Procurement
Your buyer can't just click buy
In a large account, the person who wants your product isn't the person who approves it, and neither of them issues the purchase order. Sell into that reality: TackQuote handles the requisition, the approval, the punchout, and the PO — so the order that reaches you is already clean.
Five hands touch the order before you do
Each step has someone who can stop it. These are the five, and what TackQuote does at each one.
01Requester
Builds a requisition
Your buyer opens a catalog scoped to their account — their negotiated prices, their approved SKUs, their saved lists — and assembles what they need.
In TackQuote: Per-customer catalogs, saved lists, contract pricing
02Approver
Signs off, or doesn’t
Requests above a threshold route to whoever has to see them. Order limits and approval rules are enforced before anything reaches you, not after.
In TackQuote: Approval chains, order limits, buyer groups
03Procurement system
Punches out and back
If purchasing lives in Ariba, Coupa, or SAP, the buyer punches out into your catalog and the finished cart returns as a cXML order message — no rekeying.
In TackQuote: cXML PunchOut, OCI / SAP Open Catalog, UNSPSC codes
04Finance
Issues the PO
Capture the PO number on the quote, and refuse acceptance without one when your terms require it. The number follows the order through invoicing.
In TackQuote: PO capture, PO-required enforcement, net terms
05You
Fulfils a clean order
The order arrives priced correctly, approved, and referenced — so it can go straight to your ERP instead of into someone’s inbox.
In TackQuote: ERP and accounting sync, order records, audit trail
Punchout
Speak the protocol their purchasing team already uses
- cXML PunchOutSetupRequest and PunchOutOrderMessage
- OCI (SAP Open Catalog Interface) HOOK_URL flow
- UNSPSC classification codes on line items
- Per-connection credentials for each buying organisation
- Buyer-specific catalog and pricing inside the session
Controls that hold up under audit
Procurement teams ask what stops the wrong price, the wrong buyer, and the wrong quantity. These are the answers.
Catalogs per customer
Show each account only what they’re entitled to buy, at the price their contract says.
Buying groups
Give a company’s many buyers one shared entitlement set instead of maintaining them one by one.
Order limits
Cap value or quantity per buyer, and send anything above the cap for approval automatically.
Margin floors
Stop a discount that breaks your margin from being quoted, and route the exception to whoever can approve it.
Contract pricing
Honour agreed prices for the life of a contract, with the effective dates attached.
A defensible record
Every price change, approval, and acceptance is logged with who did it and when.
Be the supplier that's easy to buy from
When your catalog, prices, and approvals already fit their process, you stop losing deals to paperwork.