Requisition check
confirms each requisition is complete and flags possible split purchases.
Roles
Buyer
a purchasing professional who sources materials and services for a manufacturing plant, requesting quotes and negotiating with suppliers
Your job, minus the screen work
You commit the company's money to suppliers: the right price, from an approved supplier, in time for the need date. In a smaller plant you might be buyer, planner and expediter before lunch. Most of the day goes to the paper around the decision.
Where your week goes
- Emailing requesters about missing account codes
- Looking up approvers and pasting requests into Teams
- Building each RFQ by hand: find the drawing, check the revision, attach, repeat
- Saving supplier replies from the inbox into folders
- Retyping prices, units and lead times from PDFs into the bid tab
- Converting cases to pieces and origin freight to delivered
0 of 6 tasks are screen work
What an agent takes over
Approval routing
sends it to the right approver by amount, category and budget, and chases when it stalls.
RFQ packages
assembles drawings and specs and sends them to approved suppliers by portal or email.
Quote extraction
reads every reply, whatever the format, into clean fields and asks suppliers for anything missing.
Bid tab
converts units, adds freight and duty, and ranks suppliers by landed cost and lead time.
Savings log
updates at every award with prior and awarded price.
What stays with you
| Agent does | You decide |
|---|---|
| Requisition check: confirms each requisition is complete and flags possible split purchases. | Negotiation and every award |
| Approval routing: sends it to the right approver by amount, category and budget, and chases when it stalls. | Sole-source and emergency decisions |
| RFQ packages: assembles drawings and specs and sends them to approved suppliers by portal or email. | Reading a supplier's health and developing new ones |
| Quote extraction: reads every reply, whatever the format, into clean fields and asks suppliers for anything missing. | Terms that carry legal risk |
Apps you already juggle
Your ERP (Epicor, SAP, Dynamics 365, Oracle, Infor SyteLine, NetSuite), supplier portals, Outlook, Excel, SharePoint and Teams.
- ERP
- supplier portals
- Outlook
- Excel
- SharePoint
- Teams
- Epicor
- SAP
- Dynamics 365
- Oracle
- Infor SyteLine
- NetSuite
A week, before and after
Before
- Build RFQs one supplier at a time
- Retype quotes into the bid tab
- Update the savings log from memory at month-end
After
- Morning review queue: split flags, unclear quote fields, supplier exceptions
- Each closed RFQ opens to a finished bid tab
- Recovered hours go to negotiation and supplier visits
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Buyer workflow catalog 41 manufacturingNo prompts. No babysitting. No Integrations.