Consumer Goods

Procurement built for the speed of consumer goods.

Consumer goods companies rely on Rio, the digital employee for procurement, to connect employees, suppliers, procurement, finance, and SAP.

Rio guides requests to the right supplier and contract, automates purchasing and invoice work, and handles exceptions before they slow the business down.

Move faster without losing control of spend.

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Good morning, Dana.

I processed 312 purchasing requests overnight. 9 need you.

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REQ-88214 · Digital marketing campaign

Preferred agency identified · Contract terms matched · Budget approved

Ready for PO

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INV-40921 · Packaging supplier

Unit price exceeds contracted rate by 4.2% · Routed to category owner

Needs review

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PO 4500092004 · Plant maintenance

Supplier confirmation received · Posted to SAP S/4HANA

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Increase on-contract spend

Guide employees toward preferred suppliers, negotiated agreements, and approved buying channels before a purchase is made.

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Reduce purchasing cycle times

Turn emails, chats, forms, and documents into compliant purchasing requests without forcing employees to navigate complex procurement systems.

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Automate invoice processing

Validate invoices against purchase orders, receipts, contracts, and SAP data automatically. Straight-through transactions keep moving while exceptions go to the right person.

Make purchasing easier than going around procurement.

Consumer goods organizations manage thousands of purchases across brands, plants, corporate functions, and regions.

Rio gives employees one simple way to start the process while procurement keeps the controls behind the scenes.

The business gets speed. Procurement keeps control.

Marketing needs an agency.

A plant needs maintenance services.

IT needs software.

A business team needs a new supplier.

Packaging prices change.

Invoices arrive with discrepancies.

From conversation to purchase order

Employee

"I need a digital agency for our new product launch next month. Budget is $85K."

Rio

Identifies preferred agency

Finds existing marketing contract

Checks available budget

Determines SOW requirements

Applies approval policy

Approvals

Marketing Manager

Finance

Procurement

SAP

Purchase order created

Supplier

PO sent and confirmation tracked

From conversation to compliant purchase order.

Rio gathers the requirement, applies procurement policy, finds the right contract and supplier, coordinates approvals, and executes the transaction in SAP.

Start a conversation. Create a request. Get it approved.

Employees shouldn't need to understand purchasing policies, commodity codes, approval matrices, or SAP transactions just to buy something.

Rio guides users through the process conversationally, collects the required information, applies procurement policies, identifies the right buying path, and coordinates approvals.

Once approved, Rio can execute the transaction in SAP.

Keep more spend on contract.

Negotiated value is often lost between sourcing and purchasing.

Rio uses contract, supplier, catalog, and SAP information during intake to guide employees toward preferred suppliers and negotiated agreements.

Instead of identifying leakage months later, procurement can prevent it before the purchase happens.

Stop leakage before the purchase happens

Packaging request

500,000 printed cartons

Requested supplier: ABC Packaging
Proposed price: $0.48/unit

Rio checks contracts and SAP

Existing agreement found

Preferred Packaging Co.
Contracted price: $0.43/unit
Contract valid through December 2026

Potential difference: $25,000

Rio

"An active agreement already covers this requirement. Switch the request to the contracted supplier?"

Protect negotiated value before money leaves the business.

Rio can surface preferred suppliers, negotiated rates, and contract terms while the purchasing decision is being made. Not months later in a spend report.

Turn email into a procurement network.

Stop wondering whether every supplier is connected to another portal or network. They already use email.

Rio monitors supplier communications and turns confirmations, invoices, documents, questions, and attachments into structured procurement workflows.

Suppliers keep working the way they already work while Rio handles the orchestration behind the scenes.

Automate the document-heavy work.

Consumer goods procurement runs on documents. Invoices. Quotes. Contracts. SOWs. Purchase requests. Supplier forms. Spreadsheets.

Rio reads the documents, extracts the relevant information, validates it against SAP and business rules, and determines what should happen next.

Clean transactions continue automatically. Exceptions reach the right person with the context needed to resolve them.

Documents in. Procurement work completed.

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Supplier email

PO confirmation, delivery date changed

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Agency SOW.pdf

PDF

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Packaging quote.xlsx

Spreadsheet

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INV-88211.pdf

Invoice

Rio

PO confirmation

New delivery date captured and SAP updated

Agency SOW

Matched to purchasing request and contract

Packaging quote

Pricing extracted and compared to existing agreement

Invoice

Three-way match completed against PO and receipt

documents received

processed automatically

pricing exception needs procurement

Rio doesn't just read documents. It completes the work they create.

One digital employee, not five applications

One digital employee across your procurement operation.

Traditional procurement applications solve individual pieces of the process. Rio works across them, coordinating people, suppliers, documents, policies, approvals, and SAP transactions from the initial request through payment.

Simplify intake

Employees can start a procurement request through the channels they already use.

Rio asks the right questions based on what they are buying, identifies missing information, applies policy, and determines the appropriate workflow.

No hunting through procurement portals. No guessing which form to use. No unnecessary procurement intervention.

Protect negotiated value

Rio helps connect sourcing decisions to everyday purchasing.

Preferred suppliers, negotiated pricing, contract terms, approval thresholds, and procurement policies can be applied while the transaction is happening.

Purchasing becomes faster without sacrificing compliance.

Eliminate repetitive invoice work

Invoices arrive through email, PDF, spreadsheets, and supplier submissions.

Rio extracts invoice information, validates it against SAP, performs two-way or three-way matching, and processes compliant invoices automatically.

Procurement and AP spend their time on exceptions instead of clean transactions.

Simplify supplier collaboration

Suppliers shouldn't need another complex system to work with you. Rio can coordinate the common supplier interactions.

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Make the compliant path the easiest path.

Support every kind of spend.

Rio can orchestrate procurement across the categories consumer goods companies manage every day, connecting every workflow back to SAP.

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Marketing & agencies

Guide requests to approved agencies, contracts, budgets, and approval workflows.

Campaign request → SOW → contract → approvals → PO

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Packaging & operational purchasing

Coordinate requests, supplier communications, POs, confirmations, and exceptions.

Quote → pricing validation → contract → PO → confirmation

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Plant services & MRO

Simplify service purchasing, material requests, approvals, and service entry.

Material or service request → approval → SES/receipt → invoice

devices

IT & software

Collect business requirements, apply approval rules, route security or legal reviews, and create the purchasing transaction.

Intake → security/legal review → approval → PO

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Professional services

Guide users through supplier selection, SOW requirements, approvals, and purchase orders.

Supplier → SOW → approvals → PO

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Corporate indirect spend

Give employees one consistent experience across facilities, HR, travel, consulting, events, and other categories.

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Finance & AP

Match invoices against purchase orders and receipts, resolve exceptions, and keep payment moving.

Invoice → match → exception → payment

Extend SAP. Don’t replace it.

Rio was built for SAP enterprises. Whether you run SAP ECC, S/4HANA, Ariba, or other procurement applications, Rio orchestrates the work across your existing landscape.

Employees get a simpler experience. Procurement keeps its policies and controls. SAP remains the system of record.

SAP ECC

Execute transactions in your existing ERP

S/4HANA

Connect procurement workflows directly to SAP

SAP Ariba

Extend sourcing, contracts, and procurement processes

Email & collaboration

Bring procurement into the channels employees and suppliers already use

From intake to payment, automate the work between the systems.

Most procurement transformation focuses on applications. The bigger opportunity is often the work happening between them.

Rio takes on that administrative work and escalates the decisions that actually require human judgment.

Someone reads an email.

Someone checks a contract.

Someone asks for missing information.

Someone follows up with a supplier.

Someone determines the right approval.

Someone rekeys information into SAP.

Someone investigates an invoice exception.

Built for the realities of consumer goods procurement.

trending_downReduce off-contract purchasing

boltAccelerate request-to-PO cycle times

verifiedImprove contract compliance

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publicStandardize procurement across brands and regions

boltHandle purchasing exceptions faster

groupsGive employees one consistent procurement experience

databaseKeep SAP as the transactional system of record

insightsGive procurement more time for suppliers, categories, and value creation

Good morning, Procurement.

Rio worked overnight.

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Invoices processed

Purchase requests progressed

Supplier confirmations updated

Contracts checked

Exceptions need you

Packaging price variance

Potential contract leakage: $18,400

Needs review

Agency SOW missing

Supplier contacted automatically

Waiting on supplier

Invoice quantity mismatch

PO, receipt, and invoice compared

Needs review

Rio handles the administration. Your team handles the judgment.

The next category

The future of procurement isn't another application. It's a digital employee.

Most procurement technology asks employees to learn another system. Rio works differently. It reads emails, contracts, PDFs, spreadsheets, invoices, and supplier documents.

It understands what the employee is trying to accomplish, applies procurement rules, coordinates approvals, interacts with suppliers, and executes transactions in SAP. Your people stay focused on supplier strategy, cost, resilience, innovation, and supporting the business. Not chasing purchasing paperwork.

See the next step beyond intake & orchestration.

A 30-minute walkthrough using your own intake, purchasing, supplier, and invoice scenarios.

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