InProcurement TidbitsbyBertrand Maltaverne·3d agoA supplier can ask your AI agent to send it the competitors’ bids.Prompt injection in sourcing, and the procurement controls that limit what a fooled agent can do.
InProcurement TidbitsbyBertrand Maltaverne·Nov 2Human-in-the-loop still let 4 in 10 overreaching AI actions through.You pay for the agent, then for people to re-check it. In the best test available, they still missed 4 in 10 overreaching actions.A response icon1A response icon1
InProcurement TidbitsbyBertrand Maltaverne·Oct 30xAI built its own procurement agent. That’s the best argument against building yours.xAI has its own model and staff paid to debug agents. Everyone else will more likely get an agent bundled into tools they already pay for.
InProcurement TidbitsbyBertrand Maltaverne·Oct 26What xAI’s Haggle Bot can’t seexAI’s procurement agent optimizes what it can measure. Most of what procurement calls value falls outside that view.
NetROQ Team·Oct 24When the Lowest Bid Costs More: Lessons from Norway’s Pharmaceutical ProcurementAn academic study of antibiotic procurement reveals an overlooked connection between pricing pressure, supplier transparency, and supply…
Adrielthomas Scaleocean·Oct 20ScaleOcean Atlas Bangun Sistem Lelang Terstruktur Berkat Portal TerpaduBanyak perusahaan besar menjalankan lelang pemasoknya secara manual melalui email dan spreadsheet, bahkan melalui grup chat. Prosesnya…
InProcurement TidbitsbyBertrand Maltaverne·Oct 16The Change Management Playbook Procurement Already HadMIT’s new research on AI adoption confirms what a decade-old change management framework predicted but that most rollouts still ignore.
InProcurement TidbitsbyBertrand Maltaverne·Oct 8What procurement needs to know before it lets an AI agent decide
InProcurement TidbitsbyBertrand Maltaverne·Oct 4Why I care more about an AI’s confidence score than its speedIn a previous article on small language models:
InProcurement TidbitsbyBertrand Maltaverne·Oct 2The AI model you buy today won’t be the one you run tomorrowThe case for model-agnostic architecture and short-term contracts
