Purchasing & procurement

Buy with the market in view.
Keep incoming goods in sight.

Connect suppliers, products and purchases in one platform. Track committed purchases and prepare your next decisions using available prices, costs and sales signals.

ERP, sales channels and logistics: data to bring together for purchasing decisions, depending on available feeds. Connections depend on scope or require an integration assessment. No official partnership is claimed.

View connections and availability

From incoming offers to incoming goods.

An attractive price is only part of a buying decision. Match it to the product, alternative suppliers and what the market can support. The module connects purchase preparation with the tracking of existing commitments.

  1. Collect

    Suppliers, their references and incoming data.

  2. Compare

    Purchase conditions and sales signals.

  3. Decide

    Recommendations to use in your business tools.

  4. Track

    Purchases, receipts and outstanding quantities.

Supplier catalogs and offers · In development

Turn daily supplier files into a basis for comparison.

The planned offering supports drag-and-drop supplier files and API data submission. Matching by GTIN/EAN prepares comparisons of product references, prices and reported availability.

Identified suppliers

Preserve the source of each offer to know who supplies a product and at what price.

Matched references

Compare the same product across suppliers and link it to the PIM.

Usable data

Define formats, currencies, units and required fields before comparing offers.

General-purpose imports, file uploads and supplier availability tracking are in development. File formats and API scope are defined for your project. Supplier inventory is separate from your own sellable stock.

Explained recommendations · In development

A good purchase price. But a good sales opportunity?

The goal is to rank opportunities using supplier offers and online B2C data. A recommendation should explain what makes a product attractive, what weakens its potential and which information still needs completing.

Purchase
Supplier prices and the acquisition cost of the product.
Market
Observed selling prices, competition and available Buy Box information.
Costs
Commissions and shipping to assess potential margin.
Demand
Known sales history to put the opportunity in context.

Expected selling price excluding tax − purchase − commissions − shipping

This is a pre-purchase estimate, dependent on the channel, costs and available observations. An observed price does not guarantee a sale; missing data must remain visible.

One product. Several purchasing options.

Identify a lower-priced supplier, useful availability or a highly competitive product: the planned analysis helps you compare options before committing cash. Reliable product matching is essential to meaningful comparisons.

Prepare the decision here. Place the order in your tools.

CIAMA is intended to provide recommendations through an API or Excel export. Your team chooses the supplier and places the order in its ERP or usual process. Purchase data then flows back to support tracking.

  1. In CIAMA

    Review opportunities and prepare a selection.

  2. In your systems

    Retrieve results and place the supplier order.

  3. Back in CIAMA

    Integrate purchases and receipts to track incoming goods.

Recommendation outputs and purchasing API flows require completion for your integration. Automatic creation of purchase orders in the ERP is not offered.

Purchase tracking · Available with integrated data

What was ordered. What arrived. What is still due.

Find open purchases and their detail by supplier and product. Ordered, received and outstanding quantities give purchasing and logistics a shared view, including when deliveries are partial.

Open purchases

Review orders, statuses and associated amounts.

Partial receipts

Compare received quantities with ordered quantities.

Outstanding goods

Identify products and suppliers involved in incoming supply.

Purchase orders and supplier delivery notes in your systems are the source for tracking. API ingestion and delay detection against expected delivery dates need scoping and completion; tracking freshness depends on the data supplied.

Purchase tracking today. Decision tools in preparation.

Available with integrated data
Suppliers, purchases, lines and product matching; ordered, received and outstanding quantities.
In development
General-purpose supplier imports, offer matching, explained recommendations and availability comparisons.
Integration to define
File formats, Excel/API outputs, purchase orders and delivery notes, dates and statuses from your systems.

Your deployment scope

Connected to your catalog and operations.

The PIM provides shared product references; marketplaces provide commercial signals; purchases inform cost analysis and logistics tracks stock. The data and connections needed are scoped with your team.

CIAMA is a modular licensed product, available on dedicated hosting managed by Dawap or installed on your own servers, including on-premise.

Your questions, answered

Which supplier files can we submit?

File uploads and general-purpose imports are part of the offering in development. We define formats and mapping from your actual files, including product identifiers, prices, currency and availability. Not every file is assumed to work without preparation.

How will CIAMA identify a good opportunity?

The planned workflow combines supplier prices, marketplace prices, purchase cost, commissions, shipping, competition, Buy Box and available history. Recommendations should expose their reasoning and limitations; they do not guarantee sales volume or realised margin.

Can we compare suppliers for the same product?

This is a core objective of the tools in development. GTIN/EAN and reference matching support comparisons of equivalent products using supplied prices and availability.

Does CIAMA place orders in our ERP?

No. You retrieve results through the planned API or Excel outputs and place orders in your own tools. Imported purchases and receipts then support tracking in CIAMA.

Can we track partial receipts and delays?

Ordered, received and outstanding quantities are handled for integrated purchases. Delay tracking requires reliable expected dates and suitable mapping of purchase orders and delivery notes; that flow needs completion for your systems.

How does this differ from replenishment?

Procurement covers suppliers, opportunities and open purchases. Replenishment addresses inventory needs by product and warehouse. Both views complement each other without implying automatic ordering.

Your suppliers. Your next purchases.

Start with a supplier file, your sales channels and open purchases to define the analysis and data flows your team needs.

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