Vlad Craciunescu
Team Manager - Procurement Excellence, TeamViewer

We'd already brought our significant SaaS and services spend under management. With Omnea's Guided Buying, we're also bringing hardware-related requests—representing an additional 30% of purchasing activity—into a single platform, combining a seamless user experience with company-wide governance. This gives Procurement and IT greater visibility and control, while allowing teams to tailor workflows and compliance requirements to their specific needs.

Three buying channels in one platform

Make your preferred suppliers the in-policy default.

Browse approved tools inside Omnea, buy from negotiated catalogs, or punch out to Amazon Business, Staples and CDW. Whatever the route, all spend stays in-policy and in view.

Spotlight your preferred suppliers.

Give employees a single place to browse pre-approved tools and preferred suppliers. Curate lists for software, hardware, agencies or freelancers, and group them however your team actually buys.

• Instant access via SSO, a proportionate approval workflow, or a direct connection to the relationship owner
• Bulk import suppliers via CSV, or pick products from Omnea's global directory
• Pre-approved tools cut shadow IT and the duplicate requests that come with it
• Supplier profiles fill themselves — Omnea AI pulls in logos, descriptions and links automatically

Make existing stock and agreed prices easy to find.

A priced catalog lives inside Omnea — items a supplier has quoted, or stock the business already holds — so requestors buy named items at the agreed rate without leaving for an external site.

• Requestors buy named items at your agreed rate
• Existing stock and internal supply get surfaced first, so fewer duplicate requests
• Approvals run against the real price, not an estimate
• Spend limits and preferred-supplier rules apply at the point of purchase

The storefronts your team already uses, inside Omnea.

Requestors punch out to your approved storefronts, fill a basket on the supplier's own site, and it flows back into Omnea automatically. Every order runs through your approval chain before it's placed with the supplier.

• Shop Amazon Business, Staples and CDW from inside Omnea
• Access the supplier's full catalog and live pricing. No maintenance necessary
• Every basket is routed for approval depending on how it maps to policy

The Context Engine

Omnea points people to existing suppliers and applies the right policy.

Most catalogs are just stores of products. Omnea knows your supplier base and what each contract covers. So when a request matches something you already buy, Omnea AI points the requestor to the supplier you've signed — and applies the policy that governs that purchase.

Points to existing suppliers

Omnea's recommendation engine matches each request against the suppliers you already use.

Applies the right policy

Understands the rules for where spend should go: preferred suppliers, spend limits, who needs to approve what.

Routes every request

A requestor says what they need in plain language. Omnea sends them to the right catalog, punch-out, or sourcing workflow.

The process

Every basket-to-order journey stays in policy.

Shop from inside Omnea
The requestor browses your catalogs or punches out to an approved storefront like Amazon Business, CDW or Staples, without leaving Omnea. They see live pricing and the rates you negotiated.

Steered to a supplier you already have
As they shop, Omnea points them to pre-approved suppliers, so they pick a preferred one instead of bringing on a duplicate.

Checkout becomes the request
They add to basket and check out. The basket flows back into Omnea and runs through the same approval chain as any request, with spend limits and preferred-supplier rules applied against the real price.

Captured at the point of purchase
Omnea records the order the moment it's placed, with negotiated rates and linked to the supplier — so it's visible immediately, rather than surfacing weeks later on an expense report.

Integrations

Connects to where your team already buys.

Natively punch-out into storefronts, and integrate with the ERP and access management systems that support them.

FAQ

Common questions.

• How is this different from the punch-out we already have?
• Can we bring our own catalog?
• Does it cover suppliers that aren't in a catalog, like agencies or freelancers?
• What about all the spend going out on company cards today?
• Does it need our ERP to work?

Platform

Explore more of the Omnea platform.

Sourcing
Embed sourcing in your Intake and drive early involvement.

Approval Workflows
Automatically involve the right stakeholders, data, and systems.

Intelligent Intake
Create the perfect front door for every request.

Bring more spend under management.

See how Guided Buying keeps hardware and tail spend in Omnea.