02 — Industrial & Energy · Procurement
AI ENGINEERING
From a plain-language buying request to a compliant purchase order in minutes.
Under 30 min
from intake to requisition for a standard catalog buy.
02 — Industrial & Energy · Procurement
AI ENGINEERING
From a plain-language buying request to a compliant purchase order in minutes.
Under 30 min
from intake to requisition for a standard catalog buy.
Industry
Global 500 industrial conglomerate, publicly traded.
Scale
250,000+ employees, about $70B revenue, procurement spread across many business units and thousands of suppliers.
Engagement
mplementation: an agentic intake-to-PO copilot integrated with the ERP and procurement suite.
Industry
Global 500 industrial conglomerate, publicly traded.
Scale
250,000+ employees, about $70B revenue, procurement spread across many business units and thousands of suppliers.
Engagement
mplementation: an agentic intake-to-PO copilot integrated with the ERP and procurement suite.
Industry
Customer-experience technology company, venture backed.
Scale
250,000+ employees, about $70B revenue, procurement spread across many business units and thousands of suppliers.
Engagement
Implementation: a 6-month embedded build, core build of roughly 12 weeks with 8 to 10 engineers, plus onboarding and standby support.
Industry
Global 500 industrial conglomerate, publicly traded.
Scale
250,000+ employees, about $70B revenue, procurement spread across many business units and thousands of suppliers.
Engagement
mplementation: an agentic intake-to-PO copilot integrated with the ERP and procurement suite.
// THE PROBLEM
Where time went
Buying was a maze of forms, catalogs, contracts, approvers and budget codes, and most requesters could not navigate it. A standard buy took 5 to 7 business days of routing, catalog hunting and serial approvals, and people who could not navigate it bought off contract, eroding the pricing the company had negotiated. Buyers spent much of the week on routing and data entry, and purchases were often miscoded by commodity.
// THE BUILD
What we built with them
With the procurement team, LevelUp built a single plain-language front door for buying, orchestrated as a stateful, auditable graph. Describe the need in plain language; the copilot classifies it, surfaces the on-contract supplier and catalog item first, checks spend thresholds and budget as hard gates the model cannot talk past, resolves the approval chain, and assembles the requisition and purchase order through the ERP APIs. It proposes, a human signs off the spend, and every action is logged and replayable for audit.
// THE PROBLEM
Where time went
Buying was a maze of forms, catalogs, contracts, approvers and budget codes, and most requesters could not navigate it. A standard buy took 5 to 7 business days of routing, catalog hunting and serial approvals, and people who could not navigate it bought off contract, eroding the pricing the company had negotiated. Buyers spent much of the week on routing and data entry, and purchases were often miscoded by commodity.
// THE BUILD
What we built with them
With the procurement team, LevelUp built a single plain-language front door for buying, orchestrated as a stateful, auditable graph. Describe the need in plain language; the copilot classifies it, surfaces the on-contract supplier and catalog item first, checks spend thresholds and budget as hard gates the model cannot talk past, resolves the approval chain, and assembles the requisition and purchase order through the ERP APIs. It proposes, a human signs off the spend, and every action is logged and replayable for audit.
// THE PROBLEM
Where time went
Buying was a maze of forms, catalogs, contracts, approvers and budget codes, and most requesters could not navigate it. A standard buy took 5 to 7 business days of routing, catalog hunting and serial approvals, and people who could not navigate it bought off contract, eroding the pricing the company had negotiated. Buyers spent much of the week on routing and data entry, and purchases were often miscoded by commodity.
// THE BUILD
What we built with them
With the procurement team, LevelUp built a single plain-language front door for buying, orchestrated as a stateful, auditable graph. Describe the need in plain language; the copilot classifies it, surfaces the on-contract supplier and catalog item first, checks spend thresholds and budget as hard gates the model cannot talk past, resolves the approval chain, and assembles the requisition and purchase order through the ERP APIs. It proposes, a human signs off the spend, and every action is logged and replayable for audit.
// PROOF POINTS
5 to 7 business days to under 30 minutes
intake to requisition, for a standard catalog buy
5 to 7 business days to under 30 minutes
intake to requisition, for a standard catalog buy
An estimated 15 to 20 percentage points
on-contract spend up, several million dollars a year in recovered negotiated savings on a procurement base this size
An estimated 15 to 20 percentage points
on-contract spend up, several million dollars a year in recovered negotiated savings on a procurement base this size
Roughly 30 to 40%
of buyers' week reclaimed from routing and data entry for sourcing strategy and negotiation (estimated)
Above 90%
of requests correctly commodity-coded at intake, up from an estimated 60 to 70%
5 to 7 business days to under 30 minutes
intake to requisition, for a standard catalog buy
An estimated 15 to 20 percentage points
on-contract spend up, several million dollars a year in recovered negotiated savings on a procurement base this size
Roughly 30 to 40%
of buyers' week reclaimed from routing and data entry for sourcing strategy and negotiation (estimated)
Roughly 30 to 40%
of buyers' week reclaimed from routing and data entry for sourcing strategy and negotiation (estimated)
Above 90%
of requests correctly commodity-coded at intake, up from an estimated 60 to 70%
Above 90%
of requests correctly commodity-coded at intake, up from an estimated 60 to 70%
STACK
LangGraph
Policy and Budget Guardrails
ERP and procurement-suite integration
Propose-then-Approve
Auditable
Delivered as the front door of procure-to-pay; policy moved upstream to the moment the buying decision is made, and a human still commits every spend.
// How we measured
Cycle time against the workflow baseline; commodity-classification accuracy, routing correctness against the delegation-of-authority rules, policy-compliance rate and catalog-match precision scored; spend shift and buyer time estimated with the team.
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