This initiative applied agentic AI to enforce guided, policy-driven procurement practices. By embedding compliance into purchasing workflows and enhancing supplier due diligence, the project reduced maverick spend, sped up purchasing, and ensured negotiated savings were realized.
The procurement team had limited visibility into supplier risk and compliance. Off-contract spend frequently bypassed preferred vendors, approvals were slow, and duplicate vendors and catalog sprawl undermined cost savings. These gaps contributed to higher costs, inefficiencies, and policy non-compliance.
Policy-aware guided buying with preferred suppliers
Automated supplier risk checks and due diligence
Instant contract lookup and clause extraction
Automated 3-bid sourcing
Real-time alerts on out-of-policy spend
Catalog normalization to unify duplicates
The organization saw on-contract spend rise by roughly 20%, while requisition-to-PO approval cycle times were reduced by half. Negotiated savings were realized in over 90% of cases due to minimized off-contract leakage, and supplier onboarding times were cut by more than 50%, shrinking weeks-long processes into days.
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