Application examples: How to solve complex purchasing requirements

Every company has its own guidelines and processes. Discover typical challenges in everyday procurement and learn how you can overcome them efficiently and in compliance with regulations using the flexible modules of our platform.

How can I ensure budgets are not exceeded?
Controlling
How can I ensure budgets are not exceeded?

Initial Situation Budget overruns lead to unplanned spending, manual control mechanisms are unreliable, business units commit to budgets they don't meet, no real-time control of deviations

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Long-tail Solutions
Make Long-Tail Spending Visible and Optimize

Initial Situation A services company with 500 employees suspects that approximately 25% of total spending occurs as long-tail needs – distributed across dozens of individual orders from various provid…

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Basic
How do I make procurement audit-ready without extra effort?

Initial Situation Before the annual audit, the procurement manager of a 150-employee company must compile order documentation. Orders run via email, Excel and various portals. Documentation is incompl…

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Marketplace
Marketplace
How do I prevent overpriced purchases through price rules?

Initial Situation A trading company with 250 employees orders 800 line items monthly. Spot checks reveal: 15% of ordered articles are 20-50% above available market price. Employees don't actively comp…

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Enforce Framework Agreements – from 60% to 95% Compliance
Marketplace
How do I consistently enforce framework agreements?

Initial Situation The strategic procurement team of an industrial company has invested significant time and effort into negotiating framework agreements with 15 key vendors, securing 5 to 15% off the …

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ERP-SAP connection
How Do I Get Full Visibility of Long-Tail Spending?

Initial Situation Organizations spend 15-30% of their procurement budgets on "long-tail" items (supplies, office materials, spare parts, tools, etc.). These purchases often occur in an uncontrolled ma…

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How can I create meaningful procurement reports for management?
Controlling
How can I create meaningful procurement reports for management?

Initial Situation Management wants to understand procurement performance, manual report creation takes days, data is scattered across multiple systems, reports are hard to update and not standardized

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Basic
Basic
How do I reduce process costs per order to under €25?

Initial Situation A mid-sized company with 200 employees processes 300 orders for indirect material monthly. The ordering process is fragmented: demand notification via email, vendor research in vario…

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How do I find the cheapest article across all suppliers?
Basic
How do I find the cheapest article across all suppliers?

Initial Situation A buyer in an industrial company needs to procure 500 pairs of safety gloves for production, a typical recurring need in the area of personal protective equipment and C-parts. Today,…

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How can I automate cost allocation of purchase orders?
Controlling
How can I automate cost allocation of purchase orders?

Initial Situation Manual cost allocation of orders is time-consuming and error-prone, GL accounts are inconsistently assigned, month-end closing takes longer due to allocation corrections, invoice ver…

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Requests for quotation
Guarantee Audit Security for Award Decisions

Initial Situation A group subsidiary is audited internally and externally annually. In the last audit, 35% of award decisions showed incomplete or missing documentation. The rework took 3 weeks and si…

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Basic
How do I shorten the onboarding time for new procurement staff?

Initial Situation A growing company hires 3-4 new employees per quarter who also place orders as part of their role. Onboarding to procurement processes takes an average of 2 weeks: Which vendor for w…

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