Platform · Order Hub
Stop building POs from scratch.
The Order Hub treats procurement like e-commerce. Save baskets for the orders you place every week. Reorder in two clicks. Swap to cheaper alternatives inline. See what sites like yours are buying, without leaving the platform.
Six basket types
Not one kind of list. Six.
Different orders behave differently. A par-level restock isn’t a wedding event basket isn’t a personal favourites list. Order Hub treats them as the distinct things they are.
Personal favourites
The stuff you buy
Your most-ordered SKUs in a quick-pick list, scoped to your role. Ideal for one-off needs that don’t fit a recurring template.
“My fortnightly cleaning order: bleach, blue roll, sanitiser, gloves.”
Recurring templates
Named, reusable, role-owned
“Tuesday Bar Order”, “Weekly Linen”, “Breakfast Prep”: saved baskets owned by a role, not just a person. New starters inherit them automatically.
“Tuesday Bar Order: the same eight lines every week. Adjust quantities if needed.”
Standing orders
Templates plus a schedule
A recurring template with a timed trigger. Every Monday at 06:00, OmniPATH raises a PR draft for site-manager approval. Hands-off ordering, eyes-on review.
“Wholesale veg auto-drafted Monday 06:00. Sarah approves at 09:00.”
Par baskets
Tied to inventory minimums
Auto-populated with the quantity needed to hit par. Stock count shows 4 cases of beer and your par is 12, so the par basket prefills with 8.
“Stock count Monday, par basket fills the gap, Tuesday delivery.”
Event baskets
One-shot, archived, cloneable
Christmas covers, conferences, weddings. Built once, archived after use, but cloneable for the next event of the same type. The shape lives on; the dates don’t.
“Christmas Day 2025, cloned for 2026 with tweaked quantities.”
Smart baskets
Generated by LEDGE
Built from your last 12 orders, seasonality and supplier risk: “Summer menu prep” three weeks out, a “Budget-led swap pack” at 14% lower cost for the same spec, a “Recall-safe restock”.
“LEDGE noticed the bank holiday and pre-empted the order with a par adjustment.”
01 · Inline alternatives
Swap to cheaper. One click.
Every line in the basket gets an inline alternatives strip showing equivalent SKUs at lower prices: same spec, a different supplier or a smaller pack size. Hover to see the spec match. Click to swap.
The alternatives engine ranks by price per unit, not headline price, so a bigger case for less per bottle wins over a lower-priced smaller case.
- Same-spec alternatives surfaced inline
- Percentage saving shown per swap
- Swaps respect contract and preferred supplier rules
- Audit trail of swaps for finance review
Tuesday Bar Order · one line
Illustrative| Product and supplier | Case price |
|---|---|
| Schweppes Indian Tonic 200ml × 24 FS Foodservice | £44.20 8% above average |
| Britvic Indian Tonic 200ml × 24 Brakes | £29.90 save £14.30 (31%) |
02 · The recommendation rail
Three engines, one rail.
While you’re building the basket, three independent recommendation engines run alongside: LEDGE smart suggestions, Often Bought Together and Price Watch.
Each engine reads from a different scoring service and can be switched off independently. Together they catch the things you’d otherwise forget, or pay too much for.
- LEDGE smart: seasonality, par drift, supplier risk
- Often Bought Together: basket match across your history
- Price Watch: cheaper alternatives across the catalogue
While you build a basket
Illustrative- LEDGE smart suggestionsPimm’s No.1 Cup 1L × 6: usually ordered in week 17, three weeks away.
- Often bought togetherCucumber × 12: 87% basket match, used in Pimm’s prep.
- Price watchOlive Oil 5L from Brakes: 12% below your current price, same spec, on contract.
Network effect
Sites like yours are buying.
Anonymised cross-customer intelligence. We can see, de-identified, what similar operators in your sector and size band are buying, and which SKUs are gaining adoption fastest. The platform gets smarter as the network grows.
Up 32% adoption · last 30 days
Frobishers Premium Lemonade 750ml
Picked up by 47 sites in your sector.
Trending up · last 7 days
Brakes Coffee Beans 2kg (Fairtrade)
Up 24% in your size band.
Margin mover
Local Free-Range Eggs (180)
Used by sites with 12% higher GP.
Illustrative examples. Network insights are aggregated and anonymised; no customer sees another customer’s data.
How it works
From basket to purchase order.
The Order Hub sits in front of the PR and PO module. Once you raise a PR, the standard approval flow takes over.
Your team reorders the same weekly baskets in two clicks, and every swap to a cheaper same-spec product is logged for finance to review.
Questions
The useful details.
Does this replace the PR and PO module?
No, it sits in front of it. The Order Hub is the basket-building experience; once you click “Raise PR”, the standard PR, PO and approval flow takes over. PRs become baskets with a status of submitted. Same approval rules, same coding, same posting.
How do role-based buying controls work?
Five layers combine: account access (which suppliers a role can buy from), a tag-filtered catalogue (which SKUs from those suppliers), a role-level spend cap, an approval threshold and contract preference. A bar-team buyer might see only FS Foodservice and Brakes, only drinks SKUs, capped at £500 per basket, with anything over £200 routing for site-manager approval.
Where does the cross-customer data come from?
Aggregated, anonymised purchasing patterns from operators in the same sector and size band. Individual customer data is never exposed, only roll-up trends (“87% of similar sites bought X this month”). Customers can opt out at organisation level; opting out also means you don’t see the network insights yourself.
How does the par basket know my stock count?
Two ways. Either you submit stock counts through the OmniPATH stock-count flow (mobile-friendly, about five minutes per area), or you connect a supported EPOS or inventory system (Lightspeed, Square, Toast, Trail) and let stock levels sync automatically. The par basket reads the latest count and prefills the difference.
Can suppliers see what’s in our baskets?
No. Baskets are private to your organisation until they’re submitted as a PO, at which point the supplier sees the order in the standard format. The recommendation engine and Price Watch run on aggregated, anonymised data, so suppliers don’t see who bought what or what’s in flight.
What happens to a recalled product mid-basket?
If an FSA or FDA recall is issued for a SKU in your active baskets, the line is disabled automatically: the quantity stepper greys out, the price is struck through and a red banner explains the recall, suggesting an in-stock alternative where one exists. Anyone with that line in a saved basket is notified, and the recall event is logged against the supplier record.
Stop building POs from scratch. Start shopping a list.
Live now in every OmniPATH workspace. Bring a typical weekly order to a 30-minute demo and we'll build it as a saved basket, live.
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