Purchasing & Procurement

Purchasing & Procurement always adheres to this core flow inside the purchasing organization:

Internal Order - Users are creating purchase requisitions (internal orders) to document demand inside the company
Internal Order Approval - Internal orders in some scenarios have to undergo approval process before they are handed over to purchasing (e.g. internal budgeting, material approval flows, ... )
Purchasing Automation - The Purchasing Automation Engine creates preliminary purchase orders, with the goal to optimize the individual purchase order for best purchasing conditions (money & delivery speed)
Purchase Order Pooling - Preliminary purchase orders can be pooled to aggregate them by specific rules for better purchasing conditions. The result of this step is the issuance of purchase orders.
Purchase Order Approval - Finally the purchase order must be approved by internal parties (e.g. fiscal approval processes)
Purchase Order Transmission - the trigger point of the P2P process, where the purchase orders are handed over to the suppliers.

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