Contract manufacturer · 6 plants · $400M revenue
A 40-step purchase order, collapsed to one approval screen.
Before
Buying a $5,000 part took 11 days. The request bounced between email, a SharePoint folder, three signature lines, the ERP, two Excel logs, and a Slack channel. Plant managers were calling buyers at 7 p.m. asking where their parts were.
What we built
We mapped every step, kept the four that genuinely need a human (the approvals), and automated the other thirty-six. Plant managers now see one screen: what they asked for, who has it, when it ships. Auditors get a complete trail, automatically.
After
A typical PO takes under 48 hours. The procurement team stopped being a help desk and started negotiating contracts again. Audit prep that used to take two weeks now takes an afternoon.
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You'll recognize this if…
- →A simple request takes a week because it crosses six tools
- →Your team's job has quietly become "chase the approval"
- →Audit season costs you a quarter of someone's year