**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.