Streamline Your Purchase Order Process

Make your purchase request processes more efficient, predictable, and accurate.

How Nutrient Workflow Helps with Purchase Approvals

• Establish a consistent, repeatable process for all purchase requests.

• Avoid missing, inaccurate purchase information.

• Streamline approvals with alerts, reminders, and escalations.

• Ensure compliance with organizational/legal requirements.

• Provide transparency and granular reporting on activity.

• Give employees an improved purchasing experience.

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Stop Wasting Time with Inefficient Purchasing Processes

You probably arrived here because your  purchase order approval process  needs help. Your employees and supervisors will likely spend a lot of time dealing with paperwork, Excel files, emails, phone calls, etc. Perhaps the workflow is inconsistent and time-consuming.

Why Do Purchase Orders Cause Headaches?

• A purchase order requires a series of tasks to be performed across multiple department silos. Anytime a process crosses departments, you introduce complexity.

• Without a consistent workflow everyone understands and follows, requesters and approvers tend to follow their processes (usually what’s easy or in their best interests).

• The risks of slow turnaround on approved purchase orders can be significant, causing issues with cash flows, work delays, and lost revenue.

• Incorrectly approved orders can lead to disciplinary action and waste.

The Solution is Automation

To streamline your purchase order workflow, you need to take a step back and look at your process from end to end to find the bottlenecks.

• Does anyone outside of the finance team know how the process works and how to start it properly?

• Is the right data (contact information, goods and services, payment terms, etc.) being captured at the point of request?

• Who is involved in purchase orders? Who are all the stakeholders?

• Is critical data housed in different systems? Which systems?

• Who are the approvers? Is it a single approver or a multitiered/complex approval matrix?

• Are there exceptions and how will they be handled? For instance, do certain dollar amounts require additional approval steps?

Once you have your process documented, it’s time to move into the automation development process. 

Automate Any Purchase Approval Process

To see how quickly you can begin automating your approval processes, request a demonstration or trial of Nutrient Workflow.

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Purchase Order Process Example

Here is an example of a purchase order approval process built with Nutrient Workflow. Because no two processes are alike, we’ve made Nutrient Workflow incredibly flexible. You can develop your approval process to suit your workflow.

Purchase Order Processes can vary significantly, so we make Nutrient Workflow highly customizable.

Fix Your Purchasing Workflow and Then Fix More

Nutrient Workflow isn’t limited to improving purchase order approvals. There’s a good chance you have other finance workflows that need to be streamlined and automated. That’s why we built our workflow platform to be flexible and scalable enough to handle any process that needs improvement.

Some of the many Finance processes that can be automated with Nutrient Workflow:

• Capital Expenditure Requests

• AP Automation

• Purchase Requests

• Travel Expense Requests

• Vendor and Contract Approvals

• Journal Entries

• Invoice Approvals

• Treasury Requests

• ACH Requests

• Wire Requests

• Investment Authorizations

• Payables/Receivables

• Asset disposal

• Budget approval

Ready to Automate Your Purchasing Process?

We have resources to help you on your journey to an automated purchasing workflow.

• Workflow for Finance Resources

• Finance Process Articles

• Recorded Demonstration of our Workflow Automation Software

• Request a Live Demonstration