AI procurement automation
for manufacturers and wholesalers
Choosing the supplier, raising the order, getting it signed, then holding the supplier to what they promised. Buying is a long cycle. It runs on one desk.
What does AI procurement automation do?
An AI agent turns a request into a purchase order on your contract terms: the contracted supplier, the contract price and a lead time that supplier has met before. Each order goes to the one person who must sign it, and supplier confirmations are read back against the order, so buyers only see the lines that moved.
Sourcing the supplier
Demand comes off someone's desk as a part, a quantity and a date. The agent puts it against the suppliers you already hold terms with, and brings the contract price, what you actually paid last time and the lead time each one has managed to hold.
PO creation
A request arrives with a part, a quantity and a date. The agent picks the supplier you hold a contract with, prices it off that contract, and puts a lead time on it the supplier has actually met before.
Approvals
Every order goes to the one person whose signature it needs, by amount, category and delegation, with the quote and the budget line attached. Under your threshold it does not wait for anyone.
Confirmation matching
Suppliers answer however they like: a line in the thread, a PDF, a portal export, sometimes nothing. Whatever comes back is read against the order, and a buyer only sees the lines that moved.
Every delivery in on time.
Orders go out on contract terms and follow themselves up, so a delivery that slips is caught while there is still time to act. Your buyers spend their day on suppliers instead of reminders.
Learn moreAlready taking work off the buying desk.
All customer stories↗
Choosing a supplier for one requisition.
A line needs forty bearings by the eighteenth. Three suppliers can take the order. Only one of them can hold the date.
You decide which POs need a person
Every check on a purchase order has a setting. Orders inside your terms go out and chase themselves, and anything outside them waits for the buyer who owns that supplier, with the reason attached.
Our engineers set it up with you.
It takes on more of the buying desk as it learns.
Forward deployed engineers put the first category live with your buyers, so orders come off the desk in the first weeks rather than at the end of a project. From there it automates gradually: every correction teaches it your suppliers and your contracts, and fewer orders need a person to look.
They work inside your operation. They load your contracts and approved supplier list with your buyers, set the confidence line together, and stay on as suppliers and prices change. Not a licence and a manual. A team that knows your supply base.
The purchasing inbox, the buying rules, the checks and the log are yours to configure. Our documentation and support sit behind your team, and an engineer is a call away whenever you want one.
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Questions about AI procurement.
How does it choose the supplier and the price?
It puts each request against the suppliers you already hold terms with, and brings the contract price, what you actually paid last time and the lead time each supplier has managed to hold. Price, approved supplier and lead time are checked on every line before the purchase order goes out.
Who approves the purchase orders?
Every order goes to the one person whose signature it needs, by amount, category and delegation, with the quote and the budget line attached. Under your threshold it goes out without waiting for anyone. A supplier that is not on your approved list always reaches the buyer who owns that supplier.
What happens when a supplier does not confirm?
Suppliers answer however they like: a line in an email, a PDF, a portal export or nothing at all. Whatever comes back is read against the order and a buyer only sees the lines that moved. A supplier that has not confirmed hears from the agent on the day the reply was due.
Which ERPs does it work with?
It raises purchase orders and books supplier confirmations in SAP S/4HANA and ECC, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Finance and Operations, Exact, AFAS and Infor, among others. Lleverage is an SAP partner, and nothing is migrated: the agent fills the fields your buyers fill, and the ERP checks them the same way.
How long does it take to go live?
Forward deployed engineers put the first category live with your buyers, loading your contracts and approved supplier list with them, so orders come off the desk in the first weeks rather than at the end of a project. Every correction teaches it your suppliers and contracts, and fewer orders need a person.
Procurement automation in your ERP.
How the agent works in each ERP: what it reads and writes there, and how it sits next to the ERP's own features.
The rest of the back office.
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Quote to orderQuote & SellQuotes drafted, orders entered and confirmed the moment they land.
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Forecast to producePlan & ProduceThe plan reshuffled when reality changes.
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Order to deliveryDeliver & SupportCustomers answered with full context, in their own channel.
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AP & ARPay & CollectInvoices matched, real variances flagged, the rest untouched.
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Master dataGovern & EnableMaster data kept clean and in sync across every system.