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Procure-to-Pay Automation with Microsoft Copilot Studio: 10-Week Implementation

Celebal Technologies Private Limited

Copilot-powered multi-agent P2P automation that accelerates procurement, streamlines PO and vendor workflows, flags exceptions early, and strengthens visibility, compliance, and decision-making.

Procure-to-pay operations in large enterprises often operate across disconnected systems, manual approvals, and email-driven coordination. Vendor data, requisitions, returns, and quality checks remain misaligned, creating delays, inconsistent procurement decisions, and limited visibility into spend, inventory, and supplier performance. These gaps become critical during emergency procurement, multi-vendor sourcing, and quality-related returns where prolonged cycle times, compliance exposure, and plant downtime directly affect operations and financial control.

Celebal Technologies’ Procure-to-Pay Automation with Microsoft Copilot Studio is a focused 10-week implementation that streamlines procurement by automating core processes through a Copilot-powered multi-agent framework, with conversational AI agents operating directly in Microsoft Teams.

Key Capabilities:

  • Automates PO creation, returns, and multi-vendor bidding with governed approval flows.
  • Flags exceptions using real-time enterprise data from ERP, finance, QA, and inventory systems.
  • Provides operational dashboards for PO cycle times, SLA adherence, vendor breaches, auto-decision coverage, and downtime impact.
  • Ensures secure execution with role-based access, audit logs, and policy validation.

Service Offerings

The Copilot Ecosystem

The system employs five domain-focused Copilot agents that work in parallel to drive the end-to-end procure-to-pay lifecycle:

1. Control Tower Agent

Oversees end-to-end P2P operations by tracking process health, enforcing approvals, managing SLAs, and escalating exceptions.

2. Multi-Vendor Bidding Agent

Handles RFQs, vendor shortlisting, bid scoring, evaluations, and audit-ready PO creation to standardize sourcing decisions.

3. Raw Material Procurement Agent

Analyzes demand vs. inventory, applies buffer logic, recommends reorders, and generates draft POs with QA clauses and budget-based approvals.

4. Emergency Procurement Agent

Enables rapid PO initiation in Microsoft Teams, checks cross-plant inventory, applies fallback vendor logic, and routes escalations through governed approvals.

5. Raw Material Return Agent

Automates material quarantine on QA failure, validates contract terms, manages returns, and tracks credit memos throughout.

Implementation Approach (10 Weeks)

  • Phase 1: Discovery & Process Blueprinting (Weeks 1–2)
  • Assess current P2P workflows, approvals, KPIs, and compliance needs to define automation scope, personas, and success metrics.

  • Phase 2: Enterprise Systems Integration (Weeks 3–4)
  • Integrate data through Microsoft Dataverse with role-based access, authentication, and governance controls.

  • Phase 3: Copilot Agents Configuration & Solution Build (Weeks 5–7)
  • Configure domain-specific Copilot agents, automate procurement scenarios, and deploy analytics dashboards with SLA and exception tracking.

  • Phase 4: Testing & Validation (Week 8)
  • Execute end-to-end functional, integration, and security testing across planned and emergency procurement flows.

  • Phase 5: Production Launch (Week 9)
  • Deploy the solution to production, onboard users and administrators, and activate governance and monitoring frameworks.

  • Phase 6: Hypercare & Optimization (Week 10)
  • Monitor performance and SLAs, fine-tune workflows, and stabilize operations for sustained adoption.

    Engage With Us

    Start your 10-week Procure-to-pay automation engagement with Celebal Technologies. To know more, contact us at enterprisesales@celebaltech.com

    *The final quote for this service may vary based on customization, data sources, API integrations, and other implementation factors.

    At a glance

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