An efficient purchase order process is essential to the success of most businesses and organisations. If your PO system is not fit for purpose, you can easily lose track of what goods and services you have ordered and paid for – or not paid for – costing you time and money, as well as supplier goodwill.
When an international body who regulate and train members of their industry decided they wanted a streamlined digital PO solution, they turned to Cielo Costa. Our client had already begun a major finance system upgrade when their paper and spreadsheet-based PO process became overwhelmed with data, prompting a request for an urgent, interim fix. We delivered. In just three months, we built a customised, intuitive Power App that makes managing purchase orders as simple as pushing a few buttons.
Intuitive finance solutions:
Simple interface – When a user logs in, they are greeted with an easily navigable interface that displays all of the purchase orders they have created, organised according to status – draft, approved, rejected, completed, or cancelled.
Standard Templates – To create a new PO, they choose from a list of approved suppliers and fill out a standardised template. Previously, the PO would be sent to authorised individuals for approval, which led to bottlenecks when staff were on leave or otherwise unavailable.
Group Alerts – Now, each draft is emailed to an authorised group; any member can grant approval on behalf of the group, speeding up the process considerably. When a request is approved, the system automatically generates a PDF document and emails it to the supplier.
Transparency – The end result is a transparent, semi-automated process which enables finance staff to check the details of any PO in the system quickly and easily.
Fast – Payments that used to take months are now delivered within days, the system has processed just under £25 million worth of orders.
Flexible – The beauty of Cielo Costa’s solution is that it is generic enough to be integrated into the financial framework of any organisation, from an SME to a large corporate, but also flexible enough to meet individual business needs.
We pride ourselves on creating bespoke technology solutions to solve our clients specific challenges.
In this project, for example, we incorporated codes to enable POs to be linked to specific events and also made it possible for multi-item receipts to be broken down and allocated to multiple cost centres. We are passionate about building customised digital systems to help businesses improve their financial processes. To find out more, contact us below…
Exceptional Support
It’s important that by working with Cielo Costa on a support contract, that we become an extension of your team.
We hand-hold and resolve the support issues whilst at the same time taking a longer-term view on updates, tech enhancements and developments to make the tools more efficient more responsive and more agile for your business.
Our mission
At Cielo Costa, we are becoming the world’s most desired technology consultancy. When our clients seek a partner to help them overcome their business challenges by building a software solution, we are the first they think of.
