What is procurement automation?
Procurement automation removes the manual, repetitive work between supplier communication and team visibility.
Most procurement automation focuses on purchase orders, approvals, and invoices. But the most time-consuming work happens in between — tracking emails, relaying updates, updating trackers, answering status questions. That’s the part nobody has automated yet.
The automation gap
Buyers are spending hours a week on work a system should handle.
Tracking numbers, status updates, delay notices, hold emails — buyers read them, process them, and then manually relay the same information to production, managers, and anyone else who asks. It’s the same loop, dozens of times a day. High effort, low value. And it crowds out the strategic work buyers should actually be doing.
How it works
Everyone stays aligned as soon as new information comes in.
AWB 789101112 - Shipment departed Shanghai PVG
Invoice #450092 overdue reminder for PO-112233
Weekly Inventory Sync - Q4 Projections report
Connect your email
Works with your existing Gmail or Outlook setup. Connected in minutes — your team keeps working exactly as they do today.
PO-Relay reads every supplier communication
Every hold notice, shipment update, delay, and confirmation is extracted and categorized the moment the email arrives. Nothing slips through.
Production and supply chain see the latest — instantly
The dashboard reflects what’s actually happening now, not what was entered last. Every team member sees the same current picture without asking anyone.
What you get
PO-Relay keeps your whole team current — automatically.
Live part status
Delivery dates, hold notices, and shipment updates pulled from supplier emails and shared across your team the moment they arrive.
No extra work for buyers
Buyers keep working the same way. PO-Relay runs quietly in the background — nothing new to learn, nothing to change.
Complete audit trail
Every status change is logged with the email that caused it. When a delay or dispute comes up, the full timeline is already there.