Must see DPW Amsterdam Sessions

Can you tell that I'm hyped about DPW?

The contract must keep working.

Procurement value disappears after signature unless performance data can prove what suppliers owe.

Should-cost entered the room.

aPriori has made aiSource generally available for direct-materials negotiation.

The millionth check.

Pactum says its requisition agent has crossed one million reviews since launching in March.

You can only pick 2

P.S. You should start writing about procurement.

London. Amsterdam. And procurement's direction of travel.

Procurement is entering an age of discovery.

Community post.

Procurement orchestration has escaped the PowerPoint. But it still isn’t autonomous procurement

ORO Labs’ rapid growth supports procurement orchestration as a serious category. Buyers still need to distinguish intake, orchestration, and autonomous execution.

A procurement dashboard that can’t act is becoming legacy

Procol has added predictive and multi-agent capabilities to its spend intelligence platform. The launch points towards a future where procurement analytics is judged by the action it produces.

CLM is trying to become the operating system for commercial work

Leah is taking its Agentic OS onto Oracle Cloud with PwC supporting implementation. The announcement says more about the future shape of CLM than another contract-review feature.

AI services pricing is about to break the day-rate model

Globant’s growing AI services business suggests services pricing could move from people and hours to outputs and consumption.

Your supplier passed the risk assessment. Then it became ten companies’ data breach

One incident at a logistics provider disrupted European warehouses and exposed customer data across multiple businesses.

The first rule of AI procurement: if you can’t reconstruct the decision, you can’t defend it

A dispute over AI use in a $449 million US Army contract evaluation shows why procurement needs more than a human in the loop.

Autonomous Procurement, Explained

Why you need to know this new category of procurement tech

Kill the workaround.

A procurement go-live only matters when the old route stops working.

Financing moved upstream.

The supplier portal is becoming part of the working-capital stack.

The reporting line.

A new CPO appointment signals an operating-model mandate, not just a savings target.

Before the deadline.

The difference between a renewal reminder and renewal readiness.

Procurement Intake Explained: How to Design a Better Front Door for Business Spend

A practical guide to procurement intake, routing and guided buying

Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) Explained: A Practical Procurement Guide

A practical guide to TPRM, supplier risk and cross-functional accountability

How to Calculate Procurement AI ROI: A Credible Business-Case Framework

A practical guide to procurement AI ROI, baselines, costs and value validation

Procurement Technology Implementation Readiness: A Practical Checklist

A practical checklist for implementing procurement technology successfully

How to Evaluate Procurement Software: A Practical Buyer Framework

A practical framework for evaluating procurement software and vendor demos

AI Governance in Procurement: Controls, Accountability and Safe Adoption

A practical guide to governing AI agents and automation in procurement

Source-to-Pay (S2P) Explained: Process, Scope and How It Differs From P2P

A practical guide to source-to-pay, P2P and procurement technology