Intelligent Sourcing

Agentic AI is no longer a recommendation engine sitting beside the procurement team. It monitors suppliers, screens risk, drafts tenders, and in the most advanced deployments initiates sourcing steps on its own. As that shift accelerates, one decision is proving more consequential than most executives assumed: whether the agent is built and owned inside the organisation, co-developed with a partner, or bought as a service. Sourcing is usually framed as a cost and speed question.

Ryan Strategic Advisory is pleased to announce the release of its latest publication, Europe and the Nearshore: 2026. This report is the most up to date analysis of key CX / BPO trends as they relate to Central & Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with a special emphasis on enterprise procurement shifts in key West European demand locations.

What if procurement’s biggest opportunity in the age of AI is not making procurement faster What if it is helping organisations become ready for the change AI will bring? In my last post, I suggested that AI may not be the biggest challenge facing organisations. The harder question may be whether organisations, and the people inside them, are ready to use it well. That question has made me think more about procurement’s role in what comes next.