Platform
The connective layer for enterprise procurement.
Kelqio sits between the suppliers you buy from and the systems you already run. It standardizes catalogs, carts and orders so both sides can keep working the way they work.
Connect what already exists
Fragmentation is the product problem.
A large organization does not have one procurement channel. It has as many channels as it has suppliers — a portal here, a spreadsheet there, a B2B site for one category and a phone number for another. Each one works. Together they do not.
Every attempt to fix this by adding a system has the same flaw: the new system also has to be connected to everything. Kelqio is built for the connection itself. It does not ask your ERP to move, and it does not ask two hundred suppliers to adopt the same technology.
02How it works
How a purchase travels through Kelqio.
The same five steps happen whether a supplier sends a file, exposes an API or only has a B2B website. What changes is how the first one is done.
- 01Supplier
The supplier publishes what it can
A catalog file, an API, a B2B site, or the supplier workspace — whichever method that supplier can actually operate.
Supplier side
No new system to adopt. The supplier keeps the tools and the format it already maintains.
Your side
Nothing to build per supplier: the method is a property of the connection, not a project on your roadmap.
- 02◇ DecisionKelqio
The data is normalized
References, units, packaging, pricing and availability are mapped onto one structure.
Supplier side
Gaps and inconsistencies surface here, against the supplier record, rather than in a buyer’s cart.
Your side
Your systems receive one shape, so the ERP mapping is written once instead of once per supplier.
↳ Fails validation · Supplier
It goes back, not through
A line missing a required field, a unit or a price is held and returned with the reason. Nothing partial is published.
- 03Kelqio
The contract is applied
Each customer sees its own assortment and its negotiated prices, not a public list.
Supplier side
The supplier sets conditions per customer and keeps its commercial autonomy.
Your side
The contract is enforced at the moment of choice, instead of being audited after the invoice.
- 04Kelqio
One catalog, one cart
Buyers search across every connected supplier and hand back a cart as structured lines.
Supplier side
The supplier is present in the buying moment its website never reaches.
Your side
The cart arrives as references, quantities and prices — not a PDF someone retypes.
- 05Your stack
Approval and the order stay yours
The requisition, the approval chain and the purchase order run in the systems you already use.
Supplier side
The supplier receives an order it can process as data rather than as an email.
Your side
Your ERP keeps authority over master data and purchase orders. Nothing moves.
03Capabilities
Four capabilities on one layer.
Each one is useful alone. Together they cover the round trip from a supplier’s product data to a purchase order in your ERP.
Kelqio Connect
One integration point for supplier systems on one side and your ERP and procurement platform on the other.
Kelqio Catalog
A single buying experience across every connected supplier, carrying each buyer’s contracted assortment and pricing.
Kelqio Supplier
The workspace where suppliers publish products, maintain conditions and receive orders as structured data.
Kelqio Approve
An optional requisition and approval workflow for the spend that never reached your main system.
04Connection state
You should be able to see the state of every supplier connection.
Most connectivity failures are silent. A file stops arriving, a price list expires, a catalog quietly serves last quarter’s data. Kelqio makes connection state a first-class object rather than something discovered at month end.
- Admin
- Connections
| Supplier | Method | Scope | Last exchange | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nordwerk Industrie | API | CatalogPricingAvailabilityOrders | 00:02 | Connected |
| Ferralux SAS | Catalog file | CatalogPricing | 06:14 | Syncing |
| Vantage Labo | Supplier workspace | CatalogPricingOrders | 00:47 | Connected |
| Meridian Tools | Web catalog session | CatalogAvailability | 00:11 | Connected |
| Kessler Technik | Catalog file | Catalog | 31:22 | Needs attention |
| Aumont Équipement | Supplier workspace | Catalog | — | Onboarding |
Downstream systems
Where the standardized flow is delivered
- ERPPurchase orders, supplier master data
- Procurement platformCatalogs, carts
- Kelqio ApproveRequisitions, approvals
Connection methods shown are illustrative. Supported protocols are published only once verified.
- 01
Per-supplier status
Connection method, scope and last successful exchange for every connected supplier.
- 02
Scoped connections
A supplier may be connected for catalog only, or for catalog, pricing, availability and orders.
- 03
Onboarding is a state, not a project
Suppliers that are mid-onboarding are visible alongside the ones already live.
- 04
Downstream visibility
You can see where the standardized flow is being delivered, not just where it came from.
- Kelqio Connect in detail
05Positioning
What Kelqio is, and what it deliberately is not.
The fastest way to evaluate a procurement product is to find out what it wants to replace.
Kelqio is
- A connectivity layer between suppliers and procurement systems
- A way to add suppliers without adding integration projects
- A single catalog experience over heterogeneous supplier data
- An optional approval workflow where one is missing
Kelqio is not
- An ERP, or a replacement for one
- A system of record for supplier master data
- A marketplace that takes a position on your supplier relationships
- A rip-and-replace of your existing procurement platform
What that means in practice
- Your ERP keeps its authority over master data and purchase orders
- Your procurement platform keeps its process and its users
- Suppliers keep their own systems and commercial autonomy
- The integration work stops multiplying with each new supplier
06How it lands
How a Kelqio deployment actually starts.
- 01
Map the supplier landscape
Which suppliers are connected today, which are semi-connected, and which are handled entirely by email and phone.
- 02
Connect the enterprise side once
Your ERP and procurement platform are connected to Kelqio — one integration, not one per supplier.
- 03
Onboard the first suppliers
Starting with the ones carrying the most spend or the most manual handling, using whichever method each supplier can support.
- 04
Open the catalog to buyers
Buyers search across connected suppliers with their contracted assortment and pricing.
- 05
Extend supplier by supplier
Each additional supplier reuses the same enterprise-side integration, so the tenth costs far less than the first.
Explore each capability
Next step
Bring your supplier list. We’ll show you the flow.
A working session with our team, using your systems and your supplier mix — not a generic slide deck.
- 01
Where your suppliers sit today: connected, semi-connected, or not at all
- 02
How each channel would route through Kelqio into your ERP and procurement platform
- 03
What connecting the next twenty suppliers would actually involve
Enterprise integration product. No credit card, no self-serve trial — a conversation with someone who knows procurement systems.