Negotiation experience, supplier relationships, process logic. In most teams, this knowledge lives in people's heads, in old email threads, and with individual experts. AI agents cannot access it. Neither can new colleagues joining the team.
Procurement Skills are how you change that. Across three live sessions, Fabian Heinrich, CEO & Co-Founder of Mercanis, shows how to turn domain expertise into a structured layer that both your team and AI agents can actually use. Real demos, technical depth, and a concrete playbook to act on straight away.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Three sessions. Each one builds on the last.
Session 01: Why AI in Procurement Often Fails to Deliver
Thursday, 9 July · 11:00 CEST · 10:00 BST · 30 minutes
Most teams are already running AI tools. The impact is not there. This session looks at why generic AI agents hit a wall in procurement, what Procurement Skills are and how they make domain knowledge accessible to both people and agents, and what goes wrong in day-to-day procurement when Skills are missing.
Session 02: How Skills Work Technically and Why the Architecture Matters
Friday, 17 July · 11:00 CEST · 10:00 BST · 30 minutes
For anyone who wants to understand what is actually behind the concept. We show live how a Skill is built, how it connects to data and processes, and why that architecture is the difference between a proof of concept and a system that holds up in production. Covers the anatomy of a Skill: knowledge, data, and governance in a single object, how AI agents access Skills and what that changes compared to isolated agents, and a live demo.
Session 03: The Skills Playbook for Procurement
Thursday, 23 July · 11:00 CEST · 10:00 BST · 30 minutes
Introducing Skills is not purely a technical challenge. It is about surfacing knowledge that exists in your organisation but has never been written down. This session gives you a concrete playbook: which Skills procurement teams typically build first and why, how to codify knowledge that currently lives only in people's heads, and a live demo.
WHO THIS IS FOR
This masterclass is designed for procurement professionals who are past the "what is AI" stage and want to understand how to build AI that actually knows their domain. Relevant for CPOs, heads of procurement, and anyone responsible for AI adoption in a procurement function.
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