The dates that went stale while you were busy
Which lines
need keying in?
Your suppliers emailed new dates all week. Your system still shows the old ones, and nobody has time to open every message and check. Point this at the mail you already save and at your own open-order export. It prints the lines where the two disagree, with the supplier's own sentence beside each one.
- 01The supplier mail you save
- 02Your open-order export
- 03Key them in and tick
This browser will not keep anything between visits — a private window and a blocked-storage setting both do this. Your list is built from your own files either way, and your ticks work for this sitting. They will be gone when you close the tab.
01 / What they wrote
The supplier mail you already save
Save the messages out of your mail application, or point this at the folder you drop them in. Outlook .msg and .eml files are both read. Nothing is asked of your suppliers and nothing is sent to them.
Drop your saved messages here
Read locally in your browser. Your original files are unchanged.
Watch the folder this mail lands in
Choose it once. Every week you open this page, it reads that folder again and marks what arrived since you last looked. The folder stays on your computer; only your choice of it is remembered here.
How to save the messages out of your mail application
New Outlook and Outlook on the web
Open the message, choose More actions (…) → Save as. It saves an .eml file. Dragging mail straight into a browser is not supported here, so use Save as.
Classic Outlook for Windows
File → Save As saves an .msg file. You can also select several messages and drag them into a folder, then watch that folder here.
Gmail
Open the message, then ⋮ → Download message. It saves an .eml file.
Apple Mail
File → Save As and choose Raw Message Source. It saves an .eml file.
A rule in Outlook that copies supplier replies into one folder turns this into a weekly habit instead of a chore. A message you never save is a date this list never sees.
02 / What your system says
Your own open-order export
One export of your open purchase order lines, with whatever date column your system carries. Every purchasing system on the market produces this file, and no login, connector or mapping of ours is needed to read it. It is read in this tab like everything else here.
A CSV or tab-separated file with a header row: purchase order number, line, and the date the line carries today. Not uploaded, not stored, not sent anywhere.
03 / The list
Lines where the two disagree
Ticked as keyed in
A tick records what you did; it does not change your system and it does not claim the two now agree. Each of these stays here until your own export carries the supplier's date.
Dates this list would not put beside a line
Each of these is a real date in a real message that could not be matched to one open line. It is shown rather than guessed at, so you can decide what it belongs to.
What this list does and does not establish
Two files, one arithmetic.
A difference, not a verdict.
A row here means one thing: a supplier wrote a date, and the line in your export carries a different one. It is not a claim that either is wrong, that anything is late, or that anybody is at fault.
There is no score on this page, no percentage and no supplier ranking. The sentence they wrote is on the row, and the judgement is yours — you are the one who signs it.