Procurement
Twelve asks, one line to negotiate
Three departments asking for the same trestle table is one line, not three orders at three prices — often placed by three people who did not know the others existed. Buyers negotiate on volume, and this is what gives them the volume to negotiate on.
Since the last conversation
Narrow it to what is new
Filter to everything approved since a chosen moment, so a buyer going back to a supplier sees only what changed rather than re-reading the whole list.
Closeout
Planned and actual are different columns
What was planned, what was ordered and what actually arrived are kept apart, and one is never used as a stand-in for another. A year later you can still say which was which.