Supplier PurchasingAn OperaLayer app for Microsoft Business Central.
Buyers see every supplier brand's season in one place, and every invoice is checked against the order the supplier confirmed.
The whole season on one screen
Buyers see each brand's commitments next to what has arrived and been invoiced. Anything that does not agree is flagged on the row it belongs to.
How it works
Brand sheets and supplier emails come in
Every supplier brand had its own order sheet, and changes arrived by email. Buyers copied them across by hand.
What changed for the buyers
A Baltic sports and apparel retailer with more than €100 million in revenue, buying from over 50 supplier brands on Microsoft Business Central.
More than 50 brand spreadsheets and a shared inbox
One season view, read from Business Central
By a buyer, line by line, often after the goods arrived
Flagged on arrival, before the goods reach the shelves
Whoever had all the sheets open
Every buyer and the people they report to
An email someone had to notice and copy across
The order and the season view update together
Questions
Does this replace Business Central?
No. OperaLayer reads the purchase orders from Business Central and leaves them there. The ERP stays your system of record.
How do the brand spreadsheets get in?
Orders come from Business Central. Supplier confirmations and invoices are read from the files and emails buyers already receive, so nobody retypes them.
What does an invoice get checked against?
Against the order the supplier confirmed. When a price or quantity does not agree, the row is flagged and the buyer decides what happens next.
We run a different ERP. Does it still work?
This app runs in production on Microsoft Business Central. For another ERP, we look at what it can share through an API, a database, or a file export before we scope the app.
How long does it take to go live?
Four weeks, with a working prototype on your own season data in the first week.
Get Supplier Purchasing
Tell us how your buyers track supplier orders today. We will show you your season in one view.
