Nitrile glove, powder-free, size L
Ref NW-GN-4412-LNordwerk IndustrieLead time 2d
Contract priceIn stock
18,40 €
24,90 €
/ box of 100
AddFor procurement teams
Your suppliers are not the problem. The number of channels is.
Procurement directors and operations leads rarely lack supplier relationships. They lack a single path through which those relationships reach the systems and the buyers.
Procurement Director · Head of Procurement Operations · Transformation
The category strategy is sound. The plumbing is not.
A well-run procurement function negotiates good contracts and then watches a meaningful share of spend happen outside them — not through defiance, but because the contracted route was slower than the alternative at the moment someone needed something.
That gap is almost always a connectivity gap. The contract exists; the catalog behind it is stale, incomplete or absent from the tool the buyer opens. Fixing the plumbing does more for contracted spend than renegotiating the contract.
02How it works
What a purchase looks like once the channels are consolidated.
Nothing about the category strategy changes. What changes is the path a single purchase takes, and what it leaves behind for the procurement team.
- 01Site or department
A need appears
Someone on a site needs something that may or may not be under contract.
What the buyer experiences
One entry point instead of a decision about which portal, phone number or mailbox to use.
What procurement gets
The demand becomes visible at the moment it appears rather than at invoice time.
- 02◇ DecisionKelqio
One catalog answers the question
Search runs across every connected supplier, restricted to that site’s entitled assortment.
What the buyer experiences
The contracted option is the easiest one to find, so it is the one taken.
What procurement gets
Contract compliance stops depending on whether a buyer remembered the framework.
↳ Nothing matches · Site or department
The gap becomes visible
A need with no answer in the catalog is a sourcing signal, not a reason to call a supplier off-contract.
- 03Kelqio
The negotiated price is what is shown
Prices, units and packaging come from the supplier’s conditions for that customer.
What the buyer experiences
No surprise between the price seen and the price invoiced.
What procurement gets
The gap between negotiated and realized prices closes without a compliance campaign.
- 04Your stack
The requisition follows your process
Approval and the purchase order run in the systems already in place.
What the buyer experiences
The approval path is the familiar one, with the usual approvers.
What procurement gets
No migration, no retraining, no new process to defend internally.
- 05Kelqio
The spend is comparable
Because the lines are structured the same way, spend can be read across suppliers and sites.
What the buyer experiences
Nothing extra is asked of the buyer to produce this.
What procurement gets
Category analysis stops being a quarterly spreadsheet reconstruction.
03What changes
Four things that change for a procurement team.
Contracted items are the easiest to find
When negotiated assortment and pricing appear first in search, compliance stops depending on discipline.
Onboarding stops being the bottleneck
A supplier is connected through whichever method they can support, so the long tail becomes reachable.
The team stops re-keying
Structured orders remove the data entry that quietly consumes procurement operations capacity.
Spend becomes visible while it is committed
Committed spend can be monitored as it happens rather than reconstructed from invoices.
Supplier data has one owner
The supplier maintains it. Procurement stops being the copy-paste layer between the supplier and the ERP.
Category work gets its time back
Hours currently spent chasing catalogs return to sourcing and supplier performance.
04In practice
One catalog, carrying the contract.
The most reliable compliance control is not a rule after the fact. It is making the contracted item the fastest thing to order.
Kelqio Catalog
Demo data
- Workspace
- Catalog
- Search
nitrile gloves size L
Nitrile glove, textured grip, size L
Ref VL-2209-LVantage LaboLead time 3d
Contract priceIn stock
21,05 €
26,00 €
/ box of 100
AddNitrile glove, chemical resistant, size L
Ref FX-NC-880-LFerralux SASLead time 6d
In stock
31,50 €
/ box of 100
Add- 01
Search across suppliers
Buyers stop choosing a supplier before they know what they need.
- 02
Contract price beside list price
The value of the negotiation is visible at the point of choice.
- 03
Assortment scoped to the site
What a site is entitled to buy is enforced by what it can see.
- 04
One cart into the workflow
The requisition inherits structured lines instead of a typed description.
What procurement leaders ask first.
- Do we have to replace our procurement platform?
- No. Kelqio is a connectivity layer, not a suite. Your procurement platform keeps its process and its users; Kelqio supplies it with connected supplier catalogs and structured carts.
- What about suppliers with no IT capability at all?
- That is the case Kelqio Supplier exists for. A supplier can maintain products and publish customer catalogs from the workspace without connecting any system of their own.
- How do you measure whether this worked?
- Through a small set of metrics agreed at the start — typically time to connect a supplier, share of spend through connected catalogs, manual order handling and off-contract lines. Baselines are measured with you rather than assumed.
- Where does this leave our ERP?
- Unchanged in authority. The ERP remains the system of record for master data and purchase orders. Kelqio standardizes what reaches it.
Next step
Bring your supplier list. We’ll show you the flow.
A working session with our team, using your systems and your supplier mix — not a generic slide deck.
- 01
Where your suppliers sit today: connected, semi-connected, or not at all
- 02
How each channel would route through Kelqio into your ERP and procurement platform
- 03
What connecting the next twenty suppliers would actually involve
Book a demo
Enterprise integration product. No credit card, no self-serve trial — a conversation with someone who knows procurement systems.