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Procurement Engine

AI for RFQs, quotes & contracts · Arborice

Running an RFQ over email is death by a thousand messages: email a dozen suppliers, wait days, chase the ones who go quiet, then re-type every quote into a spreadsheet to compare, and re-key the winner into your ERP. The Procurement Engine does that whole loop for you and hands you a clean comparison. You make the call.

It's not a chatbot. It's a digital coworker for your buying process that reads, extracts, compares, and drafts, while a person approves every decision that spends money.

What it does

The whole RFQ-to-PO loop, handled

From the first supplier email to the signed purchase order, the busywork runs itself and the decisions stay with you.

Supplier outreach

Sends the RFQ to your supplier list, tracks who replied, and drafts the follow-ups to the ones who went quiet.

Quote capture & compare

Reads incoming quotes, even messy PDFs and emails, pulls out the line items and prices, and lines them up in one clean comparison.

Contract review

Reads contracts and terms, flags the risky or non-standard clauses, and surfaces what needs a human's eyes, with the reasoning.

PO & document drafting

Drafts purchase orders and the paperwork from the winning bid, ready for your approval and signature.

System sync

Pushes the approved data into the tools you already run, so nobody re-keys the winning bid into ERP by hand.

Audit trail & reports

Every action and decision is logged. You get a clear record and reporting on cycle times and savings.

Why it's different

Built to be trusted with the buying

You approve every decision

The Engine reads, extracts, compares, and drafts. It never places an order or signs a contract on its own. Every spend decision stays with a person.

Private & yours

Your pricing, supplier terms, and bids are treated as sensitive from day one. It runs where your data can stay inside your business.

It learns your rules

Your coding, your approved suppliers, your standard terms. The Engine adapts to how you buy instead of forcing a new process.

Fits your stack

It works with your existing email, spreadsheets, and ERP rather than asking you to rip anything out.

Why it matters

Digitized procurement moves faster

Independent benchmark data on what happens when procurement teams digitize the RFQ-to-PO process.

24%
Shorter sourcing cycles*
58%
Shorter requisition-to-PO cycles*

*Industry benchmark for top-performing digital procurement teams (The Hackett Group, 2025). Shown as what's achievable, not a guaranteed result. Your numbers depend on your process and data.

Straight talk

What it does, and what it doesn't

The Engine takes the manual loop off your team's plate. It does not replace a buyer's judgment: a person still chooses the supplier, approves the price, and signs. On messy or unusual documents it flags uncertainty for review rather than guessing. That's the point, it does the work and shows its reasoning, so you can trust the decision.

See it run one of your real RFQs

Bring a recent RFQ and we'll show you the comparison the Engine produces, and the hours it takes off your team.

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