You negotiated the rates. Confirming that a given request actually matches them — the right supplier, the right tier, the right dates — takes a person and a PDF, so in practice it happens after the invoice arrives.
The negotiated contract exists, but not where the buying happens. So the buyer picks a familiar supplier, off-contract, and the discount you fought for goes unclaimed. That is maverick spend — and it is rarely malice, just friction. Every extra click between a buyer and the right contract is money.
By the time AP catches the mismatch on the invoice, the PO is issued and the goods have shipped. Now it is a dispute, a credit note and a strained supplier relationship — instead of a validation that took two seconds before the PO existed.
Which contracts get used? Which are ignored? Where is spend drifting off-agreement, and by how much? Without that, renewals get negotiated blind — and you re-sign terms your business was never using.
Items, suppliers and SKUs mapped to contract lines, so buyers see what is actually allowed.
Pricing, tiers, dates and terms checked while the buy can still be changed.
When a better contract exists, you get the reason — with the clause and line item cited.
A PO payload that matches negotiated terms and routes into your ERP workflow.
Where contracts are used, where they are ignored, and what it is costing you.
Real utilization evidence to take into the next negotiation.
Buy by Contract — a solution built on the e360° knowledge graph platform. Built for a paying customer as the Contract Buying Agent.
Buy by Contract checks a request against your real agreements before the PO exists, proposes the compliant buy, and cites the clause it came from. No rip-and-replace: start with the contracts you already have and one category.
Buy by Contract runs at buybycontract.com — or book 20 minutes and we will walk your procurement environment.