Develop strategies to overcome the barriers to building a strong data foundation and deploying AI
Toby Weiss
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Function-wide data effort crucial to AI success at Axpo
Staff taking collective responsibility for data quality has enabled procurement to automate spend classification
7 things we learned about digitalisation and AI at WPC 2025
From the dawn of agentic to chief AI officers, delegates at WPC were provoked with new ideas
8 things we learned about partnerships at WPC 2025
Leaders shared the secrets of their most powerful collaborations
AI-generated ideas better than human proposals, experts suggest
Bots are already changing how leading organisations foster innovation
Creating future-focused teams to push procurement to new heights
A member is empowering a group of employees to focus on leveraging technology to enable a step change in performance
Roche’s AI-powered platform delivers double-digit savings while boosting productivity
The system has processed 25,000 orders from 1,600 users in 18 months
Listen to your critics when creating supplier sustainability scorecards
Feedback from sceptics can help leaders identify issues and build more robust metrics
From cutting costs to making money: Meet the teams generating millions in revenue
With many CPOs under pressure to reduce procurement running costs, some leaders are taking a more proactive approach
Pause and effect: CPOs accelerate localisation as US delays tariffs
Recent announcements have prompted leaders to double down on localisation efforts
Advocates crucial to accelerating member’s transformation
A team of internal champions has played a significant role in accelerating a member’s transformation
Press start: Gamifying data quality to improve engagement – and algorithms
Fresh approaches to data-quality are helping the entire team contribute to digital transformation
Using a ‘crisis command playbook’ to adapt and thrive amid disruption
Dedicated teams and playbooks are enabling procurement to respond to crises in a structured way
Use leading indicators to keep complex projects on track
Forward-looking metrics will help buyers identify and resolve supplier issues before they affect progress
Treat every stakeholder as a customer to strengthen internal relationships
Procurement teams must reset key stakeholder relationships to ensure the organisation’s success
Look to build ‘experience capital’ to help bridge the gender divide
McKinsey partner Theano Liakopoulou says workplace experiences are key to progression
How procurement is responding to supplier diversity challenges
Despite a difficult external environment, leaders remain committed to their DEI goals
‘We pulled every lever we could’: USAA’s Russ Major on driving productivity
Russ Major, CPO at USAA, joined Procurement Leader’s CPO community to share his team’s transformation journey.
‘Remain calm and observe’: CPOs react to Trump’s executive orders
With a slew of policy announcements making headlines, procurement chiefs gathered to share their strategies
Procurement teams reveal how they set KPIs for holistic value creation
Developing a more rounded set of metrics can help functions unlock new sources of value