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Smart Procurement

Regain control over your supplier sourcing

With Smart Procurement, Shippingbo helps you move away from Excel spreadsheets, reworking export data, and making decisions based on gut feeling. Use your sales, inventory, work-in-progress, and supplier lead times to calculate your needs, generate purchase orders, and ensure reliable deliveries—all from a single interface. A solution designed to save your teams time, optimize cash flow, and reduce avoidable shortages.

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Smart Procurement
  • Better-controlled replenishment

    Rely on a structured calculation process to define consistent quantities by reference, reduce purchases based on estimates, and manage your supplier orders with greater peace of mind.

  • Up to 6 hours saved per month

    Reduce manual analyses, time-consuming exports, and re-entering data. Your teams will spend less time consolidating information and more time taking action.

  • More evenly distributed cash flow

    Limit overstocking, avoid incorrectly sized orders, and allocate your cash more intelligently through more rigorous demand management.

  • Simple activation in Shippingbo

    Make direct use of the data already available in your Shippingbo environment, without any major IT projects or changes to the tools your teams use.

Turn your logistics data into concrete purchasing decisions

Smart Procurement centralizes information useful for restocking and transforms it into operational actions. You can transition from fragmented management to structured management of requirements, suppliers, orders, and receipts, directly in Shippingbo.

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Automated buying suggestions

The module analyzes your past sales, current inventory, work in progress, inventory thresholds and targets, and supplier lead times. It uses a structured calculation logic to generate a prioritized list of products to be ordered by supplier, with the option to adjust quantities, prices, discounts, and shipping costs before approval.

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Simplified supplier management

Link your products directly to your suppliers and organize your purchasing data on a single interface: price, packaging, currency, MOQ, and lead times. You’ll gain greater visibility and reliability, allowing you to manage your purchasing with greater peace of mind.

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Supplier orders ready in just a few clicks

Review your suggestions, adjust quantities as needed, and then generate a pre-filled supplier order. CSV export, direct email: your workflow is faster and more focused.

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Integrated Receiving and Traceability

Your incoming inventory is created automatically, and with just one click, you can see whether a product is already included in a current order to avoid overstocking. You manage the process all the way through to the actual receipt of the inventory.

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FAQ: Your Questions About Smart Procurement

Yes, the purpose of this option is to replace scattered manual controls with a structured workflow directly within Shippingbo. You centralize all data related to replenishment, purchasing recommendations, suppliers, orders, and receiving on a single interface.

Smart Procurement is based on your past sales, current inventory, work in progress, inventory thresholds and targets, and supplier lead times. The goal is to transform this data into actionable purchasing recommendations without having to reprocess manual exports.

Yes, you’re in control. Smart Procurement is a decision-making tool, not a black box. You can change quantities, adjust certain parameters, and add or remove items before confirming the supplier order.

This option covers the entire supplier procurement cycle: requirements calculation, purchasing recommendations, supplier data management, purchase order generation, goods-in processing, and variance tracking. You don’t just manage replenishment; you structure the entire associated process.