Assistant · 02·c · Cost Transformation

Catalog compliance &
guided purchasing.

Turn natural-language requests into compliant purchases — without making the catalog feel like a gate. Negotiated savings actually realize.

Procurement spends months negotiating catalog pricing, then watches users route around it. Non-catalog requests, off-contract suppliers, and one-off purchases that should have matched a preferred SKU quietly drain the value of every contract already negotiated. The answer isn’t a harder gate. It’s an intake that turns natural-language requests into the easiest compliant path — and treats every exception as data.

Four steps, one agent, one readout. A request comes in — quote, supplier link, or natural language — and the assistant turns it into the easiest compliant path through the catalog, the contract, or a documented exception.

01
Intake
The request

Natural language, a pasted quote, or a supplier link gets converted into structured procurement data — category, item, quantity, intent.

02
Match
Catalog check

Catalog search, preferred suppliers, contracted pricing, availability, and procurement policy all check the request side by side.

03
Guide
Best path

The easiest compliant route is recommended — catalog item, approved substitute, preferred supplier, routed approval, or justified exception — with the rationale shown.

04
Learn
Closed loop

Adoption, exceptions, and recurring non-catalog demand feed back into the catalog roadmap and a real savings number.

The output

“Every request lands on the catalog, the contract, or a reason.”

Not a gate that blocks non-catalog spend. An assistant that routes it — to the catalog, to a preferred supplier, or to a documented exception that becomes the next catalog candidate.

Guided Purchasing Assistant · Q1 Readout
Where compliance leaks back in.
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Off-catalog spend by category · $M
IT periph. $2.4
Mktg mat. $1.7
MRO $1.1
Office supp. $0.6
Print svcs $0.4
Top findings
0138% of IT peripheral asks bypass catalog with a near-match in
0212 recurring mktg SKUs cluster as catalog-gap candidates
0364% of non-catalog requests already map to a preferred supplier
04Action: add 9 SKUs to catalog, route balance to preferred

See where your catalog
leaks back in.

Next step
Request a sample run

A 20-minute working session. We’ll walk through what the assistant produces from real intake, catalog, and contract data.