How is your company running procurement?

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Hi Ramp Community,

My name is TK and I’m the Product Lead for Ramp Procurement & Vendors. I’d love to learn more about how your company is managing procurement! How do employees submit requests? How are you managing contracts? Do you issue POs? How are you managing renewals?

Are you using another tool outside of Ramp to help you with this? Would love your thoughts. If you have any product feature requests, I’m all ears.

Thanks,
TK

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Can provide more in the coming weeks but we are just really starting to ramp up (no pun intended) the use of procurement within Ramp. Drawback we are currently hitting and maybe I’m missing it but at the moment you have to utilize something outside of the system to complete the 3-way match control process. We have two sides, invoice and PO, but receipt of delivery is missing I feel isn’t included yet?

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Hey James, thanks for the reply. We’re actually kicking off our 3-way match project this quarter to deliver an end-to-end 3-way match within the Ramp platform. I’d love to schedule 15-min with you to understand your 3-way match needs, will reach out!

Thanks,
TK

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Hi TK. I’ve been using Ramp Purchase Orders since Feb 2024, I like the Procurement module and think it’s only going to improve, particularly with community input.
Unfortunately, we’re going to have to stop using the module this month due solely to cost, and I’d like to ask Ramp to reconsider the pricing mechanism. As I understand it, pricing is currently based on total number of Ramp users rather than the (much smaller) number of Procurement users, and this pushes it over budget for us and possibly for others as well. I’m sure that you as Product Lead would love to see your product used, and would acknowledge that the majority of Ramp card holders have no need to interact with the Procurement module, so pricing it as if they do seems counter-intuitive.
I’m curious whether other companies have a similar experience.

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Hi @tkkong,

My organization is trying to use procurement and purchase orders to track spending on authorizations. Is there a way to upload purchase orders in bulk from a spreadsheet/csv into Ramp? Our Ramp plus account is integrated with QuickBooks online but we do not currently store any purchase orders in QuickBooks. If it is not possible to upload POs in bulk, is this a feature that might be developed in the future? We really want to Ramp procurement work, but without the ability to create POs in bulk, we might not be able to as we sometimes receive hundreds of authorizations on a daily basis. I would love to chat for a few minutes if you have availability! Thanks.

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