When the AI hype cycle reached its peak last year, procurement leaders didn’t ask me about disruption or moonshots. They asked me a far more practical question: How do we make this pay off? After ...

One of the biggest misconceptions about AI-driven procurement is that technology is the hardest part. It's not.

Procurement leaders today face a perfect storm of complexity: volatile markets, geopolitical uncertainty, supply risk, and relentless pressure to deliver savings while building resilience.

It usually starts with a celebratory email: “We secured the GPUs.” And then the program still slips. For procurement and capacity planners, this is the new reality: an AI “cluster” isn't just a ...