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Precoro's Intake Agent turns a description into a usable requisition

The practical test is less work for the requester, fewer corrections for procurement and a purchase that follows the right route.

Pactum's Intake Agent puts autonomous indirect procurement to work

Intake is the entry point. The wider system checks, sources and negotiates indirect purchases through autonomous digital workers.

Elevatry raises €3m for strategic procurement AI. Now test the decisions.

Category teams should measure whether a proposal survives scrutiny, including the time spent checking it.

Purchase Orders Explained: What They Are, How They Work and Why They Matter

A practical guide to purchase orders in procurement and P2P

Procurement Strategy Explained: How to Build One That Changes Decisions

A practical guide to building a procurement strategy that connects to business outcomes

How WOP assesses procurement technology.

Our evidence rules, assessment questions and approach to vendor coverage.

Envoy: vendor at a glance and WOP member assessment

Procurement workflows across existing systems, source-based buyer preparation and the limits of the public control and outcome evidence.

Enable: vendor at a glance and WOP member assessment

Supplier rebate calculations, claim controls and the distinction between forecast earnings and collected cash.

Emitwise at Green Project: vendor at a glance and WOP member assessment

The current Green Project offering, supplier carbon evidence and the difference between better measurement and actual emissions reduction.

Buying water access: the procurement case for modular infrastructure.

Procurement workload visibility: lessons from the Acada conversation.

A procurement technology stack starts with the work.

Your first 90 days of procurement contract management.

Buying for a business: seven checks before you order.

A purchase order is one small part of the work. The useful questions start earlier.

IDC survey exposes the enterprise AI-agent governance gap.

IDC research commissioned by Leah finds that production use is accelerating while unsanctioned agents, poor interoperability and contract handoffs remain unresolved.

Anthropic and Accenture: buying AI model assurance.

Anthropic and Accenture are committing at least $2 billion to embedded model evaluation, creating a new supplier-assurance category and a difficult independence question.

Palantir’s UK police pilot ends without a purchase.

Five UK police forces will not take Project Nectar forward. The useful procurement story is what a pilot must prove before technical dependency takes hold.

Contract value realisation: a free working template.

A free obligation-to-evidence worksheet for the benefits agreed with your supplier.