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Procurement
Purchase orders with approval, and consolidated buying per supplier.
Who uses it: Procurement3 min
What it's for
Buy on time and in the right quantity, grouping by supplier to pay less freight and admin.
Step by step
- 1
Purchase orders
Create, approve and track each order: supplier, destination warehouse, status, amount and expected date. Orders move through draft, approval, sent and received.
- 2
Consolidated buying
Proposes one order per supplier with everything they sell you, on the optimal cycle, with the saving versus separate orders and the lines at risk of running out before it arrives.
Example: 12 suppliers today
With 12 suppliers to order from, Acme's consolidated buying groups the lines and saves US$ 462,570 versus one order per product.
Tips
- Start with the "lines at risk": they would run out before the order arrives.