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title: "How to route purchase requests and approvals with AI"
description: "Start from your spending policy, approval limits by amount and category, preferred suppliers, budget codes and the request form staff already use. AI turns a request written in plain words into a complete form, suggests the budget code and preferred supplier, checks it against the policy and remaining budget, routes it to the right approver for the amount, reminds approvers who have not responded and flags split purchases, duplicate requests and spending outside policy. Approvers make every decision, exceptions follow your existing process, purchase orders are raised only after approval, and finance reviews the flags and the approval trail regularly."
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# How can a business use AI to handle internal purchase requests quickly, so staff get what they need without bypassing spending rules or chasing approvers?
Start from your spending policy, approval limits by amount and category, preferred suppliers, budget codes and the request form staff already use. AI turns a request written in plain words into a complete form, suggests the budget code and preferred supplier, checks it against the policy and remaining budget, routes it to the right approver for the amount, reminds approvers who have not responded and flags split purchases, duplicate requests and spending outside policy. Approvers make every decision, exceptions follow your existing process, purchase orders are raised only after approval, and finance reviews the flags and the approval trail regularly.
## What this means in practice
- Start from the spending policy, approval limits, preferred suppliers and budget codes.
- Turn plain-language requests into complete forms with suggested codes and suppliers.
- Check requests against policy and budget and route them to the right approver.
- Flag split purchases, duplicates and out-of-policy spending.
- Keep every approval with people and raise orders only after approval.
## How Lid Vizion approaches it
We start with the business decision and operating context, define ownership and measurable milestones, then use configuration, integrations, automation, or custom software only where each earns its place.
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