Procure-to-pay / Procure to pay for manufacturers
Procure to pay for manufacturers is the governed process that takes raw material and component purchase orders from your ERP to every supplier, EDI or not, and back through line-level commit dates, changes, ASNs and invoices, so production plans rest on confirmed supply.
You buy raw materials, components, packaging and sub-assemblies from a supplier base that spans regions, brands and plants. Your strategic suppliers are on EDI. Many others confirm by email, update dates by phone and send invoices as PDFs. When a commit date slips and nobody records it, the first sign is a line that can’t run or a customer order that ships late.
For a manufacturer, procure to pay isn’t paperwork. It decides whether you can build what you promised.
On the buying side, your trading partners are raw material and component suppliers, contract and co-manufacturers, packaging suppliers, and the carriers and warehouses that move inbound goods. Some run full EDI. Many don’t. All of them affect your production schedule.
SPICE™ brings EDI and non-EDI suppliers onto the same governed procure-to-pay process, so every supplier works to the same rules, whatever channel they use.
Gives suppliers that aren’t on EDI a guided way to confirm each PO line with a quantity and date, respond to changes with a reason, build ASNs with carton and pallet detail, and submit invoices by web, mobile or spreadsheet.
Lets EDI suppliers test and certify against your maps and rules on their own before they go live.
Turns acknowledgments and invoices that still arrive by email or PDF into validated transactions linked to the right order.
Designs the program, onboards suppliers and supports them, so a sourcing change doesn’t become an IT project.
Every channel feeds the SPICE™ Supply Chain Collaboration Platform, which applies the same business rules and tolerances before anything reaches your ERP.
SPICE Insight™ connects each PO to its confirmation, changes, ASN, receipt and invoice, so planners see which lines are unconfirmed or at risk while there’s still time to act. Supplier scorecards show which suppliers keep their commit dates. The same platform also runs supply chain visibility and exception management across plants and order to cash for manufacturers. See how the whole platform fits on the manufacturers page.
Confirmations, changes and invoices arrive validated, whatever channel the supplier used.
Commit dates, ASNs and invoices line up with the PO, so receiving and accounts payable reconcile less.
Changes follow your approval workflow, and your team sees supplier performance across EDI and non-EDI suppliers alike.
The SPICE™ platform
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FAQ
It covers every step from the purchase order for raw materials and components through supplier acknowledgment, changes, shipment notice, receipt and invoice match. For a manufacturer, the critical step is the line-level commit date, because it feeds the production plan. SPICE™ runs those steps as one governed process for EDI and non-EDI suppliers.
They use SPICE Web OMS™ by web, mobile or spreadsheet to confirm each PO line with a quantity and date, and to respond to changes with a reason. Suppliers that keep emailing can do so: SPICE Digital Document Service™ turns their documents into validated transactions linked to the right order.
Yes. EDI suppliers can test and certify on their own with SPICE iKompli™, and suppliers not on EDI can start in SPICE Web OMS™ without buying software. SPICE Connect™ runs outreach and onboarding, so your IT team sets the rules without building a connection for each supplier.
No. Your ERP stays the system of record for purchase orders, inventory and payment. SPICE™ sits between your ERP and your suppliers, validating every transaction before it reaches your ERP.
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Give your planners commit dates they can trust and give accounts payable invoices that match, across EDI and non-EDI suppliers alike.