AI-powered sourcing and procurement consulting

We help our clients reimagine, build and operate sourcing and procurement as a data-driven value engine that strengthens resilience, advances sustainability and enables innovation

Organizations today face rising complexity from economic uncertainty, supply chain disruptions and shifting customer expectations. Sourcing and procurement leaders are in a pivotal position to fuel growth through innovation, dramatically strengthening their ability to mitigate risks, creating flexible cost structures and empowering the right talent-technology mix.

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Reduced costs by optimizing spending, automating workflows and enhancing supplier selection efficiency

Faster procurement processes by automating source-to-pay workflows and contract lifecycle management, and improving data analysis

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more innovative supplier collaboration, with skills and expertise in delivering business value leveraging data and AI solutions.

How AI is changing sourcing and procurement

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Unlocking new sources of value

AI empowers sourcing and procurement teams to uncover hidden opportunities by analyzing contracts, spend data, and supplier proposals. Deeper insights reveal new cost levers, enhance supplier performance, and drive measurable value across the business.

Anticipating the future for competitive advantage

Through commodity price prediction and intelligent buying recommendations, organizations can time purchases strategically to stay ahead of market shifts. AI-driven risk radar tools also detect emerging risks early, helping mitigate disruptions and protect operational continuity.

Transforming talent potential

AI-powered decision support tools augment human expertise, reducing manual effort and accelerating decision-making. By automating analysis and providing intelligent recommendations, these tools free teams to focus on higher-value work—unlocking new levels of productivity and performance.

Use analytics and team-based sprints to optimize spend, preserve cash liquidity, and reinvest the realized value across the organization.

Extract deep savings from direct and indirect spend, category data and processes by moving to a data-driven procurement operating model.

Reduce carbon while reducing cost, mitigate social risks, enable supply chain network transparency and drive resource efficiency and waste reduction.

Incorporating small, medium, and diverse suppliers creates a more sustainable network that can help drive innovation, response to disruption, and cost management.

Boost efficiency, control, and savings by automating Source-to-Pay, Source-to-Contract, and Procure-to-Pay processes. Drive intelligent operations across spend categories with minimal human intervention—fast, scalable, and future-ready.

Gain full control over operational transformations, implementing lasting change for people and processes and reinventing talent requirement to achieve enduring growth.

Work leaner, smarter, and more collaboratively, using a flexible human + machine model to drive seamless automation and data-driven decision making.

What you’ll achieve

Adaptive procurement

Make procurement an engine of sustainable growth with agile human + machine operations and a flexible digital architecture that adapts to change.

Growth-led cost structures

Reimagine cost structures with a zero-based spend approach that uses a closed-loop framework to drive sustainable outcomes and unlock value quickly.

Smarter sourcing

Get unparalleled insights into category performance with comprehensive analytics, helping to unlock value from mature and sustainable indirect sourcing.

Optimized direct materials end-to-end

Utilize data and advanced analytics across the direct materials supply chain lifecycle to realize cost savings, minimized risk, increased resiliency and positive ESG impact.

Sustainable supplier networks

Maximize value of diverse and sustainable supplier relationships with enhanced collaboration models leveraging advanced analytics and technologies.

Future-ready procurement processes

Streamline operations, reduce waste, manage change and drive innovation by automating repetitive tasks such as order processing, inventory management and shipment tracking

What’s trending in sourcing and procurement

Research Report

Are you ready for autonomous supply chains?

Companies are seeing diminishing returns from classic business efficiency strategies. To create value, supply chains need to be fast, agile and sustainable, not just cost-efficient. Could AI-powered autonomy be the key to unlocking this?

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Research Report

Tap into new value with advanced supply chain capabilities

Companies using more mature capabilities across their supply chain networks are unlocking considerable business value. Here’s what next-gen supply chains look like and how key enablers help build greater maturity.

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Resiliency in the engineering, supply, production and operations

Research Report

Resiliency in the making

There’s never been a better time for big change. Businesses must embed resilience across their engineering, supply, production and operations. And they must do it now, before disruption strikes next.

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Resilience redefined: From readiness to reinvention

Resilience appears to be rebounding to post-pandemic highs, but the gains mask a deeper vulnerability. Increased volatility requires adaptative resilience for competitiveness and growth.

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Case Study

Énergir supercharges procurement with SAP Ariba

How the Canadian utility transformed its procurement and sourcing management to achieve greater efficiency and cost-savings, all while pursuing their sustainability objectives.

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Accelerate your journey

Accenture SynOps for Sourcing & Procurement

Optimize business outcomes with seamless work orchestration and integration of Human + Machine talent, insights & intelligence, and diverse data.

Enterprise Value Targeting Benchmarking Tool

Gain data-driven insights into functional costs, FTE, and performance KPIs through an interactive, self-service benchmarking tool, scenario modeling, and expert connections to uncover opportunities that drive enhanced business performance.

Packaging 360

Improve design, cost and sustainability of procurement packaging across industries with an end-to-end AI based packaging solution platform.

Simplexity AI

Manage end-to-end BOM complexity, leveraging Agentic AI architecture, to improve part proliferation, inventory challenges and more.

Sourcing & Procurement maturity assessments and diagnostics

Evaluate your maturity across direct and indirect sourcing and procurement capabilities to help discover, review and prioritize relevant strategies and areas of opportunity.

Cost optimization tools

Accurately estimate the fair costs of parts and assemblies, and gain visibility of costs and profitability across the supply chain, to identify potential areas for cost reduction without compromising quality.