Buy with confidence. Keep spend under control.
Bring purchase requests, supplier quotes and orders together, with clear approvals and visibility through delivery.
Illustrative records derived from the system specification.
Built for the way you buy
Procurement managers and buyers at multi-department organisations who want requisitions, sourcing, orders and receipts under one approval matrix.
- Defined tables
- 40
- Operational views
- 18
- Defined roles
- 9
- Reports
- 8
Defined in the planned system specification.
What’s inside.
Bring purchase requests, supplier quotes and orders together, with clear approvals and visibility through delivery.
Suppliers and catalog
Choose qualified suppliers and give purchasing teams a catalog with the information needed to order.
Contracts and pricing
Apply negotiated prices, control agreement commitments and prepare renewals before approved capacity or contract terms run out.
Requisitions and approvals
Route purchase requests to the right people and preserve the approved amount, scope and version through sourcing.
Quote requests
Compare supplier quotes on a consistent scope, record the award decision and carry the selected offer into purchasing.
Purchase orders
Keep purchasing authority, supplier terms, revisions and receipt progress together from draft order through close.
Receipts and expediting
Confirm what was accepted, keep outstanding deliveries in view and give accounts payable the evidence needed to match.
Supplier performance
Review delivery, quality and price evidence separately, then use published scorecards to inform sourcing decisions.
Your purchasing workspace
- PR-35667 DPR-120 7 d
- PR-98039 DPR-150 in 7 d
- PR-93765 DPR-110 10 d
- PR-73554 DPR-120 in 2 d
- PR-92267 DPR-150 in 6 d
- Requester
- EA
- Department
- DPR-120
- CostCenter
- CC-130
- TotalAmount
- 18,659.73
- Priority
- Routine
- AS-29793 PR-13099 530 in 12 d
- AS-58605 PR-72465 450 in 10 d
- AS-56255 PR-40582 670 in 4 d
- AS-28390 PR-63854 250 3 d
- AS-44174 PR-81997 120 9 d
- DocumentType
- Requisition
- Requisition
- PR-13099
- PurchaseOrder
- PO-12991
- Amendment
- PMN-83978
- Tier
- 530
Approval conditions
Visible to: Approver, Controller, Procurement Manager. Visibility does not establish approval authority.
- PO-49881 VND-185 5 d
- PO-47580 VND-134 8 d
- PO-67854 VND-021 13 d
- PO-11876 VND-143 12 d
- PO-86783 VND-035 13 d
- Supplier
- VND-185
- OrderDate
- 12 Sep
- TotalAmount
- 13,547.44
- Buyer
- GE
- CompetitionType
- Competed
A hand-raised PO with no requisition, award or release may use an effective independently authorised Buyer-limit exception, within the full limit and all category, RFQ and pricing constraints.
| Req Number | Requester | Department | Total Amount | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PR-68266 | YS | DPR-110 | 1,651.10 | Routine |
| PR-77240 | XS | DPR-110 | 42,563.38 | Expedited |
| PR-47682 | YW | DPR-110 | 18,820.44 | Emergency |
| PR-39283 | AV | DPR-110 | 34,320.05 | Routine |
| PR-55279 | ZG | DPR-120 | 27,277.80 | Expedited |
| PR-92887 | RD | DPR-130 | 11,367.10 | Emergency |
| RFQNumber | Scope Description | Issued At | Response Deadline | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RFQ-55577 | Sent rfq-366 | 08 Sep | 12 Sep | Sent |
| RFQ-87057 | Sent rfq-320 | 04 Sep | 09 Sep | Sent |
| RFQ-62804 | Sent rfq-483 | 14 Sep | 21 Sep | Sent |
| RFQ-77279 | Sent rfq-544 | 13 Sep | 22 Sep | Sent |
| RFQ-59172 | Sent rfq-211 | 12 Sep | 15 Sep | Sent |
| RFQ-42579 | Sent rfq-633 | 07 Sep | 15 Sep | Sent |
| RFQ | RFQResponse | Normalized Price Score | Normalized Lead Time Score | Quality Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RFQ-37212 | RFQ-83657 | 35 | 75 | 60 |
| RFQ-52433 | RFQ-31557 | 65 | 85 | 60 |
| RFQ-35962 | RFQ-67145 | 35 | 35 | 65 |
| RFQ-76362 | RFQ-33115 | 65 | 60 | 80 |
| RFQ-62397 | RFQ-92234 | 25 | 35 | 70 |
| RFQ-13102 | RFQ-46983 | 30 | 90 | 90 |
| Scorecard Number | Supplier | Period | POCount | Lines Received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SP-75571 | VND-200 | PRD-485 | 18 | 70 |
| SP-12049 | VND-164 | PRD-879 | 24 | 130 |
| SP-14985 | VND-218 | PRD-108 | 10 | 170 |
| SP-18729 | VND-024 | PRD-378 | 15 | 220 |
| SP-23889 | VND-214 | PRD-138 | 39 | 30 |
| SP-95020 | VND-164 | PRD-506 | 19 | 60 |
| Supplier | Cert Type | Cert Number | Issuing Body | Issue Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VND-095 | ISO9001 | SC-45324 | IB-534 | 13 Sep |
| VND-118 | AS9100 | SC-60740 | IB-602 | 14 Sep |
| VND-164 | ISO13485 | SC-95650 | IB-139 | 12 Sep |
| VND-087 | ISO14001 | SC-47545 | IB-556 | 16 Sep |
| VND-124 | NIST800171 | SC-54724 | IB-390 | 08 Sep |
| VND-138 | ITAR | SC-74760 | IB-661 | 07 Sep |
See the whole purchase
Committed and received spend rolled up the Categories tree by Department and period, drilling to Supplier and PO, with OffContract lines flagged per category.
opens Supplier Performance Quarterly →| Scorecard Number | Supplier | Period | POCount | Lines Received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SP-75571 | VND-200 | PRD-485 | 18 | 70 |
| SP-12049 | VND-164 | PRD-879 | 24 | 130 |
| SP-14985 | VND-218 | PRD-108 | 10 | 170 |
| SP-18729 | VND-024 | PRD-378 | 15 | 220 |
- Draft
- Published
- ScorecardNumber
- SP-75571
- Supplier
- VND-200
- Period
- PRD-485
- POCount
- 18
- LinesReceived
- 70
- ExcludedLines
- 480
- OnTimeDeliveryPct
- 70
owner Procurement Manager
Go from the big picture to the details behind it. Open any record to see its status, owner and history.
Illustrative records. Connections and approval states follow the authored specification.
From purchase request to delivery
Buy with confidence. Keep spend under control.
Illustrative previews from the system specification.
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01
Requisition
Give your team a clear way to request what they need, with the detail purchasing needs to act.
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02
Approve
Route requests to the right people and keep the decision with the purchase.
The assigned reviewer checks the need and amount before the request moves into purchasing.
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03
Source
Compare supplier offers and use your agreements to make an informed choice.
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04
Purchase order
Turn approved demand into an order, with checks for price changes and remaining authority.
Reviewers approve orders and exceptions that fall outside existing spending authority.
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05
Receive
Confirm deliveries and services, keeping outstanding quantities and exceptions visible.
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06
Invoice matching
Give accounts payable the approved order and receipt evidence needed to match the invoice.
Keep spending under control
Decision checkpoints where approval stays with your team.
Approve
The assigned reviewer checks the need and amount before the request moves into purchasing.
Purchase order
Reviewers approve orders and exceptions that fall outside existing spending authority.
Make policy part of purchasing
Human approval and system automation have different jobs.
Approve
The assigned reviewer checks the need and amount before the request moves into purchasing.
Purchase order
Reviewers approve orders and exceptions that fall outside existing spending authority.
Approval chains
Bring your purchasing team together
Procurement Manager
Owns supplier decisions, signed agreements, rate activation, price exceptions, sourcing review and published performance.
Buyer
Runs sourcing, draft orders, change requests, expediting and procurement-side exception resolution.
Requester
Department user who submits a need and confirms authorised non-stocked deliveries at their desk.
Approver
Named department head, budget owner, CFO, CEO or committee representative holding the application Approver role.
Receiving Clerk
Inspects dock arrivals, records acceptance and raises controlled returns.
Supplier
External seat restricted to its own purchasing relationship and published evidence.
Controller
Finance reviewer of commitment, migration control totals and supplier performance, and signer for assigned Controller rules.
Viewer
Read-only executive view of scoped aggregate purchasing and published supplier performance.
Understand your spend
Start with the question. Follow it to the records behind the answer.
Spend by Category
Committed and received spend rolled up the Categories tree by Department and period, drilling to Supplier and PO, with OffContract lines flagged per category.
View Supplier Performance QuarterlySpend by Supplier
Spend per Suppliers by Category and period with share of total, year-on-year change and the share tied to a ContractRates or MasterAgreements row.
View Supplier Performance QuarterlyOpen Commitment
Outstanding delivery value QtyOpen × UnitPrice on issued POLineItems, by Department, CostCenter, Category and Supplier. This is distinct from full retained CurrentCommitment and agreement Spent, which include fulfilled portions; reconcile both measures to the labelled budgeting feed.
View Open Commitment LinesRequisition Cycle Time
Median and ninetieth-percentile days from SubmittedAt to Approved and from Approved to SentAt, by Department and Priority, with the ApprovalSteps tier that held each requisition longest and the count of Escalated steps.
View Requisitions Awaiting My ApprovalRFQ Award Cycle
Per RFQs: days from IssuedAt to AwardedAt, supplier response rate (Responded over invited), awarded price against the requisition estimate, and the share of awards with RecommendationOverridden, listed with their AwardReason.
View Open RFQsPO On-Time Delivery
Eligible completed POLineItems with FulfilledAt in the period and on or before frozen OriginalNeedByDate, divided by all eligible completed lines. Partial arrivals do not count as completed delivery; justified exclusions and NoHistory periods are visible. This supplies SupplierPerformance.OnTimeDeliveryPct.
View Supplier Performance QuarterlyMaster Agreement Burndown
TotalCommit against Spent per MasterAgreements with monthly burn rate, projected exhaust date and the renewal notice window.
View Master Agreement BurndownMaverick Spend
POLineItems with OffContract set, and lines that needed PriceOverrideApproved, grouped by Supplier, Buyer and the recorded OffContractReason or PriceOverrideReason; where the policy is being routed around and why.
View POs Pending ApprovalAI support for your purchasing team
Let your AI agent help with everyday work. Set its permissions during setup and keep approvals with your team.
- Finance
- Accounts payableReceipts · in
- Budgetingin and out
- Warehouse and inventory
- Warehouse systemback
- Inventoryin and out
- Suppliers
- Supplier portalin and out
- EDISuppliers, PurchaseOrders · out
- Punchout catalogsSuppliers · in and out
- Requesters
- Department systemsin and out
- DirectoryUsers · in and out
- Vendor management
- Vendor management layerin and out
- Agents
- Your agentWorks within the permissions you assign
Your agent works within the permissions you assign.
List the work that needs attention. Keep the approval with the assigned reviewer.
Download agent Agent setup guide$ curl -fsSL https://www.erp.ai/skill.md
› open Procurement and list records waiting on approve
Requisition to receipt · records listed with owner and age
› approve the first one at approve, as its approverYour questions, answered.
How the system works, what you can configure and how to get started.
How do I get started?+
Select Start now to create your account. Explore the system specification, or use Proto to configure it for your business.
Does Procurement pay invoices?+
Procurement covers requests, sourcing, orders, amendments and receipts. The configured connection sends the approved order and receipt evidence to accounts payable, which owns invoice matching, adjudication and payment. Returned mismatches become work for the Buyer to resolve.
How are approvals configured?+
Rules use department, cost center, category, amount and tier to identify an eligible person. Department heads and budget owners come from maintained records; executive and committee tiers need explicit assignments. Submitted content is frozen, and the approval retains the policy and document scope reviewed. A change that exceeds that authority requires another decision.
Does every purchase order need a second approval?+
An eligible order can use a prior spend approval within its remaining amount and scope. Conversion does not erase that authority, and splitting a request does not multiply it. An RFQ award alone grants no approval to spend. Eligible hand-raised orders may use the configured Buyer limit; other orders and exceptions follow their required review.
Who can see supplier pricing?+
Access follows the role and record. Requester and Viewer roles cannot see protected contract prices or quoted totals. Approvers receive the information permitted for their assigned decisions without access to restricted contract-rate fields. An agent has the same access boundary as its configured role.
How does supplier comparison work?+
The Buyer collects responses against the same RFQ scope and compares the configured price, lead-time and quality measures. The quality input is based on accepted performance history; delivery performance is reported separately. The Buyer records the award reason, and the resulting order must still have valid spending authority.
Can we receive goods without a warehouse system?+
A Receiving Clerk can record dock receipts at locations without warehouse management. Requesters confirm eligible desk receipts for their own purchases. At managed locations, the warehouse connection supplies the agreed receipt evidence. Partial deliveries keep the remaining quantity visible, and a shipment notice alone does not prove receipt.
How do suppliers participate?+
During implementation, configure portal or EDI participation with each supplier. Supplier access is limited to its own permitted invitations, responses, orders and supporting records. Acknowledgments identify the order revision; qualification evidence waits for the assigned internal review.
Can an order change after it is sent?+
Use an amendment with a reason, the proposed revised order and the required approval. Review considers cumulative increases and the remaining agreement capacity, so repeated small changes cannot create unlimited additional commitment. The applied revision is retained for supplier acknowledgment and the finance connection.
What happens when a supplier is suspended or blocked?+
Suspension prevents new or increased commitments while allowing authorized fulfillment of previously issued orders. A block holds issue and fulfillment posting until the designated review resolves it; arrivals can still be recorded for quarantine or dispute. Controlled reductions, cancellations and returns retain their evidence. Configure and rehearse these paths before launch.
What determines the rollout schedule?+
Departments, policy complexity, supplier data, open orders and the finance and receiving connections determine the work. Agree the first launch scope after reviewing those inputs, then proceed when its rehearsal and migration reconciliation pass. Proto can prepare later changes for review; its model and machine usage are metered.
What does it cost?+
There is no per-user fee for ordinary manual work. Prepaid credits cover metered operations, with model and Proto charges described separately. Implementation is priced to the agreed scope. The pricing page contains the full rates and account terms.
Implementation
Build a purchasing rollout around your approval policy, supplier relationships and finance connections.
Read the implementation plan- 01
Agree the purchasing policy
Map departments, cost centers, categories and named approval owners. Define contract and competition requirements, Buyer limits, price exceptions, cumulative amendment rules and agreement ceilings. Decide where each type of purchase is received and who owns the resulting inventory movement.
Buyer - 02
Configure access and master data
Set up roles, identities, sequences, approval rules and supplier qualification checks. Resolve circular user and department references in a staging import before activating the records. Load suppliers, items, agreements and rates with traceable source identifiers.
Supplier - 03
Connect finance and receiving
Verify order revisions, receipts, amendments and returned match exceptions in a test environment. Exercise duplicate delivery and recovery after interruption. Confirm that only the agreed system posts inventory and that the budgeting feed reflects the same commitment.
Team and ERP.ai - 04
Rehearse everyday and exception paths
Run a request through approval, sourcing, order issue and delivery. Include a standalone RFQ, a split conversion, an exhausted agreement, repeated small amendments, a price exception, an absent approver and a partial delivery. Test a supplier being suspended or blocked while work is open.
Approver - 05
Reconcile open work
Load the approved migration baseline with posting and outbound triggers disabled. Reconcile original orders, amendments, accepted receipts, returns and remaining commitment. Verify historical approval evidence; work without valid authority returns for review. Agree where in-flight invoices will continue to be matched.
Team and ERP.ai - 06
Launch the first department
Enable connections from agreed checkpoints after the process owner and finance reviewer accept the rehearsal and reconciled opening position. Assign support owners and a recovery plan before switching new purchasing into the application.
Team and ERP.ai - 07
Extend with evidence
Review approval delays, exceptions and supplier delivery before adding departments or integrations. Version policy changes and test them against representative purchases so existing decisions keep their history.
Supplier
Pricing
The base account and ordinary manual work in ERP.AI's official interface are $0. Viewing, searching, creating, editing, approving, deleting and exporting records in that interface do not consume read or write credits. There is no per-user fee.
Machine work: external API-key requests, imports, workflows, agents and scheduled jobs. Successful external API-key reads and writes use the operation rates below. Starting a managed execution from the interface still starts that metered service.
Pricing and account rules| Machine work | Included per $1 of credit |
|---|---|
| List/filter or get record calls | 20,000 |
| Search or aggregate calls | 4,000 |
| CSV or PDF exports | 100 |
| Record writes | 4,000 |
| Imported or synced records | 200,000 |
| File upload in MB | 2,000 |
| Workflow runs | 2,000 |
| Code-node compute beyond included in CPU-sec | 12,000 |
| Agent executions | 2,000 |
| Scheduled jobs or webhook activations | 20,000 |
Read and write rates apply to successful external API-key requests. Ordinary manual work in the ERP.AI interface is $0.
prepaid creditsSmallest pack $5, purchased credits never expire.
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Use Proto to configure this system for your business. Review fields, rules and approvals before releasing changes.
Previews contain illustrative data from the system specification.