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Procurement

Purchase requests, approvals and suppliers.

About this template

Handle internal procurement: requests through approval, a supplier registry, document collection and delivery deadlines.

What's included

  • Requests by status and category
  • Supplier registry with ratings
  • Document collection tracking
  • AI routes approvals and checks suppliers

What Plank handles

The everyday jobs this workspace hands off to Plank — you review the finished work, not the busywork.

  • Purchase request intake

    Takes requests from chat and email, creates a row in the register, and routes it to the right manager for approval.

    “Log a request for laptops”
  • Budget approval

    Moves the request through the approval chain, notifies approvers, and records the decision in its status.

    “Send the request for approval”
  • Vendor directory

    Maintains a vendor database with ratings, payment terms, and document status, and matches vendors to a category.

    “Find a furniture vendor”
  • Document collection

    Checks each vendor’s document set and requests what’s missing: contract, business ID, registration certificate, IBAN.

    “Who has an incomplete document set?”
  • Price and quote comparison

    Gathers quotes for a single item and lays them out in a table so you can pick a vendor.

    “Compare chair quotes from three vendors”
  • Delivery deadline tracking

    Watches “need-by” dates and reminds you when an order should be placed or is running late.

    “What deliveries are overdue?”
  • Counterparty check

    Looks up a vendor by business ID with the tax authority and the government procurement portal — bankruptcy, tax debt, reliability.

    “Check a vendor by business ID”
  • Contract drafting

    Prepares a draft supply contract from the company template, with details and terms pulled from the vendor record.

    “Draft a contract with CleanPro Facilities”
  • Order tracking

    Tracks placed orders from “Ordered” to “Received” and logs receipt at the warehouse.

    “Mark the chairs as received”
  • Invoice processing

    Reads an incoming invoice, matches the amount against the request, and hands it to finance for payment.

    “Log the invoice from Corptech Supply”
  • Limit and duplicate control

    Catches repeat purchases of the same item and requests over the category budget before approval.

    “Any duplicates in the hardware requests?”
  • Procurement report

    Rolls up spend by category, vendor, and requester for a period for budget vs. actuals.

    “Build a procurement report for July”

See it working

This is what it looks like in Plank — real dashboards with data. Everything is interactive: drag cards, check off tasks. Sample data.

Procurement & vendors — Requests, suppliers, documents

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