PIP | Procurement Intelligence Platform · Syncova Digital Technologies
Procurement Intelligence Platform

From budget to payment, one governed thread.

PIP is a single-tenant, multi-company, ERP-integrated procurement intelligence platform. Every dollar your group spends moves through one governed, auditable pipeline, with AI that advises and people who decide.

20+
Companies, one platform
1-click
Budget push to ERP
10yr
Sealed decision packs
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01 / The end-to-end process

Eight steps. One governed thread.

Most groups run procurement as disconnected islands: a budget here, a quote there, an invoice nobody can trace. PIP runs it as a single pipeline where every step inherits the controls of the one before.

01

Budget

Built collaboratively, approved in cascade, pushed to ERP.

02

Requisition

Raised against live budget. No budget, no request.

03

Sourcing

RFQ, RFP or RFT. Suppliers respond through secure links.

04

Evaluation

Multi-factor scoring on true landed cost, not sticker price.

05

Approval

Configurable chains with SLA timers and conflict screening.

06

Purchase Order

Created automatically in Business Central, number written back.

07

Invoice

Matched to PO and receipt. Exceptions flagged, not buried.

08

Payment

Released against verified bank details. The thread closes.

02 / Budget control

Build it together. Govern the cascade. Push it to ERP.

Budgets in PIP aren't spreadsheets emailed around. They're living structures built collaboratively from company down to cost centre, approved through a governed cascade, and pushed to Business Central at the click of a button.

  • 01Collaborative budgeting. Every company and cost centre builds its piece; finance sees the whole.
  • 02A governed approval cascade. Versioned, signed off level by level, nothing slips through side doors.
  • 03One-button ERP push. Approved budgets land in Business Central GL accounts without re-keying.
  • 04Monthly allocation controls real spend. Requisitions draw against the month's allocation, not wishful thinking.
FY27 Group Budget Cascade in progress
Group consolidated $18.4M Approved
Company · Mashonaland Estates $4.2M Approved
Cost centre · Field Operations $860K In review
July allocation drawn62%
Push to Business Central
03 / AI intelligence

Separate the market from the mess.

When costs rise, was it fuel, FX, drought, or procurement waste? PIP's Claude-powered intelligence answers that question with evidence, so you fix what you can control and stop apologising for what you can't.

i.

Multi-Factor Cost Analytics

Separates external factors (fuel, FX, drought) from addressable procurement variance. See exactly which part of a cost increase you can actually do something about.

ii.

AI Factor Monitor

Scans news and markets for emerging risks to your cost factors, and flags them with sources attached. The AI raises its hand; your team decides what to do.

iii.

Deep Tender Analysis

Extracts, scores and risk-checks every tender response, tests compliance, and writes the EXCO briefing. Advisory only. It never awards.

AI advises. Humans decide. Read-only access Every recommendation audited Never approves, routes or awards
04 / Governance & control

Controls that tighten before trouble arrives

01

Early Warning System

Configurable factors and KPIs with RAG thresholds rank your highest-risk categories before problems reach the P&L.

02

Operating Modes

Drought or FX Shock declared? Controls tighten deterministically across every company, activated only with senior dual-approval, and logged.

03

Fraud-Break Verification

Bank-detail changes trigger independent re-verification before a single payment moves. The classic invoice-redirect fraud dies here.

04

Sealed Decision Packs

Every award produces a tamper-evident, hash-sealed decision pack: who bid, who scored, who approved, and why. Reconstructable years later, defensible in any audit or court.

05

Full Audit Trail

Every action, actor, timestamp and change, captured beneath every step of the thread. Nothing edited, nothing lost, nothing off the record.

05 / Built for the real world

Made for how your group actually operates

Multi-company by design

Group-wide consolidation with strict per-company isolation.

Local-first & self-hosted

Single-tenant, on your infrastructure. Your data never leaves.

Works on low bandwidth

Lite mode and offline drafts for the depot at the end of the road.

ERP-integrated

Deep Business Central integration. Budgets out, PO numbers back.

Supplier self-service

Suppliers register, quote and track, without phoning your buyers.

06 / Delivery models

Two delivery models, one platform

Choose on-premises perpetual or managed cloud based on your data-sovereignty needs and IT capability. Full feature parity in both.

On-Premises Perpetual

You host it

Deploy PIP on your own infrastructure. Full data sovereignty, perpetual licence, and annual support that keeps you current and protected.

  • Perpetual licence: own the platform outright
  • Fixed implementation fee, phased to milestones
  • 3 months post-go-live hypercare included
  • Unlimited companies, users & suppliers
  • Best for: data sovereignty & a strong IT team
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Cloud SaaS

We host it

Syncova manages the full infrastructure stack: the platform, the security posture, and continuous upgrades, without the operational burden.

  • Annual subscription: licence, hosting, ops & support bundled
  • Lower one-time onboarding fee
  • Continuous upgrades: always on the latest version
  • Syncova manages Vault, MinIO, RabbitMQ & Keycloak
  • Best for: speed to value & predictable opex
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No per-seat pricing. No supplier caps. No surprise metering. PIP is priced on your group structure, not the number of people in the system. Governance only works when everyone uses it.

One platform. Every seat at the table.

From the warehouse floor to the boardroom, PIP gives every role the same governed thread, and their own view of it.

Finance

Budgets that hold, spend you can trace, and a clean close.

Procurement

Sourcing, evaluation and awards, defended by evidence.

Operations & Warehouse

Raise what you need, see where it is, receive against the PO.

Executive

The whole group's spend, risk and posture, on one screen.