Oct 6, 2026
The principles for trusted agentic commerce offer procurement teams an early control model for identity, authority, data and liability.
The completed Ivoflow acquisition connects part-level cost and market intelligence with JAGGAER’s source-to-pay execution.
Hackett’s latest SolutionMap shows why feature-led procurement-tech selection is becoming impossible, especially as AI blurs established categories.
Zip has expanded Risk Orchestration into a full TPRM offering while adding sourcing and purchase-order agents, external data partnerships and a marketplace.
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.
Softcat’s agreement to acquire GDT expands its international reach, but customers should reassess concentration, incentives and exit rights.
CADDi’s $114 million funding round is a bet that manufacturing decisions need technical context, not another view of invoice spend.
OpenAI’s new disclosure framework exposes a gap in enterprise contracts: model misbehaviour may be neither a data breach nor an outage.
Spain’s first reported breach allegedly executed by an autonomous AI agent shows why supplier-risk programmes must operate at machine speed.
Aug 16, 2026
ORO Labs’ rapid growth supports procurement orchestration as a serious category. Buyers still need to distinguish intake, orchestration, and autonomous execution.
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.
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.
Globant’s growing AI services business suggests services pricing could move from people and hours to outputs and consumption.
One incident at a logistics provider disrupted European warehouses and exposed customer data across multiple businesses.
A dispute over AI use in a $449 million US Army contract evaluation shows why procurement needs more than a human in the loop.
Aug 8, 2026
A procurement go-live only matters when the old route stops working.
The supplier portal is becoming part of the working-capital stack.
A new CPO appointment signals an operating-model mandate, not just a savings target.
The difference between a renewal reminder and renewal readiness.
