What is supplier email monitoring?
Supplier email monitoring means every critical update gets seen — not just the ones your buyer happened to open first.
Buyers manage hundreds of emails across dozens of suppliers. A hold notice arrives at 4pm on Friday. A delay hits on a busy Monday. Without automated monitoring, those emails get buried — and nobody finds out until production is already asking questions.
The missed update problem
The email arrived. Nobody saw it.
Supplier emails don’t announce themselves as urgent. A hold notice looks like any other message in a crowded inbox. By the time the buyer finds it, reviews it, and relays it to the rest of the team — the floor has already made decisions based on the old plan. The update was there. It just didn’t surface in time.
How it works
Everyone stays aligned as soon as new information comes in.
AWB 789101112 - Shipment departed Shanghai PVG
Invoice #450092 overdue reminder for PO-112233
Weekly Inventory Sync - Q4 Projections report
Connect your email
Works with your existing Gmail or Outlook setup. Connected in minutes — your team keeps working exactly as they do today.
PO-Relay reads every supplier communication
Every hold notice, shipment update, delay, and confirmation is extracted and categorized the moment the email arrives. Nothing slips through.
Production and supply chain see the latest — instantly
The dashboard reflects what’s actually happening now, not what was entered last. Every team member sees the same current picture without asking anyone.
What you get
PO-Relay keeps your whole team current — automatically.
Live part status
Delivery dates, hold notices, and shipment updates pulled from supplier emails and shared across your team the moment they arrive.
No extra work for buyers
Buyers keep working the same way. PO-Relay runs quietly in the background — nothing new to learn, nothing to change.
Complete audit trail
Every status change is logged with the email that caused it. When a delay or dispute comes up, the full timeline is already there.