Purchase Co-Pilot for Business Central

Procurement that thinks, types and acts — inside Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Novasoft Purchase Co-Pilot brings AI procurement straight into Business Central — and lets you pick the engine: Native BC AI, Azure Copilot, or Anthropic Claude. Create POs from natural language, snap a vendor invoice, and ask live questions about spend, GRNs, price variance and vendor performance — all in chat.

What Purchase AI Means

From reactive data entry to proactive procurement

Most BC purchase teams still spend hours keying POs, chasing approvals, and exporting Excel for vendor analysis. Purchase Co-Pilot flips that — it reads, drafts, queries and acts inside Business Central, so your buyers focus on negotiation and not paperwork.

Create POs from Natural LanguageType "raise a PO for 200 units of ITEM001 from Ningbo Steel" — Co-Pilot resolves the vendor, fuzzy-matches the item, applies dimensions, and drafts the order for one-click approval.
Scan Vendor Invoices with Your PhoneSnap a quote, invoice or proforma — GPT-4o vision extracts header and line items, matches them to BC items and vendors, and stages a PO instantly. No OCR configuration needed.
15+ Live Purchase Intelligence KPIsAsk "show me PPV by vendor for Q1" in plain English — Co-Pilot returns a table with drill-downs to the underlying BC transactions. Same data your CFO trusts.
Autonomous Agents That ActPayables Agent reads vendor invoices from your mailbox and matches to POs. Replenishment Agent watches stock and drafts POs before you run out — your team just approves.
 Reactive Today
 With Co-Pilot
 POs typed by hand from emails
 POs from a sentence or phone snap
 Vendor spend in static reports
 Live KPIs: spend MTD, GRNs, PPV
 Price variance found weeks later
 Real-time PPV alerts before posting
 Duplicate POs for same vendor
 Built-in duplicate detection
 Approvals lost in inbox threads
 Workflow + full audit log in BC
Bring Your Own AI

Run Purchase Co-Pilot on the AI engine your IT policy allows

Purchase Co-Pilot is model-agnostic. The NSF Co-Pilot Foundation routes every prompt through a pluggable provider layer — pick the engine that fits your data residency, cost and capability requirements, and switch later without re-implementing.

Built into BC

Native Business Central AI

Use Microsoft's built-in Copilot capabilities and the BC Agent runtime. No extra subscription if you already have BC Premium with Copilot enabled. Best for a zero-onboarding start with full Microsoft data-handling guarantees.

Sales Order Agent Payables Agent Microsoft data residency
Azure OpenAI
GPT-4o · UAE North · KSA Central

Azure Copilot (GPT-4o / GPT-5)

Route to your own Azure OpenAI deployment in your tenant region — UAE North, KSA Central, and more. No-training contract, full VNET / private-endpoint support. Best for regulated industries with strict data residency requirements.

Data residency in your region GPT-4o vision for invoices Private endpoint Per-call cost control
Anthropic · AWS Bedrock
Claude Opus 4.6 · Sonnet 4.6 · Haiku 4.5

Anthropic Claude (Sonnet / Opus)

Route to Anthropic's Claude family — Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6 or Haiku 4.5 — directly via the Anthropic API or AWS Bedrock. Best for long-context vendor catalogues, nuanced negotiation drafts, and maximum tool-use accuracy.

200K-token context Strong tool-use Structured output AWS Bedrock support

All three providers expose the same 67 procurement tools and 15+ Purchase Intelligence KPIs — switching engines is a setup change, not a re-implementation.

Capabilities We Integrate

Microsoft Copilot & AI capabilities, tuned for procurement

Purchase Co-Pilot is built on Novasoft's NSF Co-Pilot Foundation — the same architecture powering our Retail vertical — extended with 67 purchase-grade tools, precision prompts and 15+ pre-aggregated KPIs. Runs natively inside Business Central; no separate portal, no data export.

Natural-Language PO
67 purchase tools · Fuzzy resolver

Create POs from Chat

Type "raise a PO for 200 units of ITEM001 from Ningbo Steel" — Co-Pilot resolves the vendor, fuzzy-matches the item, applies dimensions, and drafts the order with a drill-down chip. No form-filling; no switching screens. Full multi-turn proposal staging lets buyers build, review and post in one conversation.

Vendor fuzzy resolverItem matchingDimension defaultingDuplicate detectionOne-click approval
GPT-4o Vision
Invoice · Quote · Proforma

Scan Vendor Documents

Snap a quote, invoice or proforma with your phone — Co-Pilot's GPT-4o vision extracts header and line items, matches them to BC items and vendors, and stages a PO for one-click approval. No OCR configuration needed. Works with PDFs, images and email attachments.

Quote scanningInvoice OCRProforma extractionAuto line matching
Purchase Intelligence
15+ KPIs · Live in chat

15+ KPIs, Queryable in Plain English

Pre-aggregated KPI summaries for PO status, vendor performance, spend, replenishment, GRN ageing, price variance, invoice matching, blanket POs, credit notes, landed cost and vendor YoY. Every KPI is a real BC list page AND a chat-callable tool — ask in English, get data with drill-downs.

PO StatusSpend MTDPrice Variance (PPV)GRN AgeingVendor YoY
Multi-Turn Proposals
Build → Review → Post

Build → Review → Post

Stage a PO across several conversation turns: "add 5 more of ITEM003", "show proposal", "post proposal". Co-Pilot keeps a per-user proposal table and converts it to a real BC purchase order on command — full conversation context maintained across sessions with complete audit trail.

Per-user proposal tableMulti-turn memoryOne-command postAudit trail
Autonomous AI Agents

Beyond chat — agents that act on your purchase ledger

Microsoft describes agents as "the new apps for an AI-powered world." Purchase Co-Pilot ships three pre-built agents and is fully extensible via Microsoft's Agent Designer and the MCP (Model Context Protocol) server we deploy alongside Business Central.

Generally Available

Payables Agent

Reads vendor invoices from your shared mailbox, OCRs PDFs via Incoming Documents, matches to POs and GRNs, and prepares for approval. Your AP team stops keying; the agent handles it end-to-end.

  • 3-way match against PO + GRN
  • Tolerance-based exception routing
  • Audit log on every action inside BC
Built inside BC

Replenishment Agent

Watches stock levels, lead times and historical demand. Drafts replenishment POs against preferred vendors when reorder thresholds breach — your buyer reviews and approves in seconds.

  • Vendor scorecard-driven choice
  • Lead-time aware safety stock
  • Blanket-order release suggestions
Custom Agent

Vendor Performance Agent

Scores vendors weekly on on-time delivery, quantity accuracy, price variance and credit-note frequency. Flags slipping vendors before quarter-end so you renegotiate from data.

  • YoY trend alerts
  • PPV root-cause hints
  • Email digest to category managers
Purchase Intelligence

15+ pre-aggregated KPIs, queryable in plain English

Every KPI is a real BC list page AND a chat-callable tool. Ask "show me PPV by vendor for Q1" and Co-Pilot returns a table with drill-downs to the underlying transactions — the same data your CFO trusts.

Status

PO Status

Open / Released / Posted / Closed counts and ageing.

Vendor

Vendor Performance

On-time, in-full delivery + quality returns score.

Vendor

Top Vendors

Ranked by spend MTD, QTD, YTD with YoY delta.

Spend

Purchase Spend

By vendor, item, category, dimension, period.

Stock

Item Replenishment

Items below reorder with suggested PO qty.

Receiving

GRN Summary

Goods receipts, ageing, pending vs received.

Variance

Price Variance (PPV)

Standard vs actual cost by item / vendor.

Invoice

Invoice Matching

3-way match status + tolerance breaches.

Vendor

Vendor Price Compare

Best price across alternate vendors per item.

Margin

Item Margin

Sell vs landed cost per item / category.

Contracts

Blanket POs

Released vs remaining qty + expiry alerts.

Credit

Credit Notes

By vendor, reason code and ageing.

Cost

Landed Cost

Freight, duty, insurance allocation per receipt.

Quality

Receiving Discrepancies

Short-ship, over-ship, damaged on GRN.

Trend

Vendor YoY

Year-over-year spend, volume and price drift.

Setup

Targets & Alert Rules

Custom KPI thresholds with email + chat alerts.

Measurable Outcomes

Why procurement leaders choose Purchase Co-Pilot

Customers in UAE, KSA and India report a step-change in cycle time and margin discipline within the first quarter of go-live.

↓ 60%

PO cycle time

From quote received to PO released — chat creates POs in seconds, not days.

↑ 3.2%

Margin uplift

Live PPV and vendor-price-compare drives better negotiations from real data.

↓ 80%

Duplicate POs

Built-in duplicate-detection and dimension defaulting prevent double orders.

100%

Audit coverage

Every chat action, PO change and approval timestamped and logged inside BC.

AI Services from your BC Partner

End-to-end Purchase AI delivery

From readiness assessment to managed support — Novasoft is your single accountable partner across Microsoft Dynamics 365, Copilot, Power Platform and the Purchase Co-Pilot extension.

AI Readiness Assessment
Purchase Co-Pilot Implementation
Custom Agent Development
Power BI for Procurement
Vendor Master Data Cleanup
User Adoption & Change
Managed AMC Support
How Novasoft Delivers

Purchase Co-Pilot in 4 stages. Production chat in 2–5 days.

A pragmatic, BC-native rollout. Most customers move from kick-off to production chat in 2–5 days.

1

AI Readiness Assessment

Map your purchase processes, vendors and KPIs. Identify the 5 highest-value chat use cases for your industry.

2

Solution Design

Tool selection, prompt design, KPI configuration, vendor-master cleanup plan and approval workflow design.

3

Implementation

Foundation + Purchase extension deployed; KPIs synced; agents enabled; pilot with category buyers in your tenant.

4

Optimisation

Quarterly tuning of prompts, alert rules and agent thresholds based on built-in prompt-tester results and user feedback.

Why Novasoft

A certified BC partner with a shipped Purchase AI product

We don't demo slideware — Purchase Co-Pilot v28.0.0.0 is a Microsoft AppSource-ready BC extension running in customer tenants today across UAE, KSA and India.

Microsoft Solutions Partner — Business Applications + Modern Work
UAE · KSA · USA · India — local consultants, 24/7 follow-the-sun support
Native BC extension — cloud target, runtime 16.0, ID range 50200–50399
67 chat tools, 210+ test prompts — built-in headless prompt-tester
Permissioned by design — Read / Admin permission sets shipped in-app
Audit-grade logging — every Co-Pilot action timestamped to the user
Novasoft Purchase Co-Pilot
Microsoft Solutions Partner — Business Applications
AppSource-ready BC extension v28.0.0.0
67 tools · 210+ tested prompts · 3 AI engines
Offices & regions
🇦🇪 UAE 🇸🇦 KSA 🇺🇸 USA 🇮🇳 India
Related
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Frequently Asked Questions

Purchase Co-Pilot FAQ — Common Questions Answered

Does Purchase Co-Pilot work with my existing Business Central tenant?
Yes. Purchase Co-Pilot is a cloud-target AL extension (runtime 16.0) that installs into your BC SaaS environment. It depends on Microsoft Base / System / Business Foundation and our NSF Co-Pilot Foundation. No separate database or portal needed — it lives inside your existing BC tenant.
How is it different from Microsoft's built-in Copilot?
Microsoft Copilot is horizontal. Purchase Co-Pilot is vertical — purpose-built for procurement with 67 purchase-specific tools, 15+ pre-aggregated KPIs, GPT-4o invoice scanning, multi-turn proposal staging, and a vendor / item fuzzy resolver. It runs alongside Microsoft Copilot, not instead of it.
Which AI engine does Purchase Co-Pilot use?
Your choice. The Foundation routes prompts through a pluggable provider layer: (a) Native Business Central AI — Microsoft's built-in Copilot & Agent runtime, (b) Azure Copilot via your own Azure OpenAI deployment in UAE North / KSA Central with private-endpoint support, or (c) Anthropic Claude (Opus 4.6 / Sonnet 4.6 / Haiku 4.5) via the Anthropic API or AWS Bedrock. All three expose the same 67 procurement tools — switching engines is a setup change, not a re-implementation.
What does "connected to chat" actually mean?
Every Purchase Intelligence list page, KPI cue, and procurement workflow is exposed as a chat tool in our Foundation's tool registry. Ask in plain English, get tabular answers with drill-down chips. Agents can call those same tools autonomously without any user prompt.
How long does implementation take?
A typical rollout is 2–5 days: AI Readiness Assessment, Solution Design, Deploy + KPI sync, Pilot with category buyers, and Go-live + tuning. Most customers are in production chat within days of kick-off.
Is the data I type in chat used to train AI models?
No. Whichever engine you pick, we route through no-training contracts. Conversation logs are stored in your BC database and governed by your existing data-residency rules — your data stays in your tenant.
Do I need to retrain my buyers?
Minimal retraining. Co-Pilot is a chat box on the Role Center — most buyers use it from day one. We provide a 1-day adoption workshop and a built-in quick-action chip set ("Open POs", "Top Vendors", "Spend MTD") so users discover capability through use, not training decks.
What does the NSF Co-Pilot Foundation include?
The NSF Co-Pilot Foundation is Novasoft's base AI extension for Business Central. It provides the pluggable AI provider layer, tool registry, per-user audit log, permission sets (Read / Admin), and a built-in headless prompt-tester. Purchase Co-Pilot layers 67 procurement-specific tools and 15+ KPIs on top of this Foundation.
Get Started

Ready to put a Purchase Co-Pilot in your buyers' hands?

Book your free Procurement AI Readiness Assessment with Novasoft today. As your dedicated Business Central AI partner in UAE, KSA and the Middle East, we'll show you exactly how chat-driven procurement can transform your Dynamics 365 environment.

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