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The time from requisition to purchase order is where procurement speed is won or lost. Requisition-to-PO Bottleneck Analysis finds the approval delays that hold it up, and what they cost.
The Challenge
A reasonable median cycle time can sit alongside a long tail of requisitions stuck for weeks.
A requisition waiting on one approver looks the same as one in progress, until someone chases it.
Slow approvals push buyers into rush orders and miss the early-payment and contract windows.
How eyko Solves It
Requisition-to-PO Bottleneck Analysis reads the requisition-to-PO flow, finds where requisitions stall, attributes the delay to the step and the approver, and quantifies what the lag costs in rush premiums and missed windows.
Median requisition-to-PO time is 6 days, but the average is 14, dragged by a tail of requisitions stuck 30 days or more. The bottleneck is a single approval step where 40 percent of the delay accumulates, concentrated in two cost centers.
| Metric | Current | Benchmark | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary indicator | Flagged | Target | Action needed |
| Secondary indicator | Monitoring | Within range | On track |
| Trend direction | Declining | Stable | Review required |
Requisition-to-PO bottleneck analysis reads the procurement flow to find where requisitions stall between request and purchase order. The Playbook separates the median from the average so the long tail of stuck requisitions becomes visible, and quantifies the delay, so procurement sees where speed is actually being lost.
This is decision intelligence in practice: the what, the why, and the what next from your live data.
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View IdeaFAQ
Everything you need to know about Requisition-to-PO Bottleneck Analysis.
Requisition-to-PO bottleneck analysis reads the procurement flow from requisition to purchase order, finds where requisitions stall, and attributes the delay to the step and the approver. eyko quantifies what the lag costs in rush premiums and missed windows, so procurement can clear the bottleneck rather than living with it.
It reads your requisition and purchase-order workflow timestamps, approval routing, and cost-center detail from your ERP and procurement system, alongside any data platform you already run. It works with systems such as SAP, Coupa, Oracle, and NetSuite, and there is no separate data project to start.
The Playbook reads the timestamps at each stage of the flow and measures where time accumulates, separating the median from the long tail of stuck requisitions. It isolates the single step where the delay concentrates and the cost centers driving it, so the bottleneck is named rather than averaged away.
Yes. The Playbook quantifies the cost of the lag in rush-order premiums and missed early-payment or contract windows, so the bottleneck has a dollar figure attached. That lets procurement prioritize the escalation where the delay is most expensive, not just longest.
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