About I Love Procurement
I Love Procurement is a practical utility site for procurement, supply chain, project, and commercial teams. The site provides small browser-based tools for checks that are often handled in spreadsheets, emails, or informal approval notes.
Who runs this site
Umar Dar - Procurement Manager
Founder and author of the tools on this site. Umar Dar is a practising procurement professional with hands-on experience in buying, tendering, supplier management, variation orders, and commercial approvals across capital equipment, MEP, IT hardware, and services categories.
Every calculator on this site was designed and reviewed by the author against real procurement workflows - not templated from generic finance formulas. Methodologies are documented on each tool page and align with recognised commercial practice (ISO 15686-5 for lifecycle costing, ISO 31000 for risk, and CIPS professional guidance for supplier and category decisions).
The tools are built for speed: open the page, enter the numbers, and get a decision-support result without account creation, dashboards, or software setup.
What we focus on
- Lifecycle cost and ownership decisions.
- Supplier, warranty, risk, and delay checks.
- Procurement justifications and approval-support notes.
- Fast calculations that support - not replace - formal ERP and approval workflows.
How the tools work
Most calculations run directly in the browser. This keeps the tools fast and reduces unnecessary data handling. Results should be used as decision support and checked against your company policy, contract terms, tax rules, and technical requirements.
What we are building
I Love Procurement is a utility library for procurement, supply chain, project, and commercial teams who need quick decision support without opening an ERP workflow or building a spreadsheet from scratch. The tools are intentionally narrow: each calculator answers one practical question and keeps the output suitable for discussion, approval support, or internal review.
The site is not a procurement system of record and does not replace ERP, contract management, finance approval, or technical evaluation. Its purpose is to help professionals frame commercial risk, lifecycle cost, savings quality, supplier exposure, delays, and justification notes more clearly before formal processing.
Our operating principles
- Fast access: tools should be usable without login or onboarding.
- Low friction: the calculator appears before long explanatory content.
- Practical output: results should be easy to copy, print, or discuss.
- Procurement context: examples and guidance are written for real buyer workflows.
How the tools are reviewed
The tools are written around practical procurement situations: comparing supplier offers, validating savings, preparing approval notes, checking long-lead risk, reviewing variation orders, and tracking warranty action. Each tool page explains the intended use, the assumptions behind the calculation, and the evidence a buyer should keep before using the output in a live file.
The site is maintained as a public procurement resource rather than a generic calculator directory. When a tool is updated, the focus is on whether the result helps a buyer prepare a clearer management recommendation, not only whether the formula produces a number. This is why the site includes examples, templates, standards references, and professional-body links beside the calculators.