Case Study: Cropnuts eliminates procurement errors and cuts lab downtime with Precoro

How Cropnuts Eliminated Errors and Streamlined Requisitioning

Cropnuts (Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services), one of Kenya’s largest analytical laboratories, faced growing procurement chaos as the business expanded: Excel-based requisitions and email orders frequently contained mistakes or went missing, receipts weren’t tracked, and stock-outs caused costly lab downtime. Head of Technology Martin Mburu chose Precoro’s e-procurement solution to replace the manual process and bring control to purchasing.

Precoro centralized and automated Cropnuts’ requisition-to-PO workflow, routing and tracking every request, auto-sending POs to vendors and pushing data into accounting. The platform cut manual data entry, improved supplier visibility, reduced wrong or delayed orders and delivered a significant decrease in lab downtime; Precoro now supports about 14 users at Cropnuts handling roughly 50 POs per month.

Cropnuts

Martin Mburu

Head of Technology