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Purchasing and Supplier Audit

<p><strong>Purchases and suppliers Auditing</strong></p><p>This workflow enables internal audits focused on Purchasing and Supplier management. Internal audits help monitor spending, assess efficiency, and promote responsible resource use across departments and vendors.</p><p>The process involves:</p><ul><li><p>Independent analysis of <strong>Purchasing</strong> and <strong>Supplier</strong> data.</p></li><li><p>Application of defined <strong>spending limits</strong> as reference thresholds (adjustable based on internal standards).</p></li></ul><p>The workflow delivers a <strong>Data App</strong> with two main sections:</p><ol><li><p><strong>Purchase Limit Checks by Department/Group</strong>:</p><ul><li><p>Identify which departments exceed their purchasing limits.</p></li><li><p>Browse and download Excel reports for review.</p></li></ul></li><li><p><strong>Supplier Spending Analysis</strong>:</p><ul><li><p>Detect suppliers with spending beyond set thresholds.</p></li><li><p>Export the data to Excel.</p></li><li><p>Generate individual or batch reports for selected suppliers.</p></li></ul></li></ol>

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Suppliers Data

Purchases Data

Data Manipulation

Data App

Purchasing and Supplier Audit


This workflow will help you to perform Internal Audit within your company focusing on Purchasing and Suppliers.

  1. On the one hand we have the Purchasing data and the Suppliers data.

  2. On the other side we have the limits for Purchasing and Suppliers (these data may vary in case our company has to comply with different policies).

  3. We will process the data independently and generate a Data App with two sections:

    1. The first one will allow you to check which departments / group exceed the purchase limits. You will be able to browse and download an excel file

    2. The second one will allow you to check in which suppliers we have overspent money. In this case, besides exporting as an excel file, we will be able to generate an individual report for a selected supplier or a multiple report for all suppliers

Output Data App
GroupBy andColumn Rename
Manipulation
Purchase Data Table
Table Reader
Different aggregationsand calculations
Aggregations
Purchases Limits
CSV Reader
Preprocessing
Suppliers
Excel Reader
Supplier Limits
Excel Reader

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