Procurement through conversation.
Source suppliers, compare quotes, negotiate, and approve in one thread, in Arabic and English.
Sila runs on top of the systems you already have.
Procurement is still manual work.
Industrial companies run procurement across email threads, chat groups, and spreadsheets. The systems exist, but nothing connects them, and the gap shows up in published benchmark data.
67%
of a procurement team’s time goes to non-strategic work: collecting quotes, keying data, and chasing approvals.
Deloitte, 2025 Global CPO Survey, 250+ CPOs across 40 countries
4x
difference in what the same purchase order costs to process, from $14 to more than $54, driven by how much of it is done by hand.
APQC Open Standards Benchmarking, 2026
58%
faster from requisition to order at digitally mature procurement teams, with sourcing cycles 24% shorter.
The Hackett Group, Digital World Class Procurement, 2025
All services. One layer.
Eight services that run independently or as one connected workflow. Your existing systems stay exactly where they are, and Sila sits on top of them.
Process Audit
On-site documentation and a prioritised automation roadmap you own.
02AI Procurement Chat
Requests handled in conversation, in Arabic or English.
03Quote Comparison
Quotes from email, PDF, and scans normalised into one view.
04Autonomous Negotiation
Rounds handled inside the price and term boundaries you set.
05PO & Approval Routing
Orders generated from accepted quotes and routed by value and category.
06Vendor Onboarding
Documents collected and registry checks run before a vendor goes live.
07Supplier Intelligence
Your own vendor records, queryable in plain language.
08Spend Analytics
Live dashboards by category and supplier, with anomalies flagged.
One request, three sourced quotes.
Requests raised by email, through the portal, or in the platform itself all land in the same thread. The side panel shows where the request came from and which rules govern it.
Five formats, one scale.
Supplier quotes arriving by email, PDF, and scan are aggregated into a single structured view, which removes the manual collation and the missed line items that come with it.
- Unit price, lead time, payment terms, and validity are extracted whether the quote arrives as a PDF, an email body, or a photograph.
- Freight, currency, and unit differences are resolved so every quote sits on the same scale by the time it reaches you.
- Weight price, lead time, or delivery history differently per category, because raw material and consumables are not the same decision.
We map your workflow before we automate it.
Off-the-shelf procurement software fails here because every company runs procurement differently. We spend time on site before writing a line of code.
Shadow and document
We sit with your team through the full cycle, from request to payment, and write down what actually happens rather than what the process document says.
Categorise and prioritise
Every task is labelled automate now, automate later, or keep human. You get a ranked list with the hours each item returns per week.
Build to the blueprint
We build only what the approved blueprint covers, and every automation is tested against your own data before it goes live.
The supplier thread, handled in place.
Sila runs the opening rounds by email inside parameters your team sets in advance. A counter-offer outside the mandate stops the thread and goes to a named person with the numbers attached.
One order for 200 tons of structural steel.
Same buyer, same five suppliers, same specification. Only the handling changes.
Manual today
Five suppliers are emailed one at a time, then three to seven days of waiting.
Quotes are typed into a spreadsheet by hand and freight terms reconciled from memory.
The comparison is forwarded to the manager, then approval is chased through three levels.
The order is retyped into the ERP, with no record of why this supplier won.
2–3 weeks
No audit trail at the end of it.
With Sila
The need is described in chat, and all five suppliers are contacted at once.
Quotes are parsed and normalised on arrival, freight included.
The scored comparison reaches the approver directly, and approval is one action.
The order is generated, synced to the ERP, and the reasoning is recorded.
2–3 days
Who approved what, at what price, on the record.
Built to integrate, not replace.
Sila sits as a layer on top of the stack you already run. There is no migration and no disruption, and whatever you use today keeps working.
ERP
Connected over standard APIs. No custom connector work.
Mail and messaging
The channels your team and suppliers already use.
National registries
Registry checks built in from the first day.
Documents
Read in whatever form they arrive in.
57%
of procurement leaders name disconnected, siloed systems as a major obstacle to delivering value.
Deloitte, 2025 Global CPO Survey
Arabic and English throughout, a human in the loop by default, and nothing ripped out.
Four things converging at once.
Volume legacy processes cannot absorb
Giga-project construction and the downstream petrochemical build-out create procurement demand that cascades to hundreds of industrial suppliers. The volume is new, and the tooling underneath it is not.
A mid-market nobody built for
The established procurement suites are built for very large teams, English-language workflows, and year-long implementations. Mid-sized industrial companies here have nothing made for how they actually work.
Models that can finally be trusted with it
Two years ago nothing could read an Arabic PDF quote or hold a multi-turn supplier negotiation reliably. That has changed, and the capability gap has closed.
Proximity a remote vendor cannot match
Industrial procurement here runs on relationships, site visits, and trust built over years. Working in the same region, in the same language, is part of how the product gets built.
Let us map your workflow.
We start with a process audit on site. It is free, there is no obligation, and nothing needs to be installed to begin.