Everyone is talking about AI in procurement. Pilots. Copilots. Dashboards. Hype or not?
But what are CPOs actually doing that is delivering real savings, tighter compliance and measurable resilience across the UK and Europe?
In this CIPS AI Webinar Week session, Chris Sawchuk from The Hackett Group, David Loseby FCIPS and Zycus joined us to cut through the noise. We focused on what’s working in the real world, where agentic AI is moving beyond experimentation into governed execution. From intake-to-outcomes orchestration, to autonomous workflows with embedded controls, we discussed how procurement leaders are scaling AI without losing oversight, trust or accountability.
What we uncovered:
- Why most procurement agentic AI initiatives stall after the pilot phase and what separates the few that successfully scale.
- Where agentic execution creates measurable savings and resilience and where it can introduce hidden risk.
- How leading CPOs are balancing autonomy with governance, compliance and human control across the source-to-pay lifecycle.
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60 Mins | 29 April 2026
Time to Lead: insights from the CIPS Global State of Procurement & Supply 2026
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David has over 30 years’ experience at senior executive/director level driving value and change through procurement and organisational transformation.
David’s varied background enables him to draw on not only his various global experiences, sector diversity and responsibilities within many Public Bodies as well as FTSE 100 companies but also the experience gained in the Construction and Property sectors at the beginning of his career. He therefore has a real feel for the commercial and business drivers of the corporate customer and the private trader. He also understands what it takes to deliver sustainable bottom line results in the optimum time frame.
He is currently the Director for Aquitaine Strategy Limited. Delivering consultancy, advisory, training and development for a variety of global companies, and is currently studying a PhD at Norwich Business School (Social Sciences Faculty) in Behavioural Science & Applied Cognitive Psychology: Behavioural Procurement.
Chris Sawchuk is a Principal, Global Practice Leader and leadership team member with The Hackett Group, an intellectual property-based strategic consultancy to global companies.
He has over 20 years of experience successfully advising hundreds of Fortune 500 as well as midsized companies across all industries globally. Sawchuk has provided operational and transformational guidance in strategy and organisational change as well as process design and digital technology enablement to significantly improve the supply management capabilities of these companies.
He is globally recognised in his specialty of supply management including strategic sourcing and supply risk management. He is cited regularly in business publications, a frequent presenter at industry events, author of numerous research papers, and a current and past member of the advisory boards of several developing companies.