{"id":1138,"date":"2025-12-09T19:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T19:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zerovia.ch\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2025-12-30T14:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T14:17:30","slug":"intake-to-pay-kmu-purchasing-cost-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zerovia.ch\/en\/intake-to-pay-kmu-einkauf-kostenkontrolle\/","title":{"rendered":"Intake-to-pay (demand management)"},"content":{"rendered":"

An end to \u201ewild purchasing\u201c: How to manage costs and sustainability at the same time<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Why control starts with the request and how you can create order with just one module<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Before we talk about green supply chains, we need to talk about money. In many SMEs, the indirect purchasing<\/strong> the chaos: Maverick buying. Everyone orders wherever they want. The delivery doesn't necessarily end up in the right building or office.
The result: prices that are too high and a lack of sustainability data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is where Modern demand management (Intake-to-Pay)<\/strong> to.
Our approach: control through simplification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

View of the ZEROvia platform: This is where the process starts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In this series, we build the ZEROvia landscape step by step. It all starts at the bottom left of the module Demand management & approvals<\/strong>. The employee's request is recorded here - simply by chat or form. The AI immediately classifies the requirement before an order is even triggered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intake with AI: bundling creates market power<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Imagine your employee reports: \u201eI need five new monitors.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Guidance:<\/strong> The AI checks internal inventory or standards.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Bundling:<\/strong> The system recognizes parallel requirements from other departments.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. One Data Set:<\/strong> The category (e.g. IT hardware) is set from second 1.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Control<\/strong>ZEROvia forwards the order in a freely definable workflow to the person responsible for the budget (e.g. the line manager) and\/or specialists (e.g. IT manager) for approval.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Controlling the \u00abinput\u00bb - the demand in the company - prevents unnecessary expenditure. This first module is the foundation for all subsequent steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Outlook<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Demand has been recorded in a structured manner. Now we are bringing competition in-house.
    Read in Part 2: Sourcing & Onboarding<\/a><\/strong>, how to check partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Schluss mit \u201eWildem Einkauf\u201c: Wie Sie Kosten und Nachhaltigkeit gleichzeitig steuern Warum Kontrolle bei der Anforderung beginnt und wie Sie mit nur einem Modul Ordnung schaffen Bevor wir \u00fcber gr\u00fcne Lieferketten sprechen, m\u00fcssen wir \u00fcber Geld sprechen. In vielen KMU herrscht im indirekten Einkauf das Chaos: Maverick Buying. Jeder bestellt, wo er will. Die Lieferung […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-einkauf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerovia.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerovia.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerovia.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerovia.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerovia.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/zerovia.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/zerovia.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerovia.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerovia.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerovia.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerovia.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}