Get more value from the procurement system you already run. Reach the suppliers outside it.
SupplyConnect provides frictionless connection into the procurement environment you already run, reaching suppliers through the channels and formats they already use. Suppliers do not need to change their existing workflows.
CURRENT WORKFLOW · BEFORE SUPPLYCONNECT
Supplier information arriving by email, PDF, spreadsheet or unsupported formats lands outside your control. Someone has to re-key it into the system of record.
How much supplier spend still depends on manual re-keying or sits outside your control?
The situation
Suppliers remain outside governed procurement flows for different reasons. Some are too small to justify onboarding, some have little incentive to change, and others are too costly to integrate one by one. Choose a supplier type to see the barrier and the response it needs.
01
Too small to justify supplier-by-supplier onboarding. Even when it runs cleanly, each connection takes more than 4 hours.
THE ECONOMICS OF ONBOARDING DO NOT SCALE.
Long-tail suppliers
Individual spend may be low, but the supplier can still be operationally or compliance-critical. Traditional onboarding often costs more effort than the transaction volume justifies.
The problem is scale, not relevance.
02
They have a process that works and no reason to change it. Pushing them onto a portal risks the relationship resulting in slower response, de-prioritisation or loss of business.
Insisting costs more than it collects.
Reluctant suppliers
Some suppliers have enough leverage to keep their own process. Others simply see no reason to adopt another portal, login or workflow when email, PDFs and spreadsheets already work for them.
Buyer demand alone does not guarantee adoption.
03
Worth connecting. Expensive to integrate one by one with at least 250 hours of efforts across buyer and supplier departments.
Deep integration works selectively, not universally.
Full-integration suppliers
Strategic, high-volume suppliers may justify EDI, APIs or other deep integration. But each connection requires technical effort, coordination and maintenance.
Deep integration works selectively, not at portfolio scale.
The challenge
Individual spend may be low, but the supplier can still be operationally or compliance-critical. Traditional activation costs more effort than the transaction volume justifies, so the relationship stays outside the governed flow.
How SupplyConnect helps
Instantaneous Connectivity
Automated connectivity service: immediate, scalable, low-cost enablement.
The challenge
Some suppliers have the leverage to dictate how they work; others simply resist another portal or login, because their email, PDF and spreadsheet processes already work. Either way the buyer carries the adoption burden.
How SupplyConnect helps
Preserve Supplier Workflows
Lightweight plug-and-play access: allow suppliers to use their known tools & processes.
The challenge
Deeper integration such as EDI is justified for strategic suppliers, but every connection still takes technical effort, coordination and maintenance. It works selectively, not across the whole supplier base.
How SupplyConnect helps
Broker Layer
No IT burden: enables automation through standardised integration.
How SupplyConnect helps
SupplyConnect removes the need to choose between costly onboarding, forced supplier adoption and one-by-one integration.
01
Connect long-tail suppliers where supplier-by-supplier onboarding does not scale.
02
Suppliers keep the channels, formats and processes they already use.
03
Connect through SupplyConnect instead of integrating suppliers one by one.
The workflow
What changes is the manual work in between.
The supplier sends
An email with a PDF invoice, sent the way the supplier already works.
Current workflow
01Receive
The email and its attachment arrive in a mailbox; someone opens both.
02Check
Someone looks up the PO reference and checks it against the order.
03Record
The values are manually re-keyed into the system of record.
With SupplyConnect
01Receive
SupplyConnect reads the email and the attachment.
02Check
The PO reference is matched to the open order. Anything that does not match is held for review.
03Record
A structured transaction is written to the buyer’s system of record, with the original source document attached.
Buyer’s system of record
The same record. None of the manual work.
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Get in TouchBenefits
Bring more supplier transactions under control without adding manual work.
01
Bring more of your supplier base into the governed flow, without added effort on their side.
02
Apply the same validation and governance rules across more supplier transactions.
03
Reduce manual checking and re-keying between supplier documents and your system of record.
04
Bring more supplier transactions into the system of record, improving visibility and control over spend.
05
Extend supplier connectivity without relying on supplier-by-supplier onboarding or one-by-one integration.
More of your supplier base works inside the governed flow rather than around it, and the same approach holds as that base grows.
Less manual handling at the edges of the procurement system, so teams spend their time on sourcing instead of administration.
Transactions that used to sit outside the system are recorded in it, which gives clearer spend insight and more consistent compliance handling.
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