Production Lines Don’t Wait with PLANERGY
Control your manufacturing procurement processes, reduce production costs, and build more resilient supply chains.
In manufacturing purchasing needs to keep pace with operations. Components, tools, and materials must be available exactly when they’re needed—because downtime isn’t an option.
PLANERGY gives you control over purchasing and suppliers, empowering fast, informed decisions—without sacrificing visibility, compliance, or cost.
Manufacturing Challenges PLANERGY helps resolve
The manufacturing sector faces complex procure-to-pay (P2P) challenges driven by supply chain disruptions, just-in-time production models, and the constant pressure to reduce costs without compromising quality.
Key challenges include:
- Limited Visibility into Direct and Indirect Spend
Manufacturers often struggle to track who’s buying what, when, and from whom—especially across multiple departments, plants, and locations.
PLANERGY centralizes all purchasing activity so you can analyze true costs, identify waste, and manage spend in real-time.
- Raw Material Price Volatility
Fluctuating commodity prices can wreak havoc on production budgets.
PLANERGY’s price tracking and vendor comparison tools help you monitor pricing trends, lock in the best deals, and avoid budget shocks.
- Unplanned Downtime Due to Late or Missed Deliveries
Production can grind to a halt if the right materials don’t arrive on time.
PLANERGY enforces standardized ordering processes and integrates with delivery tracking, so critical components are never late—or forgotten.
- Decentralized and Inconsistent Procurement Practices
Without a centralized system, procurement often happens ad hoc, leading to duplicate orders, maverick spending, and inconsistent supplier terms.
PLANERGY standardizes procurement across your operations, giving you control without slowing teams down.
- Inaccurate Inventory and Overstocking
Ordering too much or too little disrupts cash flow and production efficiency.
PLANERGY integrates with inventory management systems to support just-in-time procurement and minimize excess stock.
- Time-Consuming Invoice Reconciliation
Matching invoices to purchase orders and goods receipts manually can delay payments and strain supplier relationships.
PLANERGY automates 3-way matching, reducing human error and speeding up the AP process.
Addressing these challenges requires automation, centralized control, and enhanced visibility to optimize procurement, ensure compliance, and maximize the impact of limited manufacturing resources.
Manufacturing Deserves
Smarter Spending
PLANERGY helps manufacturers optimize procurement processes, maintain production flow, and reduce operational costs.
- Automated Reordering & Supplier Management – Minimize stockouts and delays by automating reorders and managing approved suppliers in one place.
- Multi-Site Visibility & Standardization – Gain clear oversight across facilities, standardize procurement practices, and consolidate purchasing power.
- Real-Time Spend Tracking & Workflow Approvals – Monitor spend by category, department, or project, and enforce approval workflows to stay on budget.
PLANERGY brings clarity and control to manufacturing procurement—boosting uptime, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
Built for the Factory Floor and Beyond
PLANERGY is trusted by manufacturers across automotive, aerospace, industrial equipment, consumer products, and more.
Whether you’re sourcing raw materials, parts, packaging, or MRO supplies, our platform gives you the tools to streamline procurement and reduce risk at every stage.
Manufacture Margin Gains,
Spend With Precision
Optimized Production Schedules
Ensure materials arrive on time and in the right quantities to keep your production lines moving.
Lower Input Costs
Compare supplier pricing, track historical costs, and negotiate better deals using real spend data.
Lean Inventory Management
Improve procurement forecasting and avoid tying up capital in excess raw materials or components.
Better Supplier Performance
Evaluate vendors based on delivery times, pricing trends, and quality metrics to build a more reliable supply base.
Precision Purchasing, All in One Platform
Track and optimize every step of your procurement process—from request to reconciliation—with PLANERGY. Automate approvals, streamline purchasing, and ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
- Role-Based Controls & Custom Workflows – Assign purchasing permissions by plant, team, or role, and tailor workflows to fit your manufacturing operations
- Vendor-Specific Order Consolidation – Group purchases by supplier, adjust quantities or timing, and simplify bulk ordering
- Accurate Invoice Matching – Automate 2- or 3-way matching for POs, receipts, and invoices, so your finance team can pay with confidence
- Integrated PunchOut Catalogs – Order directly from suppliers like Grainger and others, all within PLANERGY, to keep preferred vendor pricing and streamline procurement
Better Control Over Raw Material Costs
Stay ahead of price fluctuations and supply chain risks with PLANERGY. Gain visibility into vendor pricing, optimize sourcing decisions, and protect your margins with data-driven procurement tools.
- Real-Time Price Tracking– Monitor vendor pricing trends and material cost fluctuations across your supply base
- Data-Driven Supplier Comparisons – Evaluate vendors based on pricing, performance, and reliability to negotiate smarter deals
- Proactive Cost Lock-Ins – Secure favorable pricing before market volatility impacts your production budgets
- Supply Chain Cost Optimization – Identify and act on savings opportunities throughout your sourcing and procurement workflows
Turn Spend Data into your Strategic Advantage
PLANERGY gives manufacturers the real-time insights they need to manage costs, track performance, and make smarter decisions at every level of the business.
- Granular Spend Visibility – Break down spend by category, supplier, location, department, or project
- Cost Pattern Detection– Spot overspending, inefficiencies, or maverick purchases before they impact margins
- Budgeting & Forecasting Support – Use real-time data to create accurate budgets and predict future procurement needs
- Performance Alignment – Measure procurement against business goals and drive continuous improvement across operations
Faster, More Accurate Invoice Matching
Accelerate accounts payable and improve accuracy with PLANERGY. Automate invoice matching, eliminate manual errors, and strengthen collaboration between procurement, finance, and suppliers.
- Automated 2- & 3-Way Matching – Instantly match POs, delivery receipts, and invoices to ensure accuracy before payment
- Fewer Payment Delays – Remove bottlenecks caused by mismatched or incomplete paperwork
- Faster Month-End Close – Maintain clean, audit-ready records that simplify reconciliations and reporting
- Cross-Department Alignment – Improve communication between teams and keep suppliers paid on time
Transparent, Audit-Ready Spend Management
Stay fully compliant and always ready for audits with PLANERGY. Capture every action, approval, and comment across your procurement process—all from one centralized platform.
- Complete Transaction History – View every request, approval, note, and document tied to each purchase
- Detailed Spend Analytics – Analyze spend by user, department, project, vendor, or GL code in real time
- Audit-Friendly Reporting– Export clean, time-stamped records for internal reviews or external audits
- Live Budget Tracking – Monitor budget performance by location, team, project, or cost center with real-time visibility
Real-Time Budget Tracking for Smarter Spending
Stay in control of every budget with up-to-the-minute visibility. PLANERGY lets you manage, monitor, and approve spending with confidence—across programs, projects, and locations.
- Flexible Budget Setup – Create budgets by department, project, location, vendor, or custom categories
- Pre-Approval Budget Impact – Instantly see how each purchase affects your budget before hitting approve
- Live Performance Dashboards – Visualize spend vs. budget in real time, with alerts for over-committed or at-risk budgets
Seamless Integration with Your Procurement Ecosystem
PLANERGY connects effortlessly with the tools you already use—so you can unify data, eliminate manual processes, and keep procurement, finance, and operations in sync.
- Plug into Your ERP and Accounting Systems – Easily integrate with platforms like QuickBooks, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, Xero, Sage, and more to ensure accurate and real-time financial data flow
- Custom API Integrations – Build secure, tailored connections to other business-critical systems, ensuring PLANERGY fits perfectly within your existing tech stack
- Fast Implementation, Minimal Disruption – Our experienced team works with yours to get integrations live quickly, so you start seeing value right away
- Keep Everyone Aligned – With all systems working together, your team gains full visibility into spend, approvals, inventory, and budgets—from one centralized platform
Manufacturing Case Studies
Explore these manufacturing case studies to uncover effective strategies, challenges overcome, and valuable lessons learned in enhancing operational efficiency, cost control, and product quality in the manufacturing sector.
PLANERGY has really helped us get everything under control. It’s easy to use, and very effective. It saves time, and more importantly, it gives us the visibility and control we need to manage our spending.
Corwin Klassen, Controller, Lean Machine
Lean Machine Optimizes Accounts Payable and Enhances Control with PLANERGY
Lean Machine, a Canadian manufacturing company, streamlined its accounts payable process by implementing PLANERGY.
The cloud-based solution cut manual work in half, improved accuracy, and gave real-time visibility into spending. With enhanced control and accountability, Lean Machine now operates more efficiently and is better positioned for scalable growth.
Nysus Solutions produces Procurement Efficiency & Accuracy with PLANERGY
Nysus Solutions, a U.S.-based manufacturing systems provider, eliminated invoice duplication, streamlined reporting, and simplified purchasing with PLANERGY.
PLANERGY’s cloud-based platform integrated seamlessly with QuickBooks, reduced manual errors, and delivered real-time visibility—leading to significant time and cost savings while empowering the team to focus on strategic tasks and scale with confidence.
I would say it reduces duplicate payments a lot. It is crucial for maintaining accurate financial records.
Kristin Martin, Controller, Nysus Solutions
Top organizations trust us, You can too.
What Our Manufacturing Customers Are Saying
PLANERGY has really helped us get everything under control.
It’s easy to use, and very effective.
It saves time, and more importantly, it gives us the visibility and control we need to manage our spending.
Corwin Klassen
Controller, Lean Machine
We were using Procurement Express, and after a while, things started not working.
We were constantly opening support tickets to get them fixed.
Months went by with no resolution, and we were still having to do everything manually and we realized we needed to find a better solution.
Kristin Martin
Financial Controller, Nysus Solutions
Simple and easy to use. Audits make it easy to see who did what.
Brent Liu
Head of Operations, Changan
Once we added PLANERGY, my invoice processing time was cut in half.
I could get through 75 invoices in a couple hours, as opposed to all day.
Shelley Haider
Purchasing Agent, Lean Machine
We have saved a lot of money on invalid invoices.
Britton McClain
Vice President, McClain Trailers
Easy to use, dynamic and professional.
Carlos Gil
Director Legal, Celestica
It has helped to organize our approval processes and has allowed our company to go almost completely paperless.
The approval process is easy, the ability to link directly to QuickBooks Online and the price are all great.
Corwin Klassen
Controller, Lean Machine
It saves a ton of time for our Accounts Payable manager.
Now She gets to do lots of other, more strategic work because PLANERGY saves her so much time, and it’s incredibly user-friendly.
Kristin Martin
Financial Controller, Nysus Solutions
A quick reliable way to control spending and an affordable price.
The cloud system offered reliability compared to the old system we had. The automating fields on orders and invoices saves everybody time.
Mark Tillson
Finance Manager, Carville Switchgear
Simplified ordering and tracking system. Easy for anyone to get information on orders and so efficient.
Neil Waldrop
Chief Operating Officer, Century Printing and Packaging
Better Spend Management
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