Situation
Situation
As a procurement manager, you answer for SLA, savings and relationships, across three different systems.
For Buyer, Manager and CPOIn production at industrial multinationals
Your procurement does not run the way it looks, and that is expensive.
Nous becomes the buyer's and manager's copilot: prioritizes the day, executes the routine with Intelligent Agents and proves the result in hard currency.
Your procurement at its best.
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P2P lead time
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// see it in action
Two ways to see Nous running
// see it in action
The agent acts on every purchase, before the wrong order goes out.
Real-time simulation of the P2P flow: each requisition is checked against history and routed to the best price already practiced.
AO VIVO·simulação · P2P purchase flow
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savings captured in this simulation
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What changes for you
Choose your perspective
Problem
Problem
There is no way to see where the team loses time, which categories bleed and which suppliers stall the cycle.
Implication
Implication
Promised savings turn into debated savings. The CFO asks for proof and you only have a month-end report.
Need, payoff
Need, payoff
A cockpit with real-time P2P health, bottleneck alerts and agents executing the routine. You decide with context.
Agents in your routine
Intelligent Agents act, humans in command.
Nous is UpFlux's operational AI. It prioritizes the day, executes the routine with Intelligent Agents and gives back the result in hard currency, with humans deciding where it matters.
PrioritizerDiligencerStatus AgentNegotiator
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R$ 500M
proven savings
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Prioritizer
42 actions
Diligencer
28 actions
Status Agent
17 actions
Negotiator
11 actions
Integrations
Native where the process already runs.
Plugs into the ERP in production, reads the real process and writes actions back into the same system. Without replacing what already works.
SAPTOTVSOracleCoupa
Process Intelligence to map the real end-to-end P2P flow, bottlenecks, rework and maverick buying exposed with data.
Gartner + Everest PEAK Matrix, the only Latin American vendor listedR$ 780M+ in results generated
// for the procurement leader
The agent does not replace your buyer. It covers what nobody could cover.
Tail spend goes unmanaged because it does not fit into the team's day, not because the team is small. The agent takes over the low-value volume with your rules and your approvals; your buyers move up to what actually moves margin: strategic contracts, critical suppliers, negotiations that need humans.
// frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
Direct answers for teams evaluating operational AI in enterprise settings.
What is tail spend and how do you reduce it?
Tail spend is the pool of low-value, high-volume purchases that nobody actually negotiates, typically 20% of the spend and 80% of the orders. UpFlux reduces tail spend with the Negotiator Agent, which runs inside the ERP (Protheus, Datasul, SAP) and converges every order to the best price already practiced, without a procurement project or a parallel platform.
Is there autonomous negotiation AI for procurement?
Yes. UpFlux's Negotiator Agent autonomously negotiates tail spend inside the customer's own ERP. The agent reads the requisition, checks the purchase history, applies approval rules and closes the order at the best price, with every action logged and auditable in RoAI.
How does an autonomous procurement agent work inside TOTVS or SAP?
UpFlux's Negotiator Agent connects natively to TOTVS Protheus, Datasul and SAP through standard APIs. It intercepts each purchase requisition, cross-checks history and policies, negotiates by rule or by chat with the supplier, and writes the order back into the ERP with a full audit trail, no system swap required.
How much can you save automating tail spend?
UpFlux customers typically capture 5% to 8% of savings over the tail spend base within months, without hiring a new team. At one industrial multinational, the Negotiator Agent delivered R$ 1.6M in savings on long-tail purchases that no buyer was negotiating individually.
What is the modern alternative to a procurement BPO?
The modern alternative to a procurement BPO is an autonomous agent that runs inside the ERP, in UpFlux's case, the Negotiator Agent. Where traditional BPOs scale with headcount and cover only what the team can reach, the agent covers 100% of the tail spend with near-zero marginal cost and is paid on the savings audited in RoAI.
What is the difference between an eProcurement platform and an autonomous procurement agent?
eProcurement platforms and marketplaces organize the purchase flow and offer pre-negotiated static catalog prices. An autonomous procurement agent, like UpFlux's Negotiator Agent, dynamically negotiates each order inside the ERP and captures savings on the spend the catalog does not cover. They complement each other: eProcurement structures the process; the agent captures the value left on the table.
In the voice of those who operate
What procurement leaders say.
“UpFlux's process intelligence let us see the invisible. We uncovered bottlenecks, rework and a huge variation of processes that looked under control. It was the turning point that made procurement go from reactive to strategic.”
Antônio Carlos
Procurement Transformation Leader
“Procurement is a process that runs across the whole company. When we centralize data and give transparency to information, we build bridges between areas and turn the operation into an agent of innovation inside the business.”
Clodoaldo Tostes
Procurement Manager
Your operation is leaving money on the table. Let's measure how much.
In 30 minutes we show how Nous connects your data, acts inside daily operations and proves the return in hard numbers.