IFS Loops: Sourcing Manager Digital Worker

The slow part of sourcing is rarely the supplier.

Requests land as email threads, ad hoc chats, and requisitions with no shared structure, and buyers spend the first hours of every sourcing event turning a vague ask into something a supplier can quote. Supplier matching is done by hand, and every RFQ is built from scratch. Then the chasing starts. Each supplier returns price, lead time, and terms in a different format, comparison sheets are rebuilt by hand, and the award still moves on email and spreadsheets before a purchase order is raised. The IFS Loops Sourcing Manager Digital Worker owns those handoffs end to end.

Sourcing Manager turns every request into one structured requirement, shortlists approved suppliers from past performance, lead time, and price history, and issues and tracks the RFQ, escalating suppliers that go quiet. Every quote is normalized into one comparable view, with a recommended supplier and its reasoning attached. The award is routed for approval, and the purchase order is raised in IFS Cloud once it is granted.

This datasheet explains how Sourcing Manager gets every request ready to source, takes the chasing out of RFQs, and closes the gap between best quote and purchase order, while buyers keep the decisions.

Download the datasheet to see every step from request to purchase order and the approvals built into each one.