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Common Procurement Data Sources

There are several applications commonly connected as data sources for procurement workflows. For example, email inboxes, spend management applications, and generative AI integrations are all popular data sources.

  • Coupa - Coupa is a cloud-based business spend management platform that organizations leverage to track and manage spend in real-time, reducing purchasing cycle times and overall costs. Coupa is connected to Tonkean as part of various procurement workflows that track and handle purchase requests.

  • Email Inbox - Take advantage of a dedicated Tonkean-generated email inbox to intake purchase requests, respond to requesters, and act as the starting point for a larger procurement workflow.

  • InvoicesGPT - Leverage the advanced artificial intelligence capabilities of GPT to automatically identify and extract relevant information from invoices, such as billing and shipping addresses, item descriptions, quantities, prices, and tax amounts. This can help streamline the process of organizing and processing invoices and reduce the need for manual data entry.

  • NetSuite - NetSuite is a popular cloud ERP solution, providing a suite of applications, from accounting and financial planning to warehouse management, e-commerce, inventory management, and more. NetSuite is often connected to Tonkean to leverage its procurement and purchasing management features, such as managing purchase orders.

  • Procurement GPT-3 - Easily leverage OpenAI's GPT models for procurement use cases to empower employees to self-serve and perform purchasing tasks such as category selection and risk classification.  Tonkean enhances the GPT models with procurement operations data to unlock value from unstructured purchase requests.

  • SAP Ariba - This popular spend management platform powers automated procurement workflows and internal buyer experiences. You can connect your Ariba instance to collect and manage buyer invoices, purchase requisitions, and numerous other entities. Out-of-the-box actions include Approve or Reject Requisition, Create or Update Requisition, and Create or Update Supplier—you can also create custom actions for specialized logic, provided the correct API permissions.

  • Workday Reports - Workday is a finance and human capital management platform, offering enterprises a software suite designed to replace traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.