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Automating Purchase Orders: Helping Enterprise Buyers Work Smarter

Atlanta, Georgia, 04 November 2025

At Dataviva, we’ve worked alongside large enterprises for years, implementing planning and supply chain solutions. And in almost every deployment, one pain point surfaced again and again: purchasing.  Creating and approving purchase orders (POs) is often slow and manual, sitting awkwardly between financial planning and day-to-day execution.

For buyer teams managing hundreds or even thousands of POs each week, this creates extra work, delays, and frustration. That’s why we built Dataviva Inbound Planning & Execution: to make the process faster, simpler, and more accurate.

Why Purchasing Feels Broken Today

Planning systems have the data needed to generate detailed POs: historical trends, forecasts, financial targets, and supply chain parameters. But once negotiations, last-minute changes, or supplier updates come into play, teams are pushed into ERP systems that lack the context or analytics to support good decisions.

The result? Buyers end up juggling planning tools, ERP systems, and Excel spreadsheets just to finalize a single PO. It slows everything down and keeps teams focused on firefighting rather than strategic work.

What Changes with Dataviva Inbound Planning & Execution

Our solution creates ready-to-execute POs that account for everything from demand forecasts and net inventory positions to transportation, packaging, and supplier capacity limits. With Dataviva, buyers can:

• Review with full context: see historical performance, forecasts, and long-term plans in one place.
• Edit with confidence: any changes automatically reconcile against key financial and supply chain drivers.
• Execute immediately: no more switching between ERPs, planning tools, and spreadsheets.

The Payoff for Buyer Teams

Customers using Dataviva Inbound PX are seeing:

• Time saved: less manual work reviewing and reconciling POs.
• Higher accuracy: fewer errors from data gaps or duplicated effort.
• More control: complete visibility across financial, supply chain, and supplier constraints.
• Faster execution: from PO creation to approval in a fraction of the time.

The Future of Procurement

A recent research report from Accenture highlights procurement as one of the most promising areas for automation. The potential gains are enormous –in efficiency, productivity, and profitability. Dataviva helps buyer teams take the first step today, moving from manual workflows toward smarter, AI-assisted purchasing.

About Dataviva
Dataviva provides a low-code, real-time planning and execution platform that embeds AI to optimize assortment, demand, supply chain, and promotions for retailers and manufacturers. www.dataviva.com