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  • eProcurement

eProcurement: guide every request to the right buying path

Reduce maverick spend and speed up purchasing cycles.
Digitize indirect procurement with guided buying, structured request intake, compliant approvals, and seamless pr to po processing. Employees buy faster while procurement keeps control over suppliers, contracts, and policy rules.

What is eprocurement in indirect purchasing?

eprocurement in indirect purchasing is the process of guiding employees to buy goods and services through structured workflows. It connects request creation, approval, and purchasing execution while ensuring compliance with suppliers, contracts, and company policies.

eprocurement: the challenge

Indirect purchasing breaks down when users are left to figure out the process for themselves.

In many organisations, employees are not guided through the correct buying channels. As a result, requests are created incorrectly, approvals slow down, and procurement teams spend time fixing errors instead of managing spend.

Unclear buying paths across channels

Users do not know whether to use catalogs, punch-out shops, marketplaces, templates, or sourcing workflows.

High maverick spend and low compliance

Without clear guidance, employees bypass preferred suppliers, contracts, and policies.

Slow and inconsistent approval processes

Requests stall due to missing data, unclear routing, and manual interpretation of approval rules.

Low request quality and poor downstream processing

Incomplete or incorrect requisitions lead to delays and rework during po creation and erp processing.

The Solution

Transform indirect purchasing into a guided, compliant buying process

SupplyOn enables organisations to guide every request through the right buying path. Instead of relying on user knowledge, the system combines guided buying, approval automation, and process integration in one structured workflow.

This allows employees to buy faster while procurement maintains full control over spend, suppliers, and compliance.

Guided buying across all demand channels

SupplyOn provides one central entry point for indirect purchasing. Users are guided to the correct buying channel depending on the request type.

Key Features
  • Central search across catalogs, punch-out, and marketplaces
  • Guided buying for goods, services, and template-based requests
  • Structured free-text requests for non-catalog demand
Impact
  • Faster request creation for employees
  • Better channel compliance across categories
  • Reduced maverick spend and wrong-path requests
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Approval control and policy enforcement

SupplyOn ensures that every request follows the correct approval and compliance logic without manual intervention.

Key Features
  • Automated approval workflows based on policy and budget rules
  • Built-in compliance checks for contracts and suppliers
  • Structured request capture for higher pr quality
Impact
  • Shorter approval cycle times
  • Fewer blocked or returned requisitions
  • Stronger compliance across the organisation

Seamless PR-to-PO processing and execution

SupplyOn connects request creation directly to purchasing execution, ensuring reliable downstream processing.

Key Features
  • End-to-end flow from request to PR and PO
  • Integration with erp and supplier processes
  • Routing to sourcing workflows for exceptional demand
Impact
  • More reliable PR-to-PO conversion
  • Reduced manual correction effort
  • Better continuity from request to supplier order
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Reduce maverick spend and accelerate purchasing cycles

The strongest value drivers for eProcurement come from reducing maverick spend, improving compliance, shortening cycle times, and lowering the process cost of handling high-volume indirect demand.

10 to 20 % reduction in procurement cost

Through reduced maverick spend and better supplier compliance.

Up to 95 percent compliance across buying channels

With guided buying and policy-controlled workflows.

Up to 70 percent lower process cost

By automating request handling and reducing manual intervention.

Up to 40 percent faster purchasing cycles

Through structured request intake and approval workflows.

Less maverick spend. Faster approvals. Cleaner requests from intake to PO.

Frequently Asked Questions

SupplyOn eProcurement is a guided buying and request-to-order process for indirect spend. It helps employees buy goods and services through the right channel while enforcing procurement rules, approval workflows, and policy compliance in the background.

A basic requisition tool captures demand. SupplyOn goes further by guiding users to the right buying path, connecting catalogs and external shops, applying compliance checks and approvals, and supporting clean PR-to-PO conversion into procurement execution.

Guided Buying is the user-facing layer that helps employees find the right item or service through internal catalogs, external webshops, marketplaces, or structured template-based requests. It reduces confusion and prevents users from choosing the wrong procurement path.

SupplyOn supports internal catalogs, punch-out shops, connected marketplaces, free-text requisitions, template items for goods and services, and handoff to RFQ or sourcing workflows where standard ordering is not the right path.

SupplyOn steers users toward preferred suppliers, approved catalogs, correct demand types, and compliant procurement processes. This reduces off-contract purchases and improves use of negotiated conditions without requiring requestors to understand procurement policy in detail.

Yes. The eProcurement material explicitly positions the solution for mixed use cases across goods and services, including office supplies, MRO, tools, consumables, capital goods, facilities, utilities, IT, HR services, and professional services.

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