In this session, Pratik Thakore, COO of Poweweave, talks about something everyone deals with but nobody wants to say out loud: “your expensive procurement system can’t actually do what you need it to do”.
A real estate company in the UAE had been running its RFP process the same way for 15 years. They asked a leading procurement suite provider to customize it. They said yes, then sent them a quote for six figures and told them to wait 12 months. That’s when they realized “yes, we can do it” actually means “yes, if you’re okay paying a fortune and waiting forever.”
This is what our team fixes. We don’t replace your Ariba or Coupa; we work with whatever you already have and solve the issues those big platforms won’t touch without charging you crazy money.
- One company in Europe needed 60 online stores so their clients, like Google and IBM, could order promotional items. Ariba said they’d do it, but the timeline and budget made no sense. Poweweave built the whole thing in 8 months.
- Another manufacturer was manually chasing shipment updates from suppliers in China, India, and Bangladesh, waiting 48 hours just to know where their raw materials were. Powerweave’s system cut that to 4 hours with automatic translations and live tracking.
Then there’s this global FMCG company that started small 12 years ago as a small pilot in one Asian region. Now they’re in 58 countries. They had 15,000 products in their system, most of them basically the same thing with tiny differences because “that’s how we’ve always done it.”
Powerweave helped them cut that down to 3,000 products and saved them around $35-40 million. They even got one big supplier to buy up smaller vendors after seeing the data, which created better pricing and scale for everyone.
Pratik’s point is pretty straightforward. You don’t need to rip everything out and start over. You don’t need perfect systems or unlimited budgets. You need solutions that actually work for how your team operates, not how some consultant thinks you should operate.
Watch the full session to see live demos of their 3-week implementation cycles, hear about the company still running Windows XP that got digitized, and grab that AI procurement guide he shares at the end.
This one’s packed with practical examples of how to solve your last-mile problems without the enterprise price tag.
