Industry solution
From sourcing event to dock door, one picture of every supplier
Spend, supplier risk, awards, contract obligations, supplier emissions and receiving, handled by Burdenoff products working together.
The problem
Procurement runs on spend spread across several ERP systems, supplier files in inboxes, contracts nobody rereads and receiving notes that never reach the buyer, so risk and leakage surface after the money has gone.
A procurement team's facts are scattered by design. Purchase orders and invoices sit in whichever enterprise resource planning (ERP) system a business unit runs, often more than one after acquisitions; card and travel spend sit elsewhere; the same supplier appears under three spellings with three payment terms. Answering how much the company spends with one parent group, in one category, under contract, becomes a spreadsheet project, and the answer is stale by the time the category review meets.
Supplier risk is just as fragmented. Onboarding documents, certificates and bank details arrive by email, and the pressure to add an alternate supplier quickly is exactly when checks get skipped and payment fraud slips in. After onboarding, nobody watches a supplier's plant, owners or region until a delivery is late. Contracts are signed and filed; notice windows, rebate tiers, price reviews and service credits live in clauses nobody rereads.
Meanwhile the dock records shortages and damage the buyer never hears about, accounts payable holds invoices it cannot explain to suppliers, and the sustainability team needs supplier emissions data that procurement is best placed to collect but has no process for. Each gap is small. Together they are where savings leak and surprises start.
Chief procurement officer
Spend under management, savings that hold after the award, and supplier risk the board sees before it becomes a shortage.
Category manager or strategic sourcing lead
Clean price history, bid comparisons that do not live in spreadsheets, and awards that stand up to finance and audit.
Procure-to-pay and accounts payable lead
A vendor master nobody can quietly change, verified bank details, and invoices matched to what the dock actually received.
Supplier risk and quality manager
Early warning on supplier sites and owners, onboarding checks done every time, and a case file when something goes wrong.
Sustainability lead
Supplier-specific emissions for the biggest categories instead of spend-based estimates, with a source behind every figure.
Receiving and inbound logistics lead
Dock slots that match what suppliers ship, discrepancies recorded once, and buyers told about shortages the same day.
A day in the life
Chiamaka leads a procurement team of eleven: category managers for resins and chemicals and for packaging, two buyers, a procure-to-pay analyst and an indirect-spend lead. Corvane runs three enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems after two acquisitions, buys from several hundred active suppliers, and has promised its largest retail customer supplier emissions data next spring. This is one week, told as an illustration.
Monday, 7:40 a.m.
A sales rep mentions in passing that the main polypropylene resin supplier's plant took on water over the weekend. Nobody at Corvane had seen it. By nine, Tomás, the resins category manager, is rushing to activate a qualified backup supplier whose onboarding pack has sat half finished for a month. At 10:15 accounts payable receives an email, from a domain one letter off the incumbent's, asking Corvane to pay this month's invoices into a new account. In the scramble, it very nearly gets entered.
How this is solved: Early warning on suppliers, and onboarding that holds under pressureTuesday, 2:00 p.m.
The chief financial officer wants total spend with the resin supplier's parent group, and with every other supplier in the same region, before a board call on Thursday. The answer sits in three ERPs where the parent appears under four names, plus purchasing-card spend for lab supplies. Mei Lin, the procure-to-pay analyst, starts exporting. By evening she has two totals that disagree by enough to matter and no way to show which one is right.
How this is solved: One spend answer across several ERPs and card programsWednesday, 11:00 a.m.
The corrugated packaging request for quotation closed last night. Six suppliers bid: two per thousand boxes, one per ton of board, one with freight included and two without. Ingrid, the packaging category manager, rebuilds the comparison by hand while the award memo waits. Finance asks how the preferred price compares with what Corvane has actually paid over three years. Then a buyer mentions that two of the competing bidders share a warehouse address.
How this is solved: Bid comparisons and awards that stand up to finance and auditThursday, 4:30 p.m.
Preparing for a supplier review, Chiamaka rereads the chemicals contract and finds a volume rebate Corvane qualified for in spring and never claimed, and a quarterly price review the supplier applies only when its index rises. An hour later legal forwards an invoice for the plant cleaning contract: it renewed for three more years because its ninety-day notice window closed over the summer.
How this is solved: Rebates, price reviews and credits collected, notice windows keptFriday, 6:50 a.m.
At the distribution center, Dana's receiving team unloads a delivery two pallets short on bottle caps and finds a pallet of spray heads crushed. The discrepancy goes on a paper receiving sheet. On Monday the supplier's full invoice fails the three-way match between purchase order, receipt and invoice, and accounts payable holds it without knowing why. Two weeks later the supplier calls Ingrid about payment. She has never heard of the shortage.
How this is solved: Dock shortages that reach the buyer and the invoice the same dayThe following Monday
Corvane's largest retail customer sends its annual supplier climate questionnaire, now asking for product-level emissions. Ravi, the sustainability lead, knows purchased resins and packaging carry most of the footprint, but every supplier line today is a spend-based estimate. He needs real data from the thirty suppliers that matter most, and procurement owns every one of those relationships.
How this is solved: Supplier emissions data for the categories that matter mostNone of these moments needed a new department. Each needed the right fact to reach the right person in time: the flood before the shortage, the bank change before the payment, the notice window before it closed, the shortage before the invoice, the supplier data before the deadline. That is what the products below are designed to do together.
Challenges and how they are solved
Each challenge shows the problem as it happens, how the products are designed to hand work to each other, and the concepts that illustrate it. Share any challenge on its own.
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Challenge 1 of 6
A supplier's plant floods on Saturday and procurement hears about it from a sales rep on Monday. The qualified backup supplier's onboarding pack has sat half complete for a month: a tax form, an insurance certificate and a quality certificate are still in someone's inbox, and sanctions screening was never run. In the scramble, accounts payable receives a bank-detail change request from a lookalike domain and nearly enters it into the vendor master. Onboarding checks, ongoing monitoring and bank changes each belong to a different team, run by email, with no single record of what was checked, by whom and when.
Shortages arrive before warnings, alternates are added with checks skipped, and one bank change entered unchecked can send a month of payments to a fraudster.
IntelWatchtower is designed to watch your key suppliers' plants and owners and warn procurement the same day, showing how much you buy there and what is already on the road. When a backup supplier is needed, FluidGrids walks it through every check, with Botlit asking the supplier for documents. A bank-detail change is held until someone calls the supplier back and two people approve.
Technical detail
IntelWatchtower is designed to hold each critical supplier's entity, plants and warehouses on a map, fusing the weather, news, sanctions and insolvency sources the team registers into alerts with a source and reliability. SemanticFed can supply the spend with each site and MoveTheWheels the open inbound loads, so an alert arrives with its exposure. When an alternate must be activated, FluidGrids is designed to run the onboarding: a Botlit supplier assistant can route questions to onboarding or payments agents and request documents, the run waits for uploads, and IntelWatchtower checks the entity against the screening-provider results and news sources the team has registered before a risk tier is set. A bank-detail change is designed to enter a FluidGrids run of its own, which can ask IntelWatchtower whether the new account is linked to other payees, requires a call-back to the contact on file and pauses for two named approvers before the vendor master changes.
Procurement hears about supplier trouble the day it happens, alternates are onboarded with every check on record, and bank changes are designed to wait for verification before payment details change.
IntelWatchtower
The map of supplier sites where a flood, sanctions change or insolvency notice from a registered source becomes an alert, shown with spend at risk and open inbound loads.
Works with SemanticFed, MoveTheWheels, FluidGrids
FluidGrids
The bank-change run that checks where the request came from, asks IntelWatchtower about linked payees, and pauses for a call-back and two approvers before payment details change.
Works with IntelWatchtower, Botlit, Subscriber Bot
FluidGrids
The onboarding pattern for an alternate supplier: a risk rule sorts the case, Botlit requests missing documents, the run waits for upload and an analyst approves.
Botlit
A supplier help desk bot that sends 'what documents do you need' to an onboarding agent and 'when will I be paid' to a payments agent.
Challenge 2 of 6
The CFO asks for total spend with one supplier group and its region before Thursday's board call. Purchase orders and invoices sit in three ERPs inherited through acquisitions, the parent company appears under four names, lab supplies go on purchasing cards, and each business unit uses its own category codes. The procure-to-pay analyst exports, removes duplicates and maps categories by hand, produces two totals that disagree, and cannot show which is right. Every category review starts the same way, so the team spends its week assembling numbers instead of acting on them.
Decisions wait on spreadsheets, off-contract spend stays invisible, and two versions of one number wear down finance's trust in procurement's savings.
SemanticFed is designed to answer spend questions across all your purchasing systems and card programs at once, with each supplier grouped under its parent company and bank details hidden from people who do not need them. FluidGrids carries the figures to BigConsole, which turns them into one live spend board and says in plain words what changed and where each number came from.
Technical detail
SemanticFed is designed to register each ERP as a source and query it in place, with the contract register in Subscriber Bot added as an API source for the spend-under-contract flag. Its authoring assist proposes a draft spend model from each source's tables, and the team accepts only what fits: supplier parent, category, business unit, contract flag. Bank details and sole-proprietor personal fields can be governed by column policy, and metrics such as addressable spend are defined once. FluidGrids can collect card and travel files on a schedule and land them as Parquet in object storage, which SemanticFed is designed to register as a source alongside the ERPs, so card spend joins the same model. FluidGrids can then run the SemanticFed spend query on a schedule and push the results into BigConsole datasinks, where the spend console reads them and an Explain panel is designed to cite the sink and field behind each change.
The CFO's question is answered from one model, off-contract spend is visible by category, and procurement and finance quote the same number.
SemanticFed
Proposes a draft spend model from each ERP's supplier, category and invoice tables, and a person accepts only the entities and metrics that fit.
BigConsole
An Explain panel on the spend console, designed to say why packaging spend moved this month and cite the sink and field behind each finding.
Challenge 3 of 6
The corrugated packaging request for quotation closes with six bids in four formats: per thousand boxes, per ton of board, with freight and without. The category manager normalizes them in a spreadsheet while the award memo waits. Finance asks how the preferred price compares with what the company actually paid across its three ERPs, and nobody can answer quickly. A buyer mentions that two supposedly competing bidders share a warehouse address. The award is above the value that needs a second approver under the delegation-of-authority policy, which lives in a document, so approval happens by email and the reasoning is lost.
Awards rest on hand-built comparisons, signs of collusion go unexamined, and approvals leave no trail an auditor or the next category manager can follow.
SemanticFed is designed to show what you actually paid for each item across every purchasing system, so bids have a baseline. BigConsole lays the bids side by side on the same terms. IntelWatchtower flags bidders that share an address, director or bank account. FluidGrids then sends the award to the right approvers under your sign-off limits and keeps the reasoning.
Technical detail
SemanticFed is designed to run a federated query for price paid per item across the three ERPs, with a plan showing what each source returned, giving the event a historical baseline. Bids collected by FluidGrids are designed to land in a BigConsole datasink, where parsers are designed to convert each bid to landed cost per thousand boxes and a console lays the award scenarios side by side by line, plant and bidder. Before award, IntelWatchtower is designed to hold bidders as entities and show links between them, such as a shared address, director or bank account, with the confidence and source of each link. The chosen scenario can then be sent to a FluidGrids decision-rule tree that encodes the delegation-of-authority thresholds and single-source justification, routing it to the right approvers and keeping the evaluation trace.
Each award carries its price baseline, bid comparison, integrity check and approval path, and finance can see why the preferred bidder won.
SemanticFed
A price-history run across three ERPs that shows what each source returned, so the category manager can defend the baseline behind the event.
BigConsole
Global filters and drill-down, configured here as a bid comparison console by line item, plant and bidder.
IntelWatchtower
A link graph with confidence on every link, used here to show bidders that share an address, phone or payee account.
FluidGrids
The delegation-of-authority policy as a tested rule tree: award value, single-source flag and category decide who must approve.
Challenge 4 of 6
Checking the chemicals contract, the head of procurement finds a volume rebate the company qualified for in spring and never claimed, and a quarterly index-linked price review the supplier applies only when its index rises. Service credits for late deliveries are written into two packaging contracts and have never been invoiced. Then a plant cleaning contract renews for three years because its ninety-day notice window closed in July and nobody was reminded. The obligations sit in signed documents on a shared drive; the volumes and prices needed to act on them sit in the ERPs.
Money leaks through unclaimed rebates, one-sided price reviews and uninvoiced credits, and unwanted renewals lock the company in for years.
Subscriber Bot is designed to keep every supplier contract's key dates and promises on one calendar: rebates, price reviews, service credits and notice windows. SemanticFed shows what you actually bought and paid against each one, and MoveTheWheels shows which deliveries came late or short. FluidGrids hands the contract owner a ready claim when a rebate or credit is due, and a reminder well before a notice window closes.
Technical detail
Subscriber Bot is designed to hold each supplier contract as a relationship with its criticality, notice-by date, owner and last due-diligence review. Its contract intelligence, designed to extract renewal, termination, service-level and penalty clauses, is extended in this concept to price-review, rebate and service-credit clauses, each held as a dated obligation. SemanticFed is designed to supply year-to-date purchased volume and invoiced prices from the ERPs, so a rebate tier or a price review reads against actuals. MoveTheWheels is designed to supply on-time and in-full results per supplier, so service-credit clauses read against actual deliveries. FluidGrids can open a reminder and approval task ninety days before a notice window, and route a rebate claim or service-credit request to the contract owner with the supporting figures. Renewal decisions stay with a person.
Rebates and credits are claimed with evidence, price reviews are applied in both directions, and notice windows are decided before they close.
Subscriber Bot
Every clause that carries a date or a threshold, rebate tiers, price reviews, service credits and notice windows, shown against purchased volume, price and delivery results.
Works with SemanticFed, FluidGrids, MoveTheWheels
Subscriber Bot
A third-party register with criticality, notice-by date and last due-diligence review, the pattern the obligations calendar extends to rebates, price reviews and credits.
SemanticFed
Year-to-date volume and invoiced price per contract, read across the ERPs in place, with a plan that shows what each source contributed.
Challenge 5 of 6
Receiving at the distribution center finds a delivery two pallets short on bottle caps and a pallet of spray heads crushed. The discrepancy goes on a paper receiving sheet. The supplier's full invoice arrives, the three-way match between purchase order, receipt and invoice fails, and accounts payable holds it without knowing why. Two weeks later the supplier calls the buyer about payment; the buyer has never heard of the shortage. Meanwhile suppliers arrive outside their dock appointments, trucks wait, and nobody can say which suppliers are routinely late or short, because the receiving record never reaches procurement.
Invoices stall, suppliers are paid late or for goods never received, the dock congests, and supplier reviews rely on anecdotes instead of receiving facts.
MoveTheWheels is designed to check each delivery against what was ordered and what the supplier said it shipped, with photos taken at the dock. FluidGrids tells the buyer the same day, holds the matching invoice with a clear reason and asks for a credit or replacement. Botlit tells the supplier why, and BigConsole shows which suppliers are routinely late or short.
Technical detail
MoveTheWheels is designed to run inbound on dock appointments with a free-time clock, and to receive each load against its advance shipping notice and purchase order, recording shortages, overages, damage and wrong items with photos from a receiving clerk's phone. Each discrepancy can go to FluidGrids, which is designed to put the matching invoice on hold with a stated reason, raise a debit memo or replacement request to the buyer, and send the supplier a message through Botlit, whose agents are designed to answer 'why is my invoice on hold' from the receiving record. FluidGrids can push receipts and discrepancies into BigConsole datasinks, where a supplier delivery console is designed to show on-time, in-full and receiving accuracy by supplier for the next business review.
Buyers hear about shortages the day they happen, invoices are held with a reason or paid on time, and supplier reviews start from receiving facts.
MoveTheWheels
Each inbound load checked against its shipping notice and purchase order, with shortages, damage and wrong items recorded once and linked to the invoice hold.
Works with FluidGrids, Botlit, BigConsole
MoveTheWheels
A dock timeline with appointments, gate-in times and a free-time clock, used here for inbound supplier deliveries so late arrivals and congestion show.
BigConsole
An on-time and in-full console fed from MoveTheWheels through a FluidGrids datasink, set up here by supplier to show who is routinely late or short.
Challenge 6 of 6
The largest retail customer's annual climate questionnaire now asks for product-level emissions. Purchased resins, packaging and chemicals carry most of the footprint, but every supplier line is a spend-based estimate multiplied from invoice totals. The sustainability lead needs supplier-specific data from the thirty suppliers that matter most. Procurement owns those relationships, yet requests go out from a personal mailbox, answers come back as spreadsheets with different boundaries and units, and inbound freight emissions are estimated from freight spend rather than lanes and loads. Nobody can say which figures are measured and which are guessed.
Scope 3 totals rest on estimates the customer can challenge, supplier engagement has no owner, and reduction targets never connect to sourcing decisions.
EcoImpactHub is designed to list your suppliers by how much of your footprint they carry, and to show whether each figure is measured or estimated. FluidGrids sends and chases the data requests, and Botlit answers suppliers' questions about what to report. MoveTheWheels works out inbound freight emissions from actual loads instead of freight bills.
Technical detail
EcoImpactHub is designed to hold purchased goods and services by supplier, with spend supplied by SemanticFed, the calculation method on each line (spend-based, average-data or supplier-specific), a data-quality rating and a sourced emission factor, ranking suppliers by share of estimated emissions so the team knows whom to engage first. Subscriber Bot can supply the suppliers whose contracts require annual emissions data, with due dates. FluidGrids can send each supplier's data request, chase it on a schedule and bring answers back as draft lines for review, and Botlit can answer supplier questions about boundaries and units from the buyer's supplier data guide. For inbound freight, MoveTheWheels is designed to estimate emissions per load from lane, distance, weight and mode and pass the Category 4 total to EcoImpactHub. Only verified lines replace estimates in the carbon ledger.
The biggest categories move from estimates to supplier data, the customer gets figures with sources, and procurement knows which suppliers to engage first.
EcoImpactHub
Purchased goods emissions by supplier, with method, data quality and request status per line, and the suppliers carrying the most estimated emissions at the top.
Works with SemanticFed, FluidGrids, MoveTheWheels
MoveTheWheels
Inbound freight emissions estimated per shipment from distance, load and mode, compared by lane and carrier and sent on as the Category 4 total.
How it fits together
Each step is one product doing one job and handing a concrete result to the next: spend, bids, checks, approvals, receipts, contract obligations and supplier emissions. The hand-offs describe how the products are designed to work together.
To BigConsole: Spend and past prices by supplier and category
To IntelWatchtower: The shortlisted bidders to check before the award
To FluidGrids: Check results, and any later warning about a supplier
To MoveTheWheels: The approved supplier and its orders, ready to receive
To Subscriber Bot: Which suppliers delivered late or short, and how often
To EcoImpactHub: Suppliers who owe emissions data, and when it is due
Step 1 of 7: Model the spend once
Technical detail
Products in this solution
One spend picture across ERPs, cards and contracts
It is designed so finance and procurement quote the same spend figure, read where the data already lives, and only the people who need bank details can see them.
Technical detail
A governed semantic layer with a federated query engine, designed to define spend, supplier parent and category once across several ERPs without copying the data, with column policy on bank fields and a visible plan for every run.
Spend, bid comparison and supplier delivery boards
It gives procurement live boards for spend, bid comparisons and supplier delivery performance, and is designed to explain in plain words what changed and where each figure came from.
Technical detail
Consoles with filters, drill-down, and an Explain panel designed to cite its sources; fed by FluidGrids datasinks, it carries the spend console, bid comparisons and the supplier delivery view.
Supplier risk watch and bidder link checks
It watches your key suppliers' plants and owners for floods, sanctions changes and money trouble in the sources you choose, and shows when bidders or payees are quietly connected to each other.
Technical detail
Entities, sources with reliability scores, alerts, cases and a map-based operating picture: designed here to hold supplier sites and owners, fuse reporting from registered sources into alerts and show links between bidders or payees.
Award approvals, onboarding and follow-through
It carries the routine work between teams: sending awards to the right approvers, walking new suppliers through their checks, holding bank changes until verified, and chasing requests on time.
Technical detail
Visual workflows with form and schedule triggers, waits, approvals and decision rules; it runs delegation-of-authority routing, supplier onboarding, bank-change checks, invoice holds and data-request chasing, and feeds BigConsole datasinks.
Supplier contract register and obligations calendar
It keeps every supplier contract with its key dates and promises, so notice windows, rebates, price reviews and service credits are acted on instead of forgotten.
Technical detail
A system of record for recurring relationships whose contract intelligence is designed to extract renewal, termination, service-level and penalty clauses; here it holds supplier contracts, notice windows and dated obligations.
Dock appointments, receiving and freight emissions
It checks each supplier load against the order, and is designed to book deliveries into dock slots and work out inbound freight emissions from actual loads.
Technical detail
The logistics record of warehouses and receiving against the advance shipping notice, designed to add dock appointments and lane-based freight emissions; here it is where each supplier delivery meets its purchase order.
Supplier emissions and the Scope 3 ledger
It is designed to show which suppliers carry the most of your footprint, whether each figure is measured or estimated, and which suppliers still owe their data.
Technical detail
Carbon accounting across Scopes 1 to 3 with sourced emission factors and a draft-to-verified ledger; here it is designed to rank suppliers by purchased-goods emissions and track the data that replaces estimates.
Supplier help desk and data-request assistant
It answers suppliers' everyday questions, such as what documents to send, why an invoice is on hold or what to report, from your own approved guides.
Technical detail
Governed agents deployed to messaging channels, designed to answer from approved knowledge and route between specialist agents; here it is designed to answer supplier questions on onboarding, payment holds and emissions reporting.
All eight products are built on Burdenoff Workspaces: one sign-on for buyers, category managers, accounts payable, receiving and sustainability staff, role-based access designed to keep bank details and supplier files with those who need them, one audit trail from award to receipt, and one bill.
Concept gallery
17 concepts from 8 products. Each one links to its own page on the product's website, and every view has a link you can share.
IntelWatchtower
The map of supplier sites where a flood, sanctions change or insolvency notice from a registered source becomes an alert, shown with spend at risk and open inbound loads.
Works with SemanticFed, MoveTheWheels, FluidGrids
FluidGrids
The bank-change run that checks where the request came from, asks IntelWatchtower about linked payees, and pauses for a call-back and two approvers before payment details change.
Works with IntelWatchtower, Botlit, Subscriber Bot
FluidGrids
The onboarding pattern for an alternate supplier: a risk rule sorts the case, Botlit requests missing documents, the run waits for upload and an analyst approves.
Botlit
A supplier help desk bot that sends 'what documents do you need' to an onboarding agent and 'when will I be paid' to a payments agent.
SemanticFed
Proposes a draft spend model from each ERP's supplier, category and invoice tables, and a person accepts only the entities and metrics that fit.
BigConsole
An Explain panel on the spend console, designed to say why packaging spend moved this month and cite the sink and field behind each finding.
SemanticFed
A price-history run across three ERPs that shows what each source returned, so the category manager can defend the baseline behind the event.
BigConsole
Global filters and drill-down, configured here as a bid comparison console by line item, plant and bidder.
IntelWatchtower
A link graph with confidence on every link, used here to show bidders that share an address, phone or payee account.
FluidGrids
The delegation-of-authority policy as a tested rule tree: award value, single-source flag and category decide who must approve.
Subscriber Bot
Every clause that carries a date or a threshold, rebate tiers, price reviews, service credits and notice windows, shown against purchased volume, price and delivery results.
Works with SemanticFed, FluidGrids, MoveTheWheels
Subscriber Bot
A third-party register with criticality, notice-by date and last due-diligence review, the pattern the obligations calendar extends to rebates, price reviews and credits.
MoveTheWheels
Each inbound load checked against its shipping notice and purchase order, with shortages, damage and wrong items recorded once and linked to the invoice hold.
Works with FluidGrids, Botlit, BigConsole
MoveTheWheels
A dock timeline with appointments, gate-in times and a free-time clock, used here for inbound supplier deliveries so late arrivals and congestion show.
BigConsole
An on-time and in-full console fed from MoveTheWheels through a FluidGrids datasink, set up here by supplier to show who is routinely late or short.
EcoImpactHub
Purchased goods emissions by supplier, with method, data quality and request status per line, and the suppliers carrying the most estimated emissions at the top.
Works with SemanticFed, FluidGrids, MoveTheWheels
MoveTheWheels
Inbound freight emissions estimated per shipment from distance, load and mode, compared by lane and carrier and sent on as the Category 4 total.
Pitch kit
Procurement teams run on spend spread across ERPs, supplier files in inboxes, contracts nobody rereads and receiving notes that never reach the buyer. Burdenoff brings SemanticFed, BigConsole, IntelWatchtower, FluidGrids, Subscriber Bot, MoveTheWheels, EcoImpactHub and Botlit together in a solution concept designed so that spend has one answer, suppliers are checked and watched, awards keep their reasoning, contract promises are kept and dock shortages are acted on the same day.
Questions
No. The products are designed to work around the systems you already use. SemanticFed reads your purchasing systems where they are, and the other products hold what those systems handle poorly: contract promises, dock shortages and supplier emissions. Orders and payments stay where they are today.
Technical detail
No. The solution concept is designed to sit around the systems you already run. SemanticFed is designed to query each ERP in place rather than migrating it, FluidGrids works through the connections and forms you configure, and Subscriber Bot, MoveTheWheels and EcoImpactHub hold the records an ERP rarely keeps well: contract obligations, receiving discrepancies and supplier emissions. Purchase orders and payments stay in the ERP.
No. IntelWatchtower is designed to bring the checks you already use together in one place, with the source of each finding. Your people still decide about each supplier, and this is not legal advice. What changes is that every check leaves one clear record of who looked and when.
Technical detail
No. IntelWatchtower is designed to fuse the sources you register, which can include a screening provider's results, public notices and news, into one view with a source and reliability on each item. Decisions about a supplier stay with your people, and nothing here is legal or compliance advice. The value is that screening, ongoing monitoring and bank-change checks leave one record of what was checked, by whom and when.
A change request is designed to be held, not entered straight in. FluidGrids checks where the request came from and whether the new account shows up elsewhere, then waits until someone calls the supplier on the number you already had and two people approve. It lowers the risk; it cannot promise to stop every fraud.
Technical detail
The change is designed to enter a FluidGrids run instead of an inbox. The run compares the requesting address with the contact on file, can ask IntelWatchtower whether the new account is linked to other payees, and then pauses. An accounts payable analyst records a call-back to the number already in the vendor master, and two named approvers sign off before the ERP is updated. The design reduces the chance of a rushed change; it is not a guarantee against fraud.
Both. Materials and packaging gain most from supplier watching, dock checks and emissions requests. Services and software gain most from the contract calendar and the combined spend view, including card spend. Most teams would start where it hurts most.
Technical detail
Both. Direct categories such as resins, packaging and components gain most from the supplier risk watch, receiving checks and emissions requests. Indirect categories such as software, facilities and services gain most from the contract obligations calendar and the spend model, which can bring card and travel spend into view. Most teams would start with the category where the pain is sharpest.
Yes. Each product works on its own, and Workspaces keeps sign-on and access shared as you add more. Many teams would start with the spend view or the contract calendar, then add FluidGrids to pass work between teams.
Technical detail
Yes. Each product works on its own, and Workspaces provides the shared sign-on, access and audit trail when you add the next. A common starting point is SemanticFed and BigConsole for spend visibility, or Subscriber Bot for contract obligations, followed by FluidGrids to carry hand-offs between teams. Apart from FluidGrids datasinks feeding BigConsole and Botlit triggering workflows, the hand-offs on this page describe how the products are designed to work together.
They are in development ahead of launch. This page describes how the products are designed to work together, and some features shown are planned rather than ready. Talk to us about what is available now.
Technical detail
Burdenoff's products are pre-launch and in active development, and this page describes a solution concept: how the products are designed to work together for a procurement team. Capabilities shown in the concept illustrations may be planned rather than shipped. Talk to us about what is available now and about early access.
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