Smarter Procurement Starts with Intelligent Intake

Is your procurement team under pressure to deliver more strategic value while also moving faster, saving more, and creating a better experience? It is time to evolve your tech stack and move beyond basic automation to a solution that improves the entire intake-to-procure process. 

Most legacy tools focus heavily on downstream workflows, such as purchase orders and invoice automation. However, they often overlook upstream needs like supplier intake, sourcing requests, and stakeholder collaboration. Modern AI-powered procurement solutions empower your team to focus on strategic initiatives instead of manual processes. 

The first step toward smarter procurement is rethinking how intake works. To improve user adoption and reduce cycle times, you need a front-door intake experience that is easy to configure and even easier to use. Levelpath delivers just that.

Every procurement event starts with a request but too often stakeholders are left to search through out-of-date, static procurement manuals. This fragmented process can confuse teams and create delays when requests are handled inconsistently, stuck in process, or sent to the wrong place. All of this results in lost savings, compliance issues, and frustrated users. 

Levelpath eliminates the confusion. Stakeholders are guided to the right destination without ever having to read a procurement manual. The front door experience starts with just a few clicks and gets teams to catalogs, procurement, third-party apps, or company policies as needed. Once a request is submitted, the information will be automatically routed to the right people, whether that is legal, finance, IT, or another key team. This automated process improves speed, compliance, and visibility, all while reducing time spent on intake triage.

By making procurement simple from the start, you can increase user adoption across the business. That engagement is key to capturing demand early, aligning to strategy, and driving long-term value.

Once intake has become a delightful part of your process rather than a dreaded one, the next step is gaining visibility into all aspects of the request. Transparency and centralized information enables smarter procurement with more strategic decision-making from intake through sourcing and contract management.

After a stakeholder submits a request, they want to understand the status, what actions are being taken, and whether anything else is needed to move it forward. Procurement leaders want a clear view into how each request aligns with category strategy, savings goals, and compliance requirements. A unified platform makes it possible to prioritize projects, measure impact, and manage demand with visibility across the entire enterprise.

Levelpath provides this visibility through a modern, centralized workspace that tracks every intake request and shares relevant context with the teams that need it. From stakeholder updates to procurement pipelines, everything is visible in one place. This transparency is also accessible on the go through Levelpath’s native mobile app, allowing users to engage from anywhere.

Our built-in intelligence enhances the entire process:

• Supplier data is enriched automatically to provide a complete view of relationships
• Contracts are digitized using OCR capabilities that make content searchable and actionable
• Projects are tracked in real time to give leadership a complete picture of savings, risk, and value delivered over time
  

Levelpath turns visibility into a strategic advantage. Procurement teams and business stakeholders can move faster, stay aligned, and focus on what matters most.

Intake, sourcing, and contract management often live in disconnected tools, while purchasing and invoicing are handled elsewhere. This fragmentation creates inefficiencies, reduces visibility, and makes it difficult to measure impact across the full process. Procurement leaders are looking for a connected experience that links strategic intake with execution, without needing a costly full-suite replacement.

Levelpath helps bridge that gap. With a certified integration available on the Coupa App Marketplace, organizations can combine Levelpath’s intelligent intake, sourcing, and contract workflows with Coupa’s robust spend management capabilities. This creates one unified process, from intake through purchasing and payment, without disrupting the systems teams already rely on.

This integrated approach offers procurement teams a seamless workflow from initial request to final payment, with more visibility and control at every stage. Keeping stakeholders in one intuitive workflow, will lead to higher user adoption across the business and create longer term value.

By connecting intake to pay, organizations can reduce cycle times, eliminate manual handoffs, and make procurement a strategic enabler for the business. Levelpath offers a flexible, future-ready foundation for end-to-end smarter procurement.

— Rose 

Looking to make your procurement delightful? Schedule a demo today or join one of our monthly sessions to see how Levelpath can bring intelligence, speed, and ease to your intake-to-procure process.