AI Roadmap for Procurement Professionals: Mastering the Most Difficult Procurement Transformation of All Time

Learn how companies can strategically transform their procurement processes with the help of agent-supported AI solutions. From initial data harmonisation to the complete automation of operational tasks, you will learn how you can achieve real competitive advantages by using specialised AI agents - and what it takes to go from an ‘illusionist’ to a ‘visionary’ in procurement.

Practical examples from supplier search, offer comparison, risk assessment and market analysis will show you how modern AI is already supporting profit-relevant decisions today - quickly, scalably and seamlessly integrated into existing systems.

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The 10× Buyer: Less Effort. Ten Times the Impact.

Thursday 26 February 2026 - 11:00 CET

Focus: Understanding how to translate growing workloads into tenfold impact and what defines the 10× Buyer.

Are you feeling the procurement capacity crisis? More suppliers, increasing compliance requirements, a growing number of requests from business units, and at the same time the expectation to deliver strategically. All of this with the same team size.

For many, everyday work in procurement increasingly feels like execution instead of shaping outcomes.  

This challenge is not an individual failure, but a structural one. Traditional process models and additional tools are reaching their limits. They often increase operational workload instead of unlocking real impact.  This webinar shows how you can realign the way procurement work is organized to systematically scale impact, independent of individual capacity.

At the center is a new operating model that prepares, structures, and decouples operational tasks before they reach you.

This creates space for focus, decision-making, and value creation. Building on this, the 10× Buyer is introduced as a new target state: a buyer whose impact does not come from working more, but from an organization that enables them.

The 10× Buyer becomes a procurement champion, strategically effective, focused, and relieved from constant operational firefighting.

Key topics:
- How to organize scalable impact in procurement despite rising demands
- Why traditional process models reach their limits
- Why new operating models deliver more impact than additional tools
- The 10x Buyer target state: decision power, focus, and strategic effectiveness

Conclusion: The 10× Buyer is an achievable organizational goal. With an operating model that systematically prepares and decouples operational work, procurement organizations create the foundation for sustainable scaling, and for moving from reactive operations to real value creation.


Hub, Platform, Agents: The Model Behind 10x Impact.

Tuesday 31 March 2026 - 11:00 CEST

Focus: Understanding the model and technology that enable the 10x Buyer.

Building on the target state, this session explains the underlying model: an AI-native procurement platform that brings data, processes, and specialized AI agents together in one orchestrated system.

Participants will learn the core building blocks of this model, from the procurement hub to learning intelligence and the agent ecosystem, and understand how scalable procurement work emerges from their interaction.

Key topics:
- The procurement hub as the foundation for data, processes, and context
- Learning, institutional intelligence instead of isolated knowledge
- AI agents as the operational preparation and execution layer
- Orchestration as a principle rather than isolated solutions
- Architecture approaches compared: AI layer vs. platform

Conclusion:
The 10x Buyer is enabled by a new model, not by more effort, but by a new technological and organizational foundation.


60 Days to the 10x Buyer: Foundation, Orchestration, Rollout.

Thursday 30 April 2026 - 11:00 CEST

Focus: Your 60-day roadmap to the 10x Buyer.

This session shows how procurement organizations can implement the 10x Buyer target state within three months, through clear milestones, early impact, and scalable adoption.

The focus is on a pragmatic approach rather than a long-term transformation program.

The 60-Day-Roadmap Month 1 – Fundament & Kickoff
- Clarify target state and current situation
- Define 2–3 prioritized use cases
- Connect existing systems (AI layer)
- Deploy first AI agents

Month 2 – Expansion & Orchestration
- Extend agents across core processes
- Build a consistent data and context foundation
- Introduce orchestration and governance

Month 3 – Scaling & Decision
- Expand to additional use cases
- Decide: extend AI layer or move to an AI-native platform
- Embed into organization and steering model

Conclusion:
The 10x Buyer is built step by step. A clear 60-day roadmap delivers early impact and lays the foundation for sustainable scaling.

  • Status quo of AI in procurement: Where does the market currently stand and why is now the right time to get started with AI-supported procurement?
  • Recognising and using digitalisation maturity: How to establish targeted digital procurement processes depending on your company's maturity level - including a mindset shift towards ‘AI readiness’.
  • Structured path to AI integration: From data chaos to data transparency - which steps are necessary to successfully integrate AI into your procurement organisation.
  • Competitive advantages through speed: Why medium-sized companies in particular benefit if they start with AI today - instead of lagging behind tomorrow.
  • Live insight into the Mercanis platform: How the AI agent Mercu AI works in practice - including specific application examples from the purchasing organisation.

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