Program 03 · Manufacturing Trade Intelligence

In just-in-time and just-in-sequence production, a late or misclassified part stops the line.

Automotive and aerospace lines run on just-in-time and just-in-sequence supply: parts arrive in the order the line consumes them, with no buffer to absorb a miss. DistroLogic is the control tower over that inbound flow. It models true landed cost before a purchase order is signed and watches sequence, capacity, customs, and trade exposure, so a delay or a misclassification surfaces before it reaches the line rather than after it has stopped.

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Where the value comes from

Three ways the program pays.

Inbound tracked against just-in-sequence demand
Line-down risk surfaced early, not at the dock
Interventions ranked, no-cost paths first

Inbound parts are tracked against the order the line will consume them in. A slipping vessel, a held shipment, or a short ASN surfaces against the build schedule, with intervention options ranked, before it becomes a line-down event.

Quoted price vs true landed cost
One corrected PO can cover years of cost
Decisions on real totals, not unit price

Quoted price versus true landed cost regularly flips which supplier wins. At automotive and aerospace volumes, one corrected sourcing call covers years of platform cost.

Section 232 and 301, exclusions, FTZ deferral monitored
Classification tracked, including ITAR aerospace parts
Caught before the border, not at entry

Section 232 and 301, exclusions, FTZ deferral, and classification, including ITAR-controlled aerospace parts, are monitored continuously, so a misclassified inbound part is caught before it stops the line at customs.

How it works

From first call to recovered value.

Snapshot

We model true landed cost and inbound-sequence risk across your current sourcing and lanes from profile-level inputs: parts, volumes, duty exposure, and line takt.

Control tower

Your inbound network, build schedule, capacity forecast, and trade exposure land in one governed view, with line-down risk surfaced and material decisions gated for your operators.

Scenario simulation

Disruptions and sourcing changes run as scenarios before they run as a line-down. The engine ranks responses, no-cost paths first.

Continuous re-judging

As tariffs, rates, sequence, and lanes move, landed-cost and line-down models update and material decisions surface to the humans who own them.

Enterprise connectors

Plugged into the systems you already run.

10 integration targets

SAP S/4HANASAP EWMMES / shop floorEDI 830 / 862 / 856JIS sequencing feedsKanban / line-side signalsFTZ operatorsCBP ACECarrier feeds / DGFHTS / 232 / 301 / MPF / HMF data

ERP and MES read for build and inventory (SAP S/4HANA, SAP EWM)
Supplier schedules and ASNs over EDI (830 / 862 / 856)
Just-in-sequence (JIS) and kanban line-side signals
FTZ deferral and bonded inventory for automotive and aerospace
Trade surface: HTS, Section 232 and 301, MPF / HMF, CBP ACE

The control tower connects to the manufacturing and trade systems that drive automotive and aerospace production: ERP and MES for the build, EDI for supplier schedules, and the customs surface for the border. It is built for just-in-time and just-in-sequence operations, where a single late or misclassified inbound part can stop the line.

Common questions

Asked on most first calls.

Does this replace our ERP?

No. It connects to SAP and your existing systems and adds the decision layer above them. Source-of-truth data stays where it lives.

How do operators stay in control?

Material decisions stop at human gates with the recommendation, the cost, and the confidence attached. Nothing commits spend without sign-off.

What does implementation look like?

A gated onboarding: contract, program configuration, connectors, access control, then a go-live gate. Each step logged and reversible.

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