgments, delivery and pricing changes, exception visibility, supplier network and participation, audit history, and rollout risk. For manufacturers managing direct materials, the important question is whether the system keeps real supplier commitments aligned with the ERP as conditions change.