An order for 780 euros needs more clarifying than the amount justifies.
A specialist department submits a low-value requirement and expects an order. Before that, procurement has to establish whether this requirement must be aggregated with similar call-offs made during the year, and which value limit then applies.
1direct order for 780 eurosA specialist department requests office furniture for 780 euros.
4similar call-offs in the financial yearFour more orders for the same product group are placed in the same financial year.
1value limit in the internal directiveAggregated, the five call-offs come to 5,940 euros and exceed the value limit set by the internal directive.
1record for the direct awardThe case now needs a procurement record that the single order alone would not have required.
An order for 780 euros turns into a procurement record as soon as four similar call-offs from the same financial year are added. What delivers the 45% less review effort in the data sheet is simply having the product group total to hand before the order is placed.
The 45% reduction in checking effort is this agent's headline figure. The amounts and quantities in the chain are an illustrative case, not a measurement from your organisation.