Buying yarn, step 13 of 13
Pay the balance; record the mill’s performance
What it tested, how it ran, and whether the mill kept its dates. That record is your leverage next quarter.
Pay the balance against the delivery you tested, not the one you were promised. Then the record, one row per lot: the count and tolerance ordered, the conditioned weight received against the weight invoiced, the mill’s test report against your own test, how the yarn ran on your machines, and the date promised against the date it arrived. That row is what the next negotiation with that mill is built on.