E&I Cooperative Services reports that decentralized purchasing across university departments fragments the supplier base and weakens negotiating leverage over time. Off-contract spend compounds this pressure in both the US and the UK by eroding savings...
Central government procurement heads evaluating a platform for 2026 need answers instead of a vendor feature list. This piece is a direct Q&A: 8 questions on what actually matters when evaluating a platform, drawn from the Procurement Act 2023, the Central Digital...
Plus one bonus myth on security, and a new look at what siloed contract AI misses. By Matt Boge, Principal Product Manager, JAGGAER Every standalone CLM sales pitch collapses at the same point: the moment contract data has to work with sourcing, supplier, and spend...
Frontier AI fits Source-to-Pay only at the judgment layer, not across the high-volume, rules-based and repeated tasks that make up most procurement. Models like Claude Fable 5 are built for long, open-ended reasoning, not fixed, repeatable transactions. That mismatch...
AI in procurement is now a platform-level decision, not a feature checklist. 58% of procurement teams are using or piloting AI, per Ardent Partners’ 2026 survey, cited in Procurement Magazine’s feature on the industry’s leading vendors. That feature...
