Enable fast buying
Catalog & Guided Buying
VendrNova
Give every procurement request a clear route forward
Capture the business need, supporting context, budget information, and requested timing in one governed intake flow. VendrNova routes the request through configured policy, ownership, and approval paths while keeping the requester informed.
Workflow proof
Move from the current problem to an accountable future state.
Current Platform capability is standard; policies, mappings, workflows, approvals, and integrations are configured for the customer operating model.
Punchout Catalogs
VendrNova supports Punchout Catalogs as a current platform capability.
Ethan Brooks · Maya Chen
Core capability is standard. Enterprise implementations require customer-specific configuration, mappings, policies, workflows, and integrations.
Context, evidence, authority, exception, and handoff
The workflow proof remains connected to an accountable next action and the relevant system boundary.
Request intake
Turn a plant need into a complete request with context, evidence, ownership, and a governed route.
Urgent plant-maintenance request · Riverbend Plant · Complete before the planned outage
- Accountability
- Requester: Ethan Brooks — Plant Operations Lead · Procurement owner after submission: Maya Chen — Director, Global Procurement Operations
- Evidence
- Inspection report: Attached · Technical scope: Attached · Budget confirmation: Complete
- Policy and system boundary
- Required fields: Complete · Route shown is illustrative and customer-configured · ERP handoff: Not started
- Exception
- Recommended route: Strategic sourcing
Start with the request, not a generic ticket
Requesters can provide the purpose, category, timing, supporting documents, budget context, and other information required by the configured process. Guided buying and channel recommendations can direct demand toward the appropriate path.
Route by policy and context
The route can reflect category, value, entity, location, risk, urgency, and other configured conditions. Procurement sees why the route was selected, who owns the next step, and which exception requires attention.
Keep the requester and approvers aligned
Status, outstanding evidence, decisions, comments, and handoffs remain connected to the request. Approvals completed within the Platform retain a complete trace of the approval path.
Consolidate demand before execution
Related needs can be reviewed together before sourcing or order execution. Procurement can identify recurring, project-based, service, catalog, and urgent requests and determine the appropriate next workflow.
See the request through the eyes of the people involved
In the Northstar view, Ethan Brooks — Plant Operations Lead submits the operating need while Maya Chen — Director, Global Procurement Operations reviews routing, evidence, policy, and the next procurement action.