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From Risk to Readiness: The Executive Playbook for Scaling AI in Procurement
Only a small share of procurement teams are realizing the promise of AI, yet leaders like Micron and McCormick are…
2026 Procurement Key Issues
Procurement leaders are turning AI into a measurable impact in 2026. Discover how leading organizations are improving performance as AI…
What to Know About Gen AI in Procurement
Ready to future-proof your procurement strategy? Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) is revolutionizing procurement, offering unmatched potential to increase productivity…
Procurement Skill Set for the Next Transformation
Two global trends – artificial intelligence (AI) and the rewiring of global supply chains – are transforming the procurement and…
AI Solution Providers: 2026 Trends, Capabilities and Strategic Insights – Summary Report
Artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities are advancing faster than most organizations can assess, making it difficult to separate market momentum from…
AI Solution Providers: 2026 Trends, Capabilities and Strategic Insights – Full Report
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping enterprise software, services and operating models at an unprecedented pace – but most organizations still…
Benchmarking in the AI Age: What Matters Now
How is benchmarking evolving in the AI era, and how are leading organizations using it to set sharper targets, prioritize…
The Hackett Group® – As Seen on CNBC
Leading the way in Gen AI solutions, we are redefining what Digital World Class® performance looks like and accelerating your…
Kurt Albertson, Principal, Procurement Applied Intelligence North America, The Hackett Group®
Kurt Albertson, of The Hackett Group’s Procurement Applied Intelligence practice, discusses how AI can be leveraged in such areas as…
Jose Golding-Webb, Vice President, Global Procurement and Packaging Engineering, BIC
Jose Golding-Webb, of BIC, discusses how The Hackett Group® helped BIC evaluate the best tools for their organization.
Sourcing (with optimization) Solutions
Sourcing optimization is a subset of the broader sourcing segment that goes beyond generalist sourcing applications and capabilities to help…
Risk Management Solutions
In today’s volatile business environment, the importance of risk management in procurement and supply chain management cannot be overstated. Recent…
Contract Management Solutions
Contract lifecycle management (CLM) solutions are systems that automate the authoring, negotiation, execution, implementation, monitoring and renewal of B2B contracts…
Source-to-Contract Solutions
Source-to-contract (S2C) solutions suites are for automating upstream procurement processes, which include spend/supply analytics, sourcing (sourcing strategy and e-sourcing execution),…
Supplier Management Solutions
Supplier management is the default methodology to manage the lifecycle of suppliers. So, ‘supplier management’ concerns itself with ‘supplier lifecycle…
E-Procurement Solutions
An e-procurement solution automates, guides and approves the purchase and receipt of products and services through an electronic interface. These systems…