Procurement Admin
Logging, export and interfaces
What is traceable, how you get your data out — and which integrations do not exist.
- Duration: 20 min
- Level: In depth
- Read first: Users and access
Three questions come up in every rollout: what is traceable, how do I get at my data, and how does this hang together with our other systems?
Logging
Activity is logged comprehensively across the business objects, and every tender additionally has its own log view — the one that gets used when it matters.
Two limits you should know before somebody else finds them:
- Logging covers the business objects, not every click.
- System-administrator actions are filtered out.
So it is a comprehensive activity log across all business objects — and deliberately no more than that. If your audit function requires a genuinely complete record of every action, that is a requirement to settle before rollout rather than after.
Export
CSV and XLS of lists — tenders, suppliers. Free, in every plan.
What it is not: a reporting system. There is no report export and no PDF. If you need analysis, export the list and analyse it where your organisation already does.
The dashboard has metric tiles and an activity feed. The tiles are counts — volumes and cycle times. There is no savings calculation, in any form.
Webhooks
Free, signed, for offer.submitted, contract.signed and supplier.approved. Generic formats plus Slack and Mattermost. A webhook can be fired as a test from the settings — do that before you rely on it.
REST API and MCP
Both paid, both available:
- REST API (
/api/v1): read and write for tenders, suppliers and categories. Offers stay read-only — an offer is created in the supplier portal and nowhere else. - MCP connection: eight read-only tools across tenders, offers, suppliers and question rounds, on the same keys and the same permissions.
The MCP connection is where you attach your own AI. We supply the interface, not the model — which one you use is your decision. There is no AI inside e-Request, and we deliberately do not claim otherwise.
Both must be in the licence. And once more, because it is the most expensive misunderstanding: one key sees everything across the tenant.
Which integrations do not exist
There is no ready-made connector for SAP, Ariba, Oracle or Salesforce. No ERP connector, in any plan, not even as an option. What exists is the REST API, webhooks and the export.
If an ERP connection is a condition for you, it is a project on your side or with an integrator — plan it as one.