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Intelligent automation drives efficiency, quality and execution speed in Sourcing & Procurement
Sourcing & Procurement
Sourcing and procurement
Intelligent automation in Sourcing & Procurement improves process quality and transparency, timeliness and increases speed. It enables better purchasing, stock availability and supplier management.
Automating our customer’s processes in sourcing lead to improved inventory management and cost savings. They were able to decrease the number of items in danger of shortage and ensure better component availability, which also reduced bottlenecks in production.
How AI-driven automation improves Sourcing & Procurement processes
See how AI-driven automation in sourcing and procurement cuts cycle times, lowers procurement costs, and improves supplier, contract, and invoice operations end to end.
Demand planning & STR
AI-driven automation strengthens demand planning and sourcing-to-receipt by aggregating purchasing data, analyzing categories, and forecasting volumes, prices, and supplier performance, so procurement teams plan with better data and less manual work.
- Category analysis (volume, price, location, forecast etc.)
- Data aggregation
Supplier management
Use AI automation to onboard suppliers faster, keep vendor master data clean, and monitor supplier risk and performance continuously across your supply base.
- Supplier performance management
- Contract management
- RFQ & offer screening
- Supplier details collection from supplier databases
Sourcing support
AI-driven automation accelerates sourcing events, RFx processes, and contract reviews by analyzing bids, summarizing supplier responses, and surfacing market insights, so sourcing teams negotiate better deals in less time.
- Spend analytics, tail spend consolidations
- Market analysis & Benchmarking process
- Contract administration
- Risk management
Operational purchasing
Automate purchase requisitions, PO approvals, and three-way matching with AI to reduce maverick spend, cut cycle times, and free buyers from repetitive operational work.
Requisition processing & review
Purchase order processing & approvals
Placing orders in supplier system
Materials receipt and document recording and archiving
Cost pool allocations
Procurement admin
Use automation to handle spend classification, category taxonomies, policy compliance, and procurement reporting, giving CPOs accurate data with far less manual upkeep.
- Reporting
- Performance & Compliance monitoring
- Reconcile purchase order, receipt and invoices
- Update and match delivery dates with orders
Account payables & others
Automate invoice processing, expense management, and payment reconciliation with AI to lower cost per invoice, capture early-payment discounts, and accelerate the financial close.
- Supplier master data maintenance
- Invoice prcsessing & Payment
- Bill and Time & Expense auditing
- Catalogue management
- eProcurement activities
Benefits of AI-driven automation in sourcing and procurement
Improved data quality
Quality and accuracy are improved when data is updated faster and error-free.
Process transparency & standardization
Automation creates transparency in processes, detects exceptions and harmonizes procedures and information.
Increased speed and productivity
Intelligent automation speeds up processes and increases efficiency by removing manual work.
Higher cost savings
AI and RPA produce immediate direct cost savings and the investment's payback time is usually a few months.
Success stories in Procurement
Epta digitalizes its operations with automation
Case: Automation in a multinational manufacturing company
Organization
A multinational manufacturing company with a strong focus in Continental Europe.
Background and motivation
Automation was seen as the right tool for driving efficiency, quality and execution speed in the company’s core business and support functions. The company chose Sisua to help understand automation potential in its functions, build an operating model and provide process automation as a service to scale RPA across the company.
Process description
“Stock shortage check for items” automation is in production. Main focus is in sourcing function, but will expand to other functions, such as Production planning and F&A. In the long term the company is interested in training its own business users to develop personal assistant –type task automations.
Automation benefit
Automation of stock shortage items check decreases the number of items that are in danger of shortage and ensures better component availability, which reduces bottlenecks in production. 0,8 FTE will be released to more valuable tasks due to automation.
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