If AI can increasingly do the work, where should procurement people create value?

BCG modelling suggests that redesigning procurement around AI could free up as much as 60% of buyer capacity. But capacity on its own is not value. What matters is what procurement does with it.

In the first episode of Procurement at AI Speed, Zina Amir Moafi explores what AI-driven productivity means for procurement, strategic sourcing and commercial decision making.

If AI takes on more research, analysis, contract review, supplier comparison and process execution, the opportunity is not simply to make the same procurement processes faster.

It is to move more human capacity toward the decisions that can actually change commercial outcomes: challenging the problem, interpreting the analysis, understanding negotiating leverage, balancing risk  ...