Tactical Sourcing and Buying Desk Service

Optimise your day-to-day purchasing

Procurato’s Tactical Sourcing & Buying Desk service handles low-value sourcing, purchase order management, and supplier admin, giving your procurement team the freedom to focus on strategic priorities.

About Tactical Sourcing & Buying Desk

Procurement teams often find themselves spending significant time on operational requests such as raising purchase orders, chasing contracts, or managing small sourcing events. While these activities are critical to keeping the business running, they can consume valuable capacity and distract the team from higher-value, strategic work.

Procurato’s Tactical Sourcing & Buying Desk acts as a central hub for day-to-day purchasing activity. We triage requisitions, manage low-value sourcing efficiently, and ensure all purchases follow policy and preferred supplier routes. By standardising and streamlining these processes, we reduce bottlenecks, strengthen compliance, and provide improved visibility into spend at a transactional level.

The result is a more controlled and efficient procurement operation, allowing your internal team to focus on strategic objectives with the confidence that routine purchasing is being handled consistently and effectively.

How it helps your business

Increased Capacity
Free up your internal team to focus on category strategy, supplier negotiations, and cost reduction, while we handle operational requests.

Smoother Purchasing
With a single point of contact for requisitions and sourcing requests, you reduce delays and keep projects moving.

Consistent Process & Compliance
Ensure purchases follow procurement policy, use preferred suppliers, and stay fully auditable.

Overview

How it works

Our Tactical Sourcing & Buying Desk service centralises routine procurement activities into a single, well-governed process. Together, we agree which activities should be managed through the desk – from low-value sourcing events and requisition triage to purchase orders creation, contract tracking, and supplier onboarding.

We then embed clear workflows and reporting, ensuring every request is processed consistently and in line with policy. Activity is monitored and measured, giving you full visibility of volumes, turnaround times, and compliance metrics.

With this model in place, procurement teams can focus on strategic priorities with confidence, knowing that day-to-day activity is being managed efficiently and to a high standard.

What you get from Tactical Sourcing

Our Deliverables

Request Triage & Buying Desk Management

Centralised intake and processing of procurement requests, from requisition to Purchase Order creation.

Tactical Sourcing Support

Quick sourcing events for low-value, low-complexity requirements to secure competitive pricing and speed.

Supplier & Contract Administration

Locate contracts, monitor end dates and renewals, and carry out supplier due diligence and credit checks.

Compliance Tracking & Reporting

Monitor adherence to procurement policy and provide regular updates on volumes and turnaround times.

Why Procurato

We combine real industry expertise with technology that adds value. We speak the same language as your teams, avoiding consultancy complexity, and deliver insights in a clear, practical way.

Agile and adaptable, we stay aligned with your agenda even when challenges arise, always focused on delivering what we promise and leaving behind solutions that last.