How Taste of Asia
buys from 50 suppliers
and books it once.
A Hong Kong restaurant group with 14 brands and more than 200 shops, ordering from more than 50 suppliers. Every order, delivery and invoice has to reach the group’s M18 ERP exactly once, and finance has to be able to prove where each figure came from.
We built the chain from the purchase order to the books.
- Restaurant group
- 14 brands · 200+ shops in Hong Kong
- Suppliers on the platform
- 50+ suppliers and partners
- Finance system
- M18 ERP, integrated by Synque
- With Synque
- Since 2020 · live since 2023
Fourteen brands,
one purchasing chain,
one set of books.
- Company
- Taste of Asia Group Limited (亞洲國際餐飲集團有限公司)
- Industry
- Multi-brand restaurant group, Hong Kong
- Scale
- 14 restaurant brands, more than 200 shops
- Suppliers
- More than 50 suppliers and partners on one platform, each seeing only its own orders, invoices and payments
- Project
- Supplier collaboration platform: purchasing, supplier ordering, goods received, e-invoicing and supply chain finance
- Finance integration
- Orders and journal vouchers generated on the platform are posted to the group’s M18 ERP
- Timeline
- Started October 2020 · live and accepted May 2023 · in daily use since
- Our part
- Designed, built and implemented it; we run it as a service on AWS
A figure in the books
is only as good as its source.
In a group of 200 shops buying from 50 suppliers, when orders go out by phone and message, deliveries are checked on paper and invoices arrive as PDFs, finance ends up typing the same purchase into the ERP from three different documents, and none of them is the original.
Taste of Asia’s finance team needed the opposite: one record that starts at the purchase order, carries the delivery and the invoice, and arrives in M18 as the entry itself, so any number in the books can be traced back to the order that caused it.
From the purchase order
to the journal voucher.
Every step is on our platform and every step is linked to the one before it. Finance reads the chain from the right; it was written from the left.
Purchase order
A shop raises the order. This is where every figure starts.
Sent to the supplier
Each supplier receives its own orders, on the platform or by EDI from its own system.
Goods received
What actually arrived is confirmed against the order.
Invoice
The supplier’s invoice arrives electronically, on the same order record.
Posted to M18
The order and the journal voucher it generates are posted to the M18 ERP.
Purchasing, suppliers
and the ERP,
integrated by us.
We designed, built and implemented the platform, connected it to M18, and run it as a service.
Purchase orders from every shop
More than 200 shops across fourteen brands order on one platform, and each order is the first link of its trace.
One place for 50+ suppliers
Each supplier sees only its own orders, invoices and payments. Suppliers with their own systems connect by EDI.
Goods received, on the record
The shop confirms what arrived. The receipt sits on the order, so a short delivery is visible, not remembered.
E-invoicing
Supplier invoices arrive electronically and are tied to the order they bill, so nobody types them in again.
Deep M18 integration
Orders and the journal vouchers the platform generates are posted to M18, so the books are built from the same records the shops and suppliers used.
A trace finance can follow
Any figure in the books can be followed back through the invoice and the delivery to the purchase order it came from.
What finance
no longer has to do.
One source of truth.
The number in M18 is the number on the order, the delivery and the invoice. Finance is not reconciling three copies.
Nothing keyed twice.
Orders and journal vouchers reach the ERP from the platform, not from someone retyping a spreadsheet.
Every entry has a source.
An auditor’s question about a figure is answered by opening its trace, starting from the purchase order.
Suppliers on their own terms.
Each of 50+ suppliers works in its own space, on the platform or from its own system by EDI.
Detailed metrics available on request under NDA.
Built with finance,
run with operations.
The work started in October 2020 and went live, accepted by the group, in May 2023. It has been in daily use since, and we migrated the group’s systems to AWS and run them there.
The order of the build followed what finance needed: a source of truth first, so that every later step, from suppliers to the ERP, writes onto the same record.
The shops order. The suppliers deliver. The books follow.
Order from one place, and confirm what arrived.
Receive their own orders, send invoices electronically, see their own payments.
Orders and journal vouchers arrive in M18 with their source attached.
Purchasing across fourteen brands, on one platform.
The buyer’s side
of the same platform.
Angliss uses our order management to take orders from thousands of Hong Kong restaurants. Taste of Asia uses it to place them. Supplier and buyer, on one operating layer.
If your books depend
on your purchasing, let’s talk.
Restaurant groups, retailers and anyone buying from many suppliers into one ERP.
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