Focal Point’s Guide to AI Agents in Procurement

Focal Point Guide to AI Agents in Procurement

Procurement is being asked to move faster, manage more risk, and do it all with the same (or smaller) team. This guide explains how AI agents (autonomous digital workers that can understand context, make decisions, and take action across your systems) can finally close that gap by taking on the tactical load and orchestrating work end-to-end.

In AI Agents in Procurement: The Practical Guide to Orchestration, Automation & the Future of Digital Procurement, you’ll learn how to build a hybrid operating model where humans set strategy and relationships, while agents handle execution, coordination, and compliance in the background.

What you’ll learn:

  • What AI agents actually are (and aren’t), and how they differ from chatbots, copilots, and RPA
  • The “procurement agent stack” across cognition, execution, and orchestration layers
  • Practical use cases like smart intake and triage, automated supplier research, RFP setup, and project monitoring
  • The hidden pitfalls: fragmented data, weak orchestration, governance gaps, and change-management challenges
  • A phased roadmap for safely implementing agents and scaling them across your workflows

Download the guide to see what good looks like for agentic procurement, and how to get from isolated AI experiments to a fully orchestrated, human + agent operating model.