A governed workflow for indirect, MRO, and capital spend

Procurement software for manufacturing is a governed intake-to-pay platform that routes every purchase through the quality, supplier-risk, and finance checks manufacturers require. Zip gives industrial, high-tech, and aerospace firms one workflow to onboard suppliers, control indirect, MRO, and capital spend, and keep production running, with each request tracked from intake through renewal.

Zip routes every supplier request through your existing risk, quality, and legal tools automatically, so no purchase skips required supplier-risk, quality, or compliance review. It captures approvals, owners, and documentation for each request, which keeps first-article approvals, quality audits, and single-source exposure visible instead of scattered across email and spreadsheets. That leaves teams ready for customer and internal audits at any time.

No. Zip sits on top of your existing systems as the intake and orchestration layer rather than replacing them. It syncs bi-directionally with ERP and MRP systems like SAP, Oracle Fusion, Infor, Epicor, NetSuite, and Microsoft Dynamics 365, and it layers over source-to-pay suites like Coupa and SAP Ariba. Every PO, invoice, receipt, and supplier record flows back to your system of record, and each reviewer keeps working in the tool they already know.

Zip brings MRO and indirect spend under management by giving every plant a single front door for requests, so purchases stop flowing through P-cards, emergency POs, and one-off channels that bypass controls. Indirect materials often make up only 15 to 25 percent of manufacturing spend but 70 to 80 percent of procurement transactions, so Zip standardizes and automates that high-volume, low-value work across sites. Requesters get a fast, guided path, and finance gets visibility into spend that used to be invisible.

Supplier onboarding that runs 10 to 15 business days on manual, email-driven processes, and sometimes far longer, can happen in days with Zip. Zip collects tax, banking, quality, and risk documentation upfront at intake, tiers suppliers by risk, and routes only true exceptions to Quality, Legal, and Compliance. Routine, low-risk suppliers clear quickly, and specialists spend their time on the parts, programs, and single-source suppliers that actually need scrutiny.

Zip supports industrial and discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, high-tech and semiconductors, and aerospace and automotive firms, each of which runs different production lines and carries a different supplier-risk profile. Manufacturers including John Deere, AMD, Arm, and Rivian use Zip to onboard suppliers faster and keep production moving. Zip adapts the same orchestrated workflow to all of these models, including the capital projects that sit behind them.

Zip pulls capital spend into the same orchestrated workflow as everyday purchasing, so new lines, plant buildouts, and EPC projects follow one governed path instead of living in spreadsheets and email. It routes each request through the finance, procurement, and functional approvals a capital commitment requires, and it keeps the project visible before commitments are made. For manufacturers, that turns the largest and least-visible category of spend into something teams can track against budget in real time.

Zip gives manufacturers a consolidated view of spend, tariff exposure, and commodity-linked contracts at the point of intake, so cost and margin risk is visible before a PO goes out rather than after the quarter closes. It surfaces single-source exposure, renewal timing, and market benchmarks, catching overlap, maverick spend, and silent auto-renewals early. With steel, aluminum, and semiconductor tariffs reshaping input costs in 2026, that real-time view helps teams shift volume, renegotiate, or requalify suppliers before the exposure hits margins.