Wholesale & distribution

Industry 02 / 04

Move the order forward. Keep control of the detail.

Bring supplier quotes, purchasing, stock information and order handoffs into a process your team can follow and trust.

Discuss your workflow

A workflow in focus

From a purchasing requirement to an approved order.

The lowest price is only one part of a purchasing decision. Bring quantities, lead times and terms together so people can make a decision with the relevant information in front of them.

Supplier quotes are organised into a comparison before a person approves the purchasing decision.
Illustrative workflow · Designed around your people and systems
  1. 01Define the requirement
  2. 02Compare responses
  3. 03Approve the purchase
  4. 04Confirm the receipt

01 / Opportunities

Where the work
can work better.

The same order can appear in an email, a spreadsheet and an ERP record. Each manual handoff creates a chance for quantities, pricing or delivery commitments to drift. Start by deciding which system owns each piece of information.

01

Make supplier responses comparable

Extract quantities, prices, lead times and terms into a consistent view. Flag missing units, substitutions and ambiguous conditions for review.

Procurement automation
02

Route purchasing decisions

Apply agreed spending and approval rules, preserve the decision trail and prepare a purchase order from approved information.

Procurement automation
03

Connect order and stock records

Validate product codes and quantities before passing an order between sales, inventory and fulfilment systems. Surface conflicts rather than overwriting them.

Systems integration
04

Match the receipt to the transaction

Carry confirmed receipts into the finance process and highlight quantity or price differences for investigation before posting.

Finance automation

02 / Decisions & controls

Make the exceptions
part of the design.

Product and unit consistency
Map product codes, packs, units and currencies explicitly. A valid number can still describe the wrong quantity.
Commercial decisions
Keep supplier selection, substitutions and customer delivery promises with authorised people.
Partial fulfilment
Allow for split deliveries, back orders and returns. These need a visible status and recovery path.
How we design and test the process →

03 / Measures of success

Know what changed.

Agree a baseline before implementation. These are useful measures to investigate, rather than promised results.

Purchase cycle time
Time from a complete requirement to an approved purchase order.
Manual order touches
Repeated entry and reconciliation effort per order.
Exception resolution
Time needed to resolve pricing, quantity or receipt discrepancies.

04 / Your starting point

Follow one order from end to end.

Bring a typical supplier response, approval path and order handoff. We will look for repeated entry, missing information and decisions that wait for context.

Find your opportunities

An initial conversation to understand the work and agree a practical next step.