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title: "Procurement automation for mobile-only portals · mobilerun"
description: "Supplier apps and vendor portals with no web and no API. Agents search, negotiate and order at scale, with structured JSON or CSV output."
url: "https://mobilerun.ai/solutions/procurement"
group: "Industry"
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# An API for mobile-only portals.

Supplier apps and vendor portals with no web version and no API. Agents run on real phones that read as a normal user's device, then return structured data on a schedule.

## Why sourcing stays manual.

- **The portal is the app**: Quotes and order status live in apps with no web and no API.
- **Sourcing by thumb**: Every search, message and counter-offer is a person tapping.
- **Scripts snap, agents drift**: Pure scripts break on updates. Pure agents cost too much per run.

## Vendor apps become reliable automation.

Scripted steps where the app is stable, agent reasoning where it is not, all on real phones with genuine hardware identity. Supplier apps see a normal user's phone, and output lands in your stack.

- Set up once, then re-run for a few cents.
- Real phones pass the checks real apps run.
- Webhook on done, into your ERP or n8n. Logins persist.

## What procurement runs.

- **Search suppliers**: By spec, shortlisted with price and minimum order.
- **Negotiate and quote**: Agents message many suppliers and counter on price, terms and lead time.
- **Track orders**: Scheduled status checks, alerts on any change.
- **Pull the data**: Prices and listings out as JSON or CSV.

## Example tasks

- open Alibaba, search for LED panels, message the top suppliers for quotes and MOQ
- read the supplier inbox and extract every quote, MOQ and lead time as JSON
- reply to each supplier with a counter at my target price and log replies
- reorder last month's SKUs in the vendor portal and return the order total as JSON

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Source: https://mobilerun.ai/solutions/procurement