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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…
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…
Beyond Savings: Can Your Organization Prove Procurement’s Full Business Value?
Traditional savings opportunities are becoming harder to find, yet procurement continues to create value across working capital, supply continuity, risk…
AI in Procure-to-Pay (Part 6): What This Means for Practitioners and Platform Builders
The changes described across this series do not point to a sudden transformation of procure-to-pay (P2P) platforms. They point to…
AI in Procure-to-Pay (Part 5): Capabilities Emerging at the Edge of P2P Platforms
Despite the structural constraints outlined in the previous article, early capability patterns are beginning to emerge across parts of the…
AI in Procure-to-Pay (Part 4): Structural Constraints Holding Back P2P Platforms
When AI add-ons stop changing outcomes in procure to pay (P2P), it is tempting to blame model quality, data volume…
AI in Procure-to-Pay (Part 3): Where AI Additions Stop Changing Outcomes in P2P
After the initial gains delivered by AI – read What AI has genuinely improved so far in P2P platforms – many procure-to-pay (P2P) platforms…
2026 Procurement Key Issues
Procurement leaders are turning AI into a measurable impact in 2026. Discover how leading organizations are improving performance as AI…
Why “Whose Agents Are Better?” Is Not the Right Question to Ask
Given the evolving solution provider landscape and the growing number of methods for integrating AI across platforms, organizations interested in…
AI in Procure-to-Pay (Part 2): What AI Has Genuinely Improved So Far in P2P Platforms
Despite the structural limits outlined in our first article actually changing in the era of AI, artificial intelligence has delivered real and defensible…
AI in Procure-to-Pay (Part 1): How P2P Platforms Are Actually Changing in the Era of AI
Procure-to-pay (P2P) platforms are widely seen as being transformed by artificial intelligence. In practice, the change is uneven and bounded…
Category Management’s Role in an Ultra VUCA World
Our recent research into Category Management (CatMan) has looked at the strategies CatMan practitioners need to employ and the ways technology can…
Category Management: Key Insights for 2026 From Sievo
Rounding out our series of interviews with category management (CatMan)-related solution providers about how their solution supports the end-to-end CatMan…
Integrating and Executing Category Management: An Interview With Coupa
Our ongoing series about category management (CatMan) has devoted a lot of time looking at what the use cases for…
Category Management: Key Insights for 2026 From ChAI
Our recent series on the discipline of category management (CatMan) explored how businesses implement category management, its role in procurement…