Supply’d V5.5: Introducing Ask Supply’d, Expense Agent & MCP

V5.5 marks the beginning of a new era for Supply’d.

For the first time, you can ask questions directly inside your ERP, allow an intelligent agent to help reconcile expenses, and connect Supply’d data to AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Claude.

Alongside our largest AI release yet, V5.5 introduces major improvements to expense reconciliation, a new variable-weight sales workflow and OAuth authentication for our API.

Let’s get into what is new in V5.5.

Ask Supply’d Beta

Ask Supply’d gives you a new way to access information from across your business.

Instead of navigating between screens and reports, you can ask questions directly inside Supply’d and receive answers in real time.

• Answers from Your Data: Ask Supply’d can securely look up information from your Supply’d ERP data to help answer operational questions.
• Supply’d Help and Guidance: Ask Supply’d can also search Supply’d help documentation to explain features and help your team navigate the platform.
• Permission Aware: Your existing user restrictions continue to apply. Ask Supply’d will only access information the individual user is authorised to see.
• Read-Only Beta: Ask Supply’d is read-only in this initial release. It can investigate and answer questions, but it cannot make changes to your data.
• Future Write Functions: Future releases will introduce write capabilities behind an advanced control plane, giving you complete control over what Ask Supply’d can and cannot do.
• Bug Reports & Feature Requests: If Ask Supply'd can't find what you need or how to resolve an issue you're encountering, it can submit a bug report or feature request on your behalf.
• Usage-Based Processing: Ask Supply’d will consume Usage Tokens based on the compute required to complete each request.

Ask Supply’d is launching in beta and will continue to become more capable as we expand the information and functions available to it.

Expense Reconciliation Improvements

We have redesigned key parts of the expense reconciliation experience to make invoice review faster and discrepancies easier to identify.

• Invoice Issue Date: The invoice issue date has been moved onto the main reconciliation screen.
• Clearer Totals: The payment amount is now displayed within the subtotal section beneath the order items, bringing the totals you are comparing into one place.
• Line Subtotals: Individual subtotals have been added to each invoice line, making it easier to identify pricing and quantity discrepancies.
• Tax Indicators: Taxable invoice lines are marked with an asterisk, helping you quickly identify potential tax discrepancies.
• Supplier SKU Corrections: You can now manually update an incorrect supplier SKU while reconciling an expense.
• Sort by Brand: An additional sorting option allows invoice lines to be grouped and reviewed by brand.
• Customisable Expense Lists: Choose which fields appear on the expense list screen so your team can focus on the information that matters to them.

Expense Agent Private Beta

Processing expenses can become complicated, particularly when working with large invoices or a high volume of supplier documents.

Expense Agent is designed to take much of that manual investigation and reconciliation work off your team.

• Intelligent Expense Review: Enable Expense Agent to review an expense, investigate discrepancies and recommend the actions required to reconcile it.
• Take Action for You: Expense Agent can change line items, correct tax, update invoice settings, adjust carton quantities, schedule supplier price changes, request credits and more.
• Approval by Default: Expense Agent actions require approval by default, keeping your team in control of every change.
• Controlled Automation: As you build trust in the agent, you can enable automatic approval for selected types of actions.
• Usage-Based Processing: Expense Agent will consume Usage Tokens based on the compute required to complete each reconciliation.

Expense Agent is launching as a private beta while we work closely with selected customers to test and refine its capabilities.

Sell by Unit, Invoice by Kilogram

V5.5 introduces a new workflow for variable and fixed-weight products that are ordered by unit but picked and invoiced according to their actual weight.

This is particularly useful for meat, seafood, cheese, produce and other products where the final weight varies between individual units.

• Sell by Unit: Customers can order products using a simple unit quantity.
• Invoice by Kilogram: Configure the product to be priced and invoiced according to its packed weight.
• Estimated Weight: Set the average or expected weight of each unit for order calculations.
• Capture the Packed Weight: During Pick & Pack, record the actual weight being supplied.
• Automatically Update the Order: Enable Sync Order After Packing within your Pick & Pack settings to automatically update the order using the final packed weight.

For example, a customer can order 10 units, your team can pack and record the actual combined weight, and Supply’d will calculate the invoice using the kilograms supplied.

MCP Beta

Supply’d now supports MCP, or Model Context Protocol, allowing you to connect Supply’d ERP to supported AI assistants.

• Use Supply’d with Your Favourite AI: Access authorised Supply’d information from platforms such as ChatGPT and Claude.
• Connected Business Context: Give your AI assistant access to current Supply’d data when researching questions or helping with operational analysis.
• Read-Only Beta: The first version of MCP is read-only and cannot make changes to your Supply’d data.
• Secure Future Actions: Write functions will be introduced in a future release behind the same advanced control plane being developed for Ask Supply’d.
• Usage Tokens: MCP requests will consume Usage Tokens.

OAuth API Authentication

We have introduced OAuth as a new authentication method for the Supply’d API, providing a more secure and standardised foundation for integrations.

Existing API keys will continue to work for now, but will be deprecated in the future. A deprecation date has not yet been set, and customers using API keys will receive notice before any changes are required.

Plus More!

As always, this release includes a number of minor improvements, background optimisations and bug fixes across the system to keep your operations running smoothly.