Procurement processes aren't complex, but involve information transfer across multiple departments and systems: requesting departments submit needs, procurement finds suppliers, finance reviews budgets, legal reviews contracts. Any information gap at any step slows the entire cycle.
Copilot first, then Hub
Requirements in OA, qualified supplier lists in ERP, historical purchase prices in another system, supplier qualification documents possibly in shared drives or email. Procurement staff must switch between three to four systems for a single procurement decision.
After collecting quotes from various suppliers, procurement must compare item by item in Excel: price, delivery time, payment terms, quality assurance, after-sales service. Different suppliers' quotes have inconsistent formats and dimensions. Compilation is time-consuming and error-prone.
A single procurement may require: department confirmation → procurement initial review → finance budget review → leadership approval. Approval flows through OA, and each node's processing time is unpredictable. Urgent procurement often gets delayed by slow approvals, impacting production or project timelines.
Supplier info, historical prices, and qualification evaluations auto-aggregated by Agent from multiple systems.
Multi-dimensional comparison reports auto-calculated and generated by Agent. Procurement staff focus on supplier communication.
Procurement approvals auto-route through OA, approvers handle instantly via Feishu.
