In most enterprises, the purchase requisition is where procurement speed gets bottlenecked. A business user submits a request. It enters an approval chain. And then it waits - sometimes for days, sometimes for weeks - while approvers are unavailable, delegation rules are unclear, or the requisition bounces between departments because budget ownership is ambiguous.

The consequences extend well beyond procurement. Projects stall because materials are not ordered on time. Maintenance schedules slip because MRO items sit in approval queues. Finance discovers budget overruns only after commitments are already made. And when the process is too slow, requestors find workarounds - verbal approvals, email confirmations, or purchases made outside the system entirely. The issue is not that organizations lack approval processes. It is that those processes operate through email chains and policy documents rather than live, automated workflows.