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Every project is a unique supply chain.

AI-powered procurement automation for contractors managing volatile inputs across concurrent projects. Materials and sub-contract costs make up 60-70% of project value, and on net margins of 2-5% a single untracked price increase can wipe out the profit on a job. OmniPATH gives QS teams and project managers real-time visibility of cumulative spend against budget.

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Your booksXero · Sage · QuickBooksApprovedCodedEvidenced
Bills enter a funnel of 5 rings around the EVERY PROJECT stamp: Read (Read, classified and extracted, however it arrived: email, upload, photo or folder.), Identify (Is this a real, verified supplier? Is it the one we think it is?), Match (Does it match the order, the delivery and the agreed price?), Check (Have we seen it before? Is the VAT rate right? Do the lines and dates add up?), Approve (Approved by the right person, under the rule on the screen.). A bill that fails is held on its ring with a named reason and one fix. Only bills that pass every ring drop into your books: approved, coded, evidenced.
90%lower cost per invoiceCanonical ROI model: £19.56 by hand against £2.00 (89.8%)
£19.56average cost to process a single invoice by handProcessing, exceptions and query overhead
92%of invoices processed touchlessAbout 8% need a person to review an exception
Under 2 daysapproval cycle, down from 5-8 daysTypical cycle before and after OmniPATH

£19.56 is the manual cost per invoice in our canonical ROI model (default inputs) and 99.2% is field-level extraction accuracy. Methodology

The challenge

Where project margin leaks.

On thin margins, small gaps in procurement decide whether a job makes money.

15-25% price swings

Commodity volatility

Material prices swing within a project lifecycle. Without real-time tracking, budgets are breached before anyone knows.

No benchmarking

Cross-project intelligence

Each project buys independently. Same materials, different merchants, different prices: no volume leverage and no benchmarking.

Cascading delays

Delivery delay risk

A late steel delivery cascades through the whole programme. Without PO tracking, delays are discovered on site, not in advance.

Invisible spend

Spend without cost codes

Invoices without project or phase codes make cost tracking retrospective. QS teams spend days reconciling what should be instant.

The strategic reality

The four Ps in construction.

Construction pricing is set at tender. Promotion is reputation-driven. Place is where the project is. The variable that decides whether a project delivers margin or loss is procurement.

Maximum lever

Product

Materials, plant and specialist sub-contracts. The specification is fixed by design, but who you source from, when you buy and what you pay are pure procurement decisions.

Maximum lever

Price

Contract price is locked at tender. The only price lever is the gap between your tender allowances and actual procurement costs. Every saving is pure margin.

Fixed decision

Promotion

Reputation and relationships win work. Marketing matters, but it’s a long-term brand investment, not a project-level margin lever.

Fixed decision

Place

You build where the project is. The procurement challenge is getting the right materials to the right site at the right time.

So

When contract price is fixed and the project location is set, procurement is the only variable that decides margin. The gap between tender allowances and actual purchase costs, across materials, plant and sub-contracts, is where construction profit lives or dies.

How OmniPATH delivers

Four pillars of construction procurement.

Project-linked procurement intelligence for contractors managing volatile inputs across many concurrent projects.

01 · Sourcing

Material price tracking and benchmarking

Monitor commodity pricing, supplier quotes and market trends across all projects. Lock in the best rates at the right time and track when suppliers deviate from agreed pricing, with commodity price tracking across steel, timber, concrete and key materials, plus cross-project supplier benchmarking and quote comparison for tender support.

02 · Provision

Project-linked purchasing

Tie every purchase order to a project code, phase, cost code and budget line. No more untracked spend: QS teams see committed and actual costs against tender allowances live, with mandatory code allocation on every PO and alerts when cumulative spend approaches or exceeds allowances.

03 · Delivery

Site-level coordination

Sequence deliveries to match programme milestones. Know what’s arriving and when, and flag delays before they cascade through the programme, with PO-to-delivery tracking, supplier ETAs, automated delay alerts and programme-linked delivery scheduling.

04 · Scalability

Multi-project portfolio

Aggregate buying power across concurrent projects. Share supplier intelligence, negotiate framework agreements and apply best-project pricing across the business, with a portfolio-wide spend dashboard and tender against actual benchmarking for every project.

The market reality

On 2-5% net margins, procurement intelligence is the difference between profit and loss.

Rising costs

Construction cost pressures

  • Structural steel: up 19%
  • Concrete and aggregates: up 14%
  • Energy and plant hire: up 11%
  • Labour and sub-contract rates: up 16%

Where OmniPATH helps

Margin protection

  • Material costs: 3-8% lower
  • AP processing: about 90% lower cost per invoice
  • Budget overruns: 40-60% fewer
  • Cross-project volume savings: 5-12%

Cost pressure and recovery ranges are indicative figures from the previous version of this page, not a forecast for your business. Methodology

What the live numbers show

10.2% of the spend we’ve seen came back as value found.

One single-site operator, nine months, with only invoice capture switched on: no purchase orders, no bank matching and no approval rules yet. Here’s where the value sits, what’s at stake in VAT and what’s flagged for a person to investigate.

Value foundof the spend we’ve seen came back as value foundNine months of invoices · invoice capture only
10.2%
  • Overpaid4.1% of spend seen
  • Negotiable3.5% of spend seen
  • Time freed2.7% of spend seen Modelled

From the records alone, before modelled time: 7.6% of spend seen. Not counted: late-payment interest (1.0%) and paying too early (0.3%), which are what-ifs.

Flagged for investigation33

payments that look like duplicates or fraud, flagged for a person to investigate

Counted nowhere until a person confirms
Price
  • 68products caught drifting up in price
  • 50price spikes detected, 49 still live
  • 181products bought often enough to negotiate volume pricing
Fixed before the books45.6%

of invoices needed a human fix before they were fit for the books.

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VAT at stake8.7%

of spend seen is VAT at stake on lines where the rate didn't match what was bought. Keyed as it stood, that's VAT paid and never reclaimed, or reclaimed and owed back to HMRC.

4.0% already actioned · 4.6% still open

A single-site hospitality operator · Documents Jan to Oct 2026 (invoices dated Jan 2025 to Oct 2026) · read 23 Oct 2026. Bands follow the ROI module's dimensions; time freed is modelled at the declared rates. VAT at stake and spend flagged for investigation sit outside value found. How we measured this

Modelled at your size

What the same rates would find for you.

We took the live operator’s value per pound of spend and applied it to your size. It’s a model, not a promise. It leaves out what-ifs, VAT at stake and spend flagged for investigation. It also leaves out multi-unit gains like comparing prices across units, because we haven’t measured them on a live customer yet. A unit is whatever you run: a site, a hotel, an office or a team.

Modelled
£50k£1m per unit
Units
30
Annual spend
£6.00m
Invoices a year
20,928
Value found a year£658.2k
  • OverpaidPrice drift and price spikes against what was paid before
    £244.4k
  • NegotiableVolume tiers and price swings worth renegotiating
    £209.1k
  • Time freedKeying and fixing invoices, at £24.63 an hour
    £204.7k
Published plan cost a year £101.5kFound in the records alone covers it 4.5×

Modelled from one live operator's rates per pound of spend seen (read 23 Oct 2026), scaled by spend and by that operator's invoice rate of about 3.5 invoices per £1,000 of spend. A unit is whatever you run: a site, a hotel, an office or a team. What-ifs (late-payment interest, paying early), VAT at stake and spend flagged for investigation are left out, and so are multi-unit gains such as comparing prices across units, which aren't measured on a live customer yet. Plan cost uses published monthly rates. See the live numbers

Questions

Construction procurement, answered.

How does OmniPATH handle project-linked procurement and cost codes?

Every purchase order in OmniPATH is tied to a project code, phase, cost code and budget line. Mandatory allocation means no untracked spend: QS teams see committed and actual costs against tender allowances live, with alerts when cumulative spend approaches thresholds.

Can OmniPATH track commodity prices across projects?

Yes. OmniPATH tracks commodity prices across steel, timber, concrete and other key materials. Cross-project supplier benchmarking highlights where you’re paying above market or where volume aggregation could secure better framework rates.

How does OmniPATH help prevent delivery delays on site?

OmniPATH provides PO-to-delivery tracking with supplier ETAs and automated delay alerts. Programme-linked delivery scheduling matches the construction sequence, so you know what’s arriving and when, and can escalate delays before they cascade through the programme.

Does OmniPATH integrate with construction accounting systems?

OmniPATH integrates natively with Xero, QuickBooks Online and Sage (50, 200 and Intacct), with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on the roadmap. Data flows automatically between procurement and finance with project code mapping, so your cost-to-complete reporting reflects the real picture without manual reconciliation.

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