PROCUREMENT · · 7 min read

Simplify Procurement with NOVAREQ for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

NOVAREQ adds clean purchase requisitions to Business Central — line-item approvals, multi-level workflows, Teams-based approver views. Install from AppSource.

NOVASOFT · PROCUREMENT
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Microsoft and LS Retail Diamond Partner | UAE and KSA | May 2026 | 7 min read
PROCUREMENT NOVAREQ BUSINESS CENTRAL

Simplify Procurement with NOVAREQ for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Purchase requisitions from request to approved PO in two screens — without leaving Business Central or chasing email approvals.

NOVAREQ is Novasoft's Microsoft AppSource extension that adds a clean, multi-level purchase requisition flow to Business Central. Requesters file in BC; approvers act in BC, Outlook, or Teams; the resulting PO posts back to BC's purchase ledger without manual rekey. Built for UAE and KSA mid-market businesses that have outgrown email-based approvals.

The Email-Approval Tax

A typical mid-market UAE business processes 200–800 purchase requisitions a month. Without a structured flow, every requisition becomes an email thread — five forwards, two attachments, one approval line buried in a reply. The procurement team spends half its day reconciling email approvals against POs, and the auditor cannot reconstruct the trail at year-end.

BEFORE NOVAREQ

Email request to manager → manager forwards to head of department → reply chain → procurement enters PO manually. Average cycle: 3–5 days. Audit trail: a folder of PDFs.

WITH NOVAREQ

Requester files inside Business Central; the system routes by amount and department; approvers act in Teams or Outlook; PO posts automatically. Cycle: hours.

A requisition is a control, not a chat

The reason auditors care about purchase requisitions is that they are the first control in the procure-to-pay cycle. If the control is "email plus goodwill," every other control downstream — three-way match, vendor payment, expense recognition — is weaker than it looks.

NOVAREQ moves the control into the system. Every requisition has a trail, every approval is timestamped, and every PO traces back to a named requester.

What NOVAREQ Does, Concretely

Six capabilities, each tested across UAE and KSA mid-market BC tenants. NOVAREQ installs as an AppSource extension from the Microsoft AppSource marketplace in under 10 minutes.

  1. Line-item approval. Approvers can approve, reject, or partial-approve individual lines of a requisition — not just the whole document.
  2. Multi-level workflows. Configure by amount, department, project, or expense category — five levels deep if the policy requires it.
  3. Mobile approver views. Approve from Teams or Outlook on a phone — the requisition arrives as an actionable card, not a forwarded PDF.
  4. Budget validation. System checks remaining budget at requisition time — stops over-commit before the PO is raised.
  5. Vendor catalogue integration. Requesters pick from a curated vendor + item list, not a free-text field — clean master data downstream.
  6. Audit trail. Every approval is timestamped, attributed, and visible in BC's standard role centre — no separate audit module.

Email Approvals vs NOVAREQ

Concern EMAIL APPROVALS NOVAREQ
Cycle time3–5 daysSame-day; usually hours
Audit trailEmail folder, manualBuilt into BC role centre
Budget enforcementAfter-the-factAt request time
PO data qualityRe-keyed, error-pronePosted from approved requisition
Mobile approvalsPhone email; clunkyNative Teams card
"Email approvals were a 2010 workaround. By 2026, every audit and every CFO wants a real system of record for procurement — and a small AppSource extension is the cheapest way to ship it."
— Amit Sobti, Director, Novasoft

Why Implement with Novasoft?

Novasoft is a Microsoft Solutions Partner — Business Applications and the developer behind NOVAREQ. We have rolled it out across UAE, KSA, and India mid-market Business Central tenants — typically 2–3 weeks from install to first live approval cycle. NOVAREQ pairs naturally with our implementation and managed support practices for end-to-end procure-to-pay roll-outs. See also our wider Dynamics application portfolio.

AppSource
Microsoft-certified, install in minutes.
Configurable
5-level workflows, line-item approvals.
Audit-Ready
Timestamped trail inside BC role centre.

See NOVAREQ in 30 Minutes

Bring your current approval policy. We will show you how NOVAREQ models it inside BC — and where it can simplify.

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Sources

  1. Microsoft AppSource marketplace. appsource.microsoft.com
  2. Microsoft Learn — Business Central workflow. learn.microsoft.com — BC workflow

Last updated May 2026

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Novasoft

Microsoft & LS Retail Diamond Partner

Novasoft is a Microsoft Solutions Partner and LS Retail Diamond Partner serving customers across UAE, KSA and India.

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