Artificial Intelligence

Procurement’s Next Steps Spend Matters


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In this Spend Matters PRO series on AI in Sourcing, we began our discussion of some situations where you will find AI in e-sourcing platforms, where AI is defined as “augmented intelligence” (because, as we have discussed in prior articles, there is no true artificial intelligence in enterprise platforms today and there won’t be tomorrow either). AI is a buzzword, not a reality. But we don’t need true AI to achieve software that can radically increase our productivity. Reaching augmented intelligence will add multiples to our productivity and savings.

In our last post, AI in Sourcing Tomorrow (Part 1), we discussed how the sourcing platforms of tomorrow will offer event-based category alignment functionality as well as market-based sourcing strategy identification. Together, these augmented intelligence features will not only save you a lot of time and effort in the identification and conducting of a proper sourcing event, but will also maximize your chances of success with the strategies that you follow.

It will be a magnificent start to the sourcing process. But it won’t stop there. Because it can’t stop there.

As per our article on AI in Sourcing Today, there’s a lot of manual effort involved in a sourcing event. And the platforms of tomorrow will integrate workflow automation and auto-fill to handle a lot of the drudgery that will be required in any sourcing project.

However, just including workflow automation and auto-fill isn’t getting you to sourcing utopia, where you’re getting maximum return for minimum effort. Something more is needed. How much more? Let’s read on to find out.

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