If your company is currently using a paper-based procurement system, your manual procedures are inefficient. During the purchasing cycle, a business can process up to 7 separate documents for every order. This can include documents like: • Requisitions • Purchase orders • Quotes • Order acknowledgments • Advice notes • Received notes • Packing slips • Invoices Clearly, this is excessive, especially in our green-minded society. It's a lot of paper to push just for a single purchase.  Additionally, paperwork can get lost, damaged, or destroyed. It's not always easy to spot duplicate requests. Especially if you have a high volume of POs. A set of human eyes only goes so far. It will never be able to scan at the rate of a computer.  The inability to spot missing or replicated data costs a business time and money—not to mention the need to file all this paperwork somewhere. Now you're looking at space consumption too. This is what makes a digital purchasing system so effective. Menial tasks can be automated, creating a more efficient workflow and leaving less room for error. It keeps all your documents in a centralized system that makes them easier to manage and process.