How Lapasar connects to Workday
There is no proprietary Workday plug-in for a procurement marketplace, and none is needed. Workday supports PunchOut over cXML, the same open standard used by SAP, Oracle and Coupa. When a requisitioner selects the Lapasar catalogue, Workday posts a PunchOutSetupRequest to Lapasar's endpoint; Lapasar validates the credentials and returns a session URL into the live marketplace, where the buyer shops normal e-commerce style at their organisation's contract pricing.
On checkout the cart posts back to Workday as a PunchOutOrderMessage — structured requisition lines with prices, quantities and classification codes. The requisition then routes through your existing Workday approval and budget checks, and the approved purchase order is transmitted electronically to Lapasar for fulfilment.
What stays in Workday
PunchOut only replaces the shopping step. Everything that makes Workday your system of record stays exactly where it is: the requisition-to-PO workflow, approval hierarchies, budget and commitment accounting, and the audit trail. Because the cart returns as native Workday requisition lines, three-way matching against the goods receipt and the consolidated invoice happens inside Workday just as it does for any other supplier.
- Approval hierarchies and delegations unchanged
- Budget and commitment accounting in Workday
- Requisition, PO and receipt records native to Workday
- Contract pricing surfaced per organisation in the session
Why Workday enterprises add a marketplace supplier
Enterprises running Workday in Malaysia usually have strategic categories under contract but a fragmented long tail — thousands of low-value purchases across dozens of ad-hoc vendors, each needing onboarding, quotes and manual requisitions. Adding Lapasar as a single PunchOut supplier channels that entire tail through one governed connection: one enablement project, one supplier record, one invoice relationship — and a marketplace of 2M+ SKUs behind it.
Unlike a software-only catalogue, the connection reaches a platform that also operates its own warehouses and delivery fleet across Peninsular Malaysia, so an approved Workday PO results in goods actually delivered — not a lead passed to a third party.
Backed by real infrastructure and registrations
Lapasar is a Ministry of Finance (MOF)-registered supplier — Lapasar Sdn Bhd (1198228-D) — with RM600m+ in annual GMV and 10,000+ suppliers on one catalogue. Approved buyers purchase on company credit terms with a consolidated invoice, and the integration team handles the supplier side of the connection end to end.