Procurement Blueprints & Templates
The Component Library is a popular way to get started building in Tonkean. It contains ready-to-go components you can import into your board and begin customizing to suit your particular needs and business process.
There are various solution blueprints and module templates specifically designed to enable procurement teams, from our holistic out-of-the-box solution Purchasing Approval Made Simple to smaller, purpose-built components like 3 Bids & Buy. Each of these components is designed to jump-start your customization in Tonkean, helping you to get your process running and providing value as quickly as possible.
See the list below of solution blueprints and module templates designed specifically for procurement:
If you're looking for data sources designed for procurement, see Common Procurement Data Sources.
Solution Blueprints for Procurement
Our solution blueprints for procurement contain numerous module templates that work together to form complete models of end-to-end procurement and purchasing processes.
Software Vendor Request Intake & Triage - Automate and standardize your vendor intake process without forcing change. Gather vendor requests from everywhere, automatically check for redundancy, and deliver complete visibility on all vendor requests.
Purchasing Approval Made Simple - Automate your purchase approval process to shorten approval cycle times, reduce costs and increase efficiency, and make huge compliance gains—all without forcing change or making huge investments in development resources.
Invoice Intake & Control - Easily reduce errors, missing line items, and slow payments by using the power of Tonkean and InvoiceGPT to extract critical business information locked in unstructured invoices. Invoices can be uploaded or emailed and then used to automatically update relevant finance and accounts systems.
Module Templates for Procurement
Module templates are patterns for individual modules you can connect your own data sources to and customize. The list below includes common module templates, but additional templates are available in the Component Library.
3 Bids & Buy - Automate tail spend and drive adherence to a 3-bids-&-a-buy policy to reduce your organization's risk and exposure to non-compliant purchasing. Leveraging OpenAI's GPT models to automatically classify and categorize tail spend requests as well as improve the employee experience by automatically generating RFx content, product alternatives, and benefits.
File Intake - Easily intake invoices that have been uploaded to cloud storage and process them with InvoiceGPT to extract the business-critical information contained within documents.
FP&A Approval - Leverage intelligent prioritization, automatically escalate when needed, surface risks on time, and auto-handle simple requests.
Generate PO in NetSuite - Automatically generate purchase orders in NetSuite based on information collected from other sources. For example, you can extract invoice information using OCR and InvoicesGPT and populate that in your finance system.
Invoice Processing - Process invoices and extract critical business information from unstructured invoice data using InvoicesGPT. Extract information such as Amounts, Company Name, and Line Items to easily update records in your finance systems, such as NetSuite.
PO Management - Replace manual critical tasks by automatically creating purchase orders based on the information extracted from your invoices with InvoiceaGPT.
Procurement Approval - Automate and orchestrate the purchase approvals by the procurement team.
Procurement Purchasing - Guide the buyer through the workflow of making a purchase request. Ensure all relevant guardrails are enforced and provide procurement with an end-to-end, no-code platform to manage all requests.
Purchase Recommendation - Easily generate a purchase recommendation based on the criteria you define.
Security Approval - Review new purchase requests with your security team to keep cross-functional teams aligned and compliant with your purchasing process.
Spend Control - Manage spending and vendor information to keep spending under control.