// digital procurement team

Every buyer gets a digital team behind them.

Agents quote, negotiate and place orders inside your ERP. The buyer stays in command: deciding what matters and approving by exception. You compare it with what you already spend on people and BPO, by cost per transaction.

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// where money is left on the table

The opportunity lives in the small-ticket tail.

Up to 80% of your suppliers sit in small orders that add up to about 20% of spend. Quoting a small item takes as long as quoting a big one, so the whole tail goes unnegotiated, order after order. It is what the market calls the C curve, indirect procurement or tail spend: small, recurring orders spread across many suppliers.

It is not a team failure. It is capacity arithmetic: people don't scale at the speed of volume. Your purchasing volume grows; your team doesn't need to grow with it.

We are the team that quotes. Agents work the tail order by order, and the buyer moves from the quoting queue to command: exceptions, strategic suppliers and whatever takes judgment.

Total processed

everything that flows through the ERP

Under contract

price already negotiated, nothing to dispute

Negotiable spot: the tail

where money is left on the table today

Illustrative proportions. The diagnostic measures your tail on your own data.

What stays human

Judgment and exceptionsStrategic negotiationSupplier relationships

// what we deliver: capacity

R$ 22 million processed through the tail, where nobody negotiated. R$ 1.6 million back.

R$ 22 million

processed through the tail

R$ 1.6 million

back to cash

zero

new hires

No new hires. Buyers moved from the quoting queue to strategic work, and the operation keeps running, order by order, every day. An industrial multinational, a real digital-team operation.

See the case at the Negotiator Agent Want your own number? The calculator uses your figures

// two ways the math works

Created value on one side, lower cost on the other.

Where nobody negotiates

We create value that did not exist.

The long tail of orders that never fits anyone's calendar gets worked order by order. It is the money your operation leaves on the table, captured where there used to be only approval.

Where a team or BPO already works

We deliver the same work for less.

The same transactional volume runs at a lower cost per transaction, with SLAs open in a live cockpit. Your team stops growing with volume and keeps the work that needs judgment. And the contract shrinks with every cycle as agents absorb the routine, the opposite of BPO that grows with volume.

// start with the number

How much is sitting in your procurement tail?

Adjust the assumptions with the figures you already know from your spend. The result is the target the diagnostic will confirm on your own data.

Gasto anual em compras / indiretos

R$ 300.000.000

Quanto do seu gasto está na cauda (baixo tíquete), por valor

15%

Se não souber, comece com 15%.

Quanto da sua cauda já está sob contrato

45%

Na base que analisamos, cerca de 45% da cauda estava em contrato.

Taxa de saving negociável na cauda

4.6%

Taxa observada no nosso estudo na cauda (faixa 3% a 8%).

Potencial na mesa

R$ 1.138.500 / ano

Cauda fora de contrato considerada: R$ 24.750.000 / ano.

Não fazer nada

R$ 0

captura por ano

Todo o potencial fica na mesa, ano após ano.

Colocar mais gente

R$ 455.400

captura por ano

Pessoas não dão conta de cotar item miúdo em escala, e ainda somam custo de headcount.

40% é premissa ilustrativa.

Time digital da UpFlux

R$ 967.725

captura por ano

O Agente Negociador cobre a cauda inteira, autônomo, sem aumentar o time.

85% é premissa ilustrativa.

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A taxa de saving e o split contrato/spot vêm do estudo real da UpFlux. As porcentagens de captura por cenário (0%, 40%, 85%) são premissas ilustrativas para comparação, ajuste conforme sua realidade. Não é uma promessa de resultado.

Base analisada pela UpFlux: ~R$ 59 bi em compras, ~3 milhões de itens de pedido.

// how it enters your operation

Pick the size of the step that fits now.

Tail Spend

For teams with an unnegotiated tail today.

The long tail of orders nobody can work, turned into measured results.

Open

Procurement Intelligence

For teams that want to see the real process before changing it.

The real procurement process inside your ERP, with a digital team executing the routine in it.

Open

Negotiator Agent

For companies running Protheus, Datasul or SAP.

Order-by-order negotiation inside SAP, Protheus or Datasul, with an audit trail per decision.

Open

The new Procurement BPO

For teams with BPO or a purchasing desk that want to compare cost.

The whole operation run by a digital team: lean specialists commanding the agents.

Open

UpFlux + TOTVS

For TOTVS shops that don't want an integration project.

Native in Protheus and Datasul, with no system change and no integration project.

Open

2-week Diagnostic

For anyone who wants the number before deciding.

The target of your operation measured in hard numbers before any contract decision.

Open

Start by measuring, not hiring.

In two weeks you have the target of your procurement operation in hard numbers, with no licence and no integration project.

The number is yours, whether or not you sign with us.

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International recognition, the only Latin American vendor

// frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions

Questions procurement leaders ask before comparing a digital team with people and BPO.

What is a digital procurement team?

It is UpFlux's way of giving a procurement team capacity without hiring: AI agents that quote, negotiate and place purchase orders inside the ERP, commanded by buyers who approve by exception. The buyer leaves the quoting queue and keeps judgment, strategic suppliers and exceptions. The cost is compared, per transaction, with what the company already spends on people or a BPO.

How does UpFlux reduce procurement cost?

In two ways. Where nobody negotiated (the tail of small orders, also called C curve, indirect procurement or tail spend), the agents negotiate order by order and create value that did not exist: at an industrial multinational, R$ 22 million processed in the tail returned R$ 1.6 million to cash. Where a team or a BPO already exists, the same work runs at a lower cost per transaction, with SLAs open in a live cockpit.

How much can be recovered in the procurement tail?

The savings rate UpFlux observes in the tail sits between 3% and 8% of off-contract spend, on an analyzed base of about R$ 59 billion in purchases and 3 million order lines. The calculator on this page applies these parameters to your numbers; the two-week diagnostic confirms the target on your real data.

Is it worth outsourcing procurement or using AI in your own team?

It depends on where the bottleneck is. If you lack hands for the volume and want the operation delivered with SLAs, UpFlux's new procurement BPO runs the purchasing desk with a digital team and a cost that shrinks every cycle. If you want to keep the operation in-house and only need capacity in the tail, the Negotiator Agent runs as software inside the ERP. UpFlux offers both, and the diagnostic shows which math closes. The procurement outsourcing guide explains when each model makes sense.

Does it work in TOTVS Protheus and Datasul?

Yes. UpFlux's agents are native in Protheus and Datasul, as well as SAP, and write quotes and purchase orders inside the ERP with an audit trail per decision. There is no parallel platform and no integration project to start: the diagnostic uses a 12-month export.