Procurement Systems
The rules-based half of procurement automated, and the judgement half left where it belongs.
Procurement is two different jobs.
One half is compliance and administration: documentation, thresholds, delegation of authority, supplier records, document checks. It is rules, and rules are automatable.
The other half is category strategy, negotiation and supplier relationships. That is judgement, and automating it produces exactly the outcome you would expect.
We build for the first half so your category managers can spend their week on the second.
- Human
- Negotiation, category strategy, award
- AI
- Bid comparison, market scan, drafting
- Automation
- Thresholds, checks, records, routing
Illustrative. A real split comes out of the mapping step.
Four capabilities.
Where the engagement also covers category strategy, sourcing policy and cost transformation, it is delivered with the impact+ Procurement Transformation practice.
Request and approval routing
Thresholds and delegation of authority applied automatically and consistently, every time.
Bid comparison
Submissions normalised and compared against the published criteria, with the award decision left to the committee.
Supplier administration
Registration, document validity, expiry tracking and performance records maintained continuously.
Spend visibility
Category and supplier spend visible in near real time rather than reconstructed at year end.