How It Works

From Indent to Award, in One Flow

Teams raise indents with quantities and need-by dates. Approvers check budget and cost-centre, approve, and the requisition becomes a live purchase auction or tender in one click β€” fully traceable end to end.

  • Department-wise indents β€” Production, Maintenance, Stores, Projects
  • Multi-level approval routing with budget & cost-centre tagging
  • Consolidate similar requisitions into a single auction/tender
  • One-click convert β†’ Purchase Bidding or Tender
  • Need-by dates & priority flags for planning
  • Status tracking β€” raised, approved, sourced, awarded
  • Full demand-to-award audit trail on every line
  • Role-based access β€” raisers, approvers, buyers
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Requisition workflow demo: a requisition is raised, approved through a chain, then auto-converts into a live reverse auction before award and PO.

πŸ“ Requisition β†’ auction
APPROVAL
REQ #RQ-0142 Β· Plant Storesβ‚Ή8.4 L
Bearings Γ—120 Β· V-belts Γ—60 Β· Lubricants Γ—40βœ“ WITHIN BUDGET
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Raised
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Approvals
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Bidding
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Awarded
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PO
APPROVAL CHAIN
Requisition raised β€” routing for approvals
Key Features

One System for Internal Demand

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Department Indents

Any team raises a requisition with line items, quantities, need-by dates and priority β€” in a structured form, not an email.

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Approval Routing

Multi-level approval with budget and cost-centre checks. Approvers see exactly what they're signing off.

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Consolidation

Merge similar requisitions across departments into one auction or tender for better rates and fewer cycles.

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One-Click Convert

Turn an approved requisition into a Purchase auction or Tender instantly β€” line items carry over, no re-keying.

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Status Tracking

See every requisition's stage β€” raised, approved, sourced, awarded β€” at a glance.

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Audit Trail

Complete demand-to-award history on every line, with role-based access for raisers, approvers and buyers.

Connect Demand to Sourcing

Stop juggling indent emails and spreadsheets β€” route demand into auctions automatically.

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Where procurement actually loses money

These are the problems plants describe before they change anything. Not all of them apply to every company — most companies recognise four or five.

1

Demand arrives from everywhere

Requirements come by email, WhatsApp, a paper indent and a phone call, and procurement spends the morning assembling them.

2

Approvals stall with no visibility

A requisition sits with someone for four days and nobody knows whose desk it is on.

3

The same item is bought five times a month

Five departments raise five indents for the same consumable, and each becomes its own small, expensive purchase.

4

Specifications get lost on the way

What the department asked for and what procurement buys drift apart, and the material is rejected at receipt.

5

Budget is checked after the fact

The purchase happens, and the budget question comes at month end.

6

Urgent indents bypass everything

The fastest route is a phone call, so the process is skipped exactly when the amount is largest.

7

No link between the indent and the order

The department cannot see what happened to its request without asking someone.

What BidBegin does about it

Each of these answers one of the problems above. Nothing here needs new hardware or a new team.

One intake for all demand

Every department raises requisitions the same way, with the same fields, on the same screen.

Approval routing with a visible queue

Multi-level approval by value, department or category, and anyone can see whose desk a requisition is on right now.

Automatic clubbing of like items

Five indents for the same consumable become one auction with the combined quantity β€” which is where the better rate comes from.

Specification carried through

The spec the department wrote travels into the RFQ and into the PO unchanged.

Convert to auction or tender in one step

An approved requisition becomes a purchase auction or a formal tender without re-typing anything.

Status visible to the requester

The department sees approved, in bidding, awarded or received without calling procurement.

A record of what was asked and what arrived

Requisition, approval, award and receipt are linked, so the question β€œwhat happened to my indent” has an answer on screen.

What bidders find difficult today

The other side of the same market. A process that only works for the buyer does not stay competitive for long.

You are asked to quote on vague requirements

The requisition says β€œbearings” and you spend a day getting to a specification.

Small orders arrive separately

Five small orders for the same item mean five deliveries and five invoices, at small-order economics.

Approvals delay your order

You hold stock for a confirmed requirement that takes three weeks to become an order.

You cannot plan

Recurring demand reaches you as a series of surprises.

What bidders get on BidBegin

Suppliers, buyers, forwarders and transporters use BidBegin free. There is no fee to be invited, to bid, or to win.

Free for suppliers

No fee to receive a requirement or to quote on it.

Requirements arrive with a real specification

The department's spec, unit and quantity come through intact, so you quote once rather than three times.

Clubbed quantities are worth quoting for

Because like items are combined before they reach you, the volumes are larger and the economics work.

Approved before it reaches you

A requisition in bidding has already cleared its approvals, so a win is an order rather than a maybe.

Recurring demand becomes visible

Repeat requirements let you plan stock instead of reacting.

Award converts to a PO automatically

No chasing for the formal order after you have won.