Procurement Technology

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.

SAP and Moody’s bring supplier risk into the workflow.

An external signal needs an internal dependency before it can guide a decision.

SAP Pay brings payment controls into the procurement workflow.

The ERP is moving from recording an obligation to executing payment.

SAP adds ORO orchestration: what procurement buyers should check.

ORO’s distribution agreement changes the buying route for orchestration.

Six banks have drafted rules for AI agents that can spend

The principles for trusted agentic commerce offer procurement teams an early control model for identity, authority, data and liability.

JAGGAER bought the evidence behind the direct-material negotiation

The completed Ivoflow acquisition connects part-level cost and market intelligence with JAGGAER’s source-to-pay execution.

There are 122 procurement technology vendors in one assessment

Hackett’s latest SolutionMap shows why feature-led procurement-tech selection is becoming impossible, especially as AI blurs established categories.

Zip is trying to make procurement the home of third-party risk

Zip has expanded Risk Orchestration into a full TPRM offering while adding sourcing and purchase-order agents, external data partnerships and a marketplace.

OpenAI just moved underneath the CLM market

Astra for Law gives legal teams and technology vendors a specialist foundation model, legal search and contract-analysis tooling. CLM vendors now need to prove what they add above the model layer.

Your IT reseller just became a global platform. Did your leverage change?

Softcat’s agreement to acquire GDT expands its international reach, but customers should reassess concentration, incentives and exit rights.

Direct procurement’s next data platform starts with a drawing

CADDi’s $114 million funding round is a bet that manufacturing decisions need technical context, not another view of invoice spend.

Your AI supplier has a misbehaviour register. Can you see it?

OpenAI’s new disclosure framework exposes a gap in enterprise contracts: model misbehaviour may be neither a data breach nor an outage.

The first reported AI-agent data breach changes TPRM

Spain’s first reported breach allegedly executed by an autonomous AI agent shows why supplier-risk programmes must operate at machine speed.

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.

Kill the workaround.

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

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A practical framework for evaluating procurement software and vendor demos