Otiox Command · Explorer & Dependency Map

Nothing in a business exists alone.

A supplier is bound to its purchase orders, the orders to the materials they bring, the materials to the manufacturing orders that consume them, and those to the customers who wait. Otiox keeps each of these links the moment the work creates it — a receipt, a reservation, a schedule — and remembers when it changed. The Explorer and Dependency Map let you follow them from any record, and see what is at risk when one of them strains.
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Explorer
One record and everything connected to it, up to two steps away. Click a record to put it in the middle.
SupplierPurchase orderManufacturing orderCustomer orderProductMaterialMachine
1 step2 stepsOpen records onlyAs of 26 Oct 2026
MO-PRED-0001MO-PRED-0002SO-PRED-0001PO-PRED-0001PO-PRED-0002RM-STEEL-04INV-S-0412Contract 2026Shenzhen Precision
01

Relationships as facts, not drawings.

Any tool can draw a graph. What matters is what the graph is made of. In Otiox every connection is created by the work itself — a receipt, a reservation, a schedule — kept in time, and used by every other part of the system to reason.
Start from
Supplier
Shenzhen Precision
Also possible
PO · MO · SO · product
material · customer · machine · invoice
01

Any record at the centre

Suppliers, purchase orders, manufacturing orders, customer orders, products, materials, customers, machines and invoices — any of them can be the starting point.

Begin wherever the concern lies

Shenzhen Precision · 2 steps
1 step
2 POs · 1 contract · 1 invoice
2 steps
2 MOs · 1 material
Customers reached
Alpen GmbH
02

One step, or two

Direct relationships, or two steps out to find the less obvious ones: the customer behind the order behind the material behind the supplier.

Exposure no one had accounted for

Depends on Shenzhen Precision4 at risk
PO-PRED-0001
+33 d late
MO-PRED-0001
start blocked
SO-PRED-0001 · Alpen GmbH
due 12 Nov
Revenue exposed
€48,200
03

Dependencies, with risk

From a supplier, material, product or purchase order, the full tree of what depends on it — every record at risk flagged, and the revenue involved.

Consequences understood before they arrive

As of 01 Aug 2026
PO-PRED-0001
on time
Reserved for
MO-PRED-0001
Linked customer orders
1
04

As of any date

Relationships are kept in time, so you can see them as they stood on a past date — the context in which a decision was actually made.

Context for every decision, then and now

Records with missing links3
PO-2026-0041
no supplier
LOT-2026-077
no source receipt
INV-S-0398
no goods receipt
05

Missing links, surfaced

Because relationships are expected, their absence is visible: orders without a supplier, lots without a source, invoices without a receipt.

Gaps closed before they matter

Who reads the same relationship
PO-PRED-0001 → MO-PRED-0001
Predictive Engine
risk 82 %
Causal Map
confirmed chain
Rules
materials covered
06

The same facts, everywhere

The relationships you explore here are the ones the Predictive Engine, the Causal Map and the Rules read from. One model, not a separate diagram.

No drift between picture and reality

02

If this supplier slips, what follows?

The Dependency Map follows recorded relationships downstream from a single starting point — every purchase order, material, manufacturing order and customer order that depends on it, with those at risk marked.
  1. 01
    Begin from a supplier, material, product or purchase order
  2. 02
    The full tree of dependants, level by level
  3. 03
    Records at risk flagged, with the reason
  4. 04
    Customer orders and revenue exposed, in total
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Dependency Map
Pick a supplier, material, product or purchase order to see what depends on it, and what is at risk.
4 at risk2 POs · 1 material · 2 MOs · 1 customer order · €48,200 revenue
Shenzhen Precision
PO-PRED-0001+33 d late
RM-BEARING-62Cover ends 4 Nov
MO-PRED-0001Start blocked
SO-PRED-0001 · Alpen GmbHDue 12 Nov
MO-PRED-0004
PO-PRED-0002+30 d late
03

Following a relationship

A few steps from a concern to an answer.
  1. 01

    Choose a type

    Supplier, order, material, machine, customer…

  2. 02

    Find the record

    By name, number or any field

  3. 03

    Extend

    One or two steps, open records only, as of a date

  4. 04

    Follow a thread

    Select any related record to continue from it

  5. 05

    Act

    Open an investigation or rehearse a scenario from there

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To know a business is to know its relationships.

The Explorer is how a team comes to understand its own operation: from a supplier to a purchase order, to the manufacturing order it feeds, to the customer who waits — each step a fact on the record.
  1. 01
    Nine record types, all related
  2. 02
    One-step and two-step neighbourhoods
  3. 03
    Open-records-only and as-of-date filters
  4. 04
    Records with missing relationships highlighted
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Command · impact
One late purchase order
Purchase order → builds → customer orders
LinkRecordState
Purchase orderPCB orderLate now
BuildManufacturing orderWaiting for material
CustomerSales orderAt risk
Customer orders affected
Simulate

Test a further slip before it happens.

Customers told days ahead, not on the day.

07

Questions

01How is this different from a diagram of our data?
A diagram is drawn once and then drifts from reality. In Otiox the links are created by the work itself — raising a purchase order, reserving material, scheduling a machine — and kept with their history. The same links drive predictions, causal chains and rules, so what you explore here is exactly what the rest of the system reasons with.
02Do I need to build the relationships myself?
No. They arise from everyday work in Otiox and from connected systems: raising a purchase order, reserving material, scheduling a machine, invoicing a customer.
03Which record types can be explored?
Suppliers, purchase orders, manufacturing orders, customer orders, products, materials, customers, machines and invoices.
04Can I see relationships as they were in the past?
Yes. Set an 'as of' date and the Explorer shows the relationships as they stood, from recorded history.
Otiox

Follow the thread from any record.

Open the demo workspace, start from a supplier, and see everything that depends on it.