Track purchase orders and shipments to avoid stock-outs and delays
PROBLEM
Manually creating, tracking, and managing purchase orders to suppliers is a labour-intensive and error-prone process for food companies. With growing demand for operational efficiency, the ability to automatically generate and send structured purchase orders based on real-time data is now a critical need. This use case demonstrates how to eliminate manual inefficiencies in purchase orders.
EDI systems are expensive to set up and maintain, typically requiring custom integration and onboarding for each supplier. They lack real-time responsiveness, are inflexible to change, and require ongoing technical support, which restricts agility in fast-moving food supply chains.
Many companies attempt to address this with spreadsheets, email automation, or legacy EDI setups, which lack flexibility, are costly, or still demand manual oversight.
"Our collaboration with Cerve has enabled us to transform and optimise many of our internal processes and create significantly more efficient operations. From automating purchase orders and prices alignment to product images and specs. Cerve is a game changer!"
Andy Wilson,
Project Manager
Woods Foodservice
SOLUTION
Leveraging the Cerve API, companies can eliminate the friction and rigidity of legacy ordering systems by automating the entire PO lifecycle from creation to delivery confirmation with high precision and accuracy; all within a single integration framework.
80
Reduction in procurement admin time
55%
Reduction in EDI resources and costs
70%
Decrease in order errors
