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From pilot to production: scaling AI in procurement
This is a partnered event with Zycus - webinars will take place on a Zycus hosted platform
How to encode procurement expertise before it walks out the door
And why the answer isn't "more agents"
Events
CIPS Risk & Resilience Week 2025
Register for the full series or the sessions that matter most to you.
CIPS Procurement & Supply Futures UK Conference 2025 on-demand
Watch back selected highlights from this year's CIPS Futures Conference that took place in London on 1 July.
Please create a CIPS Download account (or sign in) to register for access to the content for free.
CIPS Excellence in Procurement & Supply Awards
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this year’s CIPS Excellence in Procurement and Supply Awards! Your presence helped make the evening a true celebration of innovation, excellence, and the people shaping the future of our industry. Congratulations to all the winners! We can’t wait to see you again next year!
CIPS Sustainability Webinar Week 2025
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CIPS Procurement Pioneers 2025/26
15 visionaries mapping a new future for the profession
This year's CIPS Procurement Pioneers programme spotlights 15 people who are thinking differently – visionaries, thinkers and practitioners defining and mapping a new future for this great profession.
Expert Reports
The Contract-Aware Enterprise: From Contract Blindness to Commercial Advantage
Contracts contain some of the most valuable commercial intelligence in an organisation, yet too often that knowledge remains trapped in static documents and disconnected systems. In this whitepaper, Sirion explores how leading organisations are transforming contracts from passive records into actionable business intelligence. The aim? To drive stronger decisions, reduce risk, and unlock commercial value.
Slavery-free? Prove it.
Modern slavery operates in the shadows, but despite growing scrutiny, it's on the rise. This report explores why tackling modern slavery in supply chains remains a persistent challenge for organisations. Based on 600 responses, the British Standards Institution (BSI), in partnership with CIPS, conducted research into why this is. Read the report to get insight into visibility risks, barriers to addressing modern slavery, and practical recommendations to support effective remediation.
Short reads
Prevent value leakage with compliance controller
Your Audit Trail Is Clean. You're Still Overpaying.
- A clean audit trail proves your processes work. It says nothing about whether you're capturing the value your contracts promised.
- The commercial detail that drives real savings, including rebate thresholds, index-adjusted pricing and markup caps, lives in unstructured contract language that no procure-to-pay system reads or enforces.
- Closing this gap requires linking every contract clause to every transaction at the line level, something only possible now that AI can read contracts at scale.
From cop to captain: the many hats of procurement
Unimarket’s Lewis Young explores what procurement professionals need to shift their remit from “compliance cop” to “strategic captain”.
Leveraging AI for Supply Chain Risk Intelligence
GEP explores how risk management needs to evolve to keep pace with the volume and velocity of signals that determine supply chain health today.
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