Guided Procurement Solution Overview

UiPath · Beginner ·🤖 AI Agents & Automation ·1mo ago

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See how UiPath Solutions can help your industry to move faster, grow more profitably, and improve both customer and employee satisfaction: https://uipath.ly/4f7fEGX See how procurement teams can reduce time lost to bad purchase requests, exception chasing, and slow approvals by enabling users to buy directly in Teams chat with compliance by default. In one message, the requester asks for two laptops and 20 mobile business subscriptions for the Netherlands; the assistant routes each line correctly without forms. For laptops, it searches catalogs and punchouts and recommends compliant preferred options based on enterprise criteria, availability, and total cost. For the free-text mobile subscriptions, it auto-fills commodity and preferred supplier details, asks only for needed inputs like budget, and produces a ready-for-approval requisition. In the buyer view, the agent sends the request to a pre-approved supplier, receives and policy-checks the quote, automatically fixes a wrong-currency issue, flags a major price deviation against a baseline, drafts a renegotiation message, and keeps all actions auditable through approval to execution. 00:00 Why Procurement Slows 00:24 Chat-Based Request 00:50 Catalog Laptops Flow 01:20 Free Text Subscriptions 01:41 Review and Submit 02:13 Buyer View Automation 02:43 Policy Check Fixes 03:06 Price Deviation Decision 04:07 Approvals and Visibility 04:27 Wrap Up Value 🚀Join our community for more updates: Academy: https://uipath.ly/462jPft Blog: https://uipath.ly/3EwSRRC LinkedIn: https://uipath.ly/44SelTOa Facebook: https://uipath.ly/45A4naF Forum: https://uipath.ly/3ReA7O3

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See how UiPath Solutions can help your industry to move faster, grow more profitably, and improve both customer and employee satisfaction: https://uipath.ly/4f7fEGX See how procurement teams can reduce time lost to bad purchase requests, exception chasing, and slow approvals by enabling users to buy directly in Teams chat with compliance by default. In one message, the requester asks for two laptops and 20 mobile business subscriptions for the Netherlands; the assistant routes each line correctly without forms. For laptops, it searches catalogs and punchouts and recommends compliant preferred options based on enterprise criteria, availability, and total cost. For the free-text mobile subscriptions, it auto-fills commodity and preferred supplier details, asks only for needed inputs like budget, and produces a ready-for-approval requisition. In the buyer view, the agent sends the request to a pre-approved supplier, receives and policy-checks the quote, automatically fixes a wrong-currency issue, flags a major price deviation against a baseline, drafts a renegotiation message, and keeps all actions auditable through approval to execution. 00:00 Why Procurement Slows 00:24 Chat-Based Request 00:50 Catalog Laptops Flow 01:20 Free Text Subscriptions 01:41 Review and Submit 02:13 Buyer View Automation 02:43 Policy Check Fixes 03:06 Price Deviation Decision 04:07 Approvals and Visibility 04:27 Wrap Up Value 🚀Join our community for more updates: Academy: https://uipath.ly/462jPft Blog: https://uipath.ly/3EwSRRC LinkedIn: https://uipath.ly/44SelTOa Facebook: https://uipath.ly/45A4naF Forum: https://uipath.ly/3ReA7O3

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Chapters (10)

Why Procurement Slows

0:24 Chat-Based Request

0:50 Catalog Laptops Flow

1:20 Free Text Subscriptions

1:41 Review and Submit

2:13 Buyer View Automation

2:43 Policy Check Fixes

3:06 Price Deviation Decision

4:07 Approvals and Visibility

4:27 Wrap Up Value

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