AI Procurement Officer: the best price without working the phones
Gathers prices and lead times for your catalog across suppliers, pulls every offer into one comparison table, drafts requisitions and RFQs, watches for price changes and flags when it's time to reorder. Procurement stops being the bottleneck.
How much procurement quietly overpays
Buying "from the usual supplier because there's no time to compare" is the most expensive habit a company has.
You buy from the same old supplier
There's never time to compare five quotes for every line item, so you buy from the same place year after year. A 10–15% gap across your purchasing volume adds up to millions a year.
RFQs mean days of back-and-forth
Send out the requests, wait for the replies, then reconcile a jumble of PDFs and spreadsheets into a single table — one purchase eats a whole week.
Prices creep up unnoticed
A supplier quietly raises the price list by 8% — you notice six months later when your margin drops. Nobody has time to track price lists by hand.
What the AI Procurement Officer does
Works with your catalog and your supplier pool, expanding it wherever that pays off.
- Finds current prices across your catalog: supplier sites and price lists, B2B marketplaces
- Sends out RFQs and consolidates the email replies into a single table
- Compares offers on price, lead time, minimum order quantity and delivery terms
- Drafts the purchase requisition with a rationale for the chosen supplier
- Monitors price-list changes and alerts you when key items go up
- Flags reorders based on stock levels and delivery lead times
How we launch it
Load your catalog
Your line items, current suppliers and price history from 1C
Connect the sources
Price lists, an inbox for RFQs, B2B marketplaces, supplier APIs
Calibrate the comparison
What matters more — price, lead time, batch size; acceptable analogs and substitutes
Run the cycle
Request — compare — requisition — monitor prices and stock
The first months — with a dedicated manager
The AI is not launched “as is” and left unattended. For the first 1–3 months a dedicated manager runs your process: tunes the system to you, checks every result and fixes mistakes — while the AI learns on your real data in parallel. Nothing goes live without a human in control.
Dedicated manager
A dedicated specialist runs your process by hand together with the AI: tunes it to your documents and rules, checks every result, corrects mistakes. The system learns on your data.
Autopilot or ongoing support
Once quality is stable, you decide: move the process to autopilot (cheaper, the AI works on its own, the manager on standby) or keep permanent support.
Ongoing oversight, if you want it
For critical processes — primary documents, paid ads, contracts — many keep the manager for good: they backstop it, develop scenarios and own the result.
This removes the main fear of automation — “what if it makes a mistake”. Until the AI has proven its accuracy on your tasks, a human is accountable for the result. We agree the format and cost of support around your process.
Where your data is stored
Purchase prices, volumes and your supplier pool are trade secrets — a competitor could read your entire cost structure from them. Processing runs on servers in Russia, and it can be installed on your own server, so your purchasing analytics never leave the company perimeter. Access to 1C is read-only.
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A pilot on your own catalog
Send us 20–30 items you regularly buy — we'll build a market comparison table and show you where you're overpaying.
Let us try it on your data
Describe the task and send a couple of typical documents or examples — we will show how the system handles them, before any contract.