What belongs in the evidence pack before anyone sits a QBR
We ask for five artefacts and we stop the briefing if two of them are missing. First, the signed SLA pages that mention time or fill. Second, a PO extract with promised dates and units. Third, the dock’s gate-in book or WMS timestamp. Fourth, a short list of open claims with ages. Fifth, any customs or port release times if the goods crossed a Georgian border.
Prices can be blacked out. Names of junior clerks can be blacked out. Clocks cannot.
A traffic-light slide is a summary of a summary. Vendors who prepare well will bring their own clocks. If yours are thinner, the meeting becomes a contest of printouts. The briefing we run is partly a rehearsal: we put both sets of stamps on one page so the live QBR does not surprise anyone.
If a stamp source is a phone photo of a paper book, say so. A photo is weaker than a WMS export, but it is stronger than a remembered Tuesday.