Finance Procurement Request Processing

When a procurement request arrives by email, validate the vendor IBAN, check currency exchange rates for international payments, create a tracked task in Outlook, and notify the finance team in Microsoft Teams.

How the workflow runs

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  1. 1

    Extract Invoice Details from Email

    Retrieve the procurement request email and parse vendor name, invoice amount, currency, IBAN, and VAT number from the message body.

    • microsoft-outlook.get_message
  2. 2

    Validate Vendor Payment Details

    Validate the vendor's IBAN to confirm it is correctly formatted and associated with the expected bank and country.

    • abstract.validate_iban
  3. 3

    Validate VAT and Calculate Rates

    Verify the vendor's VAT number and retrieve applicable VAT rates for the invoice country to ensure correct tax treatment.

    • abstract.vat_lookup
  4. 4

    Convert Currency if Required

    For international invoices, retrieve current exchange rates and calculate the local currency equivalent of the invoice amount.

    • abstract.exchange_rates
  5. 5

    Create Procurement Task and Notify Team

    Create a tracked task for the finance team with all validated invoice details, due date, and approval requirements, then post a summary to the finance Teams channel.

    • microsoft-outlook.create_task
    • microsoft-teams.send_channel_message

Integrations used in this scenario

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Validate IBAN

Validate the vendor's IBAN before processing to prevent payment errors or fraud.

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Exchange Rates

Retrieve current exchange rates for international invoices to calculate the local currency equivalent.

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VAT Lookup

Validate the vendor's VAT number and retrieve applicable VAT rates for the invoice country.

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Create Task

Create a tracked procurement task in Microsoft To Do with due date and vendor details for the finance team.

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Send Channel Message

Post a procurement request summary to the finance Microsoft Teams channel for approval.

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Connected systems

Integration

Abstract

Validate, enrich, and look up data through a suite of utility APIs. Validate email addresses for deliverability, format, and risk (disposable, spam trap, role-based detection). Validate and identify phone numbers with carrier, line type, and location details. Geolocate IP addresses and detect VPNs, proxies, and TOR usage. Enrich company data from domains or emails. Retrieve live and historical currency exchange rates and perform conversions. Look up public holidays by country and date. Get current time and convert between timezones. Scrape web page content from URLs. Capture website screenshots. Compress and optimize images. Generate user avatars. Validate VAT numbers and retrieve VAT rates. Validate IBAN bank account numbers.

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Integration

Microsoft Outlook

Send, read, reply to, forward, and manage email messages in user mailboxes. Organize messages into folders, apply categories, flags, and importance levels. Manage file and item attachments. Create, update, delete, and respond to calendar events and meetings. Find available meeting times, manage attendees, handle recurrence, and work with shared or delegated calendars. Create, read, update, and delete contacts, organize them into contact folders, and manage contact photos. Manage tasks and task lists via Microsoft To Do, including due dates, reminders, recurrence, and checklist items. Subscribe to webhook notifications for changes to messages, calendar events, and contacts. Support for Focused Inbox, @-mentions, mail tips, send-on-behalf, and send-as capabilities.

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Microsoft Teams

Send, read, update, and delete messages in channels and chats. Create and manage teams, channels, and memberships. Schedule and manage online meetings, access call recordings and transcripts. Monitor user presence status in real time. Manage shifts, schedules, and time-off requests for frontline workers. Install and configure apps and tabs within teams. Send activity feed notifications to users. Subscribe to change notifications (webhooks) for messages, chats, teams, channels, memberships, presence, and meeting events. Create and manage tags for @mentioning user groups. Generate usage reports and import historical message data from other platforms.

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Expected outcomes

Outcome 1

IBAN and VAT validation prevents payment errors before invoices reach approval

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Outcome 2

Currency conversion is calculated automatically for international vendor payments

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Outcome 3

Procurement requests are tracked with due dates rather than sitting in email inboxes

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Outcome 4

Finance teams receive structured summaries in Teams rather than raw email forwards

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