Customer story · Hosting & network
A hosting & network provider
Order-to-cash automation for a hosting & network provider
From a customer's emailed hardware request through stock checks, supplier RFQs, offer comparison and purchase orders. Every outbound email is drafted, checked and held for human approval.
Executive summary
The situation
An emailed hardware request can lead through ERP stock checks, quoting, supplier sourcing and fulfilment. Much of the work is procurement, even though the story is framed as order-to-cash.
What was built
Nexus parses requests, prepares quotes or RFQs, compares offers and substitute parts, and tracks orders, deliveries, receipts and stock updates. Every outbound email is drafted, checked and held for approval.
Why it matters
Gives the team a connected request-to-procurement process without unsupervised communication. Offer comparisons provide a basis for decisions, while people retain control of what is sent.
- Primary users
- Teams handling quotes, sourcing and fulfilment
- Core systems/data
- Emails, ERP parts/stock and supplier responses
- Human control point
- Approval of every outbound email
- Nexus role
- Intake, sourcing, comparison and fulfilment
The challenge
A request that touches sales, procurement and stock.
A customer email may look like a straightforward hardware request. Answering it requires ERP part and stock checks, a quote path if stock is available, or supplier sourcing if it is not. Responses raise further questions about specifications and offer comparison.
Despite the order-to-cash title, much of the flow is procurement and fulfilment. It needed to connect sourcing to orders, deliveries and receipts without letting automatic drafting become unsupervised messages to customers or suppliers.
What we built
An end-to-end request-to-procurement flow.
Nexus parses requests against ERP parts and stock. Available items enter the quote path; others lead to supplier RFQ preparation. Responses are parsed, substitutes checked against specifications, and negotiation and scoring logic supports comparison, including split awards. Much of this is a request-to-procurement flow, not simply a sales automation task.
Purchase orders, deliveries, goods receipts and stock updates are tracked through the process. Every outbound email is drafted, checked and held for human approval, including supplier RFQs. Nothing is sent unsupervised. Preparing commercial work does not give the workflow permission to speak for the business.
How the workflow runs
Step by step.
01
Intake
A customer hardware request arrives by email and is parsed. Requested parts are checked against ERP part and stock data.
02
Quote or source
Available stock follows the quote path; other requests lead to supplier RFQs, held for approval before sending. Responses are parsed, substitutes checked and offers compared.
03
Approve emails
Every outbound email is held for human approval. Purchase orders, deliveries, goods receipts and stock updates are tracked.
What the business team sees
An approval queue for every outbound message.
The workspace connects requests, stock checks, offers and fulfilment tracking so the team can inspect comparisons in context. The approval queue is equally central: drafted messages remain held until a person approves them. Preparing a communication and sending it are visibly different actions.
- Incoming requests
- Stock check results
- Supplier offers and scoring
- Drafted emails awaiting approval
- PO, delivery and receipt tracking
How Nexus works underneath
A prepared email is not permission to send it.
Nexus orchestrates ERP-aware intake, sourcing preparation, response parsing, technical-equivalence checks and offer comparison. These steps inform decisions. Communication is a separate gated stage requiring approval, whether the recipient is a supplier or a customer, while tracking carries the work through fulfilment.
Architecture
How the layers fit together.
Business team
Team workspace and approval queue
Requests · offers · drafted emails · tracking
Nexus orchestration
- 01Email intake
- 02ERP stock check
- 03Supplier RFQs
- 04Equivalence check
- 05Offer scoring
- 06Approval gate
Connected systems and data
- Mailboxes
- ERP parts and stock
- Supplier responses
Human control and audit
Nothing is sent unsupervised.
Every outbound email to customers or suppliers is drafted, checked and held. A person approves it before it leaves, and the decision is recorded.
What this changes
A connected request path. Gives the team a way to follow requests from stock checks through sourcing and fulfilment.
A defined basis for comparison. Specification checks and scoring support examination of offers and substitutes.
Communication remains supervised. Every outbound email waits for approval even when Nexus prepared it.
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