Procurement

Faster, smarter procurement decisions

Unify sourcing, purchasing, and payments in a streamlined AI-powered process.

Global innovators trust Appian

Unify procurement in an intelligent workflow

Accelerate cycle times

Automate sourcing, purchase orders, contract management, and invoice approvals, eliminating repetitive tasks and improving visibility.

Enhance collaboration

Give stakeholders a unified view of the entire procurement process—track progress, share information, and communicate updates in real time.

De-silo your data

End your reliance on email, spreadsheets, and disjointed tools. Connect your ERP, procurement, and other core systems with intelligent end-to-end processes.

Improve visibility and control

Know what you’re spending, with whom, and under what terms. Capture and report on all spend data to give procurement teams a single source of truth.

Transform procurement with AI process automation

Requisition handling and PO generation

Deploy AI agents to autonomously gather context and generate POs within strict, system-enforced guardrails. Escalate to human experts to maintain control.

Supplier & risk management

Unify fragmented supplier data from across your ERP and legacy systems. Empower AI agents with a complete operational picture to continuously mitigate vendor risk.

Invoice processing

Automatically extract invoice data, enable touchless processing, and route exceptions to humans-in-the-loop when needed.

Specialty Lines

Close the right business, faster.

Embed AI workers directly into your processes

AI data extraction

Digitize documents—including requisitions, supplier forms, invoices, and contracts—to automatically feed data into your workflow.

Conversational AI

AI instantly surfaces insights from POs, invoices, contracts, supplier records, and more—no manual search required.

Workflow optimization

Continuously improve your workflows with AI process and data analysis that uncovers inefficiencies and acts to correct them.

Embedded controls

Secure your mission-critical P2P workflows by embedding strict controls, reliability, and auditability directly into the process.

Modernize procurement with Appian

$83M saved in year one

US Air Force

Consolidated 7 legacy systems onto a unified platform to support 5,000 active global users and manage $44B in procurements in a single fiscal year.

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100,000 invoices a year

Amadori

Improved visibility and compliance with the complete procurement cycle managed on Appian, integrating legacy systems while providing automated reporting and audits.

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Calmer fiscal year-end

Washington Headquarters Services

Improved procurement processes with more collaborative contract file assembly, more accurate data entry, and better data visibility and actionability.

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Customer outcomes delivered

"Modernization is not a rip-and-replace effort — it is a disciplined transition that protects mission-critical contracting functionality while positioning ACWS to operate at the scale, speed and security the Army requires.”

Gregory Youmans

Director, Enterprise Business Systems

Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Procurement)

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