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## Every stakeholder, one platform.

### Procurement Manager
The daily driver of the sourcing event

You're running the RFQ — collecting submissions, chasing vendors, managing timelines. Purchaser handles the normalization work so you can focus on the evaluation, not the spreadsheet.

- Centralizes all vendor submissions in one structured workspace
- Normalizes inconsistent quote formats automatically before evaluation
- Surfaces scope deviations and assumption gaps before award

### VP of Procurement
Strategic oversight across every sourcing event

You need confidence that every evaluation is consistent, every decision is defensible, and every project team is operating from the same standard — without reviewing every submission yourself.

- Portfolio-level visibility across all active RFQs and evaluations
- Consistent evaluation framework applied to every sourcing event
- Complete audit trails ready for internal and external review

### Project Manager
Schedule and budget clarity from procurement

Procurement delays kill schedules. You need to know when equipment is awarded, what it costs, and whether the scope aligns to what engineering specified — without digging through emails.

- Structured award documentation tied to procurement milestones
- Budget-vs-quote tracking across all procurement packages
- Procurement status visible without manual status updates

### Engineering
Technical scope compliance from day one

A vendor can quote anything. What matters is whether what they're quoting matches what was specified. Purchaser makes that comparison explicit before evaluation begins.

- Maps vendor submissions to RFQ requirements and BOM line items
- Flags technical exceptions and scope deviations for engineering review
- Separates technical evaluation from commercial pricing

### Finance & Controls
Audit-ready cost documentation

Award decisions need to be defensible — to auditors, to management, to regulators. Purchaser generates the documentation that makes that defense straightforward.

- Structured cost comparisons with full evaluation history
- Complete audit trails from RFQ issuance through award
- Documentation that satisfies internal audit and compliance requirements

### Contracts Manager
Complete traceability from RFQ to award

What was issued, who responded, how it was evaluated, why it was awarded — everything that happens before the contract needs to be traceable. With Purchaser, it is.

- Full record of RFQ documents, submissions, and evaluation history
- Award rationale documented automatically throughout the process
- Single source of truth for post-award reference and dispute resolution

## See how Purchaser fits your team.

Purchaser adapts to how your team runs sourcing events. See how it fits your workflow.
