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From intake to outcomes: what it takes to run autonomous source-to-pay

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You've done your research. Invested time and money in a platform, yet most of the work continues to happen in emails, static spreadsheets and across fragmented systems. Spend data is being lost and governance models can't manage what they can't see.

It's a problem many procurement teams will be familiar with, but how do you fix it? Why is the platform you've bought still being worked around? And what has to be true before agents can act?

Join us for this webinar in partnership with Zycus to find out why before autonomous agents can take a request from intake through sourcing, contract and payment, three things must be true: 

  1. People actually use the front door 
  2. Spend and supplier data underneath is trustworthy
  3. A governance model says what an agent may decide on its own  

Takeaways to expect from the session:

  • Why adoption breaks, and what fixes it: why intake is usually the first thing to fix rather than the last.
  • What agents need underneath them: what data has to be cleaned up first, and what can stay exactly where it is.
  • What an agent should and should not be allowed to decide: thresholds, approvals, audit trails and where the data lives. Governance models that let you say yes to autonomy without losing control.
  • What this looks like end to end: from request, from intake to sourcing, contract and payment.

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David Loseby FCIPS Professor of Research Impact in Supply Chain Management Leeds University Business School Bio
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James Moore Editor CIPS Download