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The Multi-Million Dollar Algorithm: How AI-Driven Procurement is Revolutionizing Supply Chains at Scale

· Source: analyticsinsight.net

In short

AI-driven procurement delivers its biggest returns not through smarter buying but through unification, according to IT project manager Priyanka Malla, who consolidated procurement across more than 50 sites and modernized ERP systems at 15+ branches. She argues that most AI procurement rollouts fail at governance rather than technology, and that automation should route high-confidence transactions while escalating exceptions to human buyers. The real multi-million-dollar opportunity lies in making fragmented spend visible before algorithms can optimize it.

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Tags: procurement, supply chain, automation, governance, spend visibility

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