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From requirement to structured RFQ
Any request becomes a structured RFQ with items, quantities and supplier questions.
Buyers no longer draft RFQs or assemble supplier lists.
Agentic Sourcing
Buyers stop writing RFQs and focus on savings, offers and awards
Mercu write the RFQ, contacts the suppliers and negotiates. The buyer sets the budget and awards the supplier.
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Proven 10x impact across industries.
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Sourcing events are easier to set up, so we can invite more suppliers. With that I expect better prices that fit into the market situation, and that makes us more competitive.
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For the first time, we have absolute transparency across sourcing events, suppliers, and prices, without slowing the business.
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At some point, the question won’t be, “Which system do I open first in the morning?” Every procurement professional will open Mercanis alongside Outlook and manage their tasks there.
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The simplicity of Mercanis has enabled us to integrate our stakeholders into the tendering process by using the platform as a self-service solution, and to steer procurement in a more strategic direction.
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With Mercanis, we can automate and optimize many processes in sourcing and supplier management. This saves us process costs, allows us to obtain four times as many quotes, and gives us more time for important strategic tasks.
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What impressed us most was how quickly we could achieve results. The onboarding process is smart, allowing us to efficiently engage with suppliers. We reduced supplier onboarding from 6 weeks to 2 weeks.
Where sourcing breaks down
Effort
Every event is set up by hand, so fewer of them get run.
Formats
Offers come back as XLS, PDF and email, in no shared structure.
Leverage
Negotiation starts from zero, with no target to argue against.
Mercanis closes all three, with events that start in minutes and offers that come back comparable.
How it works
Follow one request, from a requirement to an awarded supplier.
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The commercial mandate, set up front
Maximum budget, target price and five levers set how much the agent may concede in the negotiation.
The commercial position is defined before the first email is sent out.
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Three levels of autonomy, chosen per request
Three negotiation modes: send only, approve every draft, or fully autonomous.
Autonomy is set per request and bounded by the budget.
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Parallel negotiations, one thread per supplier
Suppliers are selected or discovered in the same step, and all of them receive the request at the same time.
Each reply is then negotiated in its own thread.
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The price moves across several rounds
The agent counters each offer, closing part of the gap to the target, and stops when a supplier repeats a price.
Second and third rounds cost no additional buyer time.
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One comparison, one award, one record
All rounds are logged; the buyer awards from each supplier’s latest total.
Open negotiations end with the award, and the audit trail is complete.
The buyer's input was a budget and a decision.
The negotiations in between ran without them.
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Built for the whole business
Procurement
Buyers move from executing requests to managing categories and supplier strategy.
CFO
Every price is tested in a competitive process before it becomes a commitment.
CPO
More events, more competition, and savings that reach the P&L.
IT
No supplier rollout required. Suppliers reply by email, on EU infrastructure.
How the results show up in practice
Three negotiations at the same time
All selected suppliers are negotiated in parallel, so every offer is current at the point of comparison.
Ask Mercu about the request
Mercu answers questions on the request, its suppliers and its rounds, without the buyer opening several screens.
A shorter cycle from request to award
Every step starts when the previous one finishes, rather than when a buyer is next available.
Empower your entire procurement journey
Mercanis connects every process, from intake to sourcing, contracts to suppliers, in one AI-native Procurement Platform. Your team gains full visibility, control, and confidence across the entire lifecycle of spend.
Hello, John!
Repeat complete orders, add individual
items or just state your need
items or just state your need
I need 4,000 common-rail injectors
for 2.0L Euro 6 diesel engines
for 2.0L Euro 6 diesel engines
Intake Management
One path for every department. AI agents route every request through procurement as a complete, policy-checked purchase requisition.
Agentic Negotiation
Send Only
Assisted
Autonomous
Price Negotiation Progress
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EuroFuel Systems
Precision Ltd.Sourcing
Launch RFQs in minutes. AI agents structure requirements, invite suppliers, negotiate and compare offers.
Contract analysed
3 risks identified
Liability
Price adjustment
Automatic renewal
Action needed
Contract Management
AI agents extract, review, and monitor every contract. Risk flags and renewal reminders before anything slips.
Supplier Profile
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Movement of Goods
Delivery Reliability
Defect Rate
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Risk & Compliance
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Supplier Relationship Management
One profile per supplier: performance, compliance, documents and risk signals. Guided onboarding, and a free supplier portal for communication and data maintenance.
Spend Analytics
Across your procurement data, AI agents recommend where to renegotiate, switch supplier, or bundle demand.
Procure-to-Pay
An automated 4-way match checks the purchase order against order confirmation, goods receipt and invoice. Discrepancies surface instantly.
Mercanis seamlessly integrates
with your existing systems
Runs alongside your ERP, SRM and collaboration tools, from SAP and NetSuite to Slack and Teams.
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FAQ
Everything You Need to
Know About Mercanis
What is sourcing software?
Sourcing software is the system procurement uses to run competitive events: inviting suppliers, collecting priced offers in one structure, comparing them and documenting the award. The usual types are RFIs, RFQs and RFPs, each built from a template that sets what the event carries. Mercanis provides sourcing software as a standalone module or as part of its end-to-end AI-native procurement platform.
What has to be filled in before a sourcing event can go out to suppliers?
Most of what an event asks for is designed by the organisation itself. A few fields are mandatory on every event: a name and a description, a deadline in the future, and at least one supplier on the list with complete contact details. Everything else sits in the workflow the event runs on, which decides whether a pricing sheet or a questionnaire is required, whether assessment criteria have to be in place, whether suppliers may revise their offers, and whether suppliers have to accept an NDA before they can see the event.
How are offers made comparable when suppliers reply in different formats?
The structure is set before the event goes out. Suppliers fill in the pricing sheet and the questionnaires in the supplier portal, or export the sheet to Excel, work on it offline and import it back, so what comes back carries the same line items and units either way. The comparison then puts the responses side by side, pricing sheets line by line, questionnaire answers, documents and contract terms, for as many or as few suppliers as it is set to show.
Can offers be compared against an internal target price?
Yes. An internal target or benchmark is entered in the event, and the variance per line item is calculated automatically. It feeds the comparison, the pricing scenarios and the negotiation preparation.
Can one event be awarded to more than one supplier?
Yes. An award can go to a single supplier or be split across several, down to individual line items, so different positions in the same event go to different suppliers. Each supplier is told only what concerns them, and procurement decides when they are told: decisions can be confirmed internally and released later, with the message to each supplier written before anything goes out.
What do suppliers have to do to take part in a sourcing event?
Suppliers receive an invitation to the event and respond in the supplier portal, in the language held on their contact record. Taking part costs them nothing, and supplier support comes from Mercanis directly.
Does Mercanis replace our ERP?
No. Mercanis runs in parallel to your ERP, connected to SAP, Ariba and other systems through APIs. The sourcing event and the award happen in Mercanis, and the resulting order is handed over from there, with no rebuild on your side.
