# 5.7x faster purchase requisition to PO times

A global offshore vessel operator cut purchase requisition to PO from 74 days to 13, so parts reach the fleet sooner.

## Content

A global offshore vessel operator runs a fleet that only earns while it is working. Every day a vessel waits for a spare part is a day off-hire.

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The challenge

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Across five countries, every spare part and service ran through email and manual ERP entry. A purchase requisition took 74 days to become a purchase order, so parts arrived late and vessels sat idle: more than 40 days of operational uptime were lost every year.

Maintenance signal on board

Requisition created

Routed for approval

PO raised

Part needed on board

Emailed to HQ

Keyed into the ERP by hand

Approvals chased by email

Purchase requisition to PO

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What we built

Arrakis partnered with the operator's procurement team to bring procurement, ERP and field maintenance data into one AI backbone. A maintenance signal on board now flows straight into a requisition and a purchase order, with an audit trail at every step.

Agents

Signal

Requisition

Approved

PO

ERP

Procurement

Field maintenance

One system

The team stays in command of every approval, without the chasing and the re-keying.

The impact

Efficiency

## Faster buying

faster requisition to PO

Vessels get the parts they need sooner, with less time spent chasing.

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Adoption

## Adoption keeps growing

of PO spend through Arrakis, up from 65% a month earlier

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Requisition to PO dropped from 74 days to 13, and adoption grew from 65% to 88% of PO spend in a single month.

Parts reach the fleet sooner, and less time goes on supplier emails and internal chasers: more time for the work that keeps the vessels moving.