How AI can help businesses save millions on manual procurement

Procurement, Office Binder on Wooden Desk. On the table colored pencils, pen, notebook paper.[Courtsey]

For decades, manual processing of local purchase orders (LPOs) has been costing businesses across Africa's supply chains significant amounts of time and resources that could have otherwise been channelled to power growth.

According to the Centre for Advanced Procurement (CAP), companies spend more than 20 hours per week manually entering LPO data from PDFs, emails or blurry handwritten images into Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software.