Simplifying Purchase Order Process using Microsoft Power Platform
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⇨ Avocados From Mexico (AFM), a non-profit marketing organization promoting Mexican avocados in the U.S., faced challenges with its financial systems, particularly an inefficient purchase order process.
⇨ To address this, they adopted Microsoft's Power Platform, developing a custom app with Microsoft Partner Lantern to streamline their purchase requests, integrating it with their SAP Business ByDesign system.
⇨ This integration allowed the simplification of the purchase order process, dramatically reducing the time required from 15 minutes to less than a minute per order, enhancing overall efficiency, and reducing errors.
Established in 2013 by the Mexican Hass Avocado Importers Association (MHAIA) and the Association of Avocado Exporting Producers & Packers of Mexico (APEAM), Avocados From Mexico (AFM) promotes Mexican avocados and expands their U.S. market presence. Despite a small team of over 30, AFM supports hundreds of importers, distributors, and over 30,000 growers in Mexico, doubling avocado imports since its inception. The company’s financial systems struggled to keep up with its ambitious goals, particularly in the purchase order (PO) process. Transitioning to SAP Business ByDesign posed front-end challenges, especially for marketers.
Already deeply invested in Microsoft cloud technologies and consistently pursuing new innovations, AFM identified the low-code capabilities of the Power Platform as the optimal solution for enhancing user experience. In partnership with Microsoft Partner Lantern, AFM developed a customized application utilizing Power Apps, which was seamlessly integrated with their existing SAP ByDesign system. This tailored application refined the purchase request (PR) fields in SAP to include only those essential to the organization, markedly accelerating the purchase order (PO) process.
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