One catalog. Every supplier. Contract-aware pricing.
Punchout, hosted, contract-extracted, AI-extracted. Flowie unifies every catalog source into one searchable layer where employees see only what your policy allows — and finance sees every transaction grounded in the right contract.
Office Depot · OEM ballpoint
€4.90
OD-PEN-BLK-12
Under contractLyreco · BasicLine
€12.50
LYR-CEE-PEN
Under contractBruneau · Eco-line
€8.40
BRN-PEN-ECO
Volume tierPilot · FriXion
€24.90
PLT-PEN-FRX
SpotCatalog connections include
By the numbers
Catalog, end to end.
32+
Live punchout suppliers
cXML / OCI / BMEcat — out of the box
100%
Policy-bound
Contract + tier + entity-aware
<30s
Search to PR draft
Median for in-catalog items
4
Source types unified
Punchout · Contracts · ERP · AI
Catalog in 90 seconds
What employees see when they buy is the buying experience.
Catalog is the layer employees actually touch when they buy. The cleaner the catalog, the cleaner the buying — and the cleaner the downstream of POs, invoices, payments, and books.
Flowie's catalog layer pulls from every source you already have — Amazon Business punchout, your Lyreco contract, your SAP master data, even free-text requests typed in Slack — and ranks them under your policy. Off-contract spend gets caught at the catalog layer, before a PR is even drafted. Contract pricing applies automatically. ERP cost centers and GL accounts auto-populate.
The buying experience employees actually want; the controls finance actually needs.
The 4 catalog sources
Every supplier, every contract, every ERP — one unified layer.
32+ live punchout connections. cXML / OCI / BMEcat.
Real-time pricing from the supplier's catalog with your negotiated discounts applied. Click 'Buy' on Office Depot or Amazon Business inside Flowie; complete checkout on the supplier's site; the cart returns as a draft PR with line items mapped to your cost centers.
- cXML 1.2.x · OCI 5.0/4.0/Classic · BMEcat 1.2/2005
- Live pricing — no stale catalog data
- Negotiated discounts applied at supplier checkout
- Auto-mapped cost centers, GL accounts, entities
- 32+ pre-built connections; new ones in days, not months
Catalog connections include
Office Depot · Amazon Business · Lyreco · Manutan · Bruneau · Würth · Hilti · Bunzl · Henry Schein · Fisher Scientific · Avantor / VWR · MSC Industrial · Mouser · Digi-Key · Conrad · Farnell · Bechtle · Sonepar · Rexel · Lenovo · SHI · Insight · Computacenter · Dell · HP · Grainger · Fastenal · RS Components · CDW · Staples · Raja · Unite/Mercateo
The mechanics
Catalog, but smarter.
Unified search
Text, image upload, barcode scan, AI semantic match. Search across all 4 catalog sources at once. Results ranked under your policy.
Multi-source ranking
Policy-aware cascade: contract item first, then volume tier, then punchout, then spot. The right answer surfaces for the right buyer in the right entity.
Contract-aware pricing
Negotiated rates auto-applied at the right tier. Volume discounts respected. Expiry alerts before contracts lapse. Off-contract attempts flagged.
Free-text fallback
When there's no catalog match, AI extracts product, quantity, supplier, and contract from natural language. Edge cases route to procurement, not block the requester.
Multi-source deduplication
Same SKU across 3 catalogs? Astral collapses it to one ranked item. No duplicates, no confusion, no off-contract leakage from picking the wrong source.
Audit trail
Every search, every result, every selection traceable. Off-contract reasons captured at the moment of choice, not in a quarterly review.
Old vs Flowie
The buying experience employees want.
Without Flowie
- Search experience: Catalog clunky, mobile broken
- Pricing: Listed price ≠ contract price
- Approvals: Manual chase across email + Slack
- Supplier management: Per-supplier spreadsheets
- Off-contract spend: Found in monthly review
- Catalog updates: Quarterly batch refresh
- Mobile: Painful, often blocked
- Time to PR: 2–5 days end-to-end
With Flowie
- Search experience: Amazon-class search, mobile-first
- Pricing: Contract pricing auto-applied
- Approvals: Policy-routed under thresholds
- Supplier management: Unified supplier graph (Astral)
- Off-contract spend: Caught at search time
- Catalog updates: Real-time via punchout
- Mobile: Native-feeling on phone
- Time to PR: <30s in catalog
Compliance + governance
Catalog as a compliance control point.
Sanctions filtering
KYS (Know Your Supplier) screening at the catalog layer. Flagged suppliers can't appear in employee search results. Sanctions lists refreshed daily.
ESG metadata
Supplier diversity, carbon footprint, social compliance scores attached to every catalog source. Filter and rank by ESG criteria when policy requires.
Approval routing
Per category, per amount, per entity, per cost center. Threshold-based auto-approval for low-risk catalog items. Multi-tier escalation for higher amounts.
Catalog lifecycle
Add, expire, archive workflow with full audit. Expired contract items auto-hidden. Discontinued SKUs tagged. Renewal alerts surface before expiry.
Punchout-ready out of the box
Connect to the suppliers you actually buy from.
32+ live punchout connections covering office, MRO, electronics, IT, lab + medical, electrical. cXML, OCI, BMEcat. New connections shipped in days when needed.
Office Depot
Amazon Business
Lyreco
Manutan
Würth
Hilti
Bunzl
Henry Schein
Fisher Scientific
Avantor / VWR
MSC Industrial
Mouser
Digi-Key
Conrad
Farnell
Bechtle
Why Flowie
Six things only Flowie does.
Network density
Suppliers join the Flowie network for free, so connections compound. Every onboarded supplier becomes available to every other Flowie customer — KYS, KYB, and KYC done once.
AI extraction
Free-text → structured product line. No manual parsing of supplier emails, quotes, or RFP responses. Astral resolves entities; agents draft PRs.
Contract integration
Every catalog item linked to active contract — not via brittle SKU mapping, but via Astral's typed knowledge graph. Contract changes propagate to catalog instantly.
Real-time pricing
Punchout means no stale catalog data. Volume tier breakpoints applied at request time. No quarterly catalog refresh cycles or manual pricing imports.
Multi-ERP sync
Bidirectional sync with 30+ ERPs out of the box. Your master data stays in your ERP; Flowie reads, writes, and reconciles. No rip-and-replace, no migration.
EU-hosted, ISO 27001:2022
GCloud Frankfurt + Belgium. ISO 27001:2022 certified. CyberVadis-assessed. GDPR by default. PA-certified for French e-invoicing. Full audit trail for every catalog event.
Buyers ask us this
Asked & answered.
Traditional procurement catalogs are static lists imported quarterly from suppliers, with manual price updates and limited search. Flowie's catalog is a unified search layer over four live sources — punchout (real-time supplier prices), contracts (AI-extracted negotiated rates), ERP master data, and AI-extracted free-text — ranked under your policy. No manual imports, no stale prices, no off-contract leakage at search time.
An employee searches in Flowie, picks a punchout supplier (Office Depot, Amazon Business, Lyreco, etc.), and Flowie launches the supplier's catalog inside an embedded session with your contract pricing already applied. The cart returns to Flowie as a draft PR with line items mapped to your cost centers, GL accounts, and entity. Standard cXML, OCI, or BMEcat protocol — supported out of the box for 32+ suppliers.
Yes. Hosted catalogs (CSV / Excel / XML imports) are supported alongside punchout. If you already have catalog files from a supplier, we ingest them as a 5th source. Most customers consolidate over time — punchout for top suppliers, contracts for the next tier, hosted for the long tail, AI-extracted for everything else.
The AI extracts product, quantity, likely supplier, and likely contract from natural-language input ('I need 10 pens for next week, blue ink please'). Output is a draft PR routed to procurement with full reasoning. Recurring patterns auto-promote to catalog items so the next person finds them in search. Edge cases never block the requester.
Active contracts are parsed by AI to extract negotiated rates, volume tiers, SLAs, and item lists. Each catalog item is bound to its contract via Astral. When an employee searches, the catalog applies the right contract price at the right volume tier — automatically. Volume break crossings flag suggestions ('add 50 more units to drop to next tier'). Expiry alerts trigger before contracts lapse.
Yes — off-catalog purchases route through approval with full reasoning. The catalog flags off-contract attempts at search time so the requester knows; procurement sees off-contract reasons in real time, not in a quarterly review. For small amounts under your policy threshold, off-catalog can auto-approve. For larger amounts, multi-tier escalation kicks in.
Punchout means there's nothing to manage — pricing comes from the supplier's live catalog at request time. For hosted catalogs, automated ingestion runs on supplier-published cadences (daily/weekly/monthly). For contracts, AI extraction re-runs on contract amendments. Catalog lifecycle workflows (add/expire/archive) handle the rest with full audit.
Yes. Native connectors for SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC6, Sage X3 / 100 / 1000, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Cegid Quadra and XRP Flex, Odoo, NetSuite, Workday, Pennylane, and 25+ others. Bidirectional master data sync (suppliers, items, GL, cost centers, entity hierarchy). Your ERP stays the system of record; Flowie reads, writes, and reconciles.
See your catalog working in your stack.
30-min demo on your data, with your top 5 suppliers connected via punchout, your active contracts AI-extracted, and your master data synced from your ERP.