AI-Enabled Sourcing Automation

Sourcing Automation is a new category of software that leverages intelligent systems to automate complex human reasoning that exceeds expert standards. It is constructed using a multiplicity of AI techniques to encode intelligent reasoning at various stages in a sourcing event, from the design of a sourcing event through to the conclusion of an awarding strategy. This white paper elaborates on the key recent technological advances that permit this new intelligent automation and the path to wider deployment of Sourcing Automation.