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Procurement that keeps up with service.

Eight suppliers before 10am. Deliveries arrive mid-service. Invoices stack up by Friday. PurchaseFlow connects ordering, delivery and invoicing so the kitchen keeps moving and finance keeps control.

07:42 · Site 3, Birmingham
Morning delivery rush
Greenfield Fresh — checked in14 lines · matched to PO
GRN
!
Salmon — short delivery5kg of 6kg · credit flagged
−£27
AI
Coastal Catering invoicePrice anomaly caught before payment
HELD
£
Site spend vs budgetLive · 73% with 9 days left
ON TRACK
The food service reality

Procurement systems weren't built for a kitchen mid-service.

Generic spend tools assume a desk, a calm afternoon and a single supplier. Food service has none of those. Here's where the cost leaks.

Deliveries arrive mid-service

Nobody has time to cross-check a delivery against a purchase order against an agreed price while the pass is full. Short deliveries get signed for and forgotten.

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Invoices stack up by Friday

Dozens of supplier invoices per site, per week. 1 in 8 contains an error — and without a check, those errors get paid and never recovered.

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Prices drift, margins slip

Supplier prices creep up between order and invoice. On thin food-service margins, an unnoticed 5% drift across produce wipes out a site's profit.

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Stock, recipes and waste don't agree

What was ordered, what was delivered, what the recipe needs and what got binned all live in different places — so menu margin is a guess, not a number.

How PurchaseFlow handles it

Built for environments where decisions can't wait for approvals.

● Receiving & delivery

Check deliveries in seconds, not after service.

Receiving on a phone or tablet at the back door. Short deliveries, substitutions and wrong prices flagged against the order before the invoice ever arrives.

  • Mobile goods-received notes, captured on-site
  • Discrepancies raised automatically as supplier credits
  • Every site, every delivery, one auditable record
Delivery check · Greenfield Fresh
Chicken thigh — 12kg✓ matched
Salmon fillet — 5kg / 6kgshort −£27
Lettuce — 8 trays✓ matched
Olive oil 5L — 2✓ matched
● Invoice Intelligence

Catch the 1-in-8 invoices before you pay.

Every supplier invoice runs five AI checks — field verification, 3-way match, fraud, duplicate and calculation — before it reaches your accounts team.

  • Price anomalies flagged against agreed rates
  • Credit notes drafted automatically, before payment
  • Duplicate and fraudulent invoices stopped at the door
Invoice check · INV-4821
Fields verified98% confidence
3-way matchPO + GRN ✓
Salmon price£29 / £27.50
Credit note£9.00 drafted
● Budgets & suggested ordering

Order at the right time, stay inside budget.

The PurchaseFlow Agent learns each site's usage and prompts orders before stock runs out. Budgets are enforced at the point of ordering — not discovered at month-end.

  • AI-suggested orders from real usage and lead times
  • Live spend vs budget for every site
  • Multi-supplier baskets in one fast ordering flow
Site 3 · spend vs budget
This period73% used
Suggested order ready6 items
Days of cover left2.5 days
● J.A.M.I.E.

Upload a menu. Get recipes, costs and margin — drafted.

J.A.M.I.E. — Just Automated Menu & Ingredient Engine — reads your menu PDFs, matches dishes to ingredients, drafts recipes in your house style and ties every portion to live supplier costs.

  • Menu upload → dish extraction → recipe draft in minutes
  • Allergen, nutrition and HACCP notes built into every recipe
  • Menu cycles and margin tracked against real ingredient prices
J.A.M.I.E.
Menu PDF → live recipes
From menu upload to live margin.
Upload once. J.A.M.I.E. drafts recipes, matches ingredients and calculates cost per portion.
Spring menu · Week 14 J.A.M.I.E. reading
Roast chicken & jusmatched£2.14
Beef bourguignondrafting£3.08
Vegetable taginematched£1.62
Lemon possetmatched£0.84
Beef bourguignon · draft
Beef shin — 180g£1.42
Red wine — 60ml£0.38
Pearl onions — 40g£0.22
Allergens flaggedSulphites
Cost / portion£3.08 · 68% margin
Menu cycles Live costs Allergen match
4 dishes
drafted from one menu upload — ready for chef review.
● Food safety & compliance

Temperature logs, probe checks and audits — inspection-ready.Auto-sync rolling out

Digital HACCP across every site. Fridge and freezer temps, cooking checks, cleaning schedules and probe calibration — one record, no clipboard. Automated probe sync and scheduled temp logging are landing now.

  • Opening, closing, delivery and cooking temp checks on mobile
  • Probe calibration records with due-date alerts per site
  • Automated temp capture & Bluetooth probe sync (coming soon)
Food safety
Site 3 · 06:15 opening checks
Compliance that runs itself.
Scheduled checks, probe logs and calibration — one auditable record per site.
Equipment temperatures · auto-logged AUTO SYNC
Walk-in fridge3.2°COK06:12
Prep fridge4.1°COK06:13
Freezer 1−18.4°COK06:14
Hot hold61°CALERT06:15
Cooking check · probe
74.2°C
Chicken thigh · min 75°C · logged automatically via Bluetooth probe.
Probe calibration · Probe #2
Ice point0.1°C
Boiling point99.8°C
Variance±0.2°C
ResultPASS
Opening checks Probe logs Calibration Audit trail
100%
checks logged · inspection-ready across every site.
Made for hospitality

Extensions that generic procurement tools simply don't have.

ME

Menu & recipe engineering

Recipes, menu cycles, nutrition and allergen matching tied straight to live ingredient costs and margin.

FS

Food safety & compliance

Temperature logs, probe calibration, cleaning schedules and audits — with automated probe sync and scheduled temp capture rolling out now.

JA

J.A.M.I.E. menu engine

Upload menus, draft recipes in your house style and tie every dish to live ingredient costs, allergens and margin.

ST

Stock & waste tracking

Counts, valuations and waste connected to ordering, so cost-of-goods is a number you can trust.

PO

Multi-supplier ordering

Every supplier in one basket, off-list requests and approval flows that match how sites actually buy.

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Live spend & margin

Spend, supplier performance and menu margin roll up across every site into reporting finance can trust.

BI

Carbon & sustainability

Product-level CO₂e on every order — DEFRA 2025 compliant, with zero extra admin for site teams.

Customer story

Proof from a multi-site operator.

"It's user-friendly and incredibly intuitive, making it super simple to manage suppliers, track expenses, and optimise our spending. The real-time analytics and reporting have been a game-changer for our financial reporting, allowing us to make data-driven decisions."
James Stacey, Managing Partner — ISCC, leading UK independent-schools catering consultancy
600+
client organisations supported by ISCC since 2007

See PurchaseFlow on your invoices.

Send us a sample week of supplier invoices from one site. We'll show you the errors you've been paying — before you commit to anything.

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