What happens when a scheduled supplier review reaches its due date with evidence missing?

A supplier assurance officer opens review REV-0412 for carrier SUP-2187. The review is due, but insurance certificate DOC-0631 expires before the next operating period. The dispatch team has future loads assigned to the carrier, and the supplier contact has acknowledged a request for replacement evidence.

The officer changes the review from open to awaiting evidence, records the outstanding certificate and sends a decision request to the transport manager. The manager can authorise a limited operating exception under the environment's policy. That action creates exception EXC-0824 with its own expiry and permitted activities; it does not mark the supplier review complete.

When the exception expires, new load allocation becomes unavailable unless the required evidence or another authorised decision has arrived. Existing assignments follow the separate handling rule encoded in the environment.

The episode teaches the difference between a review deadline, an evidence dependency and an operating permission. MirrorFirm could generate these linked records and transitions so an agent must manage all three clocks. A fluent request for documents is insufficient if the agent also leaves unrestricted allocation enabled.